Tom Blyth - Oscar Isaac - Meet Love Story’s JFK Jr. and Carolyn Bessette

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What to Watch at Sundance

The 2026 Sundance Film Festival will be a time of endings and beginnings. It’s the event’s very last year in Park City before it moves to its new home in Boulder, Colorado—and it’s the first fest without Sundance founder Robert Redford, who died last year at the age of 89. But as always, the main focus will be on the movies. Sundance has earned a reputation for launching small films into both the spotlight and the awards conversation, and it’s living up to it this season, with Train Dreams on track for a best-picture nod and Rose Byrne gunning for a best-actress nomination for If I Had Legs I’d Kick You. We’ve analyzed this year’s lineup to highlight some of the films (and a couple of TV shows!) that have the industry buzzing.

Elsewhere in HWD, Rebecca Ford previews the second season of Netflix’s juicy drama Beef; documentarian Matt Tyrnauer remembers Valentino Garavani; José Criales-Unzueta talks rom-coms and James Bond with Tom Blyth; and Chris Murphy introduces the stars of Ryan Murphy’s Love Story.

Sunrise, Sunset

Sundance’s last dance in Park City—and first edition without founder Robert Redford—has an impressive lineup of docs, narrative features, and TV episodes. These are the ones we can’t wait to see first.

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There’s the Beef

Oscar Isaac and Carey Mulligan lead the next chapter of the Netflix hit as a couple whose volatile argument leads to a web of ambition, lies, and blackmail.

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The Last Emperor

Matt Tyrnauer spent years with the late Valentino Garavani and his partner, Giancarlo Giammetti, while making a documentary about the designer. Valentino hated the final film—until he saw what Tyrnauer had seen in him.

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Internet Boyfriends

People We Meet on Vacation star Tom Blyth on entering his rom-com era, seeing your internet-boyfriend fancams, and his dream of playing a spy—any, but also that one.

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American Gothic

Meet Paul Anthony Kelly and Sarah Pidgeon, who play doomed couple John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette in Ryan Murphy’s Love Story.

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