Linda Jager
ReviewerOne of KPCW's Friday Film Review, reviewers.
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The Academy Awards air on Sunday and one contender “American Fiction” is in the running for five Oscars.
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An audience favorite from this year’s Sundance Film Festival, "Thelma," is an uplifting film that follows a 93-year-old woman on a quest for justice.
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Three members of an extended Afghan family start their lives over in Iran as refugees, unaware they face a decades-long struggle ahead to be at home in the film "In the Land of Brothers." Co-director Raha Amirfazli talks about the film and the situation of people in Iran.
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In India Donaldson’s intimate feature debut, during a weekend backpacking trip in the Catskills, 17-year-old Sam contends with the competing egos of her father and his oldest friend.
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Salt Lake Tribune's Palak Jayswal and Alex Vejar talk about the experience of covering this year's Sundance Film Festival, the festival's future, and share some of their favorite films.
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Screening as part of the Festival's Premiere section, the documentary "DEVO" shares the story of the iconic new wave band, beginning with their inception as a group of activist art students at Kent State in 1973.
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The documentary "War Game," a featured Special Screening at this year's Festival, takes viewers inside a simulated war room with a group of U.S. defense, intelligence, and elected officials who are participating in a mock crisis scenario who have just six hours to respond to an attempted coup.
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Writer-Director Jane Schoenbrun makes their Sundance debut with “I Saw the TV Glow,” which screened in the Midnight section at the Park City Library.
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Set in a fictional New England boys boarding school during the holidays, "The Holdovers" is a new comedy/drama that reunites "Sideways" director Alexander Payne and lead Paul Giamatti.
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Meg Ryan and David Duchovny try to make the most of an indefinite airport delay in the new film "What Happens Later."