From Deseret News archives:
Today's Sundance highlights
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.
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
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- Nude bathers cited for lewdness
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- Crash landing next to I-15
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- Letters: Global warming a lie
256 - TCU to play Boise in Fiesta Bowl
206 - BYU football: Bronco weighs in on Hall
193 - Palin signs books, chats with fans
165 - Utah/BYU rivalry can be more civil
150 - Cougars going back to Vegas
150 - Andersen apologizes for Jordan hoax
142 - Max Hall wants to look ahead
124 - Nude bathers cited for lewdness
123 - Jazz fall apart late at L.A.
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