January 28, 2008 – 4:02 pm
The festival is over, but we’ve still got a back-log of content to deliver. In this installment, I talk to Nathan and David Zellner. At last year’s festival their short about the mysteries of circumcision, Aftermath on Meadowlark Lane, got a lot of people talking. This year they return with Goliath, a feature about divorce, [...]
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January 28, 2008 – 1:00 pm
This morning, I called in to CNET’s new podcast, The 404, to talk about Sundance hits (Baghead, Timecrimes) and misses (The Wackness, Downloading Nancy), why the SAG Awards can’t replace The Oscars, and why Alec Baldwin’s looks have declined as his career has resurged (hint: age is only half of it). You can listen here.
January 28, 2008 – 12:03 pm
Ellen Page isn’t too smart for allowing herself to be typecast as the next Winona Ryder.
January 27, 2008 – 9:49 pm
What the Duplasses are really adept at––what truly sets them apart from their lo-fi American indie brethren––is an almost antiquated kind of physical comedy.
January 27, 2008 – 6:42 pm
One final video dispatch from Joe Swanberg and Ronnie Bronstein in Park City.
January 26, 2008 – 10:40 pm
indieWIRE has the full list of jury prize recipients for the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. My thoughts on select awards after the jump.
January 25, 2008 – 8:13 pm
Sundance doesn’t technically end until Sunday, but I’m already half-way home from Park City, where the general sense last night seemed to be that the bulk of the buyers weren’t exactly in a hurry to close deals before closing night. But as our deal chart shows, Sony Classics managed to sneak in two quick, six-figure [...]
January 25, 2008 – 4:22 pm
Sundance documentary The Linguists follows two scientists traveling the globe to document obscure languages before they’re lost. In this interview the directors and subjects talk about an encounter with Yiddish tombstones defiled by the Nazis that precipitated the idea for the film, and the work of giving people pride in their native tongue.
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January 25, 2008 – 4:01 pm
After writing and directing the Oscar-nominated short 7:35 in the Morning in 2003, Nacho Vigalondo decided to make a feature film using one of his favorite sci-fi tropes, time travel. The film features a seemly normal man who is forced to take desperate measures to undo his own time travel mishaps. In this interview, Vigalondo [...]
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January 25, 2008 – 3:27 pm
photo: WireImage
Azazel Jacobs wrote and directed Momma’s Man, the tale of a grown man who decides to move back in with his parents. Not only did he decide to film the movie in his parents’ apartment, he chose to cast his actual parents in the role, his mother Flo and his father, the famous experimental [...]
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