The world has seen many changes in the past year. With Covid-19 forever altering the world and daily life many events, professions, and traditions have been put on hold or reimagined. Fortunately, The Sundance Institute opted for creativity instead of cancelling the 2021 version of their one and only Independent Film Festival.
From January 28 to February 3 Sundance will be held in a once in a lifetime fashion that opens the prolific festival to the entire world from their very own living rooms. This year the 2021 Sundance Film Festival will be held digitally as well as in several cities across the United States.
Sundance has built an online platform that will screen 72 features, 50 shorts, 4 indie series, and several other New Frontier projects. Movie lovers all over the world will be able to attend, watch films, and even participate in live Q&As with the filmmakers and cast.
If you are a loyal...
From January 28 to February 3 Sundance will be held in a once in a lifetime fashion that opens the prolific festival to the entire world from their very own living rooms. This year the 2021 Sundance Film Festival will be held digitally as well as in several cities across the United States.
Sundance has built an online platform that will screen 72 features, 50 shorts, 4 indie series, and several other New Frontier projects. Movie lovers all over the world will be able to attend, watch films, and even participate in live Q&As with the filmmakers and cast.
If you are a loyal...
- 1/11/2021
- by Nathan McVay
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
While Adam Schiff and his House Intel Committee were busy writing up a 300-page impeachment report for the U.S. House Judiciary Committee, programmers at the Sundance 2020 Film festival were busy mocking up another similarly dense and lengthy document that is the official Sundance 2020 Feature Film Lineup. This year’s slate of films features a total of 118 feature films hailing from 27 different countries and is perhaps one of the most explosive lineups in recent festival history.
With much of California being consumed by wildfires, and with an inferno of another sort blazing in the U.S. Senate, perhaps it is only fitting that much of Hollywood has decided to ring in the new year by flocking to Park City for the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. In recent years, the festival has tended to veer away from the star-studded gala that Sundance once embodied, and been remodeled to be more of a...
With much of California being consumed by wildfires, and with an inferno of another sort blazing in the U.S. Senate, perhaps it is only fitting that much of Hollywood has decided to ring in the new year by flocking to Park City for the upcoming Sundance Film Festival. In recent years, the festival has tended to veer away from the star-studded gala that Sundance once embodied, and been remodeled to be more of a...
- 12/12/2019
- by Ty Cooper
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
HeyUGuys will have its Sundance team back in the Mountains next week as Nathan McVay and Ty Cooper travel to Utah to discover the year’s best Independent films. The 2019 lineup is a little different to years past, but still has a deep crop of big names, films and choices.
Each year after the slate is announced McVay and Cooper e-mail back and forth discussing the lineup and what movies excite, surprise or confuse them. Here are some highlights of their e-mail exchange for a very unconventional preview of this year’s Sundance.
Nathan:
Thursday, Dec 6, 15:24 Cst
Well it’s incredibly cold outside, I am always freezing, and I have no more money left because I have spent it all on Christmas presents. You know what that means?
Yup! It’s Sundance Lineup season! While I can never be disappointed by a Sundance lineup, this year definitely took me by surprise.
Each year after the slate is announced McVay and Cooper e-mail back and forth discussing the lineup and what movies excite, surprise or confuse them. Here are some highlights of their e-mail exchange for a very unconventional preview of this year’s Sundance.
Nathan:
Thursday, Dec 6, 15:24 Cst
Well it’s incredibly cold outside, I am always freezing, and I have no more money left because I have spent it all on Christmas presents. You know what that means?
Yup! It’s Sundance Lineup season! While I can never be disappointed by a Sundance lineup, this year definitely took me by surprise.
- 1/16/2019
- by Nathan McVay
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Author: Nathan McVay
Sundance can be the greatest experience for film lovers. It also can be an internal struggle and mind draining ten days. What will be the next big hit? What is the can’t miss revolutionary film? What is the worst film here? Between our Sundance contributors Ty Cooper and Nathan McVay, the two saw nearly 30 films. While we have published some of their full length reviews the two wanted to let everyone know their brief takes on all the films they caught. Below is their very brief one sentence reviews and star ratings of all the films of Sundance. Hearts Beat Loud Ty- The annual obligatory Sundance musical that features songs that were obviously not written for their leading lady. 2/5 Stars Nathan- Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons are fantastic but this film is too heavy and pretentious for its own good. 3/5 Stars Blindspotting Ty- A jarring and...
Sundance can be the greatest experience for film lovers. It also can be an internal struggle and mind draining ten days. What will be the next big hit? What is the can’t miss revolutionary film? What is the worst film here? Between our Sundance contributors Ty Cooper and Nathan McVay, the two saw nearly 30 films. While we have published some of their full length reviews the two wanted to let everyone know their brief takes on all the films they caught. Below is their very brief one sentence reviews and star ratings of all the films of Sundance. Hearts Beat Loud Ty- The annual obligatory Sundance musical that features songs that were obviously not written for their leading lady. 2/5 Stars Nathan- Nick Offerman and Kiersey Clemons are fantastic but this film is too heavy and pretentious for its own good. 3/5 Stars Blindspotting Ty- A jarring and...
- 2/1/2018
- by Nathan McVay
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Author: Nathan McVay
When the Sundance Film Festival began in the late 1970s it was meant to be a festival to expose the greatest, freshest new voices in film. So many revolutionary filmmakers debuted at Sundance with films that helped shape the future of cinema such as Darren Aronofsky, Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino and many more.
These filmmakers created films that started new genres, bold movements and excitement over the art of film. After seeing the film Assassination Nation, I get that same feeling about director Sam Levinson.
Assassination Nation is the best film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and no other film is going to change my mind. It is every reason why people come to this festival. It is bold, challenging, beautiful, creative, shocking and exhilarating.
From the opening scene Levinson warns you with everything you are about to witness. It sets the tone and...
When the Sundance Film Festival began in the late 1970s it was meant to be a festival to expose the greatest, freshest new voices in film. So many revolutionary filmmakers debuted at Sundance with films that helped shape the future of cinema such as Darren Aronofsky, Paul Thomas Anderson, Quentin Tarantino and many more.
These filmmakers created films that started new genres, bold movements and excitement over the art of film. After seeing the film Assassination Nation, I get that same feeling about director Sam Levinson.
Assassination Nation is the best film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and no other film is going to change my mind. It is every reason why people come to this festival. It is bold, challenging, beautiful, creative, shocking and exhilarating.
From the opening scene Levinson warns you with everything you are about to witness. It sets the tone and...
- 1/24/2018
- by Nathan McVay
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Author: Nathan McVay
Six years ago I walked into a theater in Austin,Texas and sat down for a film that would become one of my favorite documentaries of all time. I walked in expecting to hear a story of a missing child and the unexpected results that came when his family found him. But what I witnessed was a film that completely bent the rules of filmmaking and documentary storytelling.
It was a doc that felt like an action thriller. A story that couldn’t possibly be true coming to life in a way never before told. That film was titled The Imposter. The Imposter blurred the lines of narrative and documentary storytelling and every interview, every fact unveiled and every twist was meticulously crafted in a way that would make the greatest action directors of our time jealous. But it was all true. Nothing was embellished. It was...
Six years ago I walked into a theater in Austin,Texas and sat down for a film that would become one of my favorite documentaries of all time. I walked in expecting to hear a story of a missing child and the unexpected results that came when his family found him. But what I witnessed was a film that completely bent the rules of filmmaking and documentary storytelling.
It was a doc that felt like an action thriller. A story that couldn’t possibly be true coming to life in a way never before told. That film was titled The Imposter. The Imposter blurred the lines of narrative and documentary storytelling and every interview, every fact unveiled and every twist was meticulously crafted in a way that would make the greatest action directors of our time jealous. But it was all true. Nothing was embellished. It was...
- 1/22/2018
- by Nathan McVay
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Author: Nathan McVay
In Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher Maggie Gyllenhaal gives the performance of her career, which has been filled with so many stellar ones.
Gyllenhaal play’s Lisa Spinelli, a Kindergarten teacher in Staten Island. As the film begins we are introduced to Mrs. Spinelli as a loving, supportive, outstanding teacher of the five to six year old children in her class. You see her greatness as she tells the kids stories, leads them in sing-alongs, and even helping them face paint.
Spinelli approaches her home life with a lot less enthusiasm. Spinelli struggles to communicate with her husband and fails at getting her teenaged children to engage and participate in intellectual activities with her.
This wears on her, so she enrolls in a poetry class to help her express herself.
The film’s plot begins at the end of one her school days when one of...
In Sara Colangelo’s The Kindergarten Teacher Maggie Gyllenhaal gives the performance of her career, which has been filled with so many stellar ones.
Gyllenhaal play’s Lisa Spinelli, a Kindergarten teacher in Staten Island. As the film begins we are introduced to Mrs. Spinelli as a loving, supportive, outstanding teacher of the five to six year old children in her class. You see her greatness as she tells the kids stories, leads them in sing-alongs, and even helping them face paint.
Spinelli approaches her home life with a lot less enthusiasm. Spinelli struggles to communicate with her husband and fails at getting her teenaged children to engage and participate in intellectual activities with her.
This wears on her, so she enrolls in a poetry class to help her express herself.
The film’s plot begins at the end of one her school days when one of...
- 1/22/2018
- by Nathan McVay
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Author: Nathan McVay
HeyUGuys will have its Sundance team back in the Mountains next week as Nathan McVay and Ty Cooper travel to Utah to discover next year’s best Independent films. The 2018 slate is packed with big name directors, actors and variety.
Each year after the slate is announced McVay and Cooper e-mail back and forth discussing the lineup and what movies excite, surprise or confuse them. Here are some highlights of their e-mail exchange for a very unconventional preview of this year’s Sundance.
Nathan:
Dec 27 12:15 Cst
It’s that time of the year! Not sure I have been as excited for as many movies as this year.
But, I’m thinking the movie I might be most excited about is Beirut.
.
Gone Girl meets Bourne Identity with Don Draper in the Middle East.
Sign Me Up!
Beirut is my definite number one. Sorry this isn’t...
HeyUGuys will have its Sundance team back in the Mountains next week as Nathan McVay and Ty Cooper travel to Utah to discover next year’s best Independent films. The 2018 slate is packed with big name directors, actors and variety.
Each year after the slate is announced McVay and Cooper e-mail back and forth discussing the lineup and what movies excite, surprise or confuse them. Here are some highlights of their e-mail exchange for a very unconventional preview of this year’s Sundance.
Nathan:
Dec 27 12:15 Cst
It’s that time of the year! Not sure I have been as excited for as many movies as this year.
But, I’m thinking the movie I might be most excited about is Beirut.
.
Gone Girl meets Bourne Identity with Don Draper in the Middle East.
Sign Me Up!
Beirut is my definite number one. Sorry this isn’t...
- 1/8/2018
- by Nathan McVay
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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