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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Computer Chess”

Andrew Bujalski’s COMPUTER CHESS has a great setting for a comedy. The time is circa 1980, and the place is an anonymous hotel where a group of nerds–back before nerds were cool–have gathered for thei...

by Mitch Salem

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The Sleepwalker”

For SHOWBUZZDAILY’s full set of Sundance capsule reviews, click here. What kind of filmmaker does Mona Fastvold want to be? It’s an existential question that comes up often at Sundance, where artisti...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Song One”

Kate Barker-Froyland’s directing debut SONG ONE is so wispy and insubstantial that the bytes making up its digital images seem barely capable of adhering to a screen. Clearly influenced by John Carney’s m...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”

There’s a tendency to compare any slow-moving, beautifully-photographed drama with an abundance of natural imagery to the films of Terence Malick, but that’s unfair to the very particular surreal spirituality...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Magic Magic”

MAGIC MAGIC never really makes clear what it intends to be, but it’s awfully fascinating to watch. Written and directed by the prolific Sebastian Silva, who had two films at Sundance this year (the other was the we...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Obvious Child”

A surprisingly commercial concoction by Sundance standards, Gillian Robespierre’s OBVIOUS CHILD doesn’t feel very much unlike the pilot for a cable dramedy. That’s not meant as any kind of dire crit...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Fruitvale”

There can’t be very much quibbling about the selection of Ryan Coogler’s very impressive debut film FRUITVALE as tonight’s winner of both the Sundance Dramatic Competition Jury Prize and the Audience ...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The One I Love”

The trouble with trying to recommend THE ONE I LOVE , written by Justin Lader and directed by Charlie McDowell, is that it’s impossible to describe how clever, surprising and intriguing it turns out to be without...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Afternoon Delight”

It takes quite a while–almost its entire length, in fact–for the utter conventionality of AFTERNOON DELIGHT to become clear. Jill Soloway’s feature directing debut, for which she unaccountably won a S...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “I Origins”

The writer-director Mike Cahill has staked out a unique piece of narrative territory for himself. In both Another Earth and his new I ORIGINS, which debuted at Sundance last week (and won the festival prize for best...

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SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Computer Chess”

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The Sleepwalker”

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Song One”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Ain’t Them Bodies Saints”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Magic Magic”

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “Obvious Child”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Fruitvale”

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “The One I Love”

SHOWBUZZDAILY @ SUNDANCE 2013: “Afternoon Delight”

SHOWBUZZDAILY SUNDANCE REVIEW: “I Origins”

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