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2022 Sundance Film Festival (Courtesy Sundance Institute)

Sundance 2022 is in Full Swing, and Fully Online

By Frank Gardner, Assistant Arts Editor January 21, 2022

  Sundance 2022 is here, and for the second consecutive year it’s completely online. Though this wasn’t always the plan, Festival Director Tabitha Jackson is confident it’s the best option...

(Photo by Kevin Cody | The Daily Utah Chronicle)

Labor Strikes in Arts and Entertainment: National News and Local Conversations

By Makena Reynolds, Arts Writer January 19, 2022

  The concerns of entertainment and gig workers have come to a head as television and film became the main source of entertainment during the COVID-19 pandemic. As streaming companies...

Bradley Cooper in Nightmare Alley. (Courtesy of searchlightpictures.com)

‘Nightmare Alley’ is a Wonderfully Dark Reminder that Everyone is Horrible

By Luke Jackson January 12, 2022

  I’ve always had a slight obsession with sleight of hand magic tricks. The moment of disbelief in someone’s eyes when they’ve successfully been tricked is insanely satisfying. For a split...

Members of the Arts Desk

Starting a New Year: The Arts Desk on Their Past Favorites and Pieces To Look Forward To

  Here on the Arts Desk of the Chronicle, we talk about art. A lot. While 2020 shut down many creative productions as COVID-19 and its subsequent stops, restrictions and shutdowns rose, 2021 brought...

Bozeman, MT - Anker-Lowe family hiking Alex Lowe Peak in Montana. (Credit: Lowe Anker Family)

National Geographic’s ‘Torn’ Documents a Family’s Loss and Explores Their Recovery

By Hannah Keating, Arts Editor January 9, 2022

  National Geographic's latest documentary “Torn” is an intimate look into the life left behind by the “world’s greatest climber” Alex Lowe after his tragic death in an avalanche. In...

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Queer Representation in Holiday Films Isn’t Quite Enough

By Whit Fuller, Arts Writer January 9, 2022

  After the holiday season has come and gone, it becomes obvious how few queer holiday offerings there are. Despite the growth of LGBTQIA+ holiday films on the Hallmark channel and a few films...

Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman in a screenshot from the trailer for Licorice Pizza (courtesy of Universal Pictures)

The San Fernando Valley of the 1970s is on Display in ‘Licorice Pizza’

By Megan Fisher, Arts Writer December 31, 2021

  Over the course of Paul Thomas Anderson's latest movie, not a slice of pizza or a piece of licorice can be found. The title “Licorice Pizza” refers not to food, but a chain of record stores...

Ariana De Bose in America from West Side Story (Courtesy of 20th Century Studios)

Spielberg’s First Musical ‘West Side Story’ Is a Beautiful, Vivid Update of a Classic

By Megan Fisher, Arts Writer December 31, 2021

  The Musical Spielberg Has Been Waiting to Make Steven Spielberg has never made a musical, but his latest movie, an adaptation of the classic "West Side Story," is something that he has been preparing...

Mia Wasikowska in a screenshot from the trailer forBergman Island (Courtesy of IFC Films)

‘Bergman Island’ is a Lovely Tale of the Divide Between Life and Art

By Megan Fisher, Arts Writer December 15, 2021

  If you have only seen the recent HBO remake of “Scenes from a Marriage”and not Ingmar Bergman's original, you are missing out on very interesting closing credits. An anonymous voice intones,...

Kirsten Dunst in The Power of the Dog (Courtesy of the New Zealand Film Commission)

Jane Campion’s ‘The Power of the Dog’ is a Muted Study of Masculinity and Psychological Warfare

By Megan Fisher, Arts Writer December 15, 2021

  Throughout “The Power of the Dog” Phil Burbank (Benedict Cumberbatch), a brutal and sadistic cattle rancher, can often be found standing behind his barn and staring at the mountains of the...

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