Sundance

Is this the year's first Oscar contender? The film, "Fruitvale Station," debuted to rave reviews at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and it's now b...

This past week, I traveled to Utah to cover the Sundance Film Festival for Moviefone. This was my first trip to the annual event, and for the most par...

While 2013's Sundance Film Festival may be wrapping up, the festival saw some bright new movies -- Joseph Gordon Levitt's directorial debut "Don Jon's...

If there was ever a guidebook for actors looking to break free from billion-dollar movie franchises, “Daniel Radcliffe” would be the title of Chap...

In “Crystal Fairy & the Magic Cactus and 2012,” actor Michael Cera smokes pot, snorts cocaine, steals from an elderly lady, takes mescaline and ge...

Bundle up, kids! It's time once again for the Sundance Film Festival. For the uninitiated, Sundance takes place up in the mountains of Utah (Park City...

Union Square finds Savoca going back to her formative indie roots with a digital twist. Wanting just to shoot something while waiting to film larger projects, she decided not to ask permission to make a movie, but just to do it instead.

People think Sundance is about the films, and they are sort of right, but mostly wrong. Sundance is about the experience of being with people who are recognized for telling their own stories and who are celebrated for the things they are most passionate about.

John Hawkes is to the Sundance Film Festival what you are to that bar around the corner: dude's a regular. He was in Park City, Utah in 2010 with "Win...

Sundance is almost over but that doesn't mean the stars have stopped partying! And since you're stuck at work dreaming of Friday night happy hour, ...

Look what we got you at Sundance! OK, not really. We intended to bring you home one of everything we came across, but we couldn't afford the extra baggage fee when we tried to get on the airplane.

As stated previously: believing any Oscar buzz out of the Sundance Film Festival is a fool's errand of massive proportions; after all, the journalists...

There are a few brands that officially sponsor Sundance, but most don't. The lack of affiliation is not ideal for many reasons.

As for me, I ended my festival experience with the perfect coda. Catching a beer and the amazing end of the Giants/49ers game at Cisero's lounge on Main St., I had the quintessential Sundance encounter.

Spike Lee had a message for the Sundance festival crowd at tonight's world premiere of his new film, "Red Hook Summer": "Please tell them that this is...

The nominees for the 84th annual Academy Awards won't be announced until Tuesday morning, but that doesn't mean it's too early to start looking ahead ...

The Sundance Film Festival is off and running -- something you certainly know if you follow any number of attending film writers on Twitter -- but whi...

Things are going as well as expected for what is my first trip to the Sundance Film Festival. Which is to say, it's going very poorly. Ahead, here are some tips on how to have a terrible time during your first day at Sundance.

It's midnight and I'm doing my laundry with just enough time to pack a battered carry-on and catch an REM cycle before jetting out of Los Angeles on a crack-of-dawn flight to Park City. 12 hours ago --scratch that, six hours ago -- I had no idea whether or not I'd go to Sundance this year.

In addition to being THE place to see amazing movies, Sundance is a door gauntlet. You need to be on a list to go anywhere. This is going to take some savvy negotiating so I've been perfecting my reasons for entry all week.