A Storm for Christmas is a series directed by Per-Olav Sørensen with Valter Skarsgård, Sus Wilkins, Jon Øigarden and Dennis Storhoi.
Numerous stories being told – Christmas is not the same for everyone. This is one refreshing season number.
Premise
Stranded at Oslo airport, only 24 hours before Christmas, people find themselves in each their dilemmas. Some are there to welcome their loved ones, some to fly home to their families, some work at the airport, and some who want to fly away and avoid the festivities. Their Christmas plans go awry.
About the Series
In six episodes we are offered this multiple narrative that covers a broad array of scenarios up to Christmas time. A refreshing Christmas story with its innovative premise. It is not a highly sophisticated production, but counts on good performances, and the varied characterizations make it more interesting as a story. True to the Christmas productions it retains a lighthearted tone,...
Numerous stories being told – Christmas is not the same for everyone. This is one refreshing season number.
Premise
Stranded at Oslo airport, only 24 hours before Christmas, people find themselves in each their dilemmas. Some are there to welcome their loved ones, some to fly home to their families, some work at the airport, and some who want to fly away and avoid the festivities. Their Christmas plans go awry.
About the Series
In six episodes we are offered this multiple narrative that covers a broad array of scenarios up to Christmas time. A refreshing Christmas story with its innovative premise. It is not a highly sophisticated production, but counts on good performances, and the varied characterizations make it more interesting as a story. True to the Christmas productions it retains a lighthearted tone,...
- 12/16/2022
- by Elisabeth Plank
- Martin Cid - TV
Happy Happy (or, Sykt Lykkelig, to give it its proper name), is an often hilarious snapshot of family life amongst the snowy plains of Norway. Bored with the everyday routine of marriage and lack of appreciation from husband, Erik (Joachim Rafaelsen), Kaja (Agnes Kittelsen) welcomes the change of pace and possibility of forming a friendship with the shiny, similar aged couple that move in next door. But though Sigve (Henrik Rafaelsen) and Elisabeth (Maibritt Saerens) may have a perfect exterior, they are not necessarily as happy as they would have Kaja and Erik believe.
Sweet, full of sentiment and utterly delightful, Happy Happy shows just a fraction of the lives of a very interesting and diverse set of characters. As her husband goes hunting for days at a time, Kaja is left feeling unfulfilled and unloved, relishing in time spent with her new neighbours, while her young son Theodor (Oskar...
Sweet, full of sentiment and utterly delightful, Happy Happy shows just a fraction of the lives of a very interesting and diverse set of characters. As her husband goes hunting for days at a time, Kaja is left feeling unfulfilled and unloved, relishing in time spent with her new neighbours, while her young son Theodor (Oskar...
- 10/5/2012
- by Emma Thrower
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
We recently got a tip on a Danish short film entitled The Headless Lover, and keeping to our promise to bring you the best of horror from across the globe, we checked it out. What we saw made us cringe, made us laugh and was almost certainly the best made short film we've seen in a while.
Written, directed and produced by Kim Lysgaard Andersen, The Headless Lover is actually part of a larger anthology project entitled The Book of Horror. This trilogy of films is inspired by and written in tribute to the "Tales from the Crypt." And immediately upon viewing The Headless Lover you'll see just how spot-on the filmmakers were. This could easily have been an outstanding episode of the much-loved HBO series.
Do yourself a favor and check this out. It runs about 25 minutes long and you'll dig every bloody second. Maibritt Saerens is outstanding in...
Written, directed and produced by Kim Lysgaard Andersen, The Headless Lover is actually part of a larger anthology project entitled The Book of Horror. This trilogy of films is inspired by and written in tribute to the "Tales from the Crypt." And immediately upon viewing The Headless Lover you'll see just how spot-on the filmmakers were. This could easily have been an outstanding episode of the much-loved HBO series.
Do yourself a favor and check this out. It runs about 25 minutes long and you'll dig every bloody second. Maibritt Saerens is outstanding in...
- 3/6/2012
- by Doctor Gash
- DreadCentral.com
Winner of the World Cinema Jury Prize at this year.s Sundance Film Festival and Norway.s official selection for the upcoming Best Foreign Film Oscar race, Happy, Happy is the feature debut of Norwegian director Anne Sewitsky. The clever new dark comedy is the story of a successful but unhappy Danish couple trying to rebuild their damaged marriage. Along with their preteen African-adopted son, the well-educated Sigve (Henrik Rafaelsen) and Elisabeth (Maibritt Saerens) buy a secluded house in the country next to the less bright but equally unhappy Kaja (Agnes Kittelsen) and her surly husband Eirik (Joachim Rafaelsen), who have a son of their own. Since there.s not a lot to do in this isolated locale, the unlikely foursome begin sharing dinners and playing games. These games lead to uncomfortable marital comparisons and during one, it.s revealed that Kaja and Eirik have not had sex in over...
- 10/7/2011
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
In a cold, remote Norwegian town, two houses sit side by side. In one, chipper junior-high-school teacher Agnes Kittelsen lives with her gruff, frequently absent husband Joachim Rafaelsen, who makes a habit of telling his wife how unattractive she is. In the other house resides icy, adulterous lawyer Maibritt Saerens and her affable husband Henrik Rafaelsen, who’ve just moved to the middle of nowhere in an effort to save their marriage. It’s no surprise that the teacher and the henpecked husband of Happy, Happy eventually fall into bed together, though what happens next is somewhat surprising, as director ...
- 9/15/2011
- avclub.com
The Norwegian Oscar Committee has submitted Anne Switsky's feature directorial debut, Happy, Happy, to Best Foreign-Language Feature Film, after it took the top prize at Sundance. Happy, Happy's victory at Sundance marked the first time that a Norwegian film won fest's World Cinema Grand Jury Prize. The film, which stars Agnes Kittelsen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Maibritt Saerens and Joachim Rafaelsen, tells of story two couples with complicated and semi-comedic relationships in neighboring homes. The meeting of the pairs causes each spouse to questions their relationships, but despite the drama, Happy, Happy manages to stay charming and true to its title. Watch the trailer below: Toh!'s Sophia Savage confirms the quirky film will have audiences chuckling and charmed, while THR writes: "Kittelsen’s performance is the linchpin of ...
- 9/2/2011
- Thompson on Hollywood
Happy, Happy stars Agnes Kittelsen, Joachim Rafaelsen and Maibritt Saerens in the Magnolia Pictures comedy drama from director Anne Sewitsky. The story follows Kaja, whose family is the most important thing in the world. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys and isn't interested in having sex with her anymore because she "isn't particularly attractive." Whatever. That's l ife. But when "the perfect couple" moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check. Not only do these successful, beautiful, exciting people sing in a choir...
- 8/26/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Happy, Happy stars Agnes Kittelsen, Joachim Rafaelsen and Maibritt Saerens in the Magnolia Pictures comedy drama from director Anne Sewitsky. The story follows Kaja, whose family is the most important thing in the world. She is an eternal optimist in spite of living with a man who would rather go hunting with the boys and isn't interested in having sex with her anymore because she "isn't particularly attractive." Whatever. That's l ife. But when "the perfect couple" moves in next door, Kaja struggles to keep her emotions in check. Not only do these successful, beautiful, exciting people sing in a choir...
- 8/26/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Today's pick for the Sydney Film Festival Trailer of the Day is the sexy, sexy Happy, Happy. Here's what the Sff Program says about the film: World Cinema Grand Jury Prize-winner at this year's Sundance Film Festival, Happy, Happy is a sexy comedy that takes delight in indiscretion and snowy romps. Kaja (Agnes Kittelsen) is endlessly chipper (think Poppy in Mike Leigh's Happy-Go-Lucky), although sex is in short supply. Her somewhat dour husband, Eirik (Joachim Rafaelsen, Elling) and young son fail to share her enthusiasm when a new couple and their adopted son move in next door. Elisabeth (Maibritt Saerens, Frederikke, Sff 2008) and Sigve (Henrik Rafaelsen) are sophisticated, beautiful and they can sing - in short, they're everything Kaja would like to be...
- 6/9/2011
- Screen Anarchy
Not to paint the good people of Norway with the same brush, but if the country's recent films are any indication, the problem of sexual dissatisfaction amongst women is making it frostier for some in the country than the usual climate in winter. Only weeks ago at the Tribeca Film Fest, Jannicke Systad Jacobsen's "Turn Me On, Goddammit" won a screenplay prize for the story of a young woman whose openness about her horniness leads her to be ostracized from her small village, and then there's "Happy, Happy," Anne Sewitsky's Sundance winner which contrary to its title deals with the discontent of two married couples in Norwegian wilderness and in particular, the sexual awakening of Kaja, a cheery housewife who, upon tiring of her husband's rejection of her advances, winds up in the arms of another.
Although the logline may sound like it may come from the Ingmar Bergman wing of Scandinavian cinema,...
Although the logline may sound like it may come from the Ingmar Bergman wing of Scandinavian cinema,...
- 5/24/2011
- by Stephen Saito
- ifc.com
Happy, Happy
Directed by Anne Sewitsky
Written by Ragnhild Tronvoll
Norway, 2010
Seeing the word “Happy” in the title of an independent film, and especially a European independent film, is a pretty good indicator that it’s being used ironically. Such is definitely the case in Norwegian filmmaker Anne Sewitsky’s debut film Happy, Happy.
Happy, Happy tells the story of Kaja, a resilient optimist determined to hang on to her rosy outlook despite warning signs that her marriage is falling apart. Kaja’s husband, Eirik, spends weeks away on hunting trips and hasn’t made love to her in over a year. Even her son seems to tolerate her more than he respects or loves her. But Kaja thinks she notices an opportunity for things to improve when a stylish, seemingly adoring couple moves into the house next door, but as Kaja tries to force a relationship between the two families,...
Directed by Anne Sewitsky
Written by Ragnhild Tronvoll
Norway, 2010
Seeing the word “Happy” in the title of an independent film, and especially a European independent film, is a pretty good indicator that it’s being used ironically. Such is definitely the case in Norwegian filmmaker Anne Sewitsky’s debut film Happy, Happy.
Happy, Happy tells the story of Kaja, a resilient optimist determined to hang on to her rosy outlook despite warning signs that her marriage is falling apart. Kaja’s husband, Eirik, spends weeks away on hunting trips and hasn’t made love to her in over a year. Even her son seems to tolerate her more than he respects or loves her. But Kaja thinks she notices an opportunity for things to improve when a stylish, seemingly adoring couple moves into the house next door, but as Kaja tries to force a relationship between the two families,...
- 3/20/2011
- by Kenneth
- SoundOnSight
Reviewed by Jeremy Mathews
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed by: Anne Sewitsky
Written by: Ragnhild Tronvoll
Starring: Agnes Kittelsen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Joachim Rafaelsen, Maibritt Saerens, Oskar Hernæs Brandsø and Ram Shihab Ebedy
“Happy, Happy” has a wonderful peculiarity to it. The film approaches such topics as love, betrayal and deceit with a mannered whimsy, achieving its mischievously comedic tone with clinical precision. Its story of two very different couples who live next door to one another in a small Norwegian town seems at first like a cute trifle, then explodes with a torrent of emotions.
Director Anne Sewitsky obviously knew she was making a film with undertones of Greek drama because she included a chorus to chime in on the characters’ affairs. That chorus takes the form of a smiling male vocal quartet singing catchy tunes. Its harmonies bring us to a countryside town where Kaja (Agnes Kittelsen) and...
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed by: Anne Sewitsky
Written by: Ragnhild Tronvoll
Starring: Agnes Kittelsen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Joachim Rafaelsen, Maibritt Saerens, Oskar Hernæs Brandsø and Ram Shihab Ebedy
“Happy, Happy” has a wonderful peculiarity to it. The film approaches such topics as love, betrayal and deceit with a mannered whimsy, achieving its mischievously comedic tone with clinical precision. Its story of two very different couples who live next door to one another in a small Norwegian town seems at first like a cute trifle, then explodes with a torrent of emotions.
Director Anne Sewitsky obviously knew she was making a film with undertones of Greek drama because she included a chorus to chime in on the characters’ affairs. That chorus takes the form of a smiling male vocal quartet singing catchy tunes. Its harmonies bring us to a countryside town where Kaja (Agnes Kittelsen) and...
- 2/8/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Network
Reviewed by Jeremy Mathews
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed by: Anne Sewitsky
Written by: Ragnhild Tronvoll
Starring: Agnes Kittelsen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Joachim Rafaelsen, Maibritt Saerens, Oskar Hernæs Brandsø and Ram Shihab Ebedy
“Happy, Happy” has a wonderful peculiarity to it. The film approaches such topics as love, betrayal and deceit with a mannered whimsy, achieving its mischievously comedic tone with clinical precision. Its story of two very different couples who live next door to one another in a small Norwegian town seems at first like a cute trifle, then explodes with a torrent of emotions.
Director Anne Sewitsky obviously knew she was making a film with undertones of Greek drama because she included a chorus to chime in on the characters’ affairs. That chorus takes the form of a smiling male vocal quartet singing catchy tunes. Its harmonies bring us to a countryside town where Kaja (Agnes Kittelsen) and...
(from the 2011 Sundance Film Festival)
Directed by: Anne Sewitsky
Written by: Ragnhild Tronvoll
Starring: Agnes Kittelsen, Henrik Rafaelsen, Joachim Rafaelsen, Maibritt Saerens, Oskar Hernæs Brandsø and Ram Shihab Ebedy
“Happy, Happy” has a wonderful peculiarity to it. The film approaches such topics as love, betrayal and deceit with a mannered whimsy, achieving its mischievously comedic tone with clinical precision. Its story of two very different couples who live next door to one another in a small Norwegian town seems at first like a cute trifle, then explodes with a torrent of emotions.
Director Anne Sewitsky obviously knew she was making a film with undertones of Greek drama because she included a chorus to chime in on the characters’ affairs. That chorus takes the form of a smiling male vocal quartet singing catchy tunes. Its harmonies bring us to a countryside town where Kaja (Agnes Kittelsen) and...
- 2/8/2011
- by admin
- Moving Pictures Magazine
It has been another great year of film. I still have but seven movies left to watch before I complete my “Best of the Year List” but we are already looking towards 2011.
The 57 feature films selected for the four competition programs of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival were announced today, and the titles include some exciting works from returning filmmakers. While the lineup isn’t has loaded with big names it does feature the return of James Marsh whose documentary Man on Wire won the Grand Jury Prize at the fest in 2008. Some interesting movies we should mention that appear on the list are Mike Cahill’s Another Earth, Carlos Moreno’s All Our Dead One (Todos Tus Muertos), Anne Sewitsky’s sexual drama Happy, Happy (Sykt Lykkelig) Rashaad Ernesto Green‘s Gun Hill Road, Sean Durkin‘s Martha Marcy May Marlene, Andrew Okpeaha MacLean‘s On the Ice, Dee Rees...
The 57 feature films selected for the four competition programs of the 2011 Sundance Film Festival were announced today, and the titles include some exciting works from returning filmmakers. While the lineup isn’t has loaded with big names it does feature the return of James Marsh whose documentary Man on Wire won the Grand Jury Prize at the fest in 2008. Some interesting movies we should mention that appear on the list are Mike Cahill’s Another Earth, Carlos Moreno’s All Our Dead One (Todos Tus Muertos), Anne Sewitsky’s sexual drama Happy, Happy (Sykt Lykkelig) Rashaad Ernesto Green‘s Gun Hill Road, Sean Durkin‘s Martha Marcy May Marlene, Andrew Okpeaha MacLean‘s On the Ice, Dee Rees...
- 12/2/2010
- by Ricky
- SoundOnSight
Among this year’s 13 selected (from 1073 - that's about one film for every 100 submitted) international narrative feature submissions, we find one title that is high up on our must see list in Paddy Considine's directing debut entitled Tyrannosaur. Last year we had Animal Kingdom ranked in the same spot. Here are the other 12 from pretty much all over the world. Abraxas /Japan (Director: Dai Sako; Screenwriters: Dai Sako and Naoki Kato) After botching a speech on career guidance at a local high school, a depressed Zen monk with a heavy metal past realizes that only music can revive his spirit. Cast: Suneohair, Rie Tomosaka, Manami Honjou, Ryouta Murai, Kaoru Kobayashi. International Premiere All Your Dead Ones (Todos Tus Muertos)/Colombia (Director Carlos Moreno; Screenwriters: Alonso Torres and Carlos Moreno) One morning, a peasant wakes to find a pile of bodies in the middle of his crops. When he goes to the authorities,...
- 12/1/2010
- IONCINEMA.com
It's the first day in December, and whether you want to recognize it or not, January isn't too far away. Today the awesome folks at the Sundance Film Festival unveiled their first list of films, international and domestic, which will be presented at the festival. Check it out, and yes there are more to come. Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four Competition Categories, the Festival presents films in six out-of-competition sections to be announced on December 2. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.For the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, 115 feature-length films were selected, representing 28 countries by 40 first-time filmmakers, including 25 in competition. These films were selected from 3,812 feature-length film submissions composed of 1,943 U.S. and 1,869 international feature-length films.
- 12/1/2010
- LRMonline.com
As we’re getting ready to wrap up another great year of film, some are already looking to 2011 and what it will have to offer and what better way to look a head than with the first round of titles for the year’s first big festival: Sundance.
The list of festival titles isn’t as loaded with as many big name titles as have made the cut in previous years but there’s are definitely some interesting film in the competition line-up including Mike Cahill’s Another Earth which takes place on the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth (wicked!), Carlos Moreno’s All Our Dead One (Todos Tus Muertos) about a guy who finds a pile of dead bodies in the middle of his crops, Anne Sewitsky’s sexual drama Happy, Happy (Sykt Lykkelig) along with the Canadian/Japanese co-production Vampire.
Loads of great stuff on the line-up.
The list of festival titles isn’t as loaded with as many big name titles as have made the cut in previous years but there’s are definitely some interesting film in the competition line-up including Mike Cahill’s Another Earth which takes place on the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth (wicked!), Carlos Moreno’s All Our Dead One (Todos Tus Muertos) about a guy who finds a pile of dead bodies in the middle of his crops, Anne Sewitsky’s sexual drama Happy, Happy (Sykt Lykkelig) along with the Canadian/Japanese co-production Vampire.
Loads of great stuff on the line-up.
- 12/1/2010
- QuietEarth.us
The announcement of the movies playing the 2011 Sundance Film Festival is like looking into our film futures. It's December and most movie fans are looking back at the last 12 months, picking out award winners, writing top ten lists, and chances are we haven't even heard of the Sundance films. They're just titles, people, words on a computer screen. Then in January they unspool on screens across Park City, Utah and become something more. Finally, months later, these are the movies we discuss with our friends and choose on ballots at awards parties. Yet we get to read about them now, a year in advance. Last year at this time, who had heard of Four Lions, Catfish, Exit Through The Gift Shop, Blue Valentine, The Kids Are All Right, Winter's Bone, Restrepo or Animal Kingdom? Sundance, that's who. All those films screened at the 2010 festival and now many have become not only personal favorites,...
- 12/1/2010
- by Germain Lussier
- Slash Film
The Sundance Film Festival has announced the films in competition for the awesome and cold film festival running January 20th through January 30th 2011 in Park City, Utah.
This will be my third year attending the festival, and I'm really excited for it! There's a great line-up of films this year! Check out the list below!
From the press release:
Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four Competition Categories, the Festival presents films in six out-of-competition sections to be announced on December 2. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
On Day One, the Festival will forego the convention of one opening night film and instead screen one narrative film and one documentary from both the U.
This will be my third year attending the festival, and I'm really excited for it! There's a great line-up of films this year! Check out the list below!
From the press release:
Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four Competition Categories, the Festival presents films in six out-of-competition sections to be announced on December 2. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
On Day One, the Festival will forego the convention of one opening night film and instead screen one narrative film and one documentary from both the U.
- 12/1/2010
- by Venkman
- GeekTyrant
Park City, Ut . Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four Competition Categories, the Festival presents films in six out-of-competition sections to be announced on December 2. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah. The complete list of films is available at http://www.sundance.org/.
On Day One, the Festival will forego the convention of one opening night film and instead screen one narrative film and one documentary from both the U.S. and World Cinema competitions, as well as one shorts program.
John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival said, .The Festival is a challenge to narrowly define. It is all at once exciting, fun, crazy, engaging, visceral, and sometimes even painful. We can explain storylines,...
On Day One, the Festival will forego the convention of one opening night film and instead screen one narrative film and one documentary from both the U.S. and World Cinema competitions, as well as one shorts program.
John Cooper, Director of the Sundance Film Festival said, .The Festival is a challenge to narrowly define. It is all at once exciting, fun, crazy, engaging, visceral, and sometimes even painful. We can explain storylines,...
- 12/1/2010
- by Michelle McCue
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Here's the first Sundance line-up announcement, of the fiction and nonfiction feature competitions, both U.S. and world. A few things of interest, on first scan: Vera Farmiga's directorial debut "Higher Ground," in which she also stars; "The Ledge," which sounds like this year's try for "Buried"; Iñupiaq Arctic thriller "On the Ice"; "Terri," the new film from "Momma's Man" director; Michael Rapaport's doc on A Tribe Called Quest "Beats, Rhymes and Life"; doc about the beloved Muppet "Being Elmo"; "If A Tree Falls," a new film from "Street Fight"'s Marshall Curry; Paddy Considine's feature directorial debut "Tyrannosaur"; and "Vampire," the new film from Japan's Shunji Iwai, a favorite of mine.
Descriptions courtesy of the festival:
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Another Earth (Director: Mike Cahill; Screenwriters: Mike Cahill and Brit Marling) - On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, a horrible tragedy...
Descriptions courtesy of the festival:
U.S. Dramatic Competition
Another Earth (Director: Mike Cahill; Screenwriters: Mike Cahill and Brit Marling) - On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, a horrible tragedy...
- 12/1/2010
- by Alison Willmore
- ifc.com
HollywoodNews.com: The 2011 Sundance Film Festival has just announced its lineup for January. John Cooper, director of Sundance Film Festival, said, “With more than 10,000 films submitted this year, we have had to make some very tough choices. Yet in the end, I’m excited about the way the program has come together. It’s an incredible honor to introduce these films and filmmaker…these are the stories that will define not only our Festival, but also the cultural year ahead.”
Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four Competition Categories, the Festival presents films in six out-of-competition sections to be announced on December 2. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
On Day One, the Festival will...
Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. In addition to the four Competition Categories, the Festival presents films in six out-of-competition sections to be announced on December 2. The 2011 Sundance Film Festival runs January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
On Day One, the Festival will...
- 12/1/2010
- by Linny Lum
- Hollywoodnews.com
The Film Stage is headed to Sundance this year and the festival has just announced its line-up. With over 10,00 entries here is what they narrowed it down to. Most initially notable is Vera Farmiga‘s directorial debut, Higher Ground (pictured above). There is a clear lack of stars as NYTimes notes, so the excitement of discovery is back in full swing. The fest will also announce 6 more out-of-competition categories tomorrow. Check out the full list below via the official site.
Us Dramatic
Another Earth (Director: Mike Cahill; Screenwriters: Mike Cahill and Brit Marling) – On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, a horrible tragedy irrevocably alters the lives of two strangers, who begin an unlikely love affair. Cast: William Mapother, Brit Marling, Jordan Baker, Robin Lord Taylor, Flint Beverage.
Benavides Born (Director: Amy Wendel; Screenwriters: Daniel Meisel and Amy Wendel) – A high school senior in a forgotten town...
Us Dramatic
Another Earth (Director: Mike Cahill; Screenwriters: Mike Cahill and Brit Marling) – On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth, a horrible tragedy irrevocably alters the lives of two strangers, who begin an unlikely love affair. Cast: William Mapother, Brit Marling, Jordan Baker, Robin Lord Taylor, Flint Beverage.
Benavides Born (Director: Amy Wendel; Screenwriters: Daniel Meisel and Amy Wendel) – A high school senior in a forgotten town...
- 12/1/2010
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Well, here they are – the Sundance Film Festival class of 2011, split up into 4 categories as indicated by the headers below. In future posts, I’ll be going over the complete list, highlighting titles that need to be, taking into consideration this blog’s specific interests.
Of note, some titles that I listed on my list of 2011 black films on our radar… Gun Hill Road, Rashaad Ernesto Green’s debut feature (which I actually saw a cut of over the weekend, and gave a thumbs up to; but I’ll talk more about it in detail when the time comes), Dee Rees’ Pariah, and Alrick Brown’s Kinyarwanda. Further, titles we’ve previously covered here… Beats, Rhymes and Life, Michael Rapaport’s documentary on hip-hop legends, A Tribe Called Quest, and The Redemption of General Butt Naked, a documentary on the Liberian warlord turned evangelist.
One film I’m surprised isn...
Of note, some titles that I listed on my list of 2011 black films on our radar… Gun Hill Road, Rashaad Ernesto Green’s debut feature (which I actually saw a cut of over the weekend, and gave a thumbs up to; but I’ll talk more about it in detail when the time comes), Dee Rees’ Pariah, and Alrick Brown’s Kinyarwanda. Further, titles we’ve previously covered here… Beats, Rhymes and Life, Michael Rapaport’s documentary on hip-hop legends, A Tribe Called Quest, and The Redemption of General Butt Naked, a documentary on the Liberian warlord turned evangelist.
One film I’m surprised isn...
- 12/1/2010
- by Tambay
- ShadowAndAct
The Sundance Institute announced today the lineup of films selected to screen in the U.S. and World Cinema Dramatic and Documentary Competitions for the 2011 Sundance Film Festival. Tomorrow will see the announcement of the six out-of-competition sections, which will all screen at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival which runs from January 20-30 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
For the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, 115 feature-length films were selected, representing 28 countries by 40 first-time filmmakers, including 25 in competition. These films were selected from 3,812 feature-length film submissions composed of 1,943 U.S. and 1,869 international feature-length films. 92 films at the Festival will be world premieres.
The films featured in the U.S. Dramatic, U.S. Documentary, World Cinema Dramatic and World Cinema Documentary Competition are listed directly below and I've gone through and highlighted a few of the bigger known names to check out. However, Sundance has been introducing us to a...
For the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, 115 feature-length films were selected, representing 28 countries by 40 first-time filmmakers, including 25 in competition. These films were selected from 3,812 feature-length film submissions composed of 1,943 U.S. and 1,869 international feature-length films. 92 films at the Festival will be world premieres.
The films featured in the U.S. Dramatic, U.S. Documentary, World Cinema Dramatic and World Cinema Documentary Competition are listed directly below and I've gone through and highlighted a few of the bigger known names to check out. However, Sundance has been introducing us to a...
- 12/1/2010
- by Brad Brevet
- Rope of Silicon
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