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The 16 Best Movies of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival
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That raw first-person perspective, untempered by the interests of another filmmaker and given narrative rigor by Ito’s substantial journalistic skills, makes “Black Box Diaries” not just a damning analysis of patriarchal power structures in contemporary Japan, but a vivid evocation of the day-to-day psychological swings and breaks that come with living as a survivor. The film captures how Mark Mothersbaugh and Gerald Casale, the founding leaders of Devo, drew on a crazed welter of inspirations, making themselves into performance-art showmen, pioneers of music video, satirical absurdists with a big message (that American society wasn’t progressing — it was devolving), and sizzling musicians who created their own brand of inside-out rock ‘n’ roll. Image Credit: Courtesy of Sundance Film Festival Jeff Zimbalist’s documentary redefines the words “high anxiety.” It’s set in the world of rooftoopers, and it’s full of amazing, terrifying, transfixing verité shots of young daredevils scaling the spindly spires that shoot out of the tops of skyscrapers.
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