Our schools are broken: An interview with director Greg Whiteley about his Sundance doc ‘Most Likely to Succeed’ Alexandra Heeney February 6, 2015 14 Comments Given that our education system was designed over a century ago by a group of 10 men, including founders of the industrial revolution like Henry Ford, is it still serving students of the 21st... Read More »
The highs and lows of being a member of the press at Sundance 2015 Alexandra Heeney February 6, 2015 1 Comment After seven blissful days in an unseasonably warm Park City, my time at the Sundance Film Festival came to a close last Wednesday — although I still felt like I was there in spirit until the... Read More »
Sundance 2015: promising black auteurs emerge but with disappointing films Alexandra Heeney February 4, 2015 0 Comments One of the first films I saw at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s documentary “The Mask You Live In,” about how we need to redefine modern masculinity to allow... Read More »
This week in Arts & Life (Feb. 2–8) Alexandra Heeney February 1, 2015 0 Comments Whether you want to audition for a play, see a play, head to an art gallery, catch a new film or a classic, hear a concert or learn about screenwriting, there’s plenty to see and do on and off... Read More »
Sundance 2015: Female directors reign in the World Dramatic Competition Alexandra Heeney January 30, 2015 0 Comments While precious few narrative films by female directors make it into the multiplex, there’s a bounty of them screening in the Sundance Film Festival’s World Dramatic Competition. Here’s are some... Read More »
Sundance Review of ‘The Stanford Prison Experiment': Harrowing but disappointing Alexandra Heeney January 29, 2015 0 Comments Kyle Patrick Alvarez’s “The Stanford Prison Experiment,” screening in the US Dramatic Competition at the Sundance Film Festival, recreates Dr. Philip Zimbardo’s landmark 1971 experiment with... Read More »
Sundance film ‘The Forbidden Room’ gets the most walkouts of the festival Alexandra Heeney January 27, 2015 3 Comments Guy Maddin’s new film, co-directed by Evan Johnson, “The Forbidden Room,” easily wins this year’s prize for the weirdest, most inaccessible film I saw at Sundance. It’s a visually stunning... Read More »
Jennifer Siebel Newsom ’96 discusses ‘The Mask You Live In’ and masculinity in the U.S. Alexandra Heeney January 24, 2015 0 Comments In “The Mask You Live In,” the new Sundance documentary from Jennifer Siebel Newsom ’96, we meet boys and men from across ages, races and socio-economic backgrounds, all of whom have suffered... Read More »