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At Sundance, Filmmaking and the Festival Contemplate Apocalypse and Rebirth Collide

January 30, 2026January 30, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments AI and filmmaking, AI and labor rights, AI and unions, AI apocalypse narratives, AI benefits, AI efficiencies debate, AI ethics, AI in cinema, AI in Hollywood, AI industry, AI regulation, AI risks, AI safety, AI tools, Antonio Gramsci, Apocaloptimism, Apocalypse narratives, Binet Simon test, British Empire, CAA, CCAI Creators Coalition on AI, Charlie Tyrell, Daniel Kwan, Daniel Roher, Daniels filmmaking duo, dystopian futurism, Eliezer Yudkowsky, Elon Musk, eugenics, Everything Everywhere All At Once, film technology, Focus Features, future of cinema, future of work, Ghost in the Machine, Grok chatbot, Hollywood future, Hollywood Reporter, James Cameron, Jason Reitman, Mark Zuckerberg, Microsoft, Park City, phrenology, Sam Altman, Sam Altman fundraising, Silicon Valley history, Stanford Binet, Sundance, Sundance 2025, Sundance 2026, Sundance documentaries, Sundance industry issues, Sundance panels, Tay, tech culture, tech hubris, The AI Doc, The AI Doc: How I Became an Apocaloptimist, the future of cinema, Tristan Harris, utopian futurism, Valerie Veatch, White supremacy in tech, William Shockley

Amid a farewell to Park City, two major AI documentaries reflect the end of a way of being

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Shakespeare Weeps, Zhao Howls

November 30, 2025December 7, 2025 Stephen Garrett 0 Comments Chloé Zhao, Elizabethan England, Emily Watson, Focus Features, Hamlet, Hamnet, Historical drama, Jessie Buckley, Joe Alwyn, Literary adaptation, Maggie OFarrell, Paul Mescal, Period film, Shakespeare

A gorgeous, grief-stricken adaptation of Maggie O’Farrell’s ‘Hamnet’ hits like a soliloquy to the gut

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The Last Jackass Claims To Be Their Best

June 27, 2026July 1, 2026 Stephen Garrett 0

Johnny Knoxville and crew in a butt-stuffing swansong

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The Cruelty of Nice Minnesota Folks

June 26, 2026July 1, 2026 William Schwartz 0

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Run, Don’t Walk To See a One-Man, Three-Hour Biopic of French Poet Arthur Rimbaud, Really

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Thrilling, Funny, and Sad Tales of Modern Manhood

June 25, 2026June 29, 2026 Jake Harris 0

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