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After the First Virtual Sundance, Four Writers Compare Notes What worked online? What didn’t? And which films stood out? When you’re watching from home, feel-good movies don’t always have the same effect. Oscar the Grouch and his pal Caroll Spinney in the Sundance documentary, “Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street.”Credit...Luke Geissbühler Feb. 5, 2021 At this year’s Sundance Film Festival, there were the usual premieres and Q. and A. sessions, breakouts and crowd-pleasers —...

Sundance 2021 walked the walk Jeva Lange © Illustrated | Sundance Institute, iStock Sundance movies. Park City, Utah, is magical this time of year — or so Ive been told. Every far-flung film buff has, at some point, enviously consumed the annual Sundance Film Festival dispatches, which describe a flurry of non-stop movie premieres, exclusive parties, and how Main Street is so saturated with celebrities that you might physically bump into one if you arent watching where your...

Anna Cobb as Casey. (Image: Love In Winter LLC/Marvel) To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Gizmodo Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. If you’ve been following the coverage of this year’s all-digital Sundance film festival, there’s a very good chance that by the time you read this review, you’ll have already seen some ...

This is Willie Nelson. In addition to being a well known cannabis smoker, he also sings, plays guitar and writes lots of songs. And smokes a ton of grass. So it seems a natural fit that Willie would throw his hemp hat into the ring with the rise of legalized marijuana. Nelson has announced his own cannabis company, Willie’s Reserve, which will bring “Willie Weed” to the masses. The product will be grown and sold by local businesses in Colorado and Washington and more as state regulation a...

CBS News Virtual 2021 Sundance Film Festival opens on a screen very near you COVID-19 has shaken up Hollywood this past year, and the ramifications are still being felt in the snow-covered mountains of Utah, the traditional site of the Sundance Film Festival. This year, the festival, which has been a bellwether of independent moviemaking for more than three decades, will be presented online for the first time, streaming narrative and documentary films from around the world, beginning Thursday, ...

Our 15 Most-Anticipated Sundance 2021 Premieres January 25, 2021 The 2021 Sundance Film Festival, beginning Thursday, will look quite different. Forging ahead during the pandemic, they’ve to continue offering some of the year’s finest independent discoveries, with a new online platform, drive-ins, screenings at independent arthouses around the country, and more. We’ll have extensive coverage from the festival (which one can follow here or on Twitter). Before reviews arrive, we’re counti...

Icepack | Dec. 24-31 It’s clockwork: Every year, within seven days of the holiday, we’re paid to take off and celebrate. A local paper of record will ask its own tiresome version of “Is ‘Merry Christmas’ offensive to non-Christians?” with a tedious writer finding fault with God’s logic. As a dyed-in-the-dark-wool-devout Judeo-Christian Roman Catholic, I know that focusing on Christ at “Christmas” is meant to be inclusive of all – that was/is His whole deal. Like Funkadelic�...

CBS News 2021 Sundance Film Festival announces virtual lineup For the first time, the Sundance Film Festival is coming to screen near you. Next month the festival – which has celebrated independent film for decades at its base in Park City, Utah – will be held virtually instead, with movies presented online from January 28 through February 3. Films will be available to stream via Sundances digital platform across the U.S. (and, in some cases, internationally), and also will be presented on ...

Passing The indie film showcases pandemic-era program also has directorial debuts by Jerrod Carmichael, Pascual Sisto and Questlove with his Black Woodstock documentary. As Sundance director Tabitha Jacksons reign at the indie film festival gets well underway, the marquee indie U.S. film showcase has gone mostly online with a pandemic-era discovery lineup filled with work by women and BIPOC directors and more than half the 2021 program shot by first-time helmers. For Jackson, the focus on debut...

Save this story for later. When the Sundance Film Festival kicks off on January 28, 2021, in Park City, Utah, there won’t be a long line of people standing outside the Eccles Theater, watching their breath catch in the cold winter air—and Main Street surely won’t be packed with revelers and sponsor activations, either. Instead, on account of the coronavirus pandemic, next year’s Sundance will actually expand amid the contraction of live events. Rather than relying solely on in-person ex...