Sundance Film Festival speculation half the fun
Advance sleuthing helps you choose the must-see movies
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Next year will mark my ninth Sundance as a professional movie critic, so I think I've gotten good or at least better at that. Oh, and for those who don't already have it circled on your calendars, the 2005 Sundance Film Festival runs Jan. 20-30, in a variety of Park City and Salt Lake locations (as well as Ogden and at the Sundance resort in Provo Canyon).
Already on my must-see list is the premiere film "Mirrormask" from comics-artist-turned-filmmaker Dave McKean. It's an adaptation of the fantasy book he illustrated, by author Neil Gaiman. (The two have collaborated on several projects, including the award-winning "Sandman" comic-book series.)
I'm also more than a little intrigued by "Happy Endings," a comedy written and directed by Don Roos and starring indie-movie goddess Maggie Gyllenhaal. This one opens the festival in Park City.
Given my interest in the horror genre, I'm sort of anxious to see "Three . . . Extremes," which was co-directed by infamous Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Miike. That movie will be featured in the festival's Park City at Midnight section.
Also, I was a huge fan of Steven Chow's goofily entertaining "Shaolin Soccer," so I'm anxious to see what his follow-up, "Kung-Fu Hustle," is like. It's another of the festival's Premiere films.
Other premiering features at the festival are "3-Iron," from South Korean filmmaker Kim Ki-Duk; "The Ballad of Jack and Rose," Rebecca Miller; "Chumscrubber," Arie Posin; "Dear Wendy," Thomas Vinterberg; "Drum," Zola Maseko; Michael Hoffman's "Game 6"; "The Girl From Monday," Hal Hartley; "Heights," Chris Terrio; and "Inside Deep Throat," Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato.
Also, John Maybury's "The Jacket"; "Lackawanna Blues," George C. Wolfe; "Layer Cake," Matthew Vaughn; "Loverboy," Kevin Bacon; "Marilyn Hotchkiss Ballroom Dancing & Charm School," Randall Miller; "The Matador," Richard Shepard; "Mysterious Skin," Gregg Araki; "Nine Lives," Rodrigo Garcia; "Reefer Madness," Andy Fickman; "Rory O'Shea Was Here," Damien O'Donnell; "Snowland," Hans W. Geissendorfer; and Mike Binder's "The Upside of Anger."
Among the films competing for honors in the festival's dramatic competition section are "Between," David Ocanas; "Brick," Rian Johnson; "Dying Gaul," Craig Lucas; "Ellie Parker," Scott Coffee; "Forty Shades of Blue," Ira Sachs; "How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer," Georgina Garcia Riedel; "Hustle & Flow," Craig Brewer.
Other dramatic competition selections include "Junebug," directed by Phil Morrison; "Loggerheads," Tim Kirkman; "Lonesome Jim," Steve Buscemi; "Me and You and Everyone We Know," Miranda July; "Police Beat," Robinson Devor; "Pretty Persuasion," Marcos Siega; "The Squid and the Whale," Noah Baumbach; "Thumbsucker," Mike Mills; and Travis Wilkerson's "Who Killed Cock Robin?"
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