The News Review:
- Sundance gives rise to “star docs”
- Sundance Dispatch: Film festival celebrates 25 years
- Bernstein Festival Far From the Hudson
- At Sundance Film Festival it’s a buyer’s market
Sundance gives rise to “star docs”
Washington Post United States
In fact the real star of "Push" which debuted this past weekend at Sundance is an unknown actress from Harlem Gabourney Sidibe playing an obese and overburdened 16-year-old named "Precious" Jones who is twice impregnated by her father and is beaten by her mother. Sundance gives rise to "star docs"PARK CITY Utah (Reuters) – Since the 1994 box office hit "Hoop Dreams" documentaries have come a long way from basic reporting with expert witnesses to fictional-style storytelling more like feature films in movies such as 2005′s "Murderball. " But this year at the Sundance Film Festival which kicked into high-gear this weekend and has long championed non-fiction film as an art form something new appears to be afoot — the rise of the celebrity documentary or "star doc. "Tom Cruise says grew up wanting to kill HitlerSEUL (Reuters) – Tom Cruise who fails to assassinate Adolf Hitler in his new movie "Valkyrie" said he grew up really wanting to kill the Nazi leader. In the World War Two thriller based on a true story of the unsuccessful attempt by German soldiers to kill Hitler Cruise plays Colonel Claus Von Stauffenberg who plants a briefcase bomb under a table at Hitler’s military headquarters. Amy Poehler’s "Spring Breakdown" lightens SundancePARK CITY Utah (Reuters) – U.
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Sundance Dispatch: Film festival celebrates 25 years
New York Daily News NY
” Leaving aside that oddly awkward phrasing the motto feels strikingly optimistic given the event’s unusually subdued mood. There is no question that Sundance has changed the face of independent filmmaking during the past quarter-century.
Bernstein Festival Far From the Hudson
New York Times United States
Vanska and the orchestra have embarked on a two-week Bernstein festival of their own at rchestra Hall here. Skip to next paragraph.
At Sundance Film Festival it’s a buyer’s market
Los Angeles Times CA
By John Horn January 15 2009It’s Hollywood’s version of the saddest orphanage imaginable: More than a hundred precious newborns looking for a loving home. nly a dozen and a half will be lucky enough to find one with fewer adoptive parents now showing up. The Sundance Film Festival which starts tonight represents many things to many people — a bold collection of arty movies for cineastes a free-flowing booze binge for party animals — but at its core Sundance stands apart as the nation’s most important market for films made outside the studio system. Like everything else in the upside-down economy these days though the festival’s sales dynamics are certain to be transformed this year especially for the historic Sundance stronghold of documentary films. “It’s a scary time out there” says Jim Stern a producer of “An Education” a coming-of-age drama considered one of the top films headed to Park City in search of a theatrical distributor. But I also think there are going to be opportunities.