The Grube Tube: Sundance Film Festival 2026
The Sundance Film Festival showed Everybody to Kenmure Street. It will be at the Glasgow Film Festival too, when people can stroll from the cinema to the street if they wish. Community action bubbles up from community history, and Kenmure Street points out how Kenmure Street was primed for this particular community to barricade a UK government van as it tried to cart off two Sikh gentleman in 2021. At the time this was a government's New Plan For Immigration, but all plans for immigration come down to people being manhandled into vans in the end. The Kenmure Street police are all masked for 2021 reasons, so the sight of no one getting shot to death for 2026 reasons in more or less the same scenario stands out.
A review of Everybody to Kenmure Street will be in the Sight and Sound print magazine eventually and is also online.
Also seen and reviewed elsewhere:
Public Access applauds New York cable TV in the 1970s, a different kind of community action. Any line drawn from the forces behind The Grube Tube and Squirt TV to the ones on Kenmure Street would have to be dotted, but belief that a better world must somehow be possible takes many forms.
Run Amok is a very Sundance drama with a US high school shooting survivor processing mental torment in quirky ways involving music and dance. It means well, but this heightened reality isn't heightened enough compared to the static electricity over something loosely similar in Vox Lux, never mind the monarch of this model Kenneth Lonergan's Margaret, which dives from the high board of 9/11 trauma with nearly the whole of America on its mind.
The Lake is about a big part of Utah's infrastructure vanishing and causing huge trouble for everyone, so showing it at the last Sundance Festival before the event heads off to support the GDP of Colorado instead was obviously a deliberate move by somebody.
