3 of my top 10 most anticipated films this year have appeared at Sundance.
- Buried: This film only has 1 actor, Ryan Renolds. He plays a U.S. contractor working in Iraq who wakes up to find out he's buried alive in a coffin. He only has a lighter and a cell phone. The film is 94 minutes long and features no cutaways to the outside world. The early reviews have been positive. Lionsgate won the rights to distibute the film.
- Hesher: This movie features Joseph Gordon Levitt who plays a head- banging and tatoo covered badass. Levitt's character injects himself into the life of a 13 year old boy who moves in with his Grandmother and Father after his Mother died. Natalie Portman and Rainn Wilson are also in the film.
- Happythankyoumoreplease: Sam (Josh Radnor) is a struggling New York-based writer, who lives his life free of commitment and responsibility. All of this changes when, one day on the subway, he sees a young boy get separated from his family. The kid, who's a foster child that's been bounced around to dozens of homes over his short life, takes a liking to Sam- who, perhaps unwisely, decides to take the kid in. Meanwhile, his group of friends, including the alopecia-stricken Annie (Malin Akerman), struggle with issues of their own. This is Josh Radnor's directorial debut. I know the twentysomething hipster dramedy genre isn't for everybody but I generally like these kinds of films (i.e 500 Days Of Summer/Garden State).
There's a whole bunch of other movies at Sundance I'm interested in but not in my Top 10:
Lucky, The Company Men, The Runaways, Twelve, Cyrus, and Teenage Paparazzo.
- Buried: This film only has 1 actor, Ryan Renolds. He plays a U.S. contractor working in Iraq who wakes up to find out he's buried alive in a coffin. He only has a lighter and a cell phone. The film is 94 minutes long and features no cutaways to the outside world. The early reviews have been positive. Lionsgate won the rights to distibute the film.
- Hesher: This movie features Joseph Gordon Levitt who plays a head- banging and tatoo covered badass. Levitt's character injects himself into the life of a 13 year old boy who moves in with his Grandmother and Father after his Mother died. Natalie Portman and Rainn Wilson are also in the film.
- Happythankyoumoreplease: Sam (Josh Radnor) is a struggling New York-based writer, who lives his life free of commitment and responsibility. All of this changes when, one day on the subway, he sees a young boy get separated from his family. The kid, who's a foster child that's been bounced around to dozens of homes over his short life, takes a liking to Sam- who, perhaps unwisely, decides to take the kid in. Meanwhile, his group of friends, including the alopecia-stricken Annie (Malin Akerman), struggle with issues of their own. This is Josh Radnor's directorial debut. I know the twentysomething hipster dramedy genre isn't for everybody but I generally like these kinds of films (i.e 500 Days Of Summer/Garden State).
There's a whole bunch of other movies at Sundance I'm interested in but not in my Top 10:
Lucky, The Company Men, The Runaways, Twelve, Cyrus, and Teenage Paparazzo.