Sundance Film Festival Archive for January, 2011
Seeing Red With Kevin Smith
Kevin Smith, you’ve met Harvey Weinstein, and you’re no Harvey Weinstein. Or he is? (See addendum below.)Although the maker of Clerks and now, Red State, which premiered Sunday night at Sundance at the 1,450-seat Eccles theater, hoped to make a killing with an undescribed kind of post-screening auctioning of the horror film, he instead took…
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The most gut-wrenching-yet-uplifting film I’ve seen so far at Sundance this year so far is Pariah, which has been getting some mixed buzz. Yes, yes, I know that gut-wrenching-yet-uplifting is practically its own genre here at Sundance, but like many cliches there’s some truth in the stereotype. And Pariah is so moving, so remarkably acted…
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Searchlight Does Homework
Read the full article »DP/30 @ Sundance: Homework, wr/dir Gavin Wiesen, actors Freddie Highmore, Emma Roberts
DP/30 @ Sundance: Like Crazy, Drake Doremus, Felicity Jones, Anton Yelchin
Sundance Dispatch: Rants and Raves
It’s officially Day Four for me here at the Sundance Film Festival, and so far I have yet to see a film I actively dislike at the fest — which, if you’ve ever been to Sundance, you know is a bit of a minor miracle. Granted, I’ve been cherry-picking those films that I think have…
Read the full article »Akomfrah’s Nine Muses Sells UK Theatrical
Akomfrah’s Nine Muses Sells UK Theatrical
Read the full article »Elizabeth Olson Hits Red Lights
Elizabeth Olson Hits Red Lights
Read the full article »Roadside, Lionsgate Place A Margin Call
Roadside, Lionsgate Place A Margin Call
Read the full article »Is there really a movie called I MELT WITH YOU?
So there really is a movie by Mark Pellington called I Melt With You? (Yes, it’s not just a series of videos!)
Read the full article »Drake Doremus Talks This AM On Selling Like Crazy Near Dawn
Drake Doremus Talks This AM On Selling Like Crazy Near Dawn video
Read the full article »Sundance Review: POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold
I’ll say this about Morgan Spurlock: there’s no one quite like him. Especially when he’s wearing comfy Merrell shoes (hey, they have great arch support) while feeling Ban fresh!, and driving a stylish Mini-Cooper plastered with ads while sipping some refreshing POM Pomegranate juice on his way to catch a fight on JetBlue Airlines.
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DP/30: Martha Marcy May Marlene – Writer/Director & Actors
Sean Durkin, Lizzy Olsen, Hugh Dancy, Sarah Paulson, John Hawkes
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DP/30 @ Sundance: We Were Here David Weissman
This look back at the AIDS epidemic through the eyes of a handful of people who lived through it is one of Sundance’s most powerful doc premieres.
Read the full article » 4 Comments »Ryzik Rehashes Hesher From Sundance 2010: Wha’ Happened?
Ryzik Rehashes Hesher Buzz From Sundance 2010: Wha’ Happen?
Read the full article »Kenny Gets Personal With Swanberg’s Uncle Kent
Kenny Gets Personal With Swanberg’s Uncle Kent
Read the full article »Sundance Review: Martha Marcy May Marlene
Martha Marcy May Marlene explores the aftermath of a young girl’s involvement with a cult living on an isolated farm in the Catskills. The thoughtful script by writer/director Sean Durkin is a character study crafted as a deliberately paced psychological thriller, with Elizabeth Olsen (younger sister of Mary-Kate and Ashley, and an accomplished theatrical actress…
Read the full article » 1 Comment »Sundance Day 2: World-Premiering THE INTERRUPTERS
Until a magnificent movie in the middle of the evening, the highlight of a woozy first day of Sundance was the sight of Jeff Dowd, “The Dude,” pouring a sleeve of Emergen-C into his Sundance 11 Nalgene water bottle and advising his friends, “Zinc’s better.” A day late and sleep-deprived from the get-go, I had…
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