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 published: 2013-01-24The Way Way Back Is Sundance's Most Expensive Acquisition, But Was It Worth It? This year, apparently, there's a movie so similar to Little Miss Sunshine that the same studio, Fox Searchlight, was inspired to pull out their biggest checkbook. Jaws dropped here in Park City when the news broke that Searchlight had paid $10 million to acquire The Way Way Back, the light comedy that shares so much DNA with Little Miss Sunshine it's even got Steve Carell and Toni Colette in the cast.  filed under: sundance
 published: 2013-01-24Sundance Review: Jane Campion's Top Of The Lake Offers Staggering Suspense Written by Jane Campion and Gerard Lee, this crime drama begins with a 12-year-old girl in a school uniform walking into a lake with a determined yet resigned expression on her face. From her shivers and the clenching of her fists, it's clear this water is freezing, and as a Good Samaritan rushes in to pull her out, she confirms the lake's chill can kill. But why would this child want to die? filed under: sundance
 published: 2013-01-23Slamdance Dispatch #2: A Photo Diary Of Nerves Before The Premiere Of He's Way More Famous Than You Up at the top of Park City's Main Street, Sundance's younger, funkier cousin has staked its annual claim alongside the larger festival. The Slamdance Film Festival is happening right now, and for an insider look at what it's like to bring your film there-- and how hard you have to work to promote it filed under: sundance
 published: 2013-01-22Sundance Video Blog #5: Stoker, Before Midnight, Ass Backwards, And More Movies We Loved 48 hours can be a really, really long time at a film festival. You can see as many as 10 movies in that time, and if you're lucky, a lot of them will be so good that you won't want to stop talking about them. So for our first video blog in two days, Matt Patches and I had plenty to talk about filed under: sundance
 published: 2013-01-22Sundance Review: The East Is The Thoughtful Spy Thriller Hollywood Has Forgotten How To Make Two years ago Brit Marling and Zal Batmanglij took a late premiere slot for their film Sound of My Voice and seemingly took over the Sundance Film Festival overnight. Their low-budget, tightly scripted and mysterious movie was the rare Sundance film that seemed to immediately demand a sequel filed under: sundance
 published: 2013-01-21Upstream Color Review: A Sundance Cult Favorite Is Back, And He's Glad You're Confused As odd as the story can get, it's not at all hard to follow-- replace the pig-and-worm-based conspiracy with some other trauma, like surviving a bus crash, and it's essentially just a story about recovery, albeit one that takes every opportunity to throw the audience off with an unsettling closeup or narrative tangent filed under: sundance
 published: 2013-01-21Paul Rudd And David Gordon Green Do Their Best Work In Years In Sundance's Prince Avalanche Nobody depicts dudes the way Green does, and making his way up from the nadir that was 2011's The Sitter, Green is back in fine and funny form with Prince Avalanche, a story about-- you guessed it-- two guys stuck together. This time they're on the verge of becoming brothers filed under: sundance
 published: 2013-01-21Sundance Video Blog #4: Paul Rudd In Prince Avalanche, Joseph Gordon-Levitt's Directorial Debut, And More When you're faced with a schedule as massive as varied as Sundance's, sometimes you have to pick which film to see based simply on the name. Whether that's the return of a director you admire or simply a movie star you hope to see in person at the premiere-- hey, that's your call filed under: sundance
 published: 2013-01-21Sundance Review: Before Midnight Is Perfect In Before Midnight, Richard Linklater once again teams up with Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy to give us a slice in the lives of Celine and Jesse, who we meet 9 years after the events of Before Sunset, as they are in Greece and… Wait, you don't actually want to know what happens next, right? filed under: sundance
 published: 2013-01-20Matthew McConaughey Brings Mud And Yet Another Great Performance To Sundance When critics were writing about Matthew McConaughey's renaissance last year, some of them were unofficially including Mud, the new film from Take Shelter director Jeff Nichols that premiered at Cannes last year. It was picked up there by Roadside Attractions and Lionsgate in partnership filed under: sundance
 published: 2013-01-20Slamdance Dispatch #1: Halley Feiffer And Ryan Spahn Go A Little Crazy For He's Way More Famous Than You The Slamdance Film Festival is happening right now, and for an insider look at what it's like to bring your film there-- and how hard you have to work to promote it-- we've got Halley Feiffer and Ryan Spahn to bring us dispatches about their film, He's Way More Famous Than You, which premieres today at Slamdance. filed under: sundance
 published: 2013-01-20James Franco Brings Graphic Gay Sex To Sundance With Interior Leather Bar In a time of publicist-controlled images and fake reality TV personalities, it's good to know there's at least one star out there who wants to use his power just to fuck with your head. At this year's Sundance, that involved premiering two different movies in one might, both of them about kinky sex, and at least one of them featuring actual, unsimulated sex filed under: sundance
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