Eric Lavallée

We've got some stills that were readied in time for Berlin's EFM for the much anticipated Julie Delpy directed sequel, 2 Days in New York (we put it high up on our must see list for 2011). In the pics below, you have Delpy acting opposite Dylan Baker and Chris Rock. The big question is: which film festival will the film preem at?

After finding another distribution to share in the risk of releasing Last Night and passing off The Debt to Focus, the "new" Miramax company is in risk sharing mode on another delayed title in Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark. The horror flick will receive an August 12th release via FilmDistrict and Miramax.

Despite the crazy mount of sales that took place, this pikc-up acts as a reminder that not all Sundance Film Festival titles were picked up before Day 11. One such title, the U.S Dramatic Competition selected Higher Ground has found a home with adult cinephile audience specialist Sony Pictures Classics -- a great fit for a film that I think many would agree was inoffensive, but far from tone-deaf as Vera Farmiga managed to give this decades-spanning tale an authentic charm that challenges notions of faith and religion in a manner that is far from Hallmark Card-ish.

Have you ever wondered what are the films that inspire the next generation of visionary filmmakers? As part of our monthly IONCINEPHILE profile (read here), we ask the filmmaker the incredibly arduous task of identifying their top ten list of favorite films. This month we feature Aaron Katz [Cold Weather 02.04]. Here are his Top 10 Films of All Time as of February 2011.

Sergei Loznitsa's My Joy (which gets released by Kino Int. sometime this year) was perhaps the odd duckling of the previous Cannes Film Festival as it was the only picture in the main competition that was from a first time feature, mostly unknown filmmaker, but the film itself was pretty out there for a road movie.