- Sundance Film Festival: 2008 Awards
Reportage and analysis by Howard Karren
It's common at festivals for people to compare their overall quality from one year to another, but aside from jaded veterans, who really profits from that kind of evaluation? Far more important...>>
- Review: 'Downloading Nancy'
Reviewed by Ryan Stewart
Maria Bello goes to the edge and beyond in Downloading Nancy, a drama that isn't quite worthy of her excessively personal performance as an emotionally destroyed woman... >>
- Review: 'The Last Word'
Reviewed by Ryan Stewart
Much like last year's Lars and the Real Girl, The Last Word is a very conventional and mostly successful romantic dramedy that comes packaged in an outlandish premise. >>
- Reviews: Immigration and imperialism in 'Sleep Dealer' and 'Sugar'
Reviewed by Howard Karren
The opening scenes of Alex Rivera's resourceful and often inspired poli-sci-fi fantasy, Sleep Dealer, part of the Dramatic Competition segment here, might have been shot on the planet Tatooine. >>
- Reviews: 'The Wave'
Reviewed by Ryan Stewart
To call The Wave "a German Fight Club" would be both accurate and misleading. Both films aspire to find the recipe for modern fascism... >>
- Review: 'Ballast'
Reviewed by Ryan Stewart
"Well," I said to my buddy Howard Karren after a screening of this, the debut feature of director Lance Hammer, "that's a little more than half a great movie." Howard begged to differ — he thought that Ballast was great in its entirety. >>
- Another Travel Day
Reviewed by Ryan Stewart
Well, my food poisoning pretty much wiped me out all of yesterday, and now I'm sitting in the Salt Lake City airport. I'm still feeling a bit, um, funky... >>
- Spilling My Guts in Park City
Sounds kind of Cassavetes-ish, but alas, what's I've got going on has more in common with La Grande Bouffe. I have picked up a thoroughly uncomfortable case of... >>
- Sundance: 'Patti Smith: Dream of Life,' "...Sexual Failures,' 'American Teen'
Now that I've sparked an international incident, it's time to get back to talking about movies. >>
- 'What Just Happened?'
Perhaps it's just that several years of, shall we say, spotty work from Barry Levinson and Robert De Niro have lowered my expectations, but I was pleasantly surprised by the genuine sharpness of What Just Happened? >>
- A Sundance Tale
The lead actress, lead actor, and director of a Sundance film are doing a photo shoot in a "house" in a particularly busy section of town. At the end of the shoot, they group discover they have an hour to kill-an unusual occurrence at Sundance, but it happens. Outside the "house," a phalanx of anti-fur protesters had gathered. >>
- Sundance Swag!
Did you know that J.F.K./L.B.J. Secretary of State Dean Rusk had a sideline creating hair care products? Me neither, but now I do »
- Sundance, Day 1: .500 (Updated)
Sorry for the errant blogging. As I suspected it would be, Sundance is a tough fest to do through-the-day blogging from »
- It's Not Peter Dinklage!!!
Good lord. I've already read three accounts in which the wee actor in Sundance Festival opener In Bruges is cited as Peter Dinklage »
- Sundance Film Festival Opening Night: 'In Bruges'
The trailers currently in circulation for In Bruges, the feature directorial debut from Martin McDonagh, the Britain-born Irish playwright whose first film, the short Six Shooter, won him an Oscar »
- Travel Day
So I'm at the fabulous Newark Airport now, recently renamed "Liberty" Airport because "Newark" is, like, such a drag »
- Park City Portents
So I'm off to Utah tomorrow for five or so days worth of fun and frolic at the Sundance Film Festival, and gawrsh, I'm trying to be all excited »
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- Starry Sundance Titles Limp Home
The A-list titles that arrived with high hopes and starry entourages look set to leave the festival with their tails between their legs. Barry Levinson's industry-insider tale What Just Happened?,
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- Sundance Sales at a Trickle
After the recent sales commotion (sold for ten-mil to the last CAA hostage standing!), the only deal to happen since is the acquisition of Nanette Burstein's high school documentary American Teen
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- School of Hopper: Actor Describes Strike 'Tragedy'
Premiere caught up with the Blue Velvet star at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, where he was promoting his latest film Sleepwalking. We'll have more on the film from Hopper and his costars Charlize Theron, Nick Stahl, and AnnaSophia Robb
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- Sundance: Let the Buying Begin
The Sundance pall finally lifted as Hamlet 2, Choke and Henry Poole Is Here all reeled in hungry buyers. Focus snatched up global rights to Hamlet 2, about a high school teacher (Steve Coogan) >>
- Sundance: Less Lust, More Caution
Sundance's opening weekend was kind of a damp squib, with no headline-grabbing bank-buster deals to ridicule. So far it's the documentaries bagging the contracts >>
- Mary Lynn Rajskub talks '24' Movie
CTU crankpot Chloe O'Brian, also known as actress Mary Lynn Rajskub, was in Park City for the Sundance Film Festival so, naturally, we had to grill her about the possible cinematic adventures of Jack Bauer >>
- Emily Blunt Confirms "The Wolf Man"
We were able to corner Emily Blunt at the Sundance Film Festival, and the actress confirms that things between her and actor Benicio Del Toro are about to get very hairy »
- Sundance Wheelin' and Dealin'
Writer John Clark supplies Premiere with some of his observations on the business end of film-festing »
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