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Channeling “the rebellious spirit of the Molly Maguires,” the Jim Thorpe Independent Film Festival challenges the boldest, most defiant filmmakers to present their work, shatter convention, and incite spirited debate. The festival credo is “eyes and minds wide open,” and they mean it. After canceling last year due to COVID-19, the JTIFF returns to the Mauch Chunk Opera House (14 W. Broadway, Jim Thorpe) for its fourth edition with live, in-person screenings on Thursday, April 22 through Sunday, April 25. That’s right – no glitchy streaming on phones, tablets, or laptops, but real ...

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2021 Sundance Film Festival Review – Strawberry Mansion Starring Penny Fuller, Kentucker Audley, Grace Glowicki, Reed Birney, Linas Phillips, and Constance Shulman. SYNOPSIS: In a future where the government records dreams and taxes them, a dream auditor gets caught up in the dreams of an aging eccentric. Forward-thinking authors over the decades have theorised that our dreams and memories might one day be commodified, an idea which gets an especially peculiar treatment in Kentucker Audley and Albert Birney’s ( Sylvio) black comedy adventure Strawberry Mansion. In a dystopian future, the...

Sundance 2021: Genre films that stood out, from A Glitch in the Matrix to Prisoners of the Ghostland Starry studio projects and A-list auteurs aren't the lifeblood of a breakout festival like Sundance. Recent years have proven one of the best ways to break out at the festival is through genre filmmaking. Prahlad Srihari February 04, 2021 08:12:45 IST As it's the first major film festival in the calendar, Sundance functions as a barometer of emerging trends and outliers. 2020 was a genre-busting...

Nine standout Sundance films that we hope make it to streaming services soon FacebookTwitterEmail "Judas and the Black Messiah" screened at the Sundance Film Festival and will premiere on HBO Max on Feb. 12.Glen Wilson Like most everything in 2020 and 2021, the Sundance Film Festival looked very different. The cancellation of in-person screenings in Park City, Utah undoubtedly disappointed regular attendees, but the show went on, with screenings at drive-ins across the country (including Fort Mason) as well as surprisingly affordable tickets to stream the individual films online. Most films d...