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Fight for your right...to Festival by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik There are plenty more sales still trickling in at Sundance, the country we visited what feels like a million years ago. A James Gandolfini-toplined political satire that everyone's been buzzing about called "In the Loop"...
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Forget the Academy or a festival jury -- it's the Risky Biz shortlist by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Exhausted doesn't begin to describe how we're feeling after we returned Wednesday evening to Los Angeles from Park City -- only to remember we had to be up at 5 am (also known as the time most... Read More...
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sex, lies and sneak previews by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik The words "Sneak Preview 2" in a festival catalog don't usually set hearts racing (cue "and I didn't even like the original" quip).But when Sundance fave Steven Soderbergh is hosting a surprise screening...
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Winning over paper hearts by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Try this on for a premise: Characters in a movie are making a documentary about their relationship. And they're real people, so you believe it's a documentary. But the documentary is scripted. And the director of the... Read...
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Adam the apple of festgoers' eyes by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Jay A. FernandezAnother Sundance audience (and now, apparently, Fox Searchlight) was won over Monday afternoon when the Eccles Theatre hosted the debut screening of writer-director Max Mayer’s "Adam." A quietly elegant Manhattan love story...
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Sundance screenings, now with facepaint by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik The Sundance Film Festival had either a sharp sense of timing or a cruel sense of humor when it scheduled "Big Fan" -- a scripted movie from the writer of "The Wrestler" about a stunted-adolescent New York... Read...
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The Lyons that roared (in Ebonics) by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

Was that really Ben Lyons -- film critic, um, extraordinaire -- DJing the premiere afterparty for a movie titled "Vicious Kind" at the venue Hollywood Life House in Sundance Saturday night?We'd been at the party for about an hour, listening...
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Cold souls, (sort of) hot ideas by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Jay A. Fernandez “What would a Sundance film festival be without Paul Giamatti?” joked festival director Geoffrey Gilmore as he introduced Sophie Barthes’ debut, “Cold Souls.”This turned out to be a more literal comment than he intended, as not......
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Wintour of their discontent? by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik If you thought working for Anna Wintour was tough, try making a movie about her.R.J. Cutler, whose "The September Issue" played Saturday at a small screening at the Temple Theater (outside the confines of the usual Sundance...
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When the shoe is on the other foot by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik One observes many odd scenes standing outside a Sundance screening, especially the popular ones. But we weren't quite prepared for this interaction outside a screening of "The Greatest" that had already closed its doors...
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A home for Amreeka? by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Jay A. FernandezSundance audiences were on their feet, pounding out applause when filmmaker Cherien Dabis walked on stage following the debut screening of her slice-of-life dramedy, “Amreeka.” And justifiably so. The crowd, the writer-director and...
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When Brooklyn came to Park City by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Sundance's most buzzed-about picture -- if not strictly its finest one -- played Friday night to the expected mix of expectant distributors. There were good things and not-such-good things to "Brooklyn's Finest," a...
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Been there, Saw that by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Jay FernandezSundance got bloody early this year with its first Park City at Midnight screening -- "The Killing Room"—at, uh, 11:30 am on Friday morning. Despite the potential for screaming and gore, the Prospect Square Theatre was full of...
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Mary & Max, both Marvelous & Middling by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik It's a disservice to call "Mary & Max," the elegant piece of whimsy that opened Sundance Thursday night, an animated film. Aussie Adam Elliot's feature happens to be shot as a work of stop-motion clay animation...
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Bush is leaving office, and Robert Redford has some thoughts by The Hollywood Reporter: Risky Biz Blog

By Steven Zeitchik Apologies for a few days of hiatus - between getting ready for and traveling to Sundance, we've become aware of how much traveling can be an, um, risky business. And we didn't even board any U.S. Airways... Read More...
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