Sundance announced the lineups for their four non-competitive programs (Premieres, Spectrum, Frontiers and Midnight) this afternoon. Full lineups can be found after the jump; here are my first-skim picks for highlights:
- Adventureland, Greg Mottola’s follow-up to Superbad (and first Sundance trip — The Daytrippers won Slamdance in 1996).
- Brooklyn’s Finest, the Antoine Fuqua film which Steven Boone stumbled upon in Brooklyn.
- The Informers, directed by Gregor Jordan and based on the Bret Easton Ellis book. God, I hope BEE is in Park City so I can ask him about his alleged Theresa Duncan/Jeremy Blake movie.
- Cannes and Toronto leftovers, including James Toback’s Tyson, Davis Guggenheim’s It Might Get Loud, and the Alec Baldwin drama Lymelife.
- Films by Spike Lee, Stanley Nelson and Robert Townsend in a (as far as I know) knew Spectrum Documentary sidebar.
- You Won’t Miss Me, directed by Ry Russo-Young (Orphans, Hannah Takes the Stairs), starring Stella Schnabel.
- The Carter, described as “An in-depth, intimate look at the artist Dwayne ‘Lil’ Wayne’ Carter Jr, proclaimed by many as the ‘greatest rapper alive.’”
- Moon, AKA Sundance Goes to Space, with Sam Rockwell.
- Rudo y Cursi, the soccer-themed re-team of Diego Luna and Gael Garcia Bernal.
- World’s Greatest Dad, Bobcat Goldthwaite’s triumphant return to Sundance after the unjustly ignored post-bestiality rom-com Sleeping Dogs Lie. Starring Robin Williams (!)
- Dead Snow, in which Norweigan teens meet Nazi zombies.
- Spring Breakdown, a MILFs out of water comedy starring Rachel Dratch, Amy Poehler and Parker Posey and co-written by Dratch.
- White Lightnin’, the first scripted feature from the VICE Magazine crew.
- O’er the Land, described as “a meditation on our national psyche and the milieu of elevated threat,” directed Deborah Stratman (cinematographer of Los Angeles Plays Itself)
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