From Deseret News archives:

Today's Sundance highlights

Published: Thursday, Jan. 27, 2005 12:04 p.m. MST
 |  E-MAIL | PRINT | FONT + - 
For tickets or more complete listings, go to www.sundance.org.

PARK CITY

8:30 a.m., Holiday II: "Wall," a French-Israeli documentary, examines the wall of separation in Israel that sets it off from Palestinian territories.

8:30 a.m., Prospector Square: "The Puffy Chair," a comic road trip, examines the lives of thirtysomething slackers who've never grown up.

8:30 a.m., Racquet Club: "Hustle & Flow," a dramatic-competition film, has a pimp suffering a midlife crisis, as he decides to become a rapper; Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning, DJ Qualls and Ludacris star.

9:15 a.m., Eccles: "Police Beat," a dramatic-competition film is a gentle look at disorientation through the eyes of a Muslim West African immigrant who becomes a policeman in Seattle and falls for a white woman who doesn't believe in monogamy.

9:15 a.m., Holiday III: "Unknown White Male" is a documentary look at a British man in Brooklyn who has no memory of his past, and how his life is reconstructed.

Story continues below
10 a.m., Holiday IV: "Ring of Fire: The Emile Griffith Story," a documentary-competition film about a boxing match in 1962, during which one of the boxers was pummeled into a coma and later died.

11:30 a.m., Prospector Square: "The Devil and Daniel Johnston," a documentary-competition film, is a portrait of a musical genius who suffers from manic depression.

11:30 a.m., Library Center: "Lackawanna Blues" is taken from a one-man stage show, fleshed out as a period piece set in segregation-era New York, as the owner of a boarding house takes in a young child and raises him as her own; with Epatha Merkerson, Carl Franklin, Terrence Howard, Macy Gray and Jimmy Smits.

11:30 a.m., Racquet Club: "Between," a dramatic-competition film, poses existential questions amid the search by an American woman (Poppy Montgomery) for her sister in Tijuana.

Noon, Eccles: "How the Garcia Girls Spent Their Summer," a dramatic-competition film, has three generations of single Mexican-American women finding romance in the heat of an Arizona summer; Elizabeth Pena, America Ferrera and Steven Bauer star.

Noon, Egyptian: "Shorts Program V," a collection of short films from New Zealand and the United States.

Comments

You can be the first to comment on this story.

previousnext

Latest comments

NO MASS EXPENSIVE DEPORTATION IS NEEDED? E-VERIFY IS VASTLY BECOMING THE...

I believe this, and the next few, will be among the best Y hoops years ever....

Students protest animal testing

How about testing the brain power of the owners who have animals which end up...

I'm a stoked to watch RSL tear these clowns to pieces. BOOYAH!

Boozer is doing great and some people are talking about trading him. He is a...

The US may be number one in gun violence but think how much worse it would be...

"Only that Mendenhall tapped into an important component of his team for the...

Utes turn attention to rivalry

I have been to a couple Utah-BYU games in Provo. Both times, I was subjected...

Are you a little confused today John? First...divorced men being compared to...

Re: Give it a rest Who do you call if you have an emergency on Sunday?

Advertisements