Based on pure speculation and educated guesses, in anticipation of the 25th Sundance Film Festival, I’ve assembled a lengthy list of films that might be announced in next week’s press releases for selection announcements in everything from the Competition categories to the Premieres and the fringe Park City at Midnight.
Xmas is sizing up to be a great time for movie-watching with The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, Waltz with Bashir and Revolutionary Road unwrapping themselves before us for the holiday season weekend, but it’s the extra present in Abdellatif Kechiche’s third film that was just added to the tree that is perhaps the best of gifts for cinephiles.
This year's Euro "It" horror helmer is being thrown Hollywood projects left, right and center. After the news that Pascal Laugier is attached to be the successor behind the pinhead franchise re-birth (read here), the filmmaker behind the macabre Martyrs (one of the most unpleasant film experiences I've had in 2008) might actually be directing a horror thriller project for Paramount Vantage and prod house Blumhouse.
Tulpan -- a film fest favorite has been collecting enough trophy ware to fill up director Sergei Dvortsevoy's entire shelving space, which with the number of wins, I wouldn’t be surprised includes a couple of kitchen cabinets.
Examined Life features the “rock star” philosophers of our time, including Cornel West, Peter Singer, Slavoj Zizek, Judith Butler, Avital Ronell, Michael Hardt, Anthony Appiah and Martha Nussbaum.