OMG. OMG. OMG. The Sundance lineup is pasted after the jump! I will update this post with my thoughts as soon as I’ve thought them! OMG!

UPDATE:

Things that are notable/exciting to me on first skim include the following. Chime in with your own thoughts in the comments!

• John Krasinski’s Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, based on the David Foster Wallace book and starring Krasinski and Julianne Nicholson, will finally see the light of day in narrative competition.
• That meta-comedy that Michael Cera made with his girlfriend, Paper Hearts.
• We Live in Public: Ondi “DIG” Timoner’s doc about Josh Harris and Pseudo.com.
• Lynn Shelton’s follow-up to My Effortless Brilliance, Humpday, starring Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard.
• Arlen Faber is a feature starring Kat Dennings, Lauren Graham, Olivia Thirlby and Tony Hale. A certain type of boy (and probably Fox Searchlight) will swoon.
• The September Issue, RJ Cutler’s doc about Anna Wintour and VOGUE.
• Eric Daniel Metzgar’s Reporter follows journalist Nicholas Kristof on a “haunting, physically grueling and shocking voyage” in Africa.
• Doug Pray (Surfwise, Hype) has a new doc called Art & Copy, described as featuring “Rare interviews with the most influential advertising creative minds of our age illustrate the wide-reaching effect advertising and creativity have on modern culture.”
• In Good Hair, “Comedian Chris Rock turns documentary filmmaker when he sets out to examine the culture of African-American hair and hairstyles.” This will either be awesome or unfuckingwatchable.

That’s the domestic stuff; now parsing the World competitions. Will update if anything seems terribly interesting. And Spectrum and Midnight are still to come!

UPDATE!!!! World dramatic stuff:

• An Education, written by Nick Hornby and directed by forme Dogme director Lone Scherfig. Synopsis: “In the early 60s, a sharp 16-year-old with sights set on Oxford meets a handsome older man whose sophistication enraptures and sidetracks both her and her parents.” It appears that Peter Sarsgaard is the handsome older man. Yes, he is.
• Five Minutes of Heaven, from director Oliver Hirschbiegel, who made Downfall and, um, The Invasion.
• A French Gigolo, the Nathalie Baye older lady/male escort drama which was a popular hit in France.

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