Warning: spoilers ahead. Seventeen minutes can be an eternity. In the final season of “Bojack Horseman,” the second half of which premiered Jan. 31, the titular character is continually haunted by this reminder. Read more...
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Family-owned businesses in Park City reflect on the impacts of the film festival. Read more...
St. Vincent and Carrie Brownstein set out to document their friendship. What followed was “The Nowhere Inn,” which premiered at Sundance Film Festival on Jan. 25 and creates a metafictional account of Brownstein and St. Read more...
This post was updated Feb. 3 at 10:03 a.m. “La Leyenda Negra” grapples with colonial legacies new and old. Written and directed by alumna Patricia Vidal Delgado, the black and white film follows Aleteia, an immigrant from El Salvador who joins an underground anarchist group at Compton High School. Read more...
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UCLA psychologist Harold Garfinkel began a case study on Agnes in the 1950s. Agnes would go on to become the central figure in one of the first sociological conversations surrounding the transgender community. Read more...
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Shirley Jackson is now known as one of the great horror writers of the 20th century – but the author was overlooked during her lifetime. Now, director Josephine Decker brings the writer to the screen in “Shirley,” which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on Jan. Read more...
Photo: The cast and crew of “Shirley” attended the film’s premiere at Sundance. (Niveda Tennety/Assistant Photo editor)
This year, 44% of the films premiering at the Sundance Film Festival were directed by women. But women only made 34% of films originally submitted. For Kerry Washington, she said she’ll know the industry has found equality when women can exist beyond statistics. Read more...
Photo: The annual “Women Breaking Barriers” panel, hosted by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, explored how the industry has changed since they first began the event three years ago. (Niveda Tennety/Assistant Photo editor)
