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Sunday, March 22, 2020 at 12:16PM A little bit of psychomatic musical comedy humor to get you through this anxiety-riddled weekend.
Guys & Dolls, comedy, musicals Saturday, February 1, 2020 at 4:39PM Abe Fried-Tanzer nearing the end of Sundance 2020...
Time loops are cool again thanks to all the hoopla around Russian Doll, but, in the same way that experiencing the same day over and over again gets stale after a while, has the phenomenon been explored enough at this point? Hulu and Neon certainly didn’t think so when they set a Sundance record by spending $17.5 million (and 69 cents) for Palm Springs, a comedy that deals with the topic yet again...
Saturday, February 1, 2020 at 10:10AM Abe Fried-Tanzer reporting from Sundance
Any time a foreign film is truly successful, there seems to be almost instantaneous talks of either a remake or a TV series coming soon for American audiences. Parasite is considering the latter and last year at Sundance, After the Wedding was a hot ticket, adapted from the 2006 Danish film. There was some skepticism when it was announced that the uncomfortable Swedish comedy Force Majeure, nominated for a Golden Globe and well loved here at The Film Experience, was getting an American treatment, but surprise: this remake is worth the price of admission...
Sunday, January 26, 2020 at 9:00PM Murtada Elfadl reporting from Sundance
Maybe it was the 10th time director Janicza Bravo used a freeze frame to reframe the wild weekend tale she’s telling in Zola, when I knew I loved her movie. The freeze frames until then were used to stop the narrative for a pithy or funny observation by our narrator Zola (Taylour Paige), twitter reply style. But this time we were getting a whole new perspective from another character. It was delectable, hilarious and ghastly. I’d say the same for Zola.
You all remember the infamous 2015 Twitter thread that started with the classic opening lines:
Y’all wanna hear a story about why me & this bitch here fell out? It’s kind of long but full of suspense?”
Well they went and made a movie out of it...
Saturday, January 25, 2020 at 9:25AM 
The Climb starts with a literal climb. Best friends Kyle (Kyle Marvin) and Mike (Michael Angelo Covino) are biking somewhere in France, up a mountain talking about Kyle impending nuptials where Mike is going to be the best man. The scene builds up as they bike up and ends with the revelation that Mike slept with Kyle's fiancée. The deadpan way Covina reveals that and the funny yet completely heartbreaking way Marvin reacts sets the tone for this abrasive comedy of male friendship...
