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Park City Predictions: 50 Hopeful Films Heading to 2011 Sundance Film Festival
As a team of weary eyed Sundance programmers are watching and deliberating on the thousands of films they received on their end, I've taken it upon myself, now a tradition on the site, to reveal my informed, speculative predictions list of 50 hopeful film titles that I believe have the best odds of showing at next year's edition.
2010 BIFA Noms: The King’s Speech Leads Noms
We have The King’s Speech with a well-deserved total of eight (Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor and two Best Supporting Actor nominations) but then you have small treasures that seriously made the grade: both the SXSW showcased Monsters, Tribeca preemed The Arbor received six nominations, while the Sundance displayed Four Lions grabs a total of five. For a list by list category including the stellar Documentary category is listed below.
Wild Bunch at AFM: Grand Master Wong Kar Wai Delivers ‘The Grandmasters’
Wild Bunch is repping Wong Kar Wai's The Grandmasters (which works a lot better than "The Grand Master", perhaps because Ip Man helped create Bruce Lee) and the tagline "In Martial Arts There is No Right or Wrong, Only the Last Man Standing" certainly adds to the complexity of the student eventually taking over the place of his teacher.
Tracking Shot November 2011: The Deep Blue Sea, Cool Water, Friends with Kids
At the beginning of every month, IONCINEMA.com's "Tracking Shot" features a handful of projects that are moments away from lensing and in the same token, we feel are worth signaling out. This November there is a significant drop in mention worthy titles -- but we have three seasoned auteurs and a female director making her debut.
Damien Chazelle
For Guy and Madeline, if I had wanted to riff off Meet Me In St. Louis, I would have had to shoot in color. But if this movie’s a love letter to anything, it’s to the first musicals, when the genre was still this crazy and unpredictable beast that directors didn’t quite know what to do with.
