Filed under: Drama, Sundance, Noir, Mystery & Suspense, Theatrical Reviews, Festival Reports, Oscar Watch, Sundance Reviews 2009 The Missing Person , playing at Sundance even as its star Michael Shannon earns an Oscar nomination for his work in Revolutionary Road, isn't merely a clever, cool spi...

The beige square on the Sundance schedule for today -- "Sneak Preview," 6:15 at the Eccles -- was, over the past few days, filled in with a thousand brushstrokes of rumor and intimation and heard-it-from-a-friend-who-heard-it-from-a-friend whisperings. The first murmuring I heard to make that "Sneak...

Filed under: Drama, Independent, Sundance, Theatrical Reviews, Festival Reports, Celebrities and Controversy, Cinematical Indie, Sundance Reviews 2009 The beige square on the Sundance schedule for today -- "Sneak Preview," 6:15 at the Eccles -- was, over the past few days, filled in with a thousand ...

My first Sundance film Friday morning was Louise-Michel, a French-style mind-messing am-I-laughing-with-these-characters-or-at-them? transgendered revenge comedy playing in the Foreign Drama Competition. Yeah -- when will someone finally come up with some new stories in film making? Louise (Yolande ...

Filed under: Comedy, Foreign Language, Sundance, Festival Reports, Sundance Reviews 2009 My first Sundance film Friday morning was Louise-Michel, a French-style mind-messing am-I-laughing-with-these-characters-or-at-them? transgendered revenge comedy playing in the Foreign Drama Competition. Yeah --...

Filed under: Documentary, Sundance, Festival Reports, Sundance Reviews 2009 Art & Copy director Doug Pray offered during the film's Q&A at the Prospector Square theater that he didn't want to make a documentary that did nothing but re-play classic advertising, and he didn't want to make a ta...

"You haul 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go; I owe my soul to the company store. ..." -- "Sixteen Tons," Merle Travis Know thyself. -- Solon of Athens Moon, the directorial debut of Duncan Jones, opens with a bright, bre...

Filed under: Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sundance, Theatrical Reviews, Festival Reports, Sundance Reviews 2009 "You haul 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt.St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go; I owe my soul to the company store. ..." -- "Sixteen Tons," Mer...

This morning, I got up and picked up my press pass at the Headquarters Marriott with a friend of mine, a fellow member of the press; after, we had a sit-down breakfast. And we talked -- about movies, sure, but about apartments and life and buffet etiquette and mutual friends and mutual enemies and t...

Filed under: Sundance, Festival Reports This morning, I got up and picked up my press pass at the Headquarters Marriott with a friend of mine, a fellow member of the press; after, we had a sit-down breakfast. And we talked -- about movies, sure, but about apartments and life and buffet etiquette and...