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Sundance Film Festival 2012
Posted Jan 23, 2012, by Claiborne Smith
John Hawkes Transcends the Physical in The Surrogate
John Hawkes is the man who sets a movie a little on edge, who upends your expectations of what you thought you were going to…
Posted Jan 23, 2012, by Eric Hynes
Wide Angle Thinkers: How Political Analyst Drew Westen Helps Candidates Connect with Voters
In addition to the 181 of films being presented at this year’s Festival, there’s also an ambitious slate of panels, populated…
Posted Jan 22, 2012, by Eric Hynes
Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg Mine Their Bad Breakups in Celeste and Jesse Forever
Some of the brightest young inhabitants of Hollywood’s thriving comedy community were on hand for the world premiere of Celeste…
Posted Jan 22, 2012, by Jeff Hanson
Richard Gere Plays a Corporate Raider in Nicholas Jarecki’s Arbitrage
The word ‘arbitrage’ is often used in the cutthroat world of high finance, defining the practice of buying low and selling high…
Posted Jan 22, 2012, by Nate von Zumwalt, Editorial Coordinator
Ice-T Leads a Journey Into the Trenches of Hip Hop
Some three decades after his emergence as a pioneering hip hop artist, Ice-T is once again beefing up his resume as an…
Posted Jan 20, 2012, by Bridgette Bates
Benh Zeitlin Unleashes his Beasts of the Southern Wild
Six months after Hurricane Katrina, director Benh Zeitlin was crashing on a friend’s floor in New Orleans. The Queens native…
Posted Jan 19, 2012, by Claiborne Smith
Independent Film is the Theme: Day One Press Conference Kicks Off 2012 Festival
Thursday’s opening day press conference opened with nothing less than a reference to an American “government in paralysis” -…
Posted Jan 16, 2012, by Nate von Zumwalt, Editorial Coordinator
The Ever-Expanding 2012 Festival Music Program
Somewhere between the mind-blowing performances by musical luminaries like Lou Reed and Lyle Lovett -- and once prospective…
Posted Jan 16, 2012, by Jon Korn, Assistant Coordinator of Panels
The 2012 Sundance Film Festival's Perfectly Strange Shorts Program
"Too Weird To Live, Too Rare To Die"
-Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas"
The Sundance Film Festival began…
Posted Jan 11, 2012, by Bridgette Bates
We The People: Documentary Filmmakers Capture the Power of Protest
The Arab Spring, global warming, and the ninety-nine percent are words buzzing in the mass consciousness. In fact, the mass…
