All Sundance articles – Page 90
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ReviewsThe Greatest
Dir: Shana Feste. US. 2008. 98mins.The Greatest charts the uneasy journey people must undertake in the face of grief, but first-time filmmaker Shana Feste can’t quite fully bring this emotionally delicate drama to fruition. A tearjerker about a middle-aged couple coping with the loss of their ...
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ReviewsTaking Chance
Dir: Ross Katz. US. 2009. 80mins.A heartfelt and sorrowful memorial to the war dead of Iraq marked by a typically restrained and concentrated performance by Kevin Bacon, Ross Katz’s Taking Chance is a quietly observational study of memory and loss. The fact-based story of a career ...
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ReviewsThe Killing Room
Dir:Jonathan Liebesman. US. 2008. 93mins.Unremittingly gripping and unnerving, The Killing Room transforms a simple premise into a almost unbearably tense experience. As a departure from his gory 2006 remake of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, director Jonathan Liebesman squeezes every little ounce of mind-game intrigue from the ...
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Elle Driver takes international rights to Wintour doc at Sundance
Elle Driver takes international rights to The September Issue.
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HBO buys US TV rights to Magic Hour's Sundance doc Burma VJ
As Sundance 2009 prepared to roll into action tonight (January 15) Submarine Entertainment and First Hand Films announced they had closed a deal with HBO for US television rights to Magic Hour Films’ documentaryBurma VJ.Submarine’s Josh Braun and Esther van Messel of First Hand Films brokered the deal with HBO ...
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Visit takes on the world for Sundance entry You Won't Miss Me
Visit Films boards worldwide rights to Ry Russo-Young’s second featureYou Won’t Miss Me thatgets its world premiere at Sundance on Jan 16.
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Shoreline buys worldwide on The Maid ahead of Sundance
Morris Ruskin’s Shoreline Entertainment has acquired the worldwide sales rights to Sebastian Silva’sdrama The Maid ahead of its world premiere at Sundance on Jan 17.
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NewsSundance hope for new indie dawn
This year’s Sundance Film Festival is a crucial bellwether for the independent film business.
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NewsSundance 2009 world premiers: documentaries
Screen brings you the 2009 Sundance documentary line-up.
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In Focus: Sundance opener Mary And Max
Sundance opener Mary And Max’s director Adam Elliot : debut feature, yet he is far from a novice
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New dawn for Sundance Indies
This year’s Sundance Film Festival is a crucial bellwether for the independent film business. Even as end-of-year hits such as Slumdog Millionaire, The Wrestler, The Reader and Milk pack theatres across North America, the domestic acquisitions business has been sluggish to say the least.Very rarely, these days, do distributors thrash ...
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Herwitz takes on world sales to Sundance competition entry Adam
The Film Sales Company president Andrew Herwitz has signed on to represent worldwide rights toMax Mayer’s Sundance dramatic competition entry Adam.
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Ghent Festival honours Richard Jenkins
Veteran actor Richard Jenkins will be honoured at the 35th Ghent International Film Festival with their Special Achievement Award.It will be presented after the Benelux premiere of The Visitor in Ghent, Belgium on Oct 7. Jenkins, along with co-stars Haaz Sleiman and Danai Gurira will attend the screening.In Overture's The ...
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Oscilloscope gushes over FLOW documentary
Beastie Boys founder Adam Yauch and ex-THINKFilm executive David Fenkel's Oscilloscope Pictures has picked up North American rights to Irena Salina's environmental documentary FLOW: For Love Of Water.The New York-based company, which was in Cannes scouting for titles for its inaugural slate and selling rights to Yauch's documentary Gunnin' For ...