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15 Top Contenders for the Best International Feature Film Oscar Shortlist IndieWire 1/25/2021 Over the last five years, the Academy has made it increasingly easier for more voters to participate in the phase-one Best International Feature Film Oscar nominating committee, never more than during this pandemic year, when online viewing made it possible for all members to watch the movies, as long as they notched the minimum number of 12 assigned features. With Oscar deadlines pushed back by two months, the Academy rules required that countries submit motion pictures that were released theatric...

Could the Sundance Film Festival leave Park City? While this year’s online and out-of-state screenings open up possibilities, some say the mountain festival’s energy can’t be duplicated. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Actor Nicolas Cage is mobbed by fans as the 2018 Sundance Film Festival kicks off along Main Street in Park City on Friday, Jan. 19, 2018. | Updated: 4:25 p.m. Editor’s note • This story is available to Salt Lake Tribune subscribers only. Thank you for supporting important local journalism. For the first time in 40 years, movie lovers, stars and deal...

The day-and-date premiere follows an exclusive IMAX run starting January 29.

Film Independent Presents Member screenings and special Q&A events was busier than ever. And we know that in-between all the wassailing and socially-distanced NYE cheer, a few of these may have fallen through the cracks. So here now is a full roundup of last month’s Q&A (plus this  Coffee Talk.) To see what’s coming up next, go NOMADLAND Guests of honor: Chloé Zhao (writer/director/producer/editor), Peter Spears (producer), Mollye Asher (producer), Dan Janvey (producer); moderated by Mark Olsen (Staff Writer, Los Angeles Times) About: Following the economic collapse of a company town...

Death in Venice (1971) In last year’s Midsommar, Ari Aster’s folk horror hit, Dan, an elderly gaunt man with long white hair and a beard, leaps from a cliff. Unfortunately, he survives the fall and has to have his face bashed in with a mallet. Dan is played by Björn Andrésen, first seen on-screen in 1970 in a small role in Roy Andersson’s A Swedish Love Story but truly discovered the following year when Luchino Visconti cast him as Tadzio, the object of Dirk Bogarde’s obsession in Death in Venice. Andrésen is the subject of a new documentary, Kristina Lindström and Kristian P...