Sundance London Film Festival 2013: ‘Upstream Color’ is a phenomenal film concerned with phenomena
In William Gibson’s 2003 novel Pattern Recognition a mysteriously binary filmmaker slowly and anonymously drip feeds footage of his homebrew masterpiece to an eagerly seduced…
Sundance London 2013 – Friday Report
'Sleepwalk With Me',' 'Mud' and 'Touchy Feely'
Day 2 and romance was in the air. Co-written with Ira Glass of This American Life fame Sleepwalk With Me is yet another off-kilter romantic…
Sundance London 2013 – Part Six: ‘In Fear’ is half the horror it strives to be
Secluded country roads are objectively terrifying, especially at night. If you think you know, you probably don’t; few horror films do justice to the…
Sundance London 2013 – Part Five: ‘Sleepwalk with Me’ is sleeper gem of the festival
Some of this year’s Sundance comedy-dramas have had their narratives plucked from the wellspring of their director’s personal experience, though that should never excuse any…
Sundance London 2013 – Thursday Report
'The Look of Love,' ' Upstream Color' and more
After a miserable few months of suffering a pallid and grey smothering of inclement weather it seems altogether fitting that as the furtive golden orb…
Sundance London 2013 – Part Four: ‘Emanuel and the Truth about Fishes’ conforms to the worst indie stereotypes
Over the years, voice-overs in trailers have largely been substituted for flashes of capitalised text and droning horns as a means of pressing the imprint…
Sundance London 2013 – Part Three: Living the dream, learning a lesson in ‘The Look of Love’
Sean Ellis’ Metro Manila is, so far, most likely to snap up a distribution deal. It’s a thriller in the same vein as City of…
Sundance London 2013 – Part Two: Far-flung documentaries provoke tears, anger and inspiration
“What they built there, you can’t see with your eyes,” says Bono at the close of Greg ‘Freddy’ Camalier’s music documentary Muscle Shoals, named after…
Sundance London 2013 – Part One: ‘Upstream Color’ upstages silly and serious competition
The Kings of Summer empathises with two high school kids, Joe (Nick Robinson) and Patrick (Gabriel Basso), who trade their exasperated suburban living for an…
Sundance London 2013: Festival Preview
For four days beginning Thursday 25 April, the London o2 in Greenwich hosts Robert Redford’s 2013 Sundance London Film and Music Festival, a celebration of…
London Sundance Film Festival, O2 Arena, April 25th – 28th 2013
The Sundance Institute and London’s O2 venue announced this week the programme of panels, feature films and short films for the second Sundance London film and music festival…
‘The East’, compellingly blasts corporate greed
Sundance 2013
The East Directed by Zal Batmanglij Written by Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij 2013, USA A taut thriller invested in its characters’ complex moral decisions,…
