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Sundance announces star-studded premieres

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disinterested | 3:16 p.m. Dec. 4, 2008

WHO CARES?!!!

I do | 4:08 p.m. Dec. 4, 2008

I love film and art and when the world is focused on Park City, it is big news like it or not.

Just me | 4:11 p.m. Dec. 4, 2008

Yes! Bill Cosby!

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interested | 4:12 p.m. Dec. 4, 2008

I would suggest anyone with any sophistication, taste, class or appreciation for the arts is very interested.

THE CRYING GAME | 4:50 p.m. Dec. 4, 2008

OH YES!

me | 6:04 p.m. Dec. 4, 2008

I'm interested, Sundance is fun

Interested 4:12 | 7:49 a.m. Dec. 5, 2008

Not everyone that has sophistication, taste or class is always interested in the arts. What a foolish statement.

Not interested either | 7:51 a.m. Dec. 5, 2008

I would suggest anyone with any sophistication, taste, class or appreciation for the arts would not be interested in Sundance. The whole thing is kind of laughable when you really think about it. The unsophisticated trying to prove how sophisticated they are.

Sara | 9:21 a.m. Dec. 5, 2008

Thank you "Not interested either", I think taste and class has gone out the window in Hollywood and other movie venues. Since when is trash considered classy and tasteful?

Arizona | 11:04 a.m. Dec. 5, 2008

Hmm! It sounds like Sundance will effectively sidestep any so-called boycott proposed after Proposition 8 passed.

Attack of the Classless! | 11:07 a.m. Dec. 5, 2008

"I think taste and class has gone out the window in Hollywood and other movie venues."

Well, you're wrong. Most movies, as always, are tasteless and classless - but there are still plenty of sophisticated, mature (and classy and tasteful) movies being made. Most of them are R-rated and most of them play at the arthouse rather than the megaplex - but they're still out there. You may not want to see them, but that doesn't make them classless or tasteless.

"Since when is trash considered classy and tasteful?"

Trash is never classy and tasteful. So I guess it's a good thing that at least some of the movies at Sundance aren't trash. Many of them are actually quite good, and a few of them are works of art.

Proof Positive | 11:10 a.m. Dec. 5, 2008

Now if we had some real star power, like the Muppets, I could get excited about going. As it is, I think I'll stay home and watch BYU vs. UofU football reruns, that is in between Partridge Family and Brady Bunch reruns...

Albatross | 11:13 a.m. Dec. 5, 2008

"The whole thing is kind of laughable when you really think about it. The unsophisticated trying to prove how sophisticated they are. "

It's funny, because it's pretty clear your statement didn't have much "real thought" put into it at all.

Yes, I agree that the statement you were responding to you was rather ignorant (I know plenty of people of sophistication and taste with absolutely no interest in Sundance) - unfortunately, your response is no less ignorant than his (or hers.)

Which is all to that sure, some of the directors, actors, etc. at Sundance are hacks trying to get a few moments of attention and some "indie cred" - but others are actual artists, and this is a chance for them to get an audience. Film is an art form, and there are always at least a few works of art being presented at Sundance each year.

Now That's Entertainment | 11:17 a.m. Dec. 5, 2008

Why is Jim Carrey coming to Utah for Sundance??? He's coming to premiere his new movie "I Love You Phillip Morris"

The movie is a true story of Steven Russell (Carrey), a married father whose exploits landed him in the Texas criminal justice system. He fell madly in love with his cellmate (Ewan McGregor), who eventually was set free, which led Russell to escape from Texas prisons four times.

If anything deserves a boycott, it should be this film!

Oh my goodness. | 11:29 a.m. Dec. 5, 2008

"If anything deserves a boycott, it should be this film!"

Boycott it? That sounds like the most amazing film ever!

Thanks Robert | 11:31 a.m. Dec. 5, 2008

For bringing all of this filth into our state.

And thanks for destroying the most beautiful and pristine wilderness on the Wasatch front by bulldozing the mountain and inserting the equivalent to two Super Walmarts at your sprawling Sundance Resort. Countless trees were bulldozed, birds, fish and other wildlife destroyed. For what? To satisfy your insatiable appetite for more and more money.

MiP | 11:43 a.m. Dec. 5, 2008

re: thanks robert

Uh, don't worry. He'll just call you an "automaton," rake in a ton of cash by desroying the wilderness, fly his jet to some tropical get away and then wonder why Utahn are so "non-green."

Dane | 6:23 p.m. Dec. 9, 2008

Sounds nice! :)

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Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival returns to Park City with a slate of 64 films in the dramatic, documentary and World Cinema competition categories. Pictured is a line for a 2008 screening.

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