Month: January 2018
Slamdance Film Review: Lovers
With the gorgeous backdrop of Copenhagen, Denmark, Lovers explores the inner workings of three people at different stages of their respective love lives, in an almost episodic sequence. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Human Affairs
Genevieve, a young French expat living a quiet Vermont life, travels to New York to make the first personal contact with Sidney and Lucinda, the couple for whom she is three months into surrogacy. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Fish Bones
Tenderly told and visually sublime, Joanne Mony Park’s Fish Bones closely follows Hana (Joony Kim), a Korean immigrant living in New York City, during her winter break. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: CHARLIE AND HANNAH’S GRAND NIGHT OUT
Charlie and Hannah’s Grand Night Out is as fun, strange and magical as the title implies. It starts off in a fairly ordinary fashion, introducing Charlie (Evelien Bosmans) and Hannah (Daphne Wellens), best friends in their mid-20s on their way to a house party with friends. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Birds Without Feathers
Birds Without Feathers is the tale of six strangers whose lives intersect and collide in delusional episodes where people manage to interact despite existing in completely different paradigms. … read more
Slamdance Film Review: Fake Tattoos
Opening with a confusion of racing cars and yelling to a black background, the first actual scene of Le Faux Tatouages is of brooding, angry teen Théo (Anthony Therrien) wearing a Dead Kennedys T-shirt, being carded at a convenience store while buying his first pack of beer on his 18th birthday (the scene is set in Montreal). … read more
Playing Their Roles: Slaine vs Termanology
Slaine vs Termanology hit The Urban Lounge, on Wednesday, November 15 to promote their October release, Anti-Hero, with a tour of the same moniker. … read more
Indie Filmmakers Assemble: Joe and Anthony Russo Return to Slamdance
Before Joe and Anthony Russo became well-known directors by helming key episodes of Arrested Development and Community, and eventually taking the reins of Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Civil War, the brothers were like most indie filmmakers—passionate, starving and driven. … read more
Localized: Comedy Showcase
Now that the holidays are behind us, SLUG Localized brings stand-up comedy back to the stage to cure the holiday hangover with a heaping dose of hilarity. … read more
Another Valley: Granary Art Center
The exhibits in Granary each explore the idea of travel and presence: the anxiety and compulsion to travel, to document and to frame—to have been somewhere and, years later, still be unraveling what it all means. … read more