Sundance 2011

I got to sit down with Jacobs, with his wild hair and quiet demeanor, and ask him how he came to make his second film about a high

We had about an hour in the Las Vegas airport before boarding our red-eye flight and waking up in Queens at dawn. Sure, we're exhausted, but since Sundance began

Levinson stretches himself way too far as a first-time writer by creating 5 or 6 main characters with half a dozen more supporting

Briskly paced and very funny, The Future sneaks up on you with its weight, landing a series of devastating punches near the end that also don't belie the film's witty assessment of human faults

The real winners are the movies with distribution deals, the films those of us who weren't in Park City may actually have a shot at seeing in a movie

The movie only started getting buzz late in the festival, on something of a parallel track to Another Earth; both films star and were partially written by Brit Marling

I had a chance to talk to her about the evolution of the film, the autobiographical elements of the story and discovering an amazing new talent in star Adepero Oduye

They're both comedies about teenagers who don't quite fit into their schools, though Terri adopts a very low-budget naturalistic