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‘Whiplash’ Tops Sundance Film Festival’s Top 10 Feature Films List From Past Four Decades – Film News in Brief
Damien Chazelle's "Whiplash" has topped the Sundance Film Festival's list of the top ten feature films from the past four decades.
Directed and written by Damien Chazelle, “Whiplash” stars Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons as music conservatory student Andrew Neiman and abusive music teacher Terrence Fletcher, respectively. Placing second and third in the list were Quentin Tarantino’s 1992 neo-noir film “Reservoir Dogs,” about the aftermath of an unsuccessful jewelry heist, and Jordan Peele’s 2017 horror, “Get Out,” about a Black man (Daniel Kaluuya) visiting the home of his white girlfriend, Rose (Alison Williams), only to find that terrifying operations are going on inside. Following the first three, the other seven films that made the list were, in descending ranking: “Little Miss Sunshine,” “Memento,” “sex, lies and videotape,” “Before Sunrise,” “Boyhood,” “Y tu mamá también” and “Blood Simple.”
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