You Won't Miss Me - Trailer for the youthful desire for acceptance

The trailer for You Wont Miss Me which debuted at Sundance 2009 and will also be shown at SXSW 2009.

A kaleidoscopic film portrait of Shelly Brown, a twenty-three-year-old alienated urban misfit recently released from a psychiatric hospital. Starring Stella Schnabel, featuring Rene Ricard and introducing other notable New York personalities, the film gives pathos to the frenzy of the youthful desire for acceptance.

Shot in a variety of styles and formats, You Wont Miss Me mixes non-actors with professionals, verité with staging, order with abstraction, to paint an evocative picture of a contemporary rebel.

Director: Ry Russo-Young
Writer: Ry Russo-Young
Studio: Unknown
Cast: Stella Schnabel, Simon O'Connor, Zachary Tucker

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Mermaid - Trailer

Here is the trailer for Mermaid which opens February 18th in select theaters and On-Demand, via IFC Festival Direct. Mermaid is a romantic comedy from Russia, that won the Best Director award (Anna Melikian) at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.

Her name was Alisa, she lived by the sea. Her life was pretty ordinary. She dreamed about the ballet, sang in a children's choir and studied at a school for the mentally challenged. At the age of six she stopped speaking. At 17 she moved to Moscow and at exactly 18 she met Him…. and disappeared. That sort of thing happens all the time in the big city.

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Cold Souls - Paul Giamatti has his soul extracted. ...with hilarious consequences!

The Samuel Goldwyn Company has acquired the US distribution rights to Cold Souls. The film is written and directed by Sophie Barthes and stars Paul Giamatti as himself.
In the film, Giamatti plays an actor that during an existential crisis decides to explore "soul extraction" as a relief from the burdens of daily life.
Sundance programmer Caroline Libresco says of Cold Souls: "Sophie Barthes’s debut feature is strikingly original, not only for its haunting concept but for its poetic execution. Inspired production design and lyrical cinematography create a melancholic, heightened world. Perfectly cast, Giamatti and a gifted ensemble maneuver seamlessly through shifting ontological landscapes without ever betraying the surrealism. With this dazzling accomplishment, Barthes establishes herself as an auteur to reckon with."



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Spike Lee talks about Obama and Sundance

Jill Martin had a minute to speak with Spike Lee, at last night's Knicks vs. Rockets game.

Not only does he speak about his party he hosted for the inauguration party for President Barack Obama, but also his new movie, Passing Strange, that he promoted at Sundance. Apparantly it was his first time at the Sundance Film Festival.

Thanks to Adriana for passing me the link.

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World's Greatest Dad - Bobcat Goldthwait directs Robin Williams...wait, it's meant to be pretty good.

Here's another film that was shown at the Sundance Film Festival that sounds pretty cool.

As the saying goes, be careful what you wish for. In World’s Greatest Dad, a wickedly funny dark comedy, Lance Clayton (Robin Williams) discovers that what he covets most in life may not be what makes him happy, and being lonely is not necessarily the same as being alone. Lance is a high school poetry teacher who dreams of becoming a rich and famous writer. A single father, he tries desperately to connect with his teenage son, Kyle (Daryl Sabara), an insolent, hormone-raging smartass who defies his dad at every turn. Lance exercises his own hormones with Claire (Alexie Gilmore), a painfully adorable art teacher who may have her eyes on a bigger prize. After a freak accident, Lance suddenly faces both the worst tragedy of his life, and the greatest opportunity. Determined to make lemonade from life’s lemons, Lance treads a path that could land him everything he’s ever dreamed of, as long as he can live with the knowledge of how he got there. Alexie Gilmore is cheeky and Daryl Sabara is droll incarnate but it’s the outstanding performance by Robin Williams that propels World’s Greatest Dad. Writer/director and longtime-comedian Bobcat Goldthwait returns to Sundance with another lusciously perverse, and refreshingly original comedy that tackles love, loss, and our curious quest for infamy.

Starring Robin Williams, Daryl Sabara, Alexie Gilmore, Tom Kenny, Geoffrey Pierson, Henry Simmons, Toby Huss

Bobcat Goldthwait wrote and directed Shakes the Clown, Sleeping Dogs Lie, and his latest film, World's Greatest Dad. He has also directed many television shows, including Chappelle's Show, The Man Show, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. As a comic, he had appeared on the David Letterman show by the time he was 20 and has had three HBO specials since then. As an actor, he has appeared in innumerable embarrassing movies and was very popular during the 1980s. He greatly prefers directing.

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2009 Sundance Film Festival Awards

JURY AWARDS:

Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic:
Push, directed by Lee Daniels

Grand Jury Prize, Documentary:
We Live in Public, directed by Ondi Timoner

World Cinema Jury Prize, Dramatic:
The Maid, directed by Sebastian Silva

World Cinema Jury Prize, Documentary:
Rough Aunties, directed by Kim Longinotto

World Cinema Special Jury Prize, Documentary:
Tibet in Song, directed by Ngawang Choephel

World Cinema Special Jury Prize, Dramatic:
Catalina Saavedra for The Maid

Special Jury Prize for Embodying Collaborative Spirit:
Humpday, directed by Lynn Shelton

Special Jury Prize for Acting, Dramatic:
Mo'Nique for Push

Special Jury Prize, Documentary:
Good Hair, directed by Jeff Stilson

Excellence in Cinematographcy, Dramatic:
Adriano Goldman for Sin Nombre

Excellence in Cinematography, Documentary:
Bob Richman for The September Issue

Waldo Scott Screenwriting Award:
Nicholas Jasenovec and Charlyne Yi for Paper Heart

Excellence in Directing, Dramatic:
Cary Joji Fukunaga for Sin Nombre

Excellence in Directing, Documentary:
Natalia Almada for El General

Excellence in Editing, Documentary:
Karen Schmeer for Sergio

The Alfred P. Sloan prize for a feature film with science as a theme, or featuring a scientist, engineer, or mathematician main character, was awarded to Adam, directed by Max Mayer. As the winner of the Alfred P. Sloan prize, the film receives a $20,000 award.

AUDIENCE AWARDS:

Audience Award, Dramatic:
Push, directed by Lee Daniels

Audience Award, Documentary:
The Cove, directed by Louise Psihoyos

World Cinema Audience Award, Dramatic:
An Education, directed by Lone Scherfig

World Cinema Audience Award, Documentary:
Afghan Star, directed by Havana Marking

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Big River Man - Documentary about a man swimming the Amazon...as you do!

Big River Man, a world cinema documentary film, takes viewers on the swim of a lifetime. Endurance swimmer Martin Strel is a Slovenian who has conquered most of the world's greatest rivers -- the Mississippi, the Danube and the Yangtze -- thus far. Strel has chosen the Amazon as his final conquest intent on bringing attention to protecting the rainforest to give credence to his journey.

But make no mistake, Strel is no Michael Phelps. He's 50, he's overweight not the guy you want to see in a wetsuit, but he is bent of taking the best rivers of the world, bringing a message of environmentalism along with him. Fortified with a solid two bottles of wine a day and an iron mindset, Strel has swum his way into the books as the "greatest endurance swimmer in history."

In his past travels, Strel has encountered all sorts of evils of the world, from pollution to rough waters and some rather unfriendly underwater creatures. In this film, Strel has many more adventures. He meets many native peoples, takes in the beauty of the rainforest and endures many tough situations. From preexisting health issues to stomach problems to eventual delirium, Strel's journey is always an exciting one.

Strel's son is in the film as a narrator, offers insight into the man behind the amazing feat and shows the struggles he has keeping his father together.

"Big River Man" was directed by John Maringouin, but it was his wife, Molly Lynch, who had the initial vision. Lynch became pregnant midway through the project and couldn't travel to the Amazon with an infant, but still had her hand in all parts of the film.

Maringouin said he was inspired by Strel's dedication, but it wasn't until Sundance that he realized his true love of the earth.

"I was moved by what he was saying about the rainforest," Maringouin said.

"Big River Man" was created to be more than just a sports film or an environmental film but to capture the emotional enormity of Strel's accomplishments.

"I'm not looking for a message," Maringouin said. "It's interwoven into what he goes through."

Strel finishes the swim worn out and delirious from the enormity of the task and quickly fades into the background, never getting much attention for his accomplishments.

Strel came to Park City this week to attend the screening of the film. After one showing he spoke if his love of sport and the environment.

"This is prize not just for me," he said in a thick Slovenian accent. "It's for people who love sport and love the nature. We need this interest. We need the rainforest. I hope I change this world just a little bit."

Source: Park Record

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Black Dynamite - Trailer

Black Dynamite will debut at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival

When “the man” kills his brother, pumps heroin into the local orphanage, and floods the ghetto with a secret weapon disguised as Anaconda Malt Liquor, there is only one brother bad enough, strong enough, and brave enough to take them on: the legendary Black Dynamite.

Black Dynamite is a throwback with an attitude. Hilarious, campy, hot, and sexy, it plays with every cliché from 1970s film and television, with a few new ones thrown in for color. Director Scott Sanders doesn’t need to show his hand to get his point across, making it even more fun to watch. He has miraculously assembled a huge cast that all perfectly tread the line between satire and spoof. Crazy kudos need to go to our leading man, played by Michael Jai White, who offers a pitch-perfect performance in every take. Art direction and costumes are flawless, and the flocked wallpaper holds it own against the faux fur and poly-blend wardrobe. Black Dynamite has something for everyone: chase scenes, gunfights, a house of ill repute, some karate action, and a star with a killer body who takes on bad guys with—and without—his shirt on. And if this isn’t enough, Sanders does the near impossible: he sustains the comedy while taking a nice big sucker punch at the underlying politics of our time.

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Big Fan - Photos of Patton Oswalt obsessed fan film

First Showing were sent these photos for a film called Big Fan written and directed by Robert Siegel (The Wrestler). It's going to be on at the Sundance Film Festival and stars Patton Oswalt.

Paul Aufiero (Oswalt), a 35-year-old parking-garage attendant from working-class Staten Island, is the self described "world's biggest New York Giants fan." One night Paul and his best friend, Sal (Kevin Corrigan), spot star Giants linebacker Quantrell Bishop at a gas station in Staten Island. They impulsively follow his SUV into Manhattan to a strip club, where they finally muster up the courage to talk to their hero. What starts out as a dream come true turns into a nightmare as a misunderstanding ignites a violent confrontation, and Paul is sent down a path that will test his devotion to the extreme.

I quite like Patton Oswalt and the films he has starred in. Be sure to check out the short film where he stares at the camera for about 6 minutes and then walks around a storage place until he finds David Byrne playing guitar. Very weird but it does grab you. I posted it a while ago here.
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