Author: Nonfics

Trevor Thompson interviews Birdman composer Antonio Sanchez (Epicleff Media) Most people know the James Bond theme music or the Pirates of the Caribbean theme. The…

Sundance Film Festival Datong is an overwhelming place. Home to three and a half million people, this historic mining center is now the most polluted city…

Sundance Film Festival Often credited as “the father of African cinema,” Ousmane Sembène has nonetheless gone unknown to wider audiences, though his films are beloved by…

Sundance Film Festival Teenage rites of passage are difficult enough when you’re “normal.” But having autism or other developmental issues brings its own set of anxieties…

Sundance Film Festival Fedor Alexandrovich has the unkempt, bushy look of a Bolshevik or a doomsday prophet. He has some surprising things to say. The Chernobyl…

Sundance Film Festival There were several walkouts during the screening I caught of Pervert Park. I don’t know what those people anticipated from a documentary about…

Sundance Film Festival It seems every year brings one notable documentary that features a major “plot twist,” and The Amina Profile may be this year’s model.…

Sundance Film Festival From its founding in 1966 to its dissolution in 1982, the Black Panthers struck fear into the hearts of skittish white people all…

Sundance Film Festival Like Los Angeles Plays Itself by way of Ross McElwee, Jenni Olson’s The Royal Road surveys the landscape of Southern California as a…