Some topical films are ripped from the headlines.
After noticing Occupy protesters in town – the group, led by Tyler Galovich, had been camping in a park until recently – Sundance officials reached out and directed the group toward screenings of topical films playing this year's festival.
Serious, topical films about race were lacking, they said, and consequently so were black nominees.
Last winter, when Christophe de Ponfilly's documentary "Massoud, the Afghan" was shown at the Film Society of Lincoln Center, it was hard to imagine a more urgently topical film.
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Now Lee is unequivocally back in the spotlight, making the kind of full-blooded, confrontational, frustrating, and topical film only he can.
Despite filmmakers like Lawrence Kasden, Robert Altman, David Lynch and Paul Thomas Anderson, who tried to make their topical LA films sophisticated and magical, we were misrepresented by Steve Martin films, "Melrose Place," "90210," and "Baywatch".
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The group, composed of film critics from Bay Area publications and websites, also bestowed two accolades on East Bay filmmaker Peter Nicks and his topical nonfiction film "The Waiting Room," a fly-on-the-wall documentary that takes you inside Oakland's Highland Hospital overburdened emergency room.
Most of these 70- to 80-minute features are swift, hard, topical dramas, filmed in the vigorous, headlong style epitomized by his best-known picture of the time, "The Public Enemy" (1931).
