Steve Inskeep talks to film critic Kenneth Turan about some of the movies we should watch for coming out of this year's Sundance Film Festival in Park City. As we say goodbye to a summer-movie season full of slumps, it's time to get into the more serious fall titles that will bring powerful performances and. Check out New Movie Posters: 'Arrival,' 'Zoom,' 'The Eagle Huntress' and More and other movie photo galleries and celebrity photo galleries at Movies.com. As a work of fiction the Eddie the Eagle story would be fabulous, but because it's true it is so much stronger. THE EAGLE HUNTRESS follows Aisholpan, a 13-year-old girl, as she trains to become the first female in twelve generations of her Kazakh family to become an. This Girls Hooded Huntress Costume is right on target for a Hunger Games costume! It's a place from which we hear about movies we may get a chance to see later - independent films in particular. Critic Kenneth Turan gets to see those movies now. Hi, Ken. KENNETH TURAN, BYLINE: Hey, Steve. How are you doing? INSKEEP: OK, so what's catching your eye? TURAN: Well, what's catching my eye is what caught everyone's eye. A photographer who snapped what could be the world's only girl hunting with a golden eagle says watching her work was an amazing sight. How do you tell the story of a young girl on the ground and her eagle in the air, set in remote parts of Mongolia, sometimes in sub-zero temperatures? A rite-of-passage movie about a girl’s dreams of being the first female to enter the Golden Eagle competition is pleasantly feelgood, plus it’s narrated by Star. It's a new film by Kenneth Lonergan. And his new film is also set in the American Northeast. It's in a town north of Boston. The hero is a man played by Casey Affleck who's kind of a misanthropic soul. He's really angry at the world. His older brother dies. He ends up having to be the guardian of the older brother's son. Eagle Huntress WikiHe really doesn't want to do this. He especially doesn't want to move back to Manchester- by- the- Sea where he has a really tragic past. INSKEEP: And Casey Affleck has been in this area before, this sort of North Eastern thriller, and been very effective. TURAN: Absolutely, and he's really the best he's ever been in this role. It's a film that really mixes heartbreak and humor. This is a film that feels so lifelike, people literally are already talking about Oscar nominations even though The Oscars are more than a year away. INSKEEP: Wow, OK. So you're also watching at least one documentary. In Mongolia, there's a 2. And a 1. 3- year- old girl, whose father and grandfather are eagle hunters, decides she wants to do it too. And it's beautiful - just beautiful out there. INSKEEP: What's the landscape look like? TURAN: Well, you see it all during the year. Part of it is barren, it's very snowy. It's really - the director said, it's not the end of the world, but you can see it from there. INSKEEP: And it sounds like the star of this film, to some extent, is, well, the eagles. TURAN: The eagles are amazing. The young girl is really amazing. She and her family came to Park City and they're here and they're doing photo ops. This is really kind of a dizzying place sometimes. INSKEEP: The photo ops with the eagles? TURAN: They couldn't bring their own eagles because obviously you can't be transporting eagles, but the Comanche Nation of Oklahoma provided eagles. INSKEEP: OK, so quite a show there. We've got teenagers, we've got birds and some other documentaries there, right? What are you watching? TURAN: Yes, there are two documentaries I really like. They are both having to do with film, but film figures in them in an unusual way. The first one's called . He really loved those films, and they brought him back. The other film with film in it is . He was distraught that his country's films were so bad. And being a despot, he kidnapped South Korea's top actress and South Korea's top director, who happened to be husband- and- wife. He brought them to North Korea, and he made them make films for him. And, you know, this is a documentary. You hear the people talking. You hear recordings of Kim Jong- Il's voice talking about this. This is really quite a story. INSKEEP: Really sounds like two pretty amazing stories there. I want to come back to that first one, Ken. You loving films as you do must have loved sitting there watching this documentary of a kid being brought back to his voice, anyway, by watching Disney animation. TURAN: You are so right. I mean, it really was kind of amazing to see the power of film. It's something we forget so easily, but the power of film to do good really is strong in this film. INSKEEP: Kenneth Turan reviews movies for MORNING EDITION and the Los Angeles Times. He's at the Sundance Film Festival in Utah. Ken, thanks. TURAN: Thank you, Steve. Copyright . 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