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Sundance 2010: New Frontier Artists including Gordon-Levitt’s hitRECord and Ragnar Kjartansson’s The End
Just before the opening press conference of the festival, the journos are invited to what has become a permanent installation (over the course of the fest of course) display of some installation set-ups that use various forms of the moving image. This year's group (see names above and the family picture below with curator Shari Frilot) includes actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt Orwellian side project....
Sundance 2010: Taqwacores, Mary Last Seen, Six Dollar Fifty Man
Tomorrow I'll wake up early for Shorts Program II with a pair of films that have caught my interest in 2nd place Cannes Best short in Mark Albiston & Louis Sutherland's The Six Dollar Fifty Man and Sean Durkin's Mary Last Seen - which comes from the same team that gave us Afterschool and which will give us Two Gates of Sleep (featured in my top 100 most anticipated films for 2010 list).
Sundance 2010: Interview with Jeffrey Blitz (Lucky)
Lucky is the reverse. An exploration of that other American Dream, getting something for nothing. I’m sure the emotions it will conjure will be utterly different than what Spellbound inspired.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Coen Bros.’ True Grit
You've got to hand it to them, if you reference No Country for Old Men, they sure know how to work in cowboy country, but this may be closer to Fargo than NCFOM in tone. The Coens know a thing or two about revenge-plots tied in with dark humor - plus they've got the Dude, Jeff Bridges lined up. Sweet package.
Top 100 Most Anticipated Films of 2010: Todd Haynes’ Mildred Pierce
When the project was announced, I started thinking of the Far From Heaven melodrama type, and when Kate Winslet's name is tossed around I think of her in Revolutionary Road. Other than Pedro, there is no better director out there directing women.
