Thursday, November 29

• Sundance non-competition films announced

  Well, that's it, we now know the full line-up of movies to delight and provoke at this year's Sundance Film Festival as the powers of Park City announced their out-of-competition entries.

  As previously mentioned, Martin McDonagh's In Bruges will be the opening night film. Sean McGinly's movie about a law student who answers an ad to be a personal assistant to a celeb, The Great Buck Howard (with Colin Hanks, Emily Blunt, and John Malkovich) will play at the Salt Lake City Gala, and Neil Young's Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young examination, CSNY Deja Vu, will close. All three will be world premieres.

  For the complete line-up of films at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival, click here.

  Source: Sundance.

  
  
  Next Showing: Sundance '08 will go from Jan 17 to Jan 27, 2008.

  Posted 11/29/2007 by reelz

Wednesday, November 28

• Sundance announces its film program

  The Sundance Institute announced its lineup of competition films for the upcoming 2008 Sundance Film Festival. 121 feature-length films from 87 different countries will be screened at Sundance this year, including 87 world premieres.

  In the competition catories are a few publicized movies, including the adaptation of another novel by the author of Fight Club, Choke,  a romantic comedy with Winona Ryder and Wes Bentley about a guy who writes other people's suicide notes, The Last Word, the Michael Chabon novel adaptation that got Sienna Miller in so much trouble during filming, The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, and a movie about a teenager who trades pot for therapy sessions, The Wackness.

  Only 32 movies will be competing in the four categories--documentary, dramatic, world cinema documentary, and world cinema dramatic. The out-of-competition films will be announced tomorrow.

  Source: Sundance.

  
  
  Next Showing: The Sundance Film Festival takes place Jan. 17-27, 2008.

  Posted 11/28/2007 by reelz