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It Might Get Loud Trailer Premieres, Featuring Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White
The official trailer for It Might Get Loud, Davis Guggenheim's documentary about guitarists Jimmy Page, The Edge and Jack White, has hit the web. The film premiered at festivals earlier this year and was named an Official Selection at Sundance, the Berlin International Film Festival and the Toronto International Film Festival. It was picked up by Sony Pictures Classics, and is scheduled for release on Aug. 14.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsA Peek Inside the Sundance Film Composers Lab
Sundance’s Meal Tent is not actually a tent... read more
Found in: Movies, FeaturesSundance 2009: Film Round-Up
Sundance Film Roundup Narrative Films An Education Nick Hornby wrote the script for An Education, so you’d expect the dialogue to be superb, and it is. (Although, it’s a strange choice to adapt someone else’s book instead of one of his own; he’d “rather mess up other people’s stories.”) And newcomer Carey Mulligan is spectacular in the leading role, so good that if I had seen the film earlier I would have made a point to see The Greatest, another Sundance selection starring Mulligan. In this one, though, she plays a schoolgirl who begins to spend time with an older... read more
Found in: Blogs, Festivus, Film FestivalSundance 2009: Music Round-Up
Cee-Lo is best known by hipsters these days as the vocal half o Justin Nozuka Justin Nozuka is a name that you will be hearing a lot in the coming months. A Canadian of Japanese and American descent who’s still just 19 years old, he comes across as a bizarre blend of Michael Jackson and Jeff Buckley...in a good way. His set at Tatou was a stunner, and certainly a harbinger of great things to come. Nozuka has a gift of being sensitive without cloying, pleading without whining. His vocals have a beautifully immediate quality; there’s no artifice to be... read more
Found in: Blogs, Festivus, Film FestivalSoderbergh reveals The Girlfriend Experience at Sundance
Steven Soderbergh recently revealed an unfinished version of his film The Girlfriend Experience at the Sundance film festival 20 years after Sex, Lies and Videotape premiered at Park City, Utah, starting his impressive directing career.... read more
Found in: Movies, NewsSundance 2009: Final Scorecard
Sundance 2009 began two weeks ago, and while I still have a few mini-reviews to post, I'll join the chorus of commentary to present a final scorecard. My overall impression of the festival is that there were few films at the extremes — I saw no masterpieces and no awful films — but the mid-section was rich with movies that tried something new even if they found only partial success. I think it's unlikely that many of these films will end up as favorites at the end of the year — although a few might — but I still feel... read more
Found in: Blogs, FestivusSundance 2009: Ma Bar, A Film From My Parish and Old Partner
As Paste winds down its Sundance 2009 coverage, here's a round-up of a few films we haven't covered extensively yet:... read more
Found in: Blogs, Festivus, Film FestivalSundance 2009: Eleven Documentaries to Wrestle With
In a short video remembrance of Sundance that played before many of the screenings in Park City last week, filmmaker Davis Guggenheim says the "dirty little secret" of the festival is that the best films every year are the documentaries. That may be overstating the case a bit, but it's true that films like Man on Wire, In the Shadow of the Moon, Iraq in Fragments, Trouble the Water, The Short Life of José Antonio Gutierez, and Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired are among the most memorable films I've seen at the fest. This year, while I'm not sure I... read more
Found in: Blogs, FestivusSundance 2009: Hideous Men and Big Fans
Robert D. Siegel wrote the critically acclaimed film The Wrestler (which just scored an Oscar nomination for Mickey Rourke's performance), and before that he was a senior editor for The Onion. And now he's making his directorial debut at Sundance with Big Fan. Patton Oswalt plays the title character, Paul, a Staten Island parking lot attendant who spends his nights and weekends obsessing over the New York Giants and their star linebacker. He lives with his mother, writes rant-filled commentary to read on late-night call-in radio shows, and sets up a lawn chair, a cooler, and a TV outside of... read more
Found in: Blogs, FestivusSundance 2009: Award Winners
Moments ago in Park City, Utah, the Sundance film festival announced the winners of its 2009 awards. While the noisiest competition at Sundance often seems to be the one among distributors vying for marketable films, or the one among filmmakers trying to drum up interest in their movies, Sundance also referees an official competition in which juries choose their favorites of the eligible films. Of the many prizes awarded by juries, the most prestigious are the two "grand jury prizes" for American dramatic and documentary films and the two "world cinema jury prizes" for foreign dramatic and documentary films. Each... read more
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