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FOR LOVE OF THE GAME

Ryan Fleck and Anna Boden return to Sundance with another intimate portrait, this time looking at baseball, particularly a Dominican player and how the game not only can change his life but his family’s as well if he plays to his potential. Outside of documentaries, independent filmmakers rarely focus on sports, but you can tell Fleck and Boden are baseball fans, and being a baseball addict myself (three weeks till spring training!) it’s fun to see a sports film that isn’t sensationalized for widespread appeal. Their film Sugar shows the harsh reality of trying to get into professional sports and […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 24, 2008

A GLIMPSE AT CHOKE

Here’s a short piece on Clark Gregg’s Choke, one of the few Sundance pics to have secured a deal mid-festival. (Hat tip: Hollywood Elsewhere.)

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 24, 2008

FROZEN RIVER TO SONY PICTURES CLASSICS

Sharon Swart and Mike Jones in Variety are reporting that Courtney Hunt’s Frozen River, a character-based thriller starring Melissa Leo which was the first film I saw at Sundance and one of the best, has sold to Sony PIctures Classics for a low-to-mid six-figure sum. I’ll try to get some further thoughts about this film up on the blog before the end of the festival.

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 23, 2008

Catherine Owens, U2 3D

BONO AND THE EDGE IN CATHERINE OWENS AND MARK PELLINGTON’S U2 3D. COURTESY NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC ENTERTAINMENT. Though her body of work is famous, Catherine Owens — the woman behind the visual design of U2’s legendary stadium tours of the past 15 years — until now has maintained a much lower profile. Beginning with the band’s revolutionary ZooTV tour in 1992, Irish artist Owens used her expertise in many media (sculpture, video art, sound design, photography, etc.) as inspiration for their subsequent PopMart, Elevation and Vertigo tours, helping the band gain a reputation as the best live act in the world. […]

by Nick Dawson on Jan 23, 2008

A TRIP DOWN THE RABBIT HOLE

As I didn’t get into Park City until Sunday night, I’ve been playing catch-up for the most part, trying to get the pulse of this year’s fest (which for the most part hasn’t been the feeding frenzy in terms of deals as last year), and trying to see as many films as possible (and hitting some parties). So far Daniel Barnz‘s debut feature Phoebe In Wonderland has stuck in my mind the most. Barnz was named one of our “25 New Faces” this past summer so I knew a little about him and his work before going in, but it’s […]

by Jason Guerrasio on Jan 23, 2008

NEW CAMERAS, NEW FRONTIERS

Writer and d.p. David Leitner sent us this report about two new cameras that can be seen here at the Sundance Film Festival.Located in the basement of a small commercial mall on upper Main Street across from the Egyptian theater, the annual Sundance technology showcase known as New Frontier on Main is particularly worth a visit this year due to two product introductions poised to rock the world of low-budget HD indie production. Word is already out about Sony’s EX1, a Handycam-type camcorder bearing both XDCAM EX and CineAlta logos for a strikingly low $7,790 suggested retail price. In a nutshell, […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 23, 2008

NICK DAWSON INTERVIEWS U2 3D DIRECTOR CATHERINE OWENS..

… over at the Filmmaker Director Interviews.

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 23, 2008

HEATH LEDGER, R.I.P.

Sad, sad news about a great actor who meant so much to the film community. We extend our deepest condolences to his family and friends.

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 22, 2008

SUNDANCE BUSINESS AT THE MIDPOINT

It happened maybe a day later than last year, but the acquisitions floodgates have opened a bit at the Sundance Film Festival. But it wasn’t the typical first-weekend films that enthused distributors. In Variety, Ann Thompson is reporting that Focus Features has bought Andrew Fleming’s Hamlet 2, which debuted at the unsexy time of Monday at 5:30 in a deal she pegs at over $10 million for worldwide rights. The film stars Steve Coogan as an English teacher who writes a sequel to Shakespeare’s play in other to rescue the school’s theater department. Perhaps more significantly, the film is directed […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 22, 2008

SUNDANCE REVIEW: THE GREAT BUCK HOWARD

Sean McGinly’s debut feature The Great Buck Howard is a curious, small-scale relationship comedy/drama about an over-the-hill entertainer and his young, directionless-in-life assistant. Colin Hanks stars as the assistant, Troy, who signs up for the gig after impulsively bolting law school and the career track his dad, played by Hanks’s real-life dad Tom, is pushing him towards. A wiggy John Malkovich is the entertainer – specifically, a mentalist, whose claim to fame is having appeared on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson 61 times (but never in the last ten years of the show, he ruefully admits as one point). […]

by Scott Macaulay on Jan 20, 2008

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