Yesterday, the Sundance Institute announced the in competition line-up for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. Today Sundance unveiled the out-of-competition line-up for the annual January fest. And I have to admit, while there isn't any huge surprises, but the line-up is pretty solid across the board. Here are a few of the films I'm particularly interested in checking out:
- John Wells's The Company Men, starring Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, and Tommy Lee Jones as three company men who attempt to survive a round of corporate downsizing while trying to fend off its effects on their families and their identities. Maria Bello, Chris Cooper, and Rosemarie DeWitt also star.
- American Splendor directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini's The Extra Man, about a down-and-out playwright who escorts wealthy widows in Manhattan's Upper East Side takes a young aspiring writer under his wing. Cast: Katie Holmes, John C. Reilly, Paul Dano, Kevin Kline, Alicia Goranson.
- Directed by Philip Seymour Hoffman, Jack Goes Boating follows a limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of "love, betrayal, friendship, and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples." Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, John Ortiz, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Tom McCarthy.
- The Duplass Brothers' Next Movie, still untitled, about a recently divorced guy meets a new lady. "Then he meets her son who is, well…interesting." Cast: John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei,Jonah Hill, Catherine Keener.
- Rodrigo Cortes' Buried, which stars Ryan Reynolds as a U.S. contractor working in Iraq awakes to find he is buried alive inside a coffin. With only a lighter and a cell phone it's a race against time to escape this claustrophobic death trap.
- Adam Green's Frozen, about three skiers (Emma Bell, Shawn Ashmore, Kevin Zegers) who are mistakenly stranded on a chairlift, forced to make life-or-death choices that prove more perilous than staying put and freezing to death.
- John Stalberg, Jr.'s HIGH school, about a random drug test which coincides with a high school valedictorian's first hit of pot. Cast: Sean Marquette, Matt Bush, Adrien Brody, Michael Chiklis, Colin Hanks, Mykelti Williamson, Andrew Wilson, Yeardley Smith.
- Catfish, a documentary about a young New York City photographer is contacted on Facebook by an 8-year-old painting prodigy from rural Michigan, he becomes deeply enmeshed in her life, even falling in love with her older sister–that is, until a crack appears in her story.
- Entourage star Adrian Grenier's Teenage Paparazzo, a doc about a 13-year-old paparazzi boy and the effects of celebrity on culture.
Check out the full press release after the jump.
2010 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES FILMS IN PREMIERES,
NEXT (<=>), SPOTLIGHT, NEW FRONTIER AND PARK CITY AT MIDNIGHT
PARK CITY, UT – Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the out-of-competition sections of Premieres, Spotlight, New Frontier and Park City at Midnight at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival. As previously announced, the Festival this year will also feature, NEXT (<=>), a new section composed of eight American films selected for their innovative and original work in low- and no-budget filmmaking. The 2010 Sundance Film Festival runs January 21-31 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at www.sundance.org/festival.
"For decades now Sundance Institute has played an integral role in discovering cutting-edge talent working outside of conventions and in doing so we have expanded the audience for the unexpected," said John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival. "With rapidly advancing technologies to make and distribute films, this is a golden age for film lovers who desire choice and respond to innovation. For us, it is vital to use our position to continue to carve out a space for artists, regardless of where or how they work."
Added Trevor Groth, "Our NEXT section returns us to the days when independent was synonymous with low-budget and acknowledges that these voices have not gone away but in fact resound with the freshness that made our Festival what it is today. Our Spotlight section consists of films that we love, encompassing the best films that we have seen in our travels as well as brand new films that play out of competition but pack no less of a punch. And now with
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