George Lucas Is Threatening to Hit My Car Again
If you thought the 2015 Sundance Film Festival was unveiling all its biggest treats with last week'due south U.S. and World competition slates and the Spotlight, Park City At Midnight, Adjacent and New Borderland line-ups, call back again. Today, the Robert Redford founded fest revealed its Premieres and Documentary Premieres plus a duo of Power Of Story panels and some Special Events.
And the Force is strong with the 31st annual Sundance.
In what is his first advent at the Utah festival, Star Wars creator George Lucas will exist joining Redford for a conversation near the power of independence in film during the Jan 22 to February 1 gathering. Likewise Girls' creator and Sundance alumni Lena Dunham is talking about the irresolute role of female characters on both the small and large screen with Kristen Wiig, who is a multi-film Sundancer this twelvemonth, The Mindy Project's Mindy Kaling and Jenji Kohan.
Of course, Sundance is truly almost films and there are some real star power thrills making their out of competition debuts next calendar month – and non just in the fictional genre. HBO'south Kurt Cobain documentary, directed by Oscar nominee Brett Morgan, and Netflix's only announced Nina Simone What Happened, Miss Simone? docu from University Accolade nominee Liz Garbus are getting their start looks. In fact, the latter is a Mean solar day ane movie this year.
New features from directors James Ponsoldt, a real Sundance fave, Paul Weitz, Noah Baumbach, Leslye Headland and the team of Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini are also premiering with casts that include Jesse Eisenberg, Joan Cusack, contempo Kennedy Eye honoreeLily Tomlin, Greta Gerwig, Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Ethan Hawke and Emily
Mortimer. Additionally, James Francoleads I Am Michael, Ryan Reynolds, Ben Mendelsohn, and Sienna Miller appear in the gambling moving-picture showMississippi Grind, Jennifer Lopez and How To Get Away With Murder'southward Viola Davis are in the revenge filled Lila & Eve and Ewan McGregor appears equally both Jesus and the Devil in the cast of the Biblical Concluding Day in the Desert. Sam Rockwell shows upwardly in both Digging For Fire, with Orlando Bloom and Anne Kendrick among others, and the Jared Hess directed Don Verdean.
Mike Fleming Jr. and myself will be leading Deadline'due south Sundance coverage from the venues and streets of Park Urban center, among other Utah locations. However, in the concurrently, have a look at the first looks that are coming to the festival next month and go that snowfall coat out of storage.
PREMIERES
A showcase of globe premieres of some of the most highly anticipated narrative films of the coming year.
Brooklyn
/ U.k. (Director: John Crowley, Screenwriter: Nick Hornby, based on the book by Colm Tóibín) — 1950s Ireland: Eilis must confront a terrible dilemma — a heartbreaking choice between two men and two countries, between duty and truthful love. Cast: Saoirse Ronan, Domhnall Gleeson, Emory Cohen, Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent.
Digging for Burn / U.S.A. (Director: Joe Swanberg, Screenwriters: Jake Johnson, Joe Swanberg) — The discovery of a bone and a gun
sends a husband and wife on separate adventures over the course of a weekend. Cast: Jake Johnson, Rosemarie Dewitt, Orlando Flower, Brie Larson, Sam Rockwell, Anna Kendrick.
Don Verdean / UsaA. (Manager: Jared Hess, Screenwriters: Jared Hess, Jerusha Hess) — Biblical archaeologist Don Verdean is hired by a local church pastor to find organized religion-promoting relics in the Holy Land. Just after a fruitless expedition he is forced to get artistic in this one-act of faith and fraud. Bandage: Sam Rockwell, Jemaine Cloudless, Amy Ryan, Danny McBride, Leslie Bibb, Will Forte.
The End O f The Tour / U.Due south.A. (Director: James Ponsoldt, Screenwriter: Donald Margulies) — This story of the five-twenty-four hour period 1996 interview betwixt Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace explores the tenuous yet intense relationship that develops between announcer and field of study. The two men bob and weave, sharing laughs and as well concealing and revealing their hidden vulnerabilities. Cast: Jesse Eisenberg, Jason Segel, Anna Chlumsky, Joan Cusack, Mamie Gummer, Ron Livingston.
Experimenter / United statesA. (Managing director and screenwriter: Michael Almereyda) — Experimenter is based on the truthful story of famed social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who in 1961 conducted a serial of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans' willingness to obey authorization by using electric shock. Nosotros follow Milgram from meeting his wife through his controversial experiments that sparked public outcry. Cast: Peter Sarsgaard, Winona Ryder, Jim Gaffigan, Kellan Lutz, Taryn Manning, John Leguizamo.
Grandma
/ UsaA. (Director and screenwriter: Paul Weitz) — Self-described misanthrope Elle Reid has her protective chimera burst when her eighteen-year-old granddaughter, Sage, shows up needing help. The two of them go along a day-long journeying that causes Elle to come to terms with her past and Sage to face up her future. Cast: Lily Tomlin, Julia Garner, Marcia Gay Harden, Judy Greer, Laverne Cox, Sam Elliott.
I Am Michael / U.S.A. (Director: Justin Kelly, Screenwriters: Justin Kelly, Stacey Miller) — The controversial truthful story of a gay activist who rejects his homosexuality and becomes a Christian pastor. Bandage: James Franco, Zachary Quinto, Emma Roberts.
I'll See You in My Dreams / U.S.A. (Director: Brett Haley, Screenwriters: Brett Haley, Marc Basch) — A sudden loss disrupts Carol's orderly life, propelling her into the dating globe for the showtime time in 20 years. Finally living in the present tense, she finds herself swept up in not ane, merely two unexpected relationships that challenge her assumptions nigh what information technology means to abound old. Cast: Blythe Danner, Martin Starr, Sam Elliott, Malin Akerman, June Squibb, Rhea Perlman.
Last Days in the Desert / U.Due south.A. (Director and screenwriter: Rodrigo Garcia) — Ewan McGregor is Jesus — and the Devil — in an imagined chapter from his 40 days of fasting and praying in the desert. On his style out of the wilderness, Jesus struggles with the Devil over the fate of a family in crisis, setting himself upward for a dramatic exam. Cast: Ewan McGregor, Ciarán Hinds, Ayelet Zurer, Tye Sheridan.
Lila & Eve / U.Southward.A. (Manager: Charles Stone III, Screenwriter: Patrick Gilfillan) — Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son's murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track downward her son's killers. They soon embark on a journey of revenge, but as well recovery. Cast: Viola Davis, Jennifer Lopez, Shea Whigham, Julius Tennon, Ron Caldwell, Aml Ameen.
Mississippi Grind
/ U.S.A. (Directors and screenwriters: Ryan Chip, Anna Boden) — Gerry is a talented poker actor whose habit is getting the best of him. He convinces younger player Curtis to join him on a route trip, and they begin gambling their manner towards a high-stakes game in New Orleans. During their journey, true motivations are revealed, and the two bond. Bandage: Ryan Reynolds, Ben Mendelsohn, Sienna Miller, Analeigh Tipton, Alfre Woodard, Robin Weigert.
Mistress America / U.S.A. (Director: Noah Baumbach, Screenwriters: Noah Baumbach, Greta Gerwig) — Tracy, a lonely higher freshman in New York, is rescued from her solitude by her soon-to-exist stepsister Brooke, an adventurous gal nearly boondocks who entangles her in alluringly mad schemes. Mistress America is a comedy almost dream-chasing, score-settling, makeshift families, and cat-stealing. Bandage: Greta Gerwig, Lola Kirke.
Seoul Searching / U.s.a.A., Korea (Director and screenwriter: Benson Lee) — Seoul Searching is a comedy ready in the '80s nearly a group of foreign-born Korean teenagers who meet at a Seoul summer camp to acquire what it ways to be Korean. The iii boys, from the U.Due south., Mexico, and Frg, and then meet 3 girls who rock their globe. Bandage: Justin Chon, Jessika Van, In-pyo Cha, Teo Yoo, Esteban Ahn, Byul Kang.
Sleeping With Other People
/ U.Due south.A. (Director and screenwriter: Leslye Headland) — Jake and Lainey impulsively lose their virginity to each other in college. When their paths cantankerous twelve years later in NYC, they realize they both have go serial cheaters. Bonding over their chronic infidelity, they form a platonic friendship to back up each other in their quests for healthy romantic relationships. Cast: Jason Sudeikis, Alison Brie, Adam Scott, Amanda Peet, Jason Mantzoukas, Natasha Lyonne.
Ten Thousand Saints / U.S.A. (Directors: Robert Pulcini, Shari Springer Berman, Screenwriters: Shari Springer Berman, Robert Pulcini) — Based on the acclaimed novel, Ten One thousand Saints follows 3 lost kids and their as lost parents as they come of age in New York's East Hamlet in the era of CBGB, yuppies, and the tinderbox of gentrification that exploded into the Tompkins Square Park Riot of 1988. Cast: Ethan Hawke, Asa Butterfield, Emily Mortimer, Julianne Nicholson, Hailee Steinfeld, Emile Hirsch.
Zipper / United states of americaA. (Managing director: Mora Stephens, Screenwriters: Mora Stephens, Joel Viertel) — Sam Ellis is a human on the rise — a hot-shot federal prosecutor on the cusp of a vivid political hereafter. But what was meant to be a one-fourth dimension experience with an escort turns into a growing addiction — a new demon threatening to destroy his life, family, and career. Cast: Patrick Wilson, Lena Headey, Richar Dreyfuss, Ray Winstone, John Cho, Dianna Agron.
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERES
Renowned filmmakers and films about far-reaching subjects contain this section highlighting our ongoing commitment to documentaries. Each is a world premiere.
Beaver Trilogy Function IV / U.S.A. (Director: Brad Besser) — A risk coming together in a parking lot in 1979 between filmmaker Trent Harris and a young man from Beaver, Utah, inspired the creation of an underground movie that is now known every bit Beaver Trilogy. Merely the motion picture itself is merely part of the story.
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
/ U.Southward.A. (Director: Stanley Nelson) — This characteristic-length documentary tells of the ascension and fall of the Blackness Panther Party, one of the 20th century'southward most alluring and controversial organizations that captivated the world'southward attention for nearly 50 years.
Drunk STONED Brilliant Dead: The Story of the National Lampoon / United statesA. (Director: Douglas Tirola) — Three Harvard graduates start the first national humour magazine for adults, launching the careers of some of Hollywood'southward most legendary talent. Merely success and excess among its brilliant and subversive contributors begins to challenge its existence.
Fresh Dressed / U.S.A. (Director: Sacha Jenkins) — The history of hip-hop style from its birth in the Southward Bronx to its ascent as a billion-dollar global manufacture, Fresh Dressed is supported by rich archival materials, in-depth interviews with individuals crucial to the evolution, and the outsiders who report and admire them.
Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison house of Conventionalities / U.S.A. (Managing director: Alex Gibney) — Going Clear intimately profiles 8 former members of the Church of Scientology, shining a light on how they attract true believers and the things they do in the name of organized religion.
In Football game We Trust / U.S.A. (Directors: Tony Vainuku, Erika Cohn) — Iv young Polynesian football players struggle to overcome gang violence and poverty as they enter the high-stakes globe of recruiting, competitive athletics and family pressures.
The Hunting Ground / UsA. (Managing director: Kirby Dick) — From the makers of The Invisible State of war comes a startling exposé of rape crimes on U.South. campuses, their institutional embrace-ups, and brutal social cost. Weaving together verite footage and first-person testimonies, the picture show follows survivors as they pursue their education and justice — despite harsh retaliation, harassment, and pushback.
Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck
/ U.S.A. (Director and screenwriter: Brett Morgen) — Kurt Cobain, lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of Nirvana, remains an icon 20 years later on his death. Kurt Cobain: Montage of Heck is a raw and visceral journey through Cobain's life and his career with Nirvana through the lens of his home movies, recordings, artwork, photography, and journals.
The Mask You lot Live In / U.S.A. (Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom) — Is in that location a "boy crunch" in America? Is our male population suffering due to our emphasis on power, dominance, and assailment? The Mask You Live In explores how our narrow definition of masculinity is harming our boys, men, and society at large and unveils what we can do near it.
Almost Likely to Succeed / U.s.a.A. (Director: Greg Whiteley) — Our current education system is attempting to teach and examination skills, that fifty-fifty when mastered, leaves graduates woefully unprepared for the 21st century. This feature-length documentary examines what sort of educational environment is near likely to prepare students for a earth changing exponentially.
Prophet's Prey / U.South.A. (Managing director: Amy Berg) — When Warren Jeffs rose to prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Solar day Saints, he bridged the gap between sister wives and ecclesiastically justified rape, befuddling the moral compass of his entire congregation.
Tig / U.S.A. (Directors: Kristina Goolsby, Ashley York, Screenwriter: Jennifer Arnold) — This documentary explores comedian Tig Notaro's extraordinary journey as her life unfolds in grand and unexpected ways, all while she is contesting a life-threatening illness and falling in love.
What Happened, Miss Simone?
/ U.S.A. (Director: Liz Garbus) — Classically trained pianist, dive-bar chanteuse, black power icon, and legendary recording creative person Nina Simone lived a life of roughshod honesty, musical genius, and tortured melancholy. This astonishing epic interweaves never-before-heard recordings and rare footage, creating an unforgettable portrait of one of our least understood, most dear artists. Mean solar day One Moving picture
SPECIAL EVENTS
One-of-a-kind moments highlighting new independent works that add together to the unique Festival experience. An evolving section, this twelvemonth includes episodic work, short films and alive functioning.
Animals. / UsA. (Directors and screenwriters: Phil Matarese, Mike Luciano) — Animals. is an independently produced animated series that focuses on the downtrodden creatures native to Earth'southward to the lowest degree habitable environment: New York Metropolis. Whether information technology'south lovelorn rats, gender-questioning pigeons, or aging bed bugs in the midst of a mid-life crunch, the awkward small talk, moral ambiguity, and existential woes of non-human being urbanites show startlingly similar to our ain. Cast: Phil Matarese, Mike Luciano, Marker Duplass, Katie Aselton, Nick Kroll, Rob Corddry. Earth Premiere. FOLLOWED By A CONVERSATION with the creative squad of Animals.: Mark Duplass, Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano. They will discuss how their unique project came to lite besides as the changing mural of episodic storytelling in the digital era.
The Jinx: The Life and Deaths of Robert Durst / U.s.a.A. (Director: Andrew Jarecki, Screenwriters: Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling, Zac Stuart-Pontier) — Robert Durst, scion of New York'southward billionaire real estate family, has been accused of iii murders but never convicted. Bright, reclusive, and the subject of relentless media scrutiny, he's never spoken publicly–until at present. During interviews with Andrew Jarecki, Durst reveals secrets that accept baffled authorities for 30 years. Cast: Robert Durst, Andrew Jarecki, Marc Smerling, Zac Stuart-Pontier, Dick DeGuerin, Cody Cazalas. World Premiere
Misery Loves Comedy / U.S.A. (Director: Kevin Pollak, Screenwriters: Kevin Pollak, John Varhous) — Do yous accept to be miserable to be funny? Children weep, "Hey, look at me," but who turns that into a profession? Over 50 funny people, similar Tom Hanks, Larry David, Jimmy Fallon, Judd Apatow, and Amy Schumer share pain-filled insights from a life in pursuit of laughter. Cast: Tom Hanks, Larry David, Amy Schumer, Jimmy Fallon, Judd Apatow, Jim Gaffigan. World Premiere
The Sundance Found Short Film Claiming
— An international shorts program designed to spark global conversation highlighting man ingenuity and imaginative solutions real people are creating to overcome challenges like extreme hunger and poverty. Filmmakers include Sundance Institute alumni Gael Garcia Bernal, Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady, Diego Luna, Marialy Rivas, and half dozen storytellers from effectually the world. Presented with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
The Way of the Pelting / U.S.A. (Creative Director: Sibylle Szaggars Redford, Collaborators: Volition Calhoun, Dave Eggar, Chuck Palmer, Desmond Richardson, Ron Saint Germain, Steve Cohen, Floyd Thomas McBee III) — A alive multidisciplinary performance art inspired past the annual monsoon rains that sustain life on the fragile high desert plateaus of the southwest. Conceived by ecology artist Sibylle Szaggars Redford and earth-renowned artistic collaborators, this unique work comes to life through paintings, music, dance, pic, light and spoken word. Special Guest Appearances: Sussan Deyhim, Marc Roberge, Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Robert Redford. Live PERFORMANCE
"POWER OF STORY" PANELS
The Festival's "Power of Story" console series deepens public engagement with storytelling, explores cinema culture and celebrates artists whose work pushes the form. These events volition be live streamed on sundance.org.
Ability of Story: Serious Ladies
— The range of iii-dimensional female characters on film and television suggest a ocean modify in the cultural zeitgeist. Lena Dunham, Mindy Kaling, Jenji Kohan, Kristen Wiig and New Yorker critic Emily Nussbaum discuss anti-heroes and archetypes, using humor to button boundaries and how far art tin go in exploring truths.
Power of Story: Visions of Independence — Boot off "Art of Pic," a new programme celebrating the craft of filmmaking, bring together Robert Redford and George Lucas — 2 iconic filmmakers who epitomize the spirit of independence in American cinema — in chat with critic Leonard Maltin.
Related stories
'Saturday Nighttime Live' Ratings Rise With James Franco & Nicki Minaj
'Star Wars' Teaser Riff Takes Sky-Walker Literally On 'SNL'
'Peter Pan' Parody Pirates Pallid Presentation On 'SNL'
Get more from Deadline.com : Follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Newsletter
everetthersentooped.blogspot.com
Source: https://news.yahoo.com/news/sundance-2015-george-lucas-making-210010953.html
0 Response to "George Lucas Is Threatening to Hit My Car Again"
Postar um comentário