Sundance Film Festival · 2005
Showcasing 16 feature films by independent US filmmakers. The Grand Jury Prize went to Forty Shades Of Blue, and the Directing gong to Noah Baumbach for The Squid And The Whale. Baumbach also won the Walter P Salt Award for Screenwriting. The Audience Award was given to Hustle & Flow, which also won the Jury Cinematography gong (Amelia Vincent).
Special Jury prizes for Acting were given to Amy Adams (Junebug) and Lou Pucci (Thumbsucker). Special Jury Prizes for Originality Of Vision were given to Miranda July for Me And You And Everyone We Know and Rian Johnson for Brick.
13 films · 10 reviews
Horrendously executed in every regard.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: David Ocanas; Writer: David Ocanas, Robert Nelms; Stars: Poppy Montgomery, Adam Kaufman, Jose Yenque, Daniel Pino, Patricia Reyes Spindola)
Brick is something altogether peculiar, more than the sum of its parts
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Rian Johnson; Writer: Rian Johnson; Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Lukas Haas, Nora Zehetner, Noah Segan, Noah Fleiss, Emilie de Ravin, Meagan Good, Matt O'Leary)
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Craig Lucas; Writer: Craig Lucas; Stars: Patricia Clarkson, Peter Sarsgaard, Campbell Scott)
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Ira Sachs; Writer: Michael Rohatyn, Ira Sachs; Stars: Dina Korzun, Rip Torn, Darren E. Burrows, Andrew Henderson, Liz Morton, Joanne Pankow, Arielle Kight, J. Blackfoot, Red West, Jenny O'Hara, Jerry Chipman)
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Georgina Riedel; Writer: Georgina Riedel; Stars: Elizabeth Peña, America Ferrera, Lucy Gallardo, Eliana Alexander, David Barrera, Steven Bauer, Alek Carrera, Ana Cervantes, Jorge Cervera, Patricia De Leon, Marina Dena-Santo)
Edgy camerawork fails to distract from the fact that Hustle & Flow - a hit a Sundance - is about as edgy as the crust on Mom's apple pie.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Craig Brewer; Writer: Craig Brewer; Stars: Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning, Taraji P. Henson, DJ Qualls, Paula Jai Parker, Elise Neal)
Creates hauntingly evocative, empty spaces that bleed history.
(Country: US; Year: 2004; Director: Phil Morrison; Writer: Angus MacLachlan; Stars: Amy Adams, Embeth Davidtz, Ben McKenzie, Alessandro Nivola, Celia Weston, Scott Wilson, Frank Hoyt Taylor)
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Tim Kirkman; Writer: Caitlin Dixon, Tim Kirkman; Stars: Kip Pardue, Michael Kelly, Tess Harper, Adrian Lee, Tammy Arnold, Chris Sarandon, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Esper, Bill Ladd, Trevor Gagnon, R. Adam Williams)
This film is a labour of love for July, and it definitely shows.
(Country: USA/UK; Year: 2005; Director: Miranda July; Writer: Miranda July; Stars: John Hawkes, Miranda July, E. J. Callahan, Kelsey Chapman, Hector Elias, Amy French, Ellen Geer, Brad William Henke, Sven Holmberg, James Kayten, Carlie Westerman)
Police Beat is a strange little film. Niang is stiff and wooden at times, but, at others, the flow is perfect.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Robinson Devor; Writer: Robinson Devor, Charles Mudede; Stars: Pape Sidy Niang, Anna Oxygen, Eric Breedlove, Sarah Harlett, Elijah Geiger)
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Marcos Siega; Writer: Skander Halim; Stars: Evan Rachel Wood, Elisabeth Harnois, Adi Schnall, Ron Livingston, Jane Krakowski, James Woods, Selma Blair, Jaime King, Josh Zukerman, Michael Hitchcock, Stark Sands, Johnny Lewis, Roger Nicholl)
A tragically funny glimpse of a family in meltdown, made all the more excruciating by the veneer of sophistication blanketing everyone involved.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Noah Baumbach; Writer: Noah Baumbach; Stars: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, Halley Feiffer, Anna Paquin, William Baldwin)
The setting may be small-town, but this is a vision in microcosm of a whole nation that has been driven inevitably towards anxiety and unease by self-imposed pressures and impossible aspirations.
(Country: US; Year: 2005; Director: Mike Mills; Writer: Mike Mills, based on the novel by Walter Kim; Stars: Lou Pucci, Tilda Swinton, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Keanu Reeves, Benjamin Bratt, Kelli Garner, Chase Offerle, Ted Beckman, Arvin V. Entena, Tyler Gannon, Allen go, Dakota Goldhor, Walter Kirn, Kit Koenig, Sarah Lucht, Eric Normington, Nancy O'Dell)
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