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The Sundance Film Festival: A Retrospective

The Sundance Film Festival: A Retrospective

Defined by dreamy photography, thoughtful performances and a rebellious bent, Sundance films often rewrite entire genres. The festival – which returns to Utah’s snow-dusted Park City between 23 January and 2 February – brings together small-budget filmmakers and Hollywood names looking to discover the next big thing. In the run up to its 41st edition, we celebrate the most influential titles to have emerged from across the decades.

Reservoir Dogs, 1992

A neo-noir about a failed jewellery heist that turns into a bloody police ambush, this film both launched Quentin Tarantino’s career and brought Sundance to an audience far wider than the traditional art house crowd.

The Blair Witch Project, 1999

Creators Daniel Myrick and Eduardo Sánchez changed horror forever with this faux documentary supposedly cut together from the material left behind by students who disappeared while investigating the legend of a witch. 

AUDIENCE MEMBERS ATTENDING A POST-SCREENING Q&A

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American Psycho, 2000

This misanthropic Manhattan satire directed by Mary Harron explores the violence inherent to the version of capitalism that reached its apex on Wall Street in the Eighties.

Precious, 2009

A tough watch from Lee Daniels, this Oscar-winner chronicles a teenager’s attempts to escape her abusive mother, who is depicted in heart-wrenching detail by Mo’Nique.

God’s Own Country, 2017

A farmer and Romanian worker fall for each other during one lambing season in Francis Lee’s tender, brutal love story which won him Sundance’s World Cinema Directing Award.

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