CATEGORIES Sundance, Festival Reports, Fandom, Sundance Reviews 2009, Reviews, Sundance Film Festival, Cinematical
I find it slightly ironic to note that, at the beginning of this year's Sundance Film Festival, there was much Twitter-chatter and shuttle-talk about how the event was on the downswing this year. It's all the fault of the economic recession, everyone said, and it sure seemed like Sundance was markedly less packed with buyers, sellers, critics, ticket-holders, publicists, producers, reps, and producer's reps. But here's the punchline: As far as flicks are concerned, the 2009 Sundance Film Festival had a surprisingly strong batting average. (I only saw TWO films I actively disliked, and that's not bad!)
So as a way to wrap up this year's festivities, we'd like to put all our Sundance coverage into one handy post. This post, actually. So if you're worried that you missed any live reports or some of the brilliantly insightful film reviews, this is the post for you. As always, we welcome any and all feedback from our readers, so long as the abuse is kept to a minimum. (Seriously though, we want to know what you guys think. Without y'all, we got nothin'.) On a personal note, I'd like to thank Erik Davis, James Rocchi, and Eric Snider for being three of the finest collaborators I've ever had. Sundance can be a hectic clusterhump at the best of times, but working on a team like this makes my life so much easier. Plus they're my friends. for which I am very grateful. Anyway, enough heterosexual-man-love...
The Reviews
- 500 Days of Summer (Fox Searchlight)
- Adam (Fox Searchlight)
- Adventureland (Miramax)
- Art & Copy (Arthouse)
- Big Fan
- Black Dynamite (Sony)
- Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
- Bronson
- The Carter
- Cold Souls
- The Cove
- Dead Snow (IFC)
- An Education (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Five Minutes of Heaven
- The Girlfriend Experience
- Good Hair (HBO)
- Grace (Anchor Bay)
- Humpday (Magnolia)
- In the Loop (IFC)
- The Informers
- Mary and Max
- The Missing Person
- Moon (Sony Pictures Classics)
- Mystery Team
- Paper Heart
- Peter and Vandy
- Push: Based on a Novel by Sapphire
- The September Issue
- Sin Nombre (Focus)
- We Live in Public
- When You're Strange
- World's Greatest Dad
(Note: I added the owners for movies that are presently ... owned by a U.S. distributor.)
The Live Reports
Sundance in Pictures
Award Winners!
Film Critic Fist Fight
Zooey Deschanel Breaks My Heart ... Again
Killer Trees, Nazi Zombies, and Brandon T. Jackson
Anarchy in the UT!
Steal Someone Else's Lines, Stu VanAirsdale!
A Trip to the 'Moon' and Fainting at 'Grace'
The Storm Before the Blogger Storm
Our Coverage Begins!
Daily Recaps (Thanks, Peter!)
January 25
January 24
January 23
January 22
January 21
January 20
January 19
January 18
January 17
January 16
January 15
Interviews (Thanks, James!)
Patton Oswalt of Big Fan
Robert Siegel of Big Fan
John Krasinski of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men
Antoine Fuqua of Brooklyn's Finest
Paul Giamatti of Cold Souls
Kevin Spacey of Shrink (and Moon)
Ondi Timoner and Josh Harris of We Live in Public
Robert Siegel of Big Fan
Will Goss! (Thanks, Will's mom!)
Cinematical 7: Movies That Made the Rest of Us Envious That Everyone Else Was at Sundance
Cinematical 7: Things the Rest of Us Can Do While Everyone Else Is at Sundance
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