Zal Batmanglij's "The East" premiered at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival in January. Its positioning this summer has me interested in giving it another look amid the surrounding blockbuster noise. The film i...
Sarah Moss is a brilliant operative for an elite private intelligence firm whose top objective is to ruthlessly protect the interests of their A-list corporate clientele. She is assigned to go undercover to infiltrate...
Brit Marling also produced and co-wrote the film, as she did Batmanglij's "Sound of My Voice."
Zal Batmanglij is building a solid rep and career so far with co-collaborator, actress Brit Marling. Marling starred in his 2011 Sundance hit "Sound of My Voice," which landed a pair of Independent Spirit Aw...
I don't know how they do it.
I am impressed each year by each of the festivals I attend because of the sheer scale of the enterprise. Sundance is this crazy sprint in the snow where way too many people descen...
Public Premiere: January 20, 12:15pm at The Eccles
Lowdown: The plot synopsis of David Lowery's latest would be enough to draw my attention, but then he went and filled it out with a fascinating cast: Rooney Mara, Ca...
Besides the buzz around "Bully," the art house scene has been pretty quiet since the long string of Oscar players died out at the beginning of March. That will all change next Friday when Zal Batmanglij's &q...
