Sundance Film Festival 2010 Articles

Reed Cowan’s 8: The Mormon Proposition received two "sustained standing ovations" at its Sundance Film Festival screening on Sunday, reports Sean P. Means in The Salt Lake Tribune. A rumored protest against the film failed to materialize. Narrated by Milk’s Academy Award-winning screenwriter Dustin Lance Black — who happens to be gay and to have been raised Mormon — 8: The Mormon Proposition accuses the [...]

The Twilight Saga’s Kristen Stewart is making a splash at the 2010 edition of the Sundance Film Festival. First, she was a foul-mouthed stripper/sex worker in Jake Scott’s Welcome to the Rileys. Then comes writer-director Floria Sigismondi’s narrative feature debut The Runaways, in which Stewart plays rocker Joan Jett, who fled home at the age of 16 and co-founded with Cherie Currie (Dakota Fanning) the [...]

“I’m not ‘playing a stripper.’ It’s really not a stripper movie at all. It sort of just opens your eyes about people that don’t have options. I know I’m speaking really vaguely about it.” That’s Kristen Stewart, as quoted by Chris Lee in the Los Angeles Times blog 24 Frames. In the above quote, the lovestruck Bella from the The Twilight Saga movies, ever torn [...]

At Blast Magazine, Brooklyne Kelly Peters does a q&a with Lucas Black of Get Low, which co-stars Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray (above, with Black), and Robert Duvall as an old hermit who may or may not have murdered a man a long while back. "There’s more movies that should be made like Get Low," Black says. "Every movie that’s made these days, it’s gotta be [...]