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10 Sundance films that tackled the pandemic (Even if they didn’t mean to) by Angie Han (Even if they didn’t mean to) by Angie Han On the same day that the Sundance Film Festival kicked off last year, Wuhan, China, went into lockdown — not that many festival goers seemed to take much note of it at the time. A year later, however, it's become impossible to miss. The coronavirus seemed to be everywhere I looked during Sundance 2021, starting with the experience itself — virtual, of course, in deference to the ongoing crisis. It was also all over the movies themselves, not onl...

Human Factors. Klemens Hufnagl/Sundance Institute This year’s Sundance Film Festival was like no other. Thanks to the ongoing pandemic, the usual red-carpet premieres were replaced by at-home streaming supplemented by screenings at a handful of small venues and drive-ins around the country. That’s not the way most attendees preferred to experience the movies, of course. But the festival’s 2021 selections were still true to the spirit of Sundance, which fosters independent cinema and innovative voices: They served up exciting stories from around the world, mostly of the kind that Hollyw...

Courtesy of Sundance Institute Early in 2020, when we still had hope that the spread of Covid-19 would be suppressed in a few weeks or months and we’d be back to our lives in short order, film critics joked about what the 2021 Sundance Film Festival selection would be like. Dramas about parents trapped at home with their kids for a few weeks and having a personal revelation. Quirky romances between quarantined roommates. Zoom-mediated comedies. That sort of thing. Back then, nobody dared think the festival itself would be held online — it was too hard to imagine. But by fall the (wise) de...

The 15 Best Films We Saw at Sundance Eliott Grover, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail The 2020 Sundance Film Festival was one of the last major events of its kind –– or any kind –– to take place before the world changed forever. With little time to prepare a viable pivot, other festivals like SXSW and Cannes were forced to cancel. As the pandemic raged through the summer and into the fall, Sundance organizers understood that they would have to radically reimagine their event in order to save it. The 2021 festival, which concluded yesterday, was entirely virtual. Some other festivals, ...

“Passing”  The versatility that Rebecca Hall has shown in front of the camera extends to her directorial debut, a mannered but enchanting study in appearances literal and symbolic. Adapted from Nella Larsen’s 1929 novel, “Passing” follows childhood friends whose unexpected reunion proves to be a mixed blessing. One (Tessa Thompson) resides in Harlem, where she is happily married to a doctor (André Holland); the other (Ruth Negga, showcasing a wide-eyed glamour befitting the silent-film era) is wed to a wealthy racist (Alexander Skarsgård) and presents as white. With time, their d...