Sundance Film Festival 2009 Articles

Peter Travers in Rolling Stones: "It begins again. Here I am in Park Cty [sic], Utah, where Robert Redford's Sundance Film Festival celebrates its 25th anniversary by trying to bust through the gloom of a nation's economic crisis and the growing pissy impatience among audiences for any movies that don't have cute dogs or horror scenes in 3D. What does that mean for indie films [...]

James by Connor Clements The following Sundance 2009 short films are available for viewing/downloading — free of charge — via itunes stores in the US, UK, and Canada. They'll remain available until Jan. 25. Go to www.iTunes.com/sundance. The available films are (synopses from the Sundance Festival's press release): Acting for the Camera (Director: Justin Nowell; Screenwriter: Thomas Nowell) — An acting class. Today's scene: the [...]

Sundance 2009: Frontier Where Is Where by Eija-Liisa Ahtila Artist Spotlight: The Works of Maria Marshall / U.S. (Director: Maria Marshall) Maria Marshall's disturbing and gorgeously composed video projections provoke the psychological dimensions of cinema. Often violent and always visually charming, Marshall often uses her two sons in the main roles of her films. Her work tackles fundamental subjects of motherhood, socialization and life experience [...]

Sundance 2009: Park City at Midnight Dead Snow by Tommy Wirkola   Black Dynamite / U.S. (Director: Scott Sanders; screenwriters: Michael Jai White, Scott Sanders, Byron Minns) When "The Man" murders his brother, pumps heroin into local orphanages and floods the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor, 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite is the one hero willing to take him on. Cast: Michael Jai White, [...]