I’m breaking my Sundance silence briefly since the Oscar nominations were announced today. Of course, I’m thrilled that four of the five documentary feature nominees are Sundance alumni. I’ve previously written about them here and am linking to those posts below. Unfortunately, I haven’t had a chance to write about the fifth, Charles Ferguson’s INSIDE JOB, but hope to find time post-Sundance. The remaining nominees, with my thoughts, here:
Category Archives: Sundance
83rd Academy Awards: Best Documentary Feature Nominees
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Special Note: what (not) to doc & 2011 Sundance
With the 2011 Sundance Film Festival opening tonight, my role as Programming Associate for the festival will make it difficult to post here with the regularity I’ve established since the beginning of this blog. I’ll post when I can, but realistically, I’ll have to wait until after the festival wraps on January 30 before I can resume normal frequency.
In the meantime, you can catch up on my film-by-film profiling of all 42 docs in our line-up this year, beginning here, and get quicker and shorter updates and impressions from Park City by following me on Twitter.
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indieWIRE @ Hulu Docs: Sundance Flashback, Part Two
Sundance 2011 begins this week! My film-by-film profiling of each of this year’s docs wrapped up today as I arrived in Park City in my role of Programming Associate for the festival. If you’ll be at the fest, you’ll have plenty of great new films to watch, but if you can’t make it out there this year, I’ve curated a new batch of past Sundance films for Hulu’s Documentaries page for indieWIRE – and they’re all free.
For more information about the selections, take a look at my iW article.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: LIFE IN A DAY
The 42nd and final entry in my doc-by-doc look at the 2011 Sundance line-up has already generated a lot of attention: Kevin Macdonald’s LIFE IN A DAY, a YouTube user-generated record of July 24, 2010 around the world.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE NINE MUSES
The second of two documentaries in this year’s New Frontier’s on-screen offerings is John Akomfrah’s THE NINE MUSES, a poetic, experimental meditation on the myth of Odysseus, homecoming, and identity.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION
Lynn Hershman Leeson brings one of two documentaries to this year’s New Frontier on-screen offerings, !WOMEN ART REVOLUTION, a decades-in-the-making examination of the development of feminist art in the US.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: CORMAN’S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL
Alex Stapleton has the only documentary in Park City at Midnight, CORMAN’S WORLD: EXPLOITS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL, a love letter to the quintessential independent filmmaker behind such classics as THE LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS, HOUSE OF USHER, THE WILD ANGELS, and DEATH RACE 2000.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: GRAB
This year’s Indigenous Showcase features a collection of shorts and Billy Luther’s latest documentary, GRAB, focusing on an annual Laguna Pueblo ceremony.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: MAGIC TRIP
Best Documentary Oscar winner Alex Gibney, together with Co-Director/Editor Alison Elwood close out the Documentary Premieres section with MAGIC TRIP, a hallucinatory look at Ken Kesey’s LSD-charged 1964 crosscountry road trip.
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2011 Sundance Docs in Focus: THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD
Morgan Spurlock is in the inaugural class of Documentary Premieres filmmakers with his latest film, THE GREATEST MOVIE EVER SOLD, a self-reflexive look at product placement, branding, and advertising.
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