Playing at SUNDANCE 2009 Part II!
The second part (you can find the first part HERE) of our look at next month's Sundance Film Festival, with a look at the many worldwide premieres and special event screening movies. This is by all means not an exhaustive list. You can find one of those at /film. This is instead the movies that I think look cool, basically. Very little more thought has been put into this list other than that...
DEAD SNOW
Another movie we've talked about already, it's Nazi hordes in Snow. That kind of evocoative imagery, a Mike Mignola kind of alternative universe is just too much for me to take. I have to see this now. NOW, NOW! The plot finds a group of teenagers whose ski vacation is interupptued by the scariest kind of zombies you could think of. It's a Norweigan production. You can see the trailer for it HERE.MOON
Could be the movie of the year. I said all I need to say about this movie HERE... It has all the ingredients of a masterpiece. Sam Rockwell stars for the majority of the movie by himself. Kevin Spacey voices the computer. THE INFORMERS
Yes, Brett Easton Ellis' writings are coming back to the big screen. And from a screenplay he himself wrote from his own work no less. We must have spoken about THE INFORMERS a hundred times. It looks/feels sexy, deals with narcissistic and unlikeable characters and looks completely different to what anyone else is giving us today. Ive liked both Ellis work on screen so far, I would love to see a knock-out third here. The seductive Amber Heard, Winona Ryder, Mickey Rourke, Kim Basinger, Billy Bob Thornton, Rhys Ifans and Brad Renfro (in his last picture since his untimely death at 25 in January) star.I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS
I just have no idea what to expect from this movie. I really don't. The movie is the true story of con artist Steven Jay Russell, a married father who is sentenced to jail time where he falls in love with a male prisoner. Jim Carrey plays the married father, Leslie Mann his wife and Ewan McGregor his new lover. No idea on this one. It's from the writers of BAD SANTA. ADVENTURELAND
Probably one of the highest profile releases of the whole festival. You know what it's about, you know who it's from. It's Greg Mottola follow-up to SUPERBAD. His semi-autobiographical comedy. We posted the trailer a fortnight ago... looks really good. Opens theatrically in March.BROOKLYN'S FINEST
Re-uniting action director Antonie Fuqua (SHOOTER, KING ARTHUR) with his TRAINING DAY star Ethan Hawke, this is the tale of three unconnected Brooklyn cops who come together in a deadly situation. Is this one of those CRASH like movies? I hope not. Richard Gere, Don Cheadle and Wesley Snipes make up the core cast. WORLD'S GREATEST DAD
I remember talking about this movie back in July when I found out it was to star Robin Williams. What a bizarre but genius plot... A high school poetry teacher finds his son dead after a freak masturbation accident and tries to cover up the shame by faking a suicide note, he claims was written by his son (Daryl Sabara). The note becomes such a literary sensation, Lance finds his passion for writing and begins to pen a personal journal which he also claims was scribed by his now deceased son. It's from Bob Goldthwait, the director of STAY.BLACK DYNAMITE
Wow, We've spoken about this movie several times already but it just looks so outrageously spectacular. This is exactly how you do parody. Mike Myers knew that in the late 90's with AUSTIN POWERS. Peter Sellars knew that with THE PINK PANTHER series. Mel Brooks knew it with YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN. This is how it's done. Look out for Michael Jai White (Gambol from THE DARK KNIGHT) as the mad motherfucker! MARY AND MAX
It's the tale of two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. Phillip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette lend their voices to it.500 DAYS OF SUMMER
Regret, really deep regret is such a powerful theme. It's something I'm always drawn to. In 500 DAYS OF SUMMER, the talented Joseph-Gordon Levitt plays a greeting card copywriter (what an awful job) who is dumped by his girlfriend but can't get over it. He looks back on their 500 days of together (which is a convienet framing device if there ever was one) to find out where things went wrong. The lovely Zooey Deschanel co-stars. Could be a big hit.