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SOME KIND OF LOVE By Nick Dawson

Greg Mottola’s Adventureland screened in the Premieres section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. You can read our story on the film in the Winter issue section.

by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009

“BIG FAN” writer-director, Robert Siegel

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 8:00 pm — Racquet Club, Park City] Big Fan was edited on the biggest, awesomest computer monitor I’ve ever been in a room with. Thirty inches. As big as it was, though, it still wasn’t nearly enough. That 30-inch monitor was just a tease, whetting my appetite to see my movie on something bigger — like 800 inches. A movie screen. I don’t care what the trends are. What massive, fundamental sea changes are taking place within the industry. No filmmaker fantasizes about what their movie will look like projected onto a 1.5 inch iPod […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009

“BLACK DYNAMITE” co-writer-director, Scott Sanders

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 11:30 pm — Library Center Theatre, Park City] With Black Dynamite, we wanted to make a blaxploitation movie that was as close to a 1974 blaxploitation movie as you could make in 2009. We wanted to emphasize humor, but we didn’t want to go too far outside of the strict boundaries of the genre. For us, the humor comes out in how anachronistic it all is. Everything is exposed; the clunky structure of the plots, the huge tonal shifts that can occur within a scene from one moment to another, and the desire to please […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009

Against the Current | Writer/Director Peter Callahan

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 8:30 pm — Library Center Theatre, Park City] The whole point of independent filmmaking, in my mind, is to do something original, something challenging, and not to try and cater to whatever the whims of the current marketplace may be. If one is fortunate enough to be given an opportunity to make a film, I think the goal should be, “How can I make the best movie possible?” not “What do I think will sell in today’s marketplace?” So I did my best not to worry about anything other than making a good film and […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009

THE TEXTUAL INSTABILITY OF BROOKLYN’S FINEST

In the first major deal of the festival, Antoine Fuqua’s cop drama Brooklyn’s Finest was sold to Senator, reports Gregg Goldstein at MovieCityNews, in a “low-to-mid seven-figure pact” with a “$10 million P&A commitment.” Senator President Mark Urman has always been good for a quote, and that’s no exception here. After noting to Mike Jones at Variety his personal connection to the material — “Being from Brooklyn, this film is important to me” — he muses on the film’s poorly-received, Hamlet-like ending with the kind of postmodernist flair I’d expect to hear in a discussion of the David Foster Wallace […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 18, 2009

CROSSING OVER: LOUIS PSIHOYOS By Alicia Van Couvering

Unlike other films playing in our three-part look at crossover artists at Sundance, The Cove is not playing in New Frontier, but in the Documentary Competition, and that’s despite its director’s non-traditional background. Louie Psihoyos was one of the world’s top-ranked photographers, a staff member at National Geographic who had traveled the world taking portraits of the world’s most famous people and abstract concepts (you try photographing “science.”) He was also an avid diver who witnessed year by year the physical destruction of the world’s oceans. He and his friend Jim Clarke, founder of Netscape and WebMD, decided to form […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 18, 2009

“EL GENERAL” director, Natalia Almada

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 12:00 pm — Temple Theatre, Park City] Perhaps I am a romantic, but I like to imagine El General being watched in a dark packed theater with an expecting audience. It isn’t only a question of scale, but of ritual. I like the ritual of going to the movies and giving oneself completely over to a film for two hours. I like the collective experience of sitting in a theater full of strangers with all eyes on a screen and hearing someone laugh across the room or someone sniffle in the seat behind me. I […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009

“CHILDREN OF INVENTION” writer-director, Tze Chun

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 2:30 pm — Prospector Square Theatre, Park City] When I was younger, my uncle told me about growing up in China during World War II, and, after a carpetbombing, seeing people emerge from a theater destroyed only seconds before. People were missing limbs, they were bleeding, searching for their friends or relatives or dates. I found it fascinating that people still went to the movies when there was the possibility that you might get blown up. Though I guess at that time you could probably have gotten blown up anywhere, so why not get blown […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009

“ARLEN FABER” writer-director, John Hindman

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 5:15 pm — Racquet Club, Park City] Although technology may have shortened the average person’s patience over the past few years I believe that storytelling should never rush to keep up. It is true that we live in an increasingly fast culture. Our communication demands that our lives be summed up with only as much information as will fit on a Facebook profile. We don’t invite, we e-vite. We don’t talk, we type. And we quit sharing and started blogging. Don’t get me wrong. Many of these things are totally cool. But I think that […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009

“DON’T LET ME DROWN” co-writer-director, Cruz Angeles

[PREMIERE SCREENING: Sunday, Jan. 18, 12:15 pm — Eccles Theatre, Park City] Not all, but the majority of short-form works on the Net are gimmicky and instant pleasures — like candy. I am not interested in making candy. I want my works to be a full meal — a story that keeps ringing in your head, something that sticks and stays with you for a very long time. Cinema will falter for a bit but will not die. I believe the new developments are supplementary and not replacements of long-form work. When [co-writer] Maria Topete and I were writing Don’t […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 18, 2009

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