Sundance Film Festival

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  • Roundup: Movies not to miss

    Which is worse: The Lyme disease coverup, the devastation of global fisheries or undead Nazis in Norway?
  • Mike Tyson: Broke, wounded and misunderstood

    Are you ready to feel nostalgic about the most notorious ex-heavyweight champ and convicted rapist of the '90s? Hollywood maverick James Toback sure hopes so.
  • Handicapping Manhattan's spring movie fling

    Newly downsized and shorn of Hollywood glitz, Robert De Niro's Tribeca Film Festival remains a vigorous venue for cinematic discoveries.
  • The Tribeca-Sundance throwdown

    Is Robert De Niro's big-city festival at war with Robert Redford's ski-slope festival? OK, maybe not. But the backstage drama has the indie world in a tizzy.
  • Miss Sunshine, plus Lyme disease

    Suburban dysfunction, circa 1979, gets an intriguing makeover -- and a great cast -- in the sweet, dark and troubling "Lymelife."
  • Isabella Rossellini gets it on with sea animals

    The actress discusses "Green Porno," the online series in which she has sex (yes, sex) with bugs and barnacles.
  • Isabella Rossellini on "Green Porno"

    The actress discusses her latest project on the natural world and how she learned the intricacies of the sex lives of fish.
  • Death hops a Mexican freight train

    Director Cary Fukunaga talks about his debut film, "Sin Nombre," a crackling blend of crime thriller and docu-realism that dazzled Sundance audiences.
  • "I rode the train with immigrants"

    Andrew O'Hehir interviews director Cary Fukunaga about the making of his first feature, "Sin Nombre."
  • The best of Sundance '09

    Park City's hottest films, from a glittering early-'60s girlhood to a pulse-pounding Mexican gang thriller, Jim Carrey as a gay con man, the Wounded Knee occupation and more.
  • Chris Rock's good hair day

    The comedian talks about why African-Americans spend so much money on their hair, the political ramifications of the weave, and his new documentary.
  • Does the devil really wear Prada?

    R.J. Cutler discusses his fascinating documentary "The September Issue," an unvarnished view of Vogue magazine and fashion's ice princess, Anna Wintour.
  • Who killed Flipper?

    The filmmakers behind "The Cove" discuss the shocking Sundance documentary that may forever change how we feel about dolphins in captivity.
  • Don't you want me, baby?

    After Obama, it was back to the '80s at Sundance, from the hideous Bret Easton Ellis nightmare "The Informers" to Greg Mottola's delightful rom-com "Adventureland."
  • "Two straight dudes getting it on"

    Actors Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard talk about their challenging task in the button-pushing Sundance hit "Humpday."
  • Jim Carrey's epic romance (in prison)

    At Sundance, a star-studded, utterly deranged gay love story caps the opening weekend. But a dazzling tale of girlhood in '60s London steals the show.
  • Your Sundance gigolo report

    Ashton Kutcher sells body but not soul in dark, sexy "Spread"; Ethan Hawke, Richard Gere and Don Cheadle play good-cop, bad-cop; Anna Wintour, human being!
  • Dude + dude = porno!

    Sundance opens: Straight buds dare each other to go all the way in "Humpday"; claymation "Mary and Max" paints a pen-pal friendship in loving shades of bird poop.
  • Downsizing hits Sundance

    I'm off to the mysteriously non-cold Utah slopes to see Jim Carrey go gay, Ashton Kutcher play a gigolo and Paul Giamatti sell his soul. Did somebody say recession?
  • Elvis lives!

    Elvis Costello chats up everyone from Lou Reed to Bill Clinton on his eclectic Sundance talk show, "Spectacle."
  • Strangers in a strange land

    Shot over 23 years, Ellen Kuras' haunting Oscar contender "The Betrayal" follows a Laotian immigrant family's agonizing American odyssey.
  • Indie film's new, globalized realism

    Do low-budget American films like "The Pool" (made in Hindi) and "August Evening" (made in Spanish) signal a new wave of cultural exploration, or just hipster tourism?
  • One devastating home movie

    As the floodwaters rose in New Orleans, "street hustler" Kim Roberts turned on her camera -- and captured a story more thrilling than any Hollywood blockbuster.
  • Double-wide dreams

    Courtney Hunt on her Sundance-acclaimed, slo-mo rural thriller "Frozen River" and making an indie film even action-movie fans can love (interview/podcast).
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