Trailer – Black Dynamite (red band) (content)

7:45a, Friday – Apparently, The Man doesn’t want you to know about Black Dynamite. At 6:23 am the YouTube upload of the trailer was pulled down for violating community standards. But The Google Man is comin’ to the rescue!

When E.F. Hutton Talks…

…no one listens. Who trusts what anyone on Wall Street has to say anymore? But when Manohla talks, well, that’s another story. You’ll want to read what she has to say about her fave Sundance films: Big Fan, Big River Man, Unmade Beds, In The Loop, Crude, Cold Souls and Lulu and Jimi. Her sole…

DP/30 @ Sundance – Paper Heart (content)

Director Nicholas Jasenovec, actors Jake Johnson and Michael Cera, and co-writer Charlene Yi sit down with DP to discuss their Sundance release, Paper Heart. The video interview after the jump…

ITL (In The Loop) To IFC For Under $1 Million (news)

By Gregg Goldstein IFC Films has nabbed all US rights to the James Gandolfini-toplined political satire In The Loop in a just-under $1 million deal. It debuts tonight at the Eccles in the Sundance Premieres section. Loop is the latest case of a slow Sundance sales market putting a seller known for low-budget buys on…

IFC Grabs Gandolfini Comedy "In the Loop" (press release/news)

IFC FILMS ACQUIRES US RIGHTS TO ARMANDO IANNUCCI’S COMEDY IN THE LOOP Film will have its World Premiere this evening in the Premieres Section of the Sundance Film Festival Park City, UT (January 22, 2009) – IFC Films, one of the leading American distributors for independent and foreign films, announced today at the Sundance Film…

Review: You Wont Miss Me (views)

In 2009 Williamsburg, Shelly, a woman of 23 or so, (Stella Schnabel) contends with intense desires, average expectations, quotidian disappointments. Shelly’s inner life is suggested by a voice-over that’s as much interior monologue as diary entry or recitation to a therapist, as well as a visual style that works in several bold formats as well…

Rough Trade

Several sites have offered great Sundance coverage (the acerbic Defamer and intrepid Carpetbagger are two of many that come to mind), but it was especially nice to read a post I wish I’d written years ago from Variety’s Mike Jones. Do I agree with his thoughts as a defense of John Anderson‘s attack on Jeff…

Sundance Sales and the Oscar Nomination Effect

By Gregg Goldstein Last year’s Oscar nomination day at Sundance may have been the worst one ever. Indie execs were trying to recover from a Fall season filled with political and Iraq war film bombs, most of which didn’t score nominations – so much for noble aspirations. A series of big-star Sundance entries that opening…

Uma's Got A Brand New Bag(gy Dress) (views)

It’s not every day that Lifetime cable gets to premiere one of its movies here at Sundance. Well… Motherhood isn’t actually set to premiere on Lifetime yet. But give it a few weeks. The alternate title for this film should be “Bueller’s Beautiful Mom’s Day Out.” You know… I am willing to roll with most…

Review: Motherhood (views)

I expect most men might have a hard time relating to Motherhood; it’s a very femme-centric film, almost to the extent of being like an insider-Hollywood flick, only it’s insider-mommy-blogger, and as a consequence there are bits in there that are very funny if you’ve ever been Eliza, struggling to find five minutes in your…

Jeff Dowd Explains What Happened (content)

The video after the jump… audio is quite low for the first minute…

Anderson vs Dowd – The Re-Creation (content)

DP/30 @ Sundance – Adventureland (content)

Bill Hader & Kristin Wiig, Greg Mottola, and Jesse Eisenberg & Kristen Stewart sit down to discuss their Sundance release (coming soon via Miramax), Adventureland. The Video after the jump…

Short Take: Grace (views)

I’d planned to catch Dada’s Dance by Chinese filmmaker Zhang Yuan today, but ended up running late for the screening, so I decided at the last minute to catch Paul Solet‘s Grace instead, having heard from my good friend and horror buff Scott Weinberg that he liked the film and thought I would find it…

The Dude's still reaching out on the day's dust-up (news)

Earlier, I overlooked John Anderson’s quotes in the Anne Thompson piece from Variety MCN linked to earlier in the day, but you’d think the dust might have settled. Yet The Dude is still reaching out. Via publicist Mickey Cottrell, Jeff Dowd continues to roll with the punch heard ’round the Yarrow (mild copyedits): “My disagreement…

OnePiece: Matt Dentler on hopes for future

Cinetic Rights Management’s head of programming Matt Dentler offers his optimistic view of a possible future for films and filmmaking. [Panel room, Filmmakers Lodge, Main Street.]

OnePiece: the sky looks like a deal (content)

A screaming comes across the sky… A Pynchonesque sentiment crosses the sky over Park City… the trajectory of a hoped-for sale on its plummet earthward? [Park Avenue, above Albertson’s and the Yarrow.]

Josh Brolin and Minnie Driver reunion? (rumor)

It feels dirty to report gossip like this, but former fiancees Josh Brolin and Minnie Driver will be dining within a stones-throw away of each other within the hour: Brolin at Yuki Arashi on Main Street, Driver at the Greenhouse on Heber for the Motherhood dinner. Brolin, now married to Diane Lane, is in town…

The Greatest buzz around Main Street (rumor)

Spotted around Main Street: The Greatest writer/director Shana Feste chatting with Miramax and Sony Pictures Classics execs. Unlike during the film’s screenings, however, no one was crying. The family tearjerker from executive producer/star Pierce Brosnan has already attracted interest from Senator, Roadside Attractions and, in another return from the distribution dead, Newmarket Films. But it…

Sundance, Or What's Left Of It

As most buyers pack their bags to head home, Spread, I Love You Phillip Morris, The Greatest and World’s Greatest Dad could sell by tomorrow… if sellers are to be believed. The reality is that by Wednesday at any Sundance, bidding wars are replaced by wars of attrition. Buyers know they have the upper hand…