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Festivals & Awards
2018 Japan Cuts Festival Preview
A preview of New York City's upcoming Japan Cuts festival, which runs from July 19-29.
A preview of New York City's upcoming Japan Cuts festival, which runs from July 19-29.
PARK CITY, Utah--Europeans tend to view Americans as perpetual teenagers, and maybe they have a point. If you were to judge the world on the basis of the movies at this year's Sundance Film Festival, the typical American is a troubled teenager and the typical European or Japanese is an adult confronting basic questions of life.