Sundance Film Festival

Berlin Discoveries: Greatness Emerges at the Year's First Major Film Festival

RIP Steve Kramer of the Wallets (1953-2013)

Steve Kramer, frontman for the genre-defying Twin Cities group the Wallets, has died. He was found in his hotel room Saturday while attending the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. He was 59.Kramer and the Wallets released two original albums via Twin/Tone in the mid-'80s, including the cele ... More >>

Chris Mars' film In Hanford screening at Sundance this month

When musicians become directors, they should be required to start by making short films. Such legislation might have saved us from the feature-length cinematic sadism inflicted upon us by David Byrne, Fred Durst and John Doofus Mellencamp. Chris Mars, former drummer of the irreplaceable Replacements ... More >>

Quentin Tarantino unchained

The iconic director emerges with one of his most ambitious films yet, Django Unchained

Paul Thomas Anderson on The Master

The director discusses Joaquin Phoenix and researching Scientology

Julie Delpy Rocks New York

Writer-director-actress takes on everything that's wrong with movies—and she's bringing Chris Rock

Craig Zobel on the making of Compliance

The director documents sexual degradation, with humanity

Summer movie preview

A look ahead at the season's hottest films

Movies much anticipated in 2012

Red Tails, This Is Forty, and more

Top Films of 2011

A Dangerous Method, Aurora, and more

Sound Unseen 12: From Sid & Nancy to Sigur Ros

Eleven music films showing at Ritz Theater

Brit Marling in Another Earth

Sundance darling is "it girl" actress of the moment

Summer movie guide 2011

Harry Potter, Cars 2, and more

The Bengali Detective: Film by British and Minnesota filmmakers

MSPIFF takes place April 14 to May 5

Blast Theory: A Machine To See With

David Carr gets kudos in "Page One" N.Y. Times documentary

David Carr gives a stand-out performance.​Congratulations are in order for David Carr, once the editor of the Twin Cities Reader, who keeps clawing his way up the media food chain. Carr beat drug addiction to pen a harrowing memoir. He carved out a media beat at The New York Times. Two years ... More >>

Dogtooth, The Ghost Writer, and more: Top 10 Films of 2010

Critics' picks for the year

In Search of Asia

Minneapolis-St. Paul International Film Festival

Restrepo exposes the lives of American soliders

Film wins documentary prize at Sundance

Get Him to the Greek: See it or flee it?

Get Him to the Greek​Get Him to the Greek is a mess as a movie--but that doesn't mean it isn't funny. Besides Russell Brand's new film, your best bet might be a movie made in 1927--the newly restored classic Metropolis, in a weeklong run at the Lagoon. OPENING SEE: Get Him to the Greek Jonah ... More >>

Birdemic: Shock and Terror to screen in Minneapolis

​Ever wonder what would have happened if Ed Wood been the one to film Hitchcock's The Birds? The resulting movie may have looked a little like the low-budget, stock-footage laden, pending cult classic Birdemic: Shock and Terror.

An Education and star Carey Mulligan get good marks

Sundance hit is classily directed nostalgia trip

Anvil! The Story of Anvil screens tonight

Sometimes fame takes a little time. Sometimes it takes over 20 years.

Sundance Film Festival quietly turns 25

Crowds were thinner and its films riding moderate praise

Hamlet 2: Not To Be

Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic

Heroes and Zeroes at Sundance

Morgan Spurlock gives Americans a bad name, but (separate!) films on baseball and steroids shine

Artists of the Year

Craig Zobel

Backwoods urchin and itchy nymph hook up at Sundance.

Extreme Sundance

T&A and the ol' Ultra-V make for the ideal American film festival

Last Tango In Utah

Searching the slopes for signs of independence at the Sundance Film Festival

Panic in Park City

Fear is the driving force at this year's Sundance Film Festival

The Wanderers

Seeking Signs of Civilization--and Artistic Sustenance--at the Sundance Film Festival

Linklater's Being and Nothingness

Capital Cinema

The money swapping was typically dubious. The movies were surprisingly bold. A story treatment from Hollywood's mountain outpost, Sundance 2001.

Army of One

With Movie Wars, film critic Jonathan Rosenbaum positions himself as the last line of defense against Hollywood tyranny

On the Rebound

This year's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Film Festival finds new queer cinema yearning to forget its affair with Hollywood

The Dreamlife of Virgins

First-time director Sofia Coppola turns The Virgin Suicides into a reverie of Seventies adolescence

Killing Joke

Director Mary Harron delivers American Psycho with its cutting humor intact

The Price of Knowledge

With Not One Less, director Zhang Yimou calculates the human costs of the new China

The Gift of Gabbert

The Sundance Shuffle

Hollywood shifts to the slopes for another week of reeling opportunities

Screening New Heights

The ambitious Heights Theatre stretches to bring upscale cinema to an audience outside of Uptown

Cold Fever

The annual case of contagious hype and acquisitions mania at the Sundance Film Festival

Get Up, Stand Up

No Place Like Home

Paving The Road

It Only Takes a Spark:Former- Minneapolitan-turned-director Garret Williams.

Playing It Safe at Sundance

LILI BLOOMS

Girlfriend's Gotta Have It

Losing It at Sundance

The Amerindie film fest continues to inspire madness and money--and occasionally, art.