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Sundance 2012: Heavyweight Auteurs Spike Lee, Rodrigo Cortés, James Marsh and Stephen Frears Populate Premieres Section
Sundance will have some heavyweight auteurs in the shape of Spike Lee, Rodrigo Cortés, James Marsh and Stephen Frears for the Premieres Section. Among the 15 selected titles, worth highlighting are Leslye Headland’s debut, "Bachelorette" which stars Kirsten Dunst, we’ve got Julie Delpy’s 2 Days in New York and a Blacklist favorite in Celeste and Jesse Forever. Count on Lee’s Red Hook Summer, Cortés’ Red Lights, Marsh’s Shadow Dancer and Frears’ Lay the Favorite to garner the most buzz.
Zobel, Zellner, Carrie Preston and Matt Ross Directing Debuts Among Sundance’s NEXT Section
Now in its third year, Sundance's NEXT section (which describes its works as "bold", and "innovative" (think more accessible than and just as low budget as the stuff we find in the New Frontiers section) grabs our attention because of its inclusion of Craig Zobel's latest effort, Compliance a true story drama perhaps in the same budget range as Great World of Sound.
Sundance 2012: Adam Wingard, Katie Aselton and Nicholas McCarthy Stock Park City at Midnight Section
New proof that mumblecore is heading into a natural fitting genere of horror, Katie Aselton's Black Rock and V/H/S - the project helmed by Adam Wingard, David Bruckner, Ti West, Glenn McQuaid, Joe Swanberg, Radio Silence featuring Joe Swanberg, Calvin Reeder, Adam Wingard, Sophia Takal and Kate Lyn Sheil are a pair of highly anticipated titles that'll be shown in Park City at Midnight. Among our correct predictions we find Nicholas McCarthy's The Pact and Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim's wacko Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie.
Monsieur Lazhar, Wuthering Heights and Your Sister’s Sister: Tons of TIFF Items Moving to Sundance’s Spotlight Program
It'll be a TIFF does Sundance this year in the Spotlight Program as the majority of the films programmed in the section (which staffers state, "regardless of where these films have played throughout the world, the Spotlight program is a tribute to the cinema we love") are films that moved from Cannes to TIFF en route to Sundance or had their world premieres at TIFF and are moving into Park City.
Sundance 2012 World Cinema Docu Comp: Great Danes Headline Comp Section
Sundance's World Docu Comp section might come across as the olympics with strong representation from 3 countries dominated by the Danes (Mads Brügger, Lise Birk Pedersen, Malik Bendjelloul and docu team Omar Shargawi and Karim El Hakim). With several items being carried over from this past November's IFDA Doc Film Festival, the 12 film section includes three Israeli film and three World Premieres from Canadian documentarians. Here's the complete list.
