The 2025 edition of the Sundance Film Festival finds filmmakers tackling prickly material with a warmer lens — or avoiding it altogether.

A lavish, MGM-style musical is not typical Sundance Film Festival fare. But Sunday night Bill Condon brought such a creation — well, part of one — to Park City, Utah, with his adaptation of “Kiss of the Spider Woman,

Sundance: Bill Condon On Revisiting 'Kiss Of The Spider Woman' After 40 Years & Turning Jennifer Lopez Loose In An MGM-Style Musical

That may dampen down following its Sundance world premiere, although Lopez will trail publicity wherever she goes, particularly as ex-husband Affleck is involved. This will play best to a musical theatre fans who will appreciate Condon’s staging (the fact he wrote Chicago is clear to see),

The plot in the new film follows the original in that it is centered on a political prisoner (played by Diego Luna) in Argentina who shares a cell with a queer window dresser (Tonatiuh), where they talk about the plot of a Hollywood musical starring a talented actress (Lopez).

Jennifer Lopez dressed to impress at the world premiere of Kiss of the Spider Woman. Making a fashion statement at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City on Sunday, January 26, the

PARK CITY, Utah (AP) — A lavish, MGM-style musical is not typical Sundance Film Festival ... A 1985 film adaptation starred William Hurt and Raul Julia. Hurt won an Oscar for his performance.

EXCLUSIVE: Pulsar Content has board worldwide sales on U.S. directorial duo Justin Powell and David Charbonier’s horror feature Push for a European Film Market rollout next month. The deal was brokered with UTA which boarded U.S sales rights ahead of the movie’s well received premiere at the Sitges Film Festival last September.

Naturally, The Verge is going to be taking in as much of Sundance as we can and posting bite-sized reviews of everything we see. We’ll also be posting longer reviews and sharing trailers, and you can follow along here to keep up with all of the news out of the festival.

The events of 2020 changed a lot of things for the world, and has lead to one unexpected benefit for those who love movies but might struggle to visit Utah in January: The virtual Sundance Film Festival.

Below, I spoke to Sachs about his approach to adapting Rosenkrantz’s slim tome, what his film has to say about the artist’s life in the 1970s and now, and the classic independent short films that influenced the making of Peter Hujar’s Day.

Producers Abby Wambach and Sara Bareilles share their new documentary, "Come See Me in the Good Light," which premiered at Sundance Film Festival.