Douglas Keeve attends the 2025 Sundance Film Festival screening of “Unzipped” at the Egyptian Theatre. (Photo by Andrew H. Walker/Shutterstock for Sundance Film Festival) By Jessica Herndon For fashion devotees, Unzipped is the stuff of legend — a film so stylish and witty it practically invented the modern fashion documentary. Three decades after it first […]
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(L–R) Gayle Rankin and Domhnall Gleeson attend the premiere of “The Incomer” by Louis Paxton, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. (Photo
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In addition to resonating with anyone who has had to face the complications of caregiving, “Take Me Home” provides a rare opportunity for audiences to see a big-screen performance by a lead actor with a cognitive disability.
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Shirō Hamaguchi's song Chant de l'Oignon is an orchestral arrangement of the old French military song Chanson de l'Oignon, or Song of the Onion. The tune dates to the era of the French Revolution and Napoleon, with the French Ministry of the Armed Forces tracing its melody to Étienne Méhul's 1797 opera La chasse du jeune Henri. The humorous lyrics praise fried onions as food capable of turning...
Little Olive's song The Winner Is is a gentle instrumental interpretation of the memorable theme from Little Miss Sunshine. Led by a simple, wistful melody, the piece carries an unusual mixture of tenderness, melancholy and optimism that closely reflects the emotional character of the film. The Winner Is was originally composed by DeVotchKa and acclaimed film composer Mychael Danna for the...
Enjoy this great epic orchestral song by Tom Smit called Sacred. Quote the artist-composer: I wrote "Sacred" around the idea that even in moments of uncertainty, there can still be something worth holding on to. I’ve always been drawn to cinematic music because of the way an orchestra can tell a story without saying a single word. With this track, I wanted to capture the feeling of standing in...
“Because of You Ka Kui,” a documentary on the late Beyond frontman Wong Ka Kui, will open the sixth Odyssey Film Festival in the U.K., with NGO U.K.-China Film Collab also picking up the Hong Kong film for local distribution. Discussions began in March at FilMart in Hong Kong, which U.K.-China Film Collab attended with […]
Jia Zhangke will turn his attention to location scouting and production design for his next film, road movie “Mamma Dunhuang,” once the 10th Pingyao Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon International Film Festival wraps on Sept. 30. As revealed by Variety, the film follows a woman who drives from Dunhuang, in western China near Central Asia, all […]
Filmmaker Bartley Taylor joins Filmmaker Spotlight to talk Kilter, proof-of-concept shorts, crowdfunding, film festivals, rejection, directing and why filmmakers need to stop waiting and make the movie.
A very jet-lagged Scarlett Johansson reunited with co-stars Adam Driver and Miles Teller for the New York Film Festival premiere of “Paper Tiger,” which kicked off the festival’s 64th edition. “I’m hallucinating,” said Johansson, who just got off a long international flight, where she’s filming another movie. “It’s 5 in the morning — which is […]