Sundance Film Festival

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  • 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).
  • Chicago '68, remixed

    In this conversation and podcast, director Brett Morgen explains why his exhilarating, controversial "Chicago 10" is about 2008 and not 1968.
  • Sundance hands out hardware

    Park City's big prizes go to the atmospheric Canadian-border drama "Frozen River" and the inspirational Katrina doc "Trouble the Water."
  • "Sex is really complicated"

    Andrew O'Hehir talks to Marianna Palka about her debut feature, "Good Dick," in which she plays a woman obsessed with soft-core porn.
  • The best of Sundance

    Most of the big movies flopped, and the studios kept their pocketbooks closed. Good -- Sundance may have recovered its soul.
  • Interview: Jimmy Fallon

    Fallon talks about his first trip to Sundance and his new film, "The Year of Getting to Know Us."
  • A new round of "Funny Games"

    Michael Haneke's notorious horror film -- now remade in English, with Tim Roth and Naomi Watts -- hits Sundance.
  • The woman who loved bad porn

    Marianna Palka's dark and acrid romantic comedy "Good Dick" is among Sundance's big surprises.
  • Blood on the streets

    "Made in America," an operatic history of the Crips-Bloods feud, generates heat at Sundance. Plus: Palahniuk's "Choke" makes much of Jesus' foreskin.
  • "Sugar," a Sundance standout

    The directors of "Half Nelson" return with a moving, elegant baseball odyssey. Plus: Mississippi minimalism, suddenly hot.
  • A "Second Life" sweatshop in the heart of Park City

    Meet New Frontier on Main artists behind this playful multimedia installation and designer jeans factory.
  • A "Blind Date" with Stanley Tucci, Patricia Clarkson

    We discuss the new movie with Tucci, actor/writer/director, and his star, and end up discussing -- what else? -- New York real estate.
  • Heroes of Katrina, ghost of "Gonzo"

    An electrifying Katrina documentary blows the doors off at Sundance, and Hunter S. Thompson returns from the dead to eviscerate ski-resort Hollywood reptiles.
  • Michael Keaton on staring at strangers

    Andrew O'Hehir talks to the director/actor at Sundance about his directorial debut, "The Merry Gentlemen"
  • Interview: Michael Keaton

    The actor on his directorial debut ("The Merry Gentlemen"), staring in public and the virtue of slowness
  • "Blind Date" with Stanley Tucci and Patricia Clarkson

    Andrew O'Hehir talks to the filmmakers about playing a couple split by tragedy
  • Desert Storm and the suicidal magicians

    Alan Ball's "Six Feet Under" follow-up premieres at Sundance. Also: Malkovich as a fading Carson-era magician, Michael Keaton's surprising hit-man flick and more.
  • Mobsters in a medieval wonderland

    Coked-up Colin Farrell karate-chops dwarf! Sundance opens with Martin McDonagh's black-comic religious fable, "In Bruges."
  • Beyond the Multiplex

    I'm off to blog from Sundance, where the promising lineup features sci-fi adventures, gangster flicks, zombie movies and thrillers aplenty. See you in Park City!
  • Beyond the Multiplex: Gay zombies, Osama bin Laden and Sundance

    Preview the Sundance Film Festival with Matt Singer and Andrew O'Hehir.
  • Beyond the Multiplex

    Parsing the movies that took the prizes. Plus: Ten festival premieres that ought to make some noise!
  • Beyond the Multiplex

    Christina Ricci wows opposite Samuel L. Jackson and Justin Timberlake in the exhilarating "Black Snake Moan." Plus: The film stubborn Bush supporters need to see.
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