That was fast! The ink is barely dry on yesterday's post and the Tribeca Film Festival has already announced the rest of their feature film lineup for this year's edition, which runs from April 22-May 3. A few quick picks: Blank City . Celine Danhier's doc examines "the DIY independent film movement...

Before I made my trip to Park City, Utah for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival I gave you a list of the 13 films I was most interested in seeing. And now that I’ve come and gone, surviving another year in the hustle and bustle of America’s great festival, it is my duty to bookend my covera...

Filed under: Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Independent, Romance, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sundance, Noir, Mystery & Suspense, IFC, Magnolia, Sony Classics, Distribution, Fox Searchlight (Warning: This one goes up to eleven...) 1. Moon -- Most were admittedly intrigued by the prospect of Sam Rockwell ...

newVideoPlayer("/black_dynamite.flv", 506, 423,""); We saw lots of great stuff in Sundance, but nothing quite so audaciously audience-pleasing as Black Dynamite—Scott Sanders's pants-pissingly hilarious blaxsploitation homage. Sanders slavishly honors the genre, but unlike Grindhouse, he's cre...

Skiing isn’t the only thing that goes down at Sundance. In fact, from what I hear, practically no one actually skis. They’re too busy making deals, selling their films in bathrooms and doing too much peyote to actually write reviews of the films they’ve seen there. Here’s som...

If there is one thing I wish I had learned last year at Sundance, it is that midnight shows are a lot of fun. Last year I made the mistake of avoiding the midnight public screenings, choosing instead to sit in the stuffy press screenings. It just isn’t the same. And this year I’ve learne...

In the latest roundup of news from the frozen, overcaffeinated Park City frontier, Sony bets on black, Ashton Kutcher gets it on (and on) and Uma Thurman revolutionizes Sundance fitness. · Sony made the second big buy of the festival, announcing its pickup of the revisionist blaxploitation fl...

If you are an adventurous indie film lover like myself, you might be in the final stages of preparation for a trek into the mountains of Utah. You might be packing away boots and thick socks, thermal underwear and your favorite hot tub attire. You just might have a plane ticket sitting on your count...

Even more preview materials coming down the pipe for the 2009 Sundance Film Festival . Just a little while ago we gave you the rundown of the Premieres Lineup and yesterday we laid down the Dramatic Competition list. We now move on to the Park City at Midnight lineup, which generally features some e...

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