"First Cow" leads the Gotham nominations

by Nathaniel R

This year's Gotham Awards have fully embraced the female gaze. In fact, the entire Best Feature nominee list is female-helmed films with First Cow leading with 4 nominations. Unfortunately that means Lee Isaac Chung's Minari was shut out for the top prize (it only received one acting nomination), which is a shame but you can't have everything. Though the Gotham Awards are not a traditional "precursor" to Oscar (they rarely align) we tend to like that kind of precursor best. Groups with their own personality are the only ones that have a reason to exist! 

Full nomination list with a few comments after the jump...

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Yes No Maybe So: Minari

by Eurocheese

The Minari trailer has arrived, and wow is it gorgeous. I may not be familiar with writer/director Lee Isaac Chung’s previous works, but this trailer for the Sundance success and its endorsement from one of our most promising new directors (we’ll get there) are enough to get me excited. Let's do the Yes No Maybe So breakdown after the jump …

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Murtada's Sundance Notes & Favorite Performances

by Murtada Elfadl

My second straight year at Sundance was even better than my first. I knew my way around a little bit more and managed not to over schedule myself. The movies remain for the most part fantastic and the conversations in the many lines and at the different spaces on Main Street illuminating. Here are a few observations about this year's festival:

the Zola team

Diversity of Voices and Stories Can Be Accomplished

I saw 30 movies in 8 days. Half of them were directed by women and half were cast with pre dominantently actors of color. Some of the best movies I saw came from outside the US...

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Sundance Awards (Plus Abe's 'Jury of One' Wrap)

by Abe Fried-Tanzer

Minari won Sundance

The Sundance Film Festival is officially over, closing out yet another busy week and a half of nonstop movies. I managed to catch 41 films this year, including almost all the Premieres titles and most of the U.S. Dramatic Competition films. I enjoyed running into Murtada a few times and noting how much we disagreed on a few films (one of his least favorites is on my top ten list, and I hated Zola, which he loved).

After the jump, the official awards and the best of what I saw... 

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