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Tribeca 2010 rounds out lineup

Following up last week’s announcement detailing the first half of the Tribeca Film Festival lineup, here’s another group of 40+ films from the Encounters, Discovery, Cinemania and Spotlight sections of the program.
In the Encounters section, Alex Gibney captures Lawrence Wright’s one-man play in the world premiere of My Trip To Al-Qaeda; Nip/Tuck producer/writer Richard Levine [...]

2010 Tribeca Film Festival announces first half of lineup

The 2010 Tribeca Film Festival released the first 34 titles of the 85 features and 47 shorts that will be playing the festival this year.  The categories announced include the World Narrative Competition, Documentary Competition, Showcase and Special Event films.
Shrek Forever After has already been announced as the opening night film. This year also for [...]

Sundance: ‘Kids’ purchased, the ‘Killer Inside’ Casey Affleck plus ‘Winter’s Bone’

The Sundance Film Festival keeps rolling through to Sunday, but all of the world premieres have been seen. Many journos and industry types will be packing their bags and heading home while others will be mopping up and catching additional screenings of hot titles they missed the first time around.
Consider this post a similar attempt [...]

700 Miles 2010: is ‘Kids’ the first Sundance sensation? [UPDATED]

Is KIDS ARE ALL RIGHT w/Bening, Moore, Ruffalo and Wasikowska the first Sundance darling of 2010?

700 Miles From Sundance 2010: Tillman Story, Blue Valentine

BURIED gets bought, plus the documentary about Pat Tillman and scenes from a marriage between Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams.

700 miles from Sundance 2010: Kristen Stewart is a hit as Jett

Kristen Stewart is solid as Joan Jett but it sounds like Michael Shannon steals the show in THE RUNAWAYS, while Philip Seymour Hoffman’s directorial debut JACK GOES BOATING is an acting showcase and the Duplass Brothers turn up with their most mainstream film to date with CYRUS starring John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill and Catherine Keener

700 miles from Sundance 2010: Please Give, Waiting for Superman, Welcome to the Rileys, Four Lions and Buried

Sundance round-up: Holofcener, Guggenheim tackles education, Kristin Stewart strips for James Gandolini, a Jihadist farce, but Ryan Reynolds BURIED in a box might be the find of the festival.

Down the street from Sundance: Soderbergh does Slamdance

Longworth and Taubin take a look at Soderbergh’s Spaulding Gray documentary AND EVERYTHING IS GOING FINE.

700 miles from Sundance 2010: Gordon-Levitt in ‘Hesher’ and John Wells’ ‘Company Men’

Coverage from around the internet of Sundance’s first buzzworthy title CATFISH, plus Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s HESHER and John Wells’ THE COMPANY MEN starring Ben Affleck, Chris Cooper and Tommy Lee Jones.

700 miles from Sundance 2010: Kicking off with a HOWL

And so begins another Sundance, ground zero for independent film in the United States. Films from 2009 that first popped on to LiC radar at Sundance include An Education, Precious, Amreeka, In the Loop, World’s Greatest Dad, Adventureland, Cold Souls, The September Issue, Big River Man, (500) Days of Summer, Lymelife, Moon, Humpday, Sugar, Anvil, [...]