From left: Photo: Zach SchiffmanPhoto: Neil Janowitz
From left: Photo: Zach SchiffmanPhoto: Neil Janowitz
➼ The (Easy) Merch Grid
➼ The (Medium) Auteur Grid
➼ The (Hard) R-Rated Grid
➼ The (Cinemasochist) Sundance Grid
Photo: Sundance Institute
“It’s more of a movie about trying to make a movie about concrete than it is one about what you get when you mix cement, water, and additives. But concrete is something it’s able to return to when it’s in danger of losing the thread — if there even is a thread to lose. Wilson’s whole deal might best be summed up as an ongoing riff on the absurdity of living and trying to make art in capitalism.” — Alison Willmore’s review of The History of Concrete.
“The peculiar charm of the film lies in the way it’s driven by genuine curiosity about its subject. Apatow doesn’t seem to have come to this film with a thesis and a story and an outline already in hand.” — Bilge Ebiri in his review of Paralyzed by Hope: The Maria Bamford Story
Photo: Robin Marchant/Getty Images
Photo: Sundance Institute
“As the world’s oldest people appear on our screen, with the filmmaker visiting them in their homes, we see Sam get weaker while his son gets older. The project thus expands conceptually in unexpected, even disturbing directions — it feels like it may never cohere into a finished work. In addition, we learn more about the 2009 suicide of Green’s brother, a trauma that the director still has difficulty talking about. We realize we’re watching a movie about time — not the time these elderly people have lived, but about our own brief, unpredictable measure of time on this planet.” — Bilge Ebiri on The Oldest Person in the World
At the premiere of Aidan Zamiri’s Charli XCX’s autofiction mockumentary, The Moment, the crowd came for Charli and her co-stars like Alexander Skarsgård, Jamie Demetriou, and Rachel Sennott. What they left with was… “Wait, was Kylie Jenner really good?” In a single scene, Jenner managed to look beautiful, show off real acting chops, and be honest-to-God funny. Those lip plumpers were hiding real acting ability. Someone get her onstage at the Comedy Cellar.
