Sundance Film Festival 2005

We are happy to bring you the latest from the Sundance Film Festival 2005. This is where you can find the latest press releases, information, and reviews of the films straight from Sheila - who is once again hobnobbing with the indie movie crowd.

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January 31, 2005

• Rory O'shea Was Here
  Fabulous movie starring Steven Robertson, James McAvoy, Romola Garai, Gerrard McSorley, Tom Hickey and Brenda Fricker. Directed by Damien O'Donnell and screen writing by Jeffrey Caine.
  
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• Reefer Madness
  Too much fun. This was a great movie. It reminded me of Little Shop of Horrors with great singing and dancing routines from start to finish.
  
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• Drum
  WOW! What a fantastic movie. The director received a standing ovation from the audience. Everyone loved this film. It was 8 years in the making and worth every year it took to get it to the big screen.
  
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• Love Ludlow
  According to some of the guys in the audience, this is a chick flick. I didn't see it that way but if men are not interested in a beautiful story about siblings looking out for and after each other, then it must be a film for women who have that sensitive side to them. The women all liked the movie.
  
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• Mysterious Skin
  Starring Joseph-Gordon Levitt as Neil who is best known for his TV role in 3rd Rock from the Sun (I didn't recognize him), Brady Corbet as Brian, Michelle Trachtenberg, Jeff Licon and Elisabeth Shue.
  
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• Lonesome Jim
  Starring Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kaye Place, Kevin Corrigan, Seymour Cassel and Mark Boone Jr.
  
  A must see for great acting, an original story line and lots of laughs.
  
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• Wolf Creek
  An Aussie horror film set in outback Australia starring John Jarrat, Cassandra Magrath, Kestie Morassi, Nathan Phillips, Andy Mc Phee, Aaron Sterns and Gordon Poole.
  
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• Thumbsucker
  Starring Lou Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Vincent D'Onofrio, Keanu Reeves, Benjamin Bratt, Kelli Garner and Vince Vaughn.
  
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• Who Killed Cock Robin
  Starring Barrett Miller, Charlie Parr and Dylan Wilkerson. Screenwriter - director, Travis Wilkerson.
  
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• The Chumscrubber
  Starring Jaime Bell, Raloh Fiennes, Rita Wilson, Carrie-Anne Moss, Allison Janney and Glenn Close.
  
  The best word I heard all week to describe movies such as this one, is commercial.
  
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• Heights
  The cast where phenomenal in their roles. Starring Glenn Close, Elizabeth Banks, Eric Bogosian, Jesse Bradford, Matt Davis, Andrew Howard and Thomas Lennon.
  
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• Enron
  I had attended the screening of this documentary in hopes of learning what the heck the Enron scandal and closure was all about. Unfortunately all I came out of the theatre with where more questions. The only things I could tell for sure where that the story tellers where democrats suggesting things that may not actually have relevance or truth to the situation.
  
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• Snowland
  Director / Screenwriter Hans W. Geissendoerfer brings us this truly brilliant movie which just had everyone glued to their seats.
  
  Starring Thomas Kretzschmann, Maria Schrader, Ulrich Muhe, Joachim Krol and Julia Jentzsch.
  
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• Duane Hopwood
  Fantastic cast with David Schwimmer (no, nothing like his Friends character), Janeane Garofalo (like I have never seen her before), Judah Friedlander, Susan Lynch, d*ck Cavett (what an amazing guy he is) and Steven Schirripa.
  
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• Nine Lives
  What a cast. Once Glenn Close signed on it seems that many women in Hollywood wanted in too. Nine Lives stars Kathy Baker, Amy Brenneman, Elpidia Carrillo, Glenn Close, Lisa Gay Hamilton, Holly Hunter, Amanda Seyfried, Sissy Spacek and Robin Wright Penn.
  
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• The Jacket
  Starring Adrian Brody, Keira Knightly, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Kelly Lynch, Daniel Craig and Brad Renfro.
  
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• The Dying Gaul
  Starring Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard and Campbell Scott who where all brillaint in their roles.
  
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• Forty Shades Of Blue
  Starring Rip Torn, Dina Korzun, Darren Burrows, Paprika Steen, Red West and Jenny O'Hara.
  
  It has to go down in history as one of the worst and most pointless movies I have ever seen.
  
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• Ballets Russes
  This is a brilliant documentary following the history of the Ballet Russes and some of the stars in this historical ballet company.
  
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• Exclusive pics of the Festival Dailies studio.
• Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take 2 1/2
  Starring Shannon Baker, Audrey Henningham and William Greaves who is also the director/screenwriter but plays in much of the movie.
  
  .....if you say it loud enough you almost sound precocious..............the name reminds me of supercalafragilisticexpialodocious - or however you spell it, but the movie was nothing like Mary Poppins. More of a documentary on acid.
  
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• On A Clear Day
  Starring Peter Mullen as an out of work ship builder, Frank, who doesn't know what to do with himself. He lost one of his twin sons to a swimming accident which has caused a rift for the family who is yet to move on from the tragedy suffered by all.
  
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• Brothers
  Starring Connie Nielsen, Ulrich Thomsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas and Sarah Juel Werner.
  
  A Danish Film with English subtitles
  
  About 25 minutes into the film you could hear the audience start to tear up and bring out their tissues. It was like this on and off throughout the movie. Don't let this put you off seeing it though. How often can you see a foreign film and laugh, cry and be entertained all with subtitles? The story line was moving and the cast where amazing. Everyone walked out of the theatre blown away by the movie and raving about how great it was, even though the story line was somewhat difficult to watch.
  
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• Happy Endings
  "The kick off premiere movie in Park City for the opening of Sundance film festival was Happy Endings where the cast showed up in full form to gauge the audience reaction and to do their bit for the media.
  
  Starring Lisa Kudrow, Jesse Bradford, Tom Arnold, Maggie Gyllenhaal and many other familiar faces by film maker and opening gay guy, Don Roos. The gay part isn’t important but may explain some of the story line. Who better to broach homosexual film making than a gay guy?"
  
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• ALAN CUMMING, BOB ODENKIRK AND WHITNEY CUMMINGS TO JOIN JAY MOHR ON SUNDANCE CHANNEL "FESTIVAL DAILIES"
  REPORTING DAILY FROM 2005 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL JANUARY 24-29 AT 9PM
  
  

• SUNDANCE CHANNEL SHINES A SPOTLIGHT ON THE 2005 SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL “SUNDANCE IN FOCUS” JANUARY 24-29, 2005
• JAY MOHR, ACCLAIMED ACTOR/COMEDIAN/BEST-SELLING AUTHOR, TO HOST SUNDANCE CHANNEL “FESTIVAL DAILIES”

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