Tag Archives: Sundance

Top Honors

January 26, 2009 – 1:15 am

Still from Love You More by Sam Taylor Wood On Saturday night Sundance had their 25th awards ceremony, honoring the filmmakers with juried and audience awards.  I was excited to see that Sin Nombre won the Best Directing award–further proof that Fukunaga is a talent on the rise.  In a rare moment, the jury and [...]

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Big Name or Nameless?

January 22, 2009 – 3:56 pm

Still from Sin Nombre Every now and then a film or book or song comes along that turns me into an insta-groupie.  It hadn’t happened in a while, but then I went to the premiere of the debut picture by Director/Screenwriter Cary Joji Fukunaga–Sin Nombre (which means “without a name”, or “nameless”).  I especially love [...]

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Inaugural at Sundance

January 20, 2009 – 12:33 pm

Just a quick post about 7 minutes before Obama is sworn-in.  The past few days everyone wanted to know where they were going to be able to watch the inauguration.  Some people were cutting their trip short, especially some of the stars who were out and about this weekend–Alan Cumming described his inauguration suit to [...]

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No Shoes, No Shorts, No Service

January 18, 2009 – 5:24 pm

Still from Rite by Alicia Conway A brief roundup of some of the short films I’ve liked so far.  Several of the filmmakers who have shorts this year went through the Sundance Labs and there’s a grand tradition of short filmmakers who then go on to have their feature-length films accepted a few years later.  So [...]

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Disturbing the Universe

January 17, 2009 – 4:58 pm

Headed up to the brand new Temple Theatre to see a film from the documentary competition called William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, about the famed and infamous civil rights lawyer.  The film was made by Kunstler’s two daughters, Emily and Sarah, who were just teenagers when their father died (he joked he’d die on labor [...]

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25th Anniversary of Sundance Film Festival

January 15, 2009 – 10:09 pm

Still from William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe Starting tomorrow, check in to the BOMBLog for dispatches from the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. I’m sitting here with an impossibly long list of films I want to see, so if you get a chance, check out the lineup and let me know which films you’d put at [...]

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