45 Predictions for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival

We’ll find out the exact line-up soon enough and I’ll see just how my predictions pan out for the upcoming edition of Sundance. For practicality reasons, here is a quick listing, I’ve included the titles below and if you want to familiarize yourself with the projects, you can go back and check out last week’s brief summaries: Part I, Part II, Part III, Part IV, Part V, Part VI, Part VII, Part VIII, Part IX.

Would be surprised if these weren’t at the festival: Adopt Me, Michael Jordan – Melanie Judd and Susan Motamed, Agua Fria De Mar – Paz Fabrega, All Good Things – Andrew Jarecki, An Invisible Sign of My Own – Marilyn Agrelo, Barry Munday – Chris D’Arienzo, Blue Valentine – Derek Cianfrance, Casino Jack – Alex Gibney, Circus Fantasticus – Janez Burger, Freakonomics – Heidi Ewing, Alex Gibney, Rachel Grady, Eugene Jarecki and Morgan Spurlraden King, Hesher – Spencer Susser, Howl – Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, Kaboom – Gregg Araki, The Kids Are All Right – Lisa Cholodenko, Life Interrupted (Untitled Spalding Gray Project) – Steven Soderbergh, Mars – Geoff Marslett, Restless City – Andrew Dosunmu, Shit Year – Cam Archer, Tiny Dancer – Eva Husson, Winter’s Bone – Debra Granik and Yelling to the Sky – Victoria Mahoney.

Film Still: Braden King’s Here.

Chances are fairly good: 13 – Géla Babluani, Center of Attention (Untitled Duplass Brothers Project) – Duplass Bros.,The Extra Man – Shari Springer Berman & Robert Pulcini, Fog – Kit Hui, Greenberg – Noah Baumbach, Jack Goes Boating – Philip Seymour Hoffman, The Killer Inside Me – Michael Winterbottom, Please Give – Nicole Holofcener, Sympathy for Delicious – Mark Ruffalo, Tell Me (aka Last Night) – Massy Tadjedin, To Catch a Dollar: Muhammad Yunus Banks on America – Gayle Ferraro, Two Gates of Sleep – Alistair Banks Griffin and the Untitled Joaquin Phoenix Mockumentary – Casey Affleck.

Odds against, but shouldn’t be considered longshots: 2012: Time For Change – Joao G. Amorim, Bitter Feast – Joe Maggio, HappyThankYouMorePlease – Josh Radnor, Lullaby for Pi – Benoît Philippon, Main Street – John Doyle, Never Let Me Go – Mark Romanek, Of Montreal: In a Fit of Hercynian Prig, Oculi – Jason Miller and Craig Zobel, Rabbit Hole – John Cameron Mitchell, Shelter – Måns Mårlind and Björn Stein, Stranger Things – Eleanor Burke and Ron Eyal, Untitled Gambling Documentary – Jeffrey Blitz.