The upcoming edition of the Sundance Film Festival will open with a documentary film from the filmmaker who wowed audiences with the visually engaging, critically acclaimed The Kid Stays in the Picture. This will be the third visit for Brett Morgen, who also showcased the Robert Evans docu biopic and the 1999 Sundance Film Festival On the Ropes.
Fuck is a 90 minute long documentary that offers and in-depth examination one of the most popular and offensive words in the English language. It is directed by Steve Anderson, who made an ambitious debut at the 2003 American Film Institute Film Festival with his narrative feature, The Big Empty (starring John Favreau, Daryl Hannah, Joey Lauren Adams, and Kelsey Grammar), which earned him comparisons to the likes of David Lynch and The Cohen Bothers. Prior to his directorial debut, Anderson was a cameraman with a Peabody Award and thousands of hours of broadcast television to his credit.
Horrorfest is an all-weekend horror event presenting 8 films deemed too controversial by mainstream studios for the viewing public. Obviously producers are the biggest hypocrites in the world if they keep giving Rob Schneider steady work.
In the foreign film category, this year’s favorite is most likely going to come from Sony Pictures Classics’ hand. Not only are they holding a pair of pocket kings in Zhang Yimou’s The Curse of the Golden Flower and Paul Verhoeven’s Black Book, but they are also holding pocket aces with Pedro’s Volver and in some circles the best picture of the year on the international scene with Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's The Lives of Others. Today were previewing the North American one sheet.