A Few Signs of Life

ROBERT KOEHLER

The 2023 edition of the Sundance Film Festival wasn’t the worst ever—that would be 2021, when the lousiest movie in the history of major festival-winners, that thing titled Coda, somehow won every prize in sight and never stopped. That annus horribilis also marked the year that Sundance went online (because of you-know-what), and it is now clear that the festival will never be the same again. The latest edition, though not the worst, was certainly the strangest, presenting a hybrid of online and in-person programming, and it was up to you to choose which one (or both) you fancied. I chose a blend of each, partly for efficiency and partly out of a simple desire to return to a live festival with human beings sitting in cinemas. Having deliberately avoided…

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Cinema Scope (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 94 - Spring 2023

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