Another sundance is over, but now comes the good part for most of us. While sundance is still ostensibly a playground for indie films, weve come a long way from hyper lowbudget films with limited resources. Foundation grants provide stability for existing programs and seed the launch of new initiatives. Our favorite feature films from sundance 2018 the verge. Sundance cofounder sterling van wagenen guilty of sex abuse. Oscars best picture winners best picture winners golden globes emmys san diego comiccon new york comiccon sundance film festival toronto intl film festival.
The tense danish thriller is set exclusively in two adjoining rooms of the dispatch station. Cinema dramatic competition section at the 2018 sundance film festival. The guilty 2018 15 1h 24m psychological thrillers a police officer, demoted to dispatch duty, is consumed by a call from an abducted woman desperate to be saved. Within this movement to whittle down movies to their essentials a cinema of limitation, if you will there is a subgenre that anchors the action to. World cinema dramatic at the 2018 sundance film festival. After peterson was tried and convicted of kathleens murder in 2003, le strade released the quietly devastating documentary the staircase, a haunting chronicle of petersons trial that kept me glued to my chair when i first watched it, despite its length it originally aired on the sundance channel in 2005 in eight installments, and is well. At 85 minutes the movie moves quickly and the conclusion is a bit disappointing but. Its easy to see why so many critics and viewers have taken to this laserfocused study of a man whose prejudices and assumptions enhance a tense day on the job. Where to watch the movies of the 2018 sundance film festival.
List of sundance film festival award winners wikipedia. Sundance institute builds multifaceted collaborations with leading brands to engage with a creative community of artists and audiences. Sundance film festival is known for giving independent movies the chance to shine, and this year is no different with films such as netflix original velvet. A sundance founder pleads guilty to child sex abuse the.
In the mid1890s, sundance met the woman who became his companion, etta place, and later became affiliated with the wild bunch, after he and. The tension is hitchcock like with enough twists and turns to keep the viewers attention. The world cinema competition line up can easily get neglected in sundance amid the buzz around us competition films and highprofile premieres. Special jury recognition documentary in heaven there is no beer. A dirty cop tries to do good in the guilty a movie made up entirely of phone conversations shouldnt be this gripping by bilge ebiri. Starting this week, the 2018 sundance film festival gives us a first glimpse at the year in cinema, but even if you wont be at park city, were rounding up an initial glimpse at the premieres. World cinema dramatic, the guilty, which offers some similarities to the 20 halle berry crime thriller the call, follows police officer asger holm jakob cedergren. Trailer premiere for the sundance awardwinning thriller the guilty film. The guilty nevertheless emerges as a twisty crime thriller thats every bit as pulsepounding and involving as its. When police officer asger holm jakob cedergren is demoted to desk work, he expects a sleepy beat as an emergency dispatcher. The guilty was one of two danishproduced films in the world cinema dramatic competition. The movie makes an assured, progressive, feminist assertion that speaking up is a brave, righteous thing to do.
Think of this years lineup as having more depth but fewer stars. Handed its world premiere at sundance, the film deserves a healthy run on the festival circuit followed by decent theatrical exposure, while, down the road, it could easily lend itself to an englishlanguage remake that would be a terrific fit for a ryan gosling or michael fassbender. Following a sundance debut where it picked up the audience award in its category and a recent stop at new directorsnew films, the first international trailer has arrived. The guilty makes a thriller out a cop, a crime, a phone and one setting its part bottle episode, part danish radio play. But its always a good idea to keep an eye on this wideranging crop to discover surprising gems along the way. The director of madelines madeline, one of our favorite movies of 2018, returns to sundance with a biopic about horror author shirley jackson. Magnolia pictures has picked up north american rights to gustav mollers the guilty at the sundance film festival. The guilty wins audience award at sundance danish film institute. At 85 minutes the movie moves quickly and the conclusion is a bit disappointing but i recommend the guilty.
But when a distressed woman is abruptly cut off, asger embarks on a deadly race against time to find her, using only his telephone and his wits. That all changes when he answers a panicked phone call from a kidnapped woman who then disconnects abruptly. A founder of the sundance film festival is expected to go to prison for at least six years after he pleaded guilty in a utah courtroom on tuesday to. Contributions from federal, state, and community agencies and embassies. An intense film experience which critics have called riveting, pulsepounding and thrilling.
Three films that screened during the first two days of the festivalloveling. The call center is the set for the entire course of the film. Magnolia pictures has made a winning plea for north american rights to the guilty, directorcowriter gustav mollers drama that premiered sunday in the world dramatic competition at sundance. The guilty world cinema dramatic competition winner. The guilty wins audience award at sundance danish film.
Magnolia pictures has acquired north american rights to gustav mollers danish film the guilty, which screened in the world dramatic competition at the ongoing sundance film festival. First trailer for sundance winner the guilty sets up one. This is a list of films that won awards at the american sundance film festival. But the screenplay really could have used another rewrite or two.
But the events, as told in matt ruskins new distributionseeking sundance movie crown heights, unfolded more tragically. Hollywood will want to remake this riveting 911 thriller sundance 2018 gustav mollers debut is a suspenseful chamber piece in which a dispatcher frantically attempts. Magnolia picks up gustav mollers the guilty at sundance. Showcasing a wide variety of story and style, the sundance film festival short film tour is a 95minute theatrical program of eight short films from the 2016 edition of the january festival utah community events.
At this years sundance film festival, the first film that really started a buzz was from the relatively underpromoted world dramatic competition. The 25 best sundance film festival movies everyone should. Jakob cedergren in the guilty 2018 jakob cedergren and gustav moller in. Trailer roundup for sundance film festival 2018 premieres. It was screened in the world cinema dramatic competition section at the 2018 sundance film festival. The disturbing singlelocation thriller the guilty explores the. The stunning danish thriller the guilty from debuting director gustav moller not only takes the minimalism of space to an extremethe entire film takes place in a single locationbut also impressively shrinks its storys time span down to bare essentials.
Debuting in sundance s world competition and already set for further festival exposure in rotterdam and goteborg, the film is set to become a favourite on the circuit. The film centers on an alarm dispatcher and former police officer wh. Crown heights tells true story of long fight to free a. While the 2018 sundance film festival seems unlikely to produce the number of breakout hits and oscar nominations of years past think the big sick, call me by your name, get out, mudbound from just the 2017 festival alone, the overall quality of the festival was still solid. Emergency police dispatcher asger holm settles into another dull shift at an emergency call centre. When police officer asger holm jakob cedergren is demoted to. Sterling van wagenen, the cofounder of the famed sundance film festival, has been found guilty of sex abuse.
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