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Dispatches from the Sundance Film Festival are usually accompanied by descriptions of the looming mountains, snowy premieres and frantic bus shuttles

Dispatches from the Sundance Film Festival are usually accompanied by descriptions of the looming mountains, snowy premieres and frantic bus shuttles. This year's Sundance, which played out entirely virtually due to the COVID-19 surge driven by the omicron variant, meant less evocative screening circumstances: Laptops, digital links and Zooms.

Dispatches from the Sundance Film Festival are usually accompanied by descriptions of the looming mountains, snowy premieres and frantic bus shuttles

Dispatches from the Sundance Film Festival are usually accompanied by descriptions of the looming mountains, snowy premieres and frantic bus shuttles. This year's Sundance, which played out entirely virtually due to the COVID-19 surge driven by the omicron variant, meant less evocative screening circumstances: Laptops, digital links and Zooms.

Here's a tech-heavy video essay on why higher resolution cinematography in movies isn't always a good thing.

In his new film Nightmare Alley, the Oscar-winning director abandons fantasy for gritty noir – but, as he knows from his childhood, humanity has its own share of monsters

Here's what's available to watch at home this weekend, including Peacemaker, A Journal For Jordan and Woodlands Dark And Days Bewitched

Plus out-there adventures with 'Jesus Shows You the Way to the Highway,' 'Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched,' more

Isabella Rossellini discusses her one woman show, "Green Porno," at the Cutler Majestic Feb. 13-15.

The experimental film genre goes back as far as film history takes us. One of the first experimental films was done by Thomas Edison's assistant, William