More of a supplement to Part 1 than a second half, this collection of roundups on films screening at Sundance, Rotterdam, Berlin and SXSW this year is simply the result of my looking back at those four
Cannes will announce its lineup on Thursday and speculation as to what'll be in and what'll be out has been bubbling along nicely — see, for example, Cineuropa, indieWIRE, ioncinema and the Playlist
So the awards were presented at Sundance last night, and as Eugene Hernandez writes in his full report at indieWIRE, "Debra Granik's Winter's Bone led the US Dramatic Competition, taking both the grand
Tonight, "the Sundance Film Festival dispatches eight filmmakers with their films from Park City to eight cities across the country to screen and discuss direct-from-Festival films with audiences
Among the films premiering at Sundance before heading to the Berlin in a couple of weeks are four dramatic narratives in the Berlinale Competition lineup. Two are actually competing: Rob Epstein and
"From the 'truth is stranger than fiction' file comes this documentary about three New York artists (Henry Joost, Ariel Schulman, and Schulman's brother Nev) who learn that the Michigan family they
"In two days, two documentaries about paparazzi have screened at Sundance," writes Karina Longworth in Voice Film. "One, Smash His Camera, was directed by Leon Gast, who won an Oscar for When We Were
"Philip Roth once said that the extreme nature of contemporary experience had done the novelist's work," writes Nick Fraser in a piece for the Observer on Four Lions, which Jeremy Kay describes in
Erin Donovan: "A (self-described) unscrupulous journalist, and a Danish-Korean comedy duo (one who is mentally disabled and wheelchair-bound) spend two weeks in North Korea with the stated agenda to
"Essentially a horror film for the white-collar workers over 50, The Company Men follows three suits (Ben Affleck, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper) trying to come to terms with widespread downsizing
"The world premiere of Hesher hit Sundance on Friday, and I do mean 'hit.'" ST VanAirsdale introduces Movieline's FAQ: "Joseph Gordon-Levitt's stringy-haired, chain-smoking, tatted-up anarchist title
"How's this for an opening salvo?" asks Dennis Lim in the Sundance Channel's blog, SUNfiltered. "Restrepo, the first documentary to screen at Sundance 2010, kicks off with a grunt's-eye view of being