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The Premieres program showcases some of the most highly anticipated dramatic films of the coming year. Catch world premieres and the latest work from established directors at the before they create a splash at local theatres.

2 Days in DIRECTOR: , 2011, 91 min., color English and French with English subtitles

Marion and Mingus live cozily—perhaps too cozily—with their cat and two young children from previous relationships. However, when Marion’s jolly father (played by director Delpy’s real-life dad), her oversexed sister, and her sister’s outrageous boyfriend unceremoniously descend upon them for a visit, it initiates two unforgettable days that will test Marion and Mingus’s relationship. With their unwitting racism and sexual frankness, the French triumvirate hilariously has no boundaries or filters . . . and no person is left unscathed in its wake.

Directed and cowritten by Julie Delpy, is a deliciously Presented by witty romp. One of the pleasures of this follow-up film to 2 Days in is the addition of , who—amid the Gallic mayhem—convincingly plays the straight man as Marion’s hipster American boyfriend. With great skill and energy, Delpy heightens cultural differences to comedic extremes but also manages to show that sometimes change is the best solution to a relationship that’s been pushed to its limit.—K.Y.

Pr: Christophe Mazodier Ci: Lubomir Bakchev Ed: Isabelle Devinck PrD: Judy Rhee Wr: Julie Delpy, Alexia Landeau Principal Cast: Julie Delpy, Chris Rock, , Alexia Landeau, Alex Nahon

Monday, January 23, 6:30 p.m. - 2DAYS23CE Eccles Theatre, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 9:00 a.m. - 2DAYS24CM Eccles Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 6:30 p.m. - 2DAYS25OE Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Saturday, January 28, 12:15 p.m. - 2DAYS28CD Eccles Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 9:00 p.m. - 2DAYS28WN Tower Theatre, SLC SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

36 Son of Rambow Arbitrage Bachelorette Solo DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Nicholas Jarecki DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Leslye Headland DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Marshall Lewy U.S.A., 2012, 103 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 100 min., color U.S.A., 2012, 93 min., color

Nicholas Jarecki makes an auspicious Regan is used to being first at everything. Lachlan MacAldonich is a self-described feature directorial debut with this taut Imagine her horror and chagrin when “lazy Scotsman” and former guitar player and alluring suspense thriller about love, she finds out the girl everyone called Pig for a once-popular 1990s rock band. No loyalty, and high finance. Arbitrage— Face in high school is going to tie the knot longer famous, he now lives a comfortably buying low and selling high—depends on before she does! But Regan sucks it up numb existence working on an organic a person’s ability to determine the true and takes on bridesmaid duties along with farm outside . He drinks value of any given market. It’s a talent her childhood pals: substance-abusing, himself into a stupor every night and that has made billionaire hedge fund promiscuous Gena and ditzy Katie. The retires to his shabby apartment to record magnate Robert Miller the very portrait single ladies are determined to put their his podcast, recounting the tragic deaths of success in American business. But on bitterness aside and have an awesomely of great musicians. After a particularly the eve of his sixtieth birthday, Miller hedonistic bachelorette party. Armed heavy night of drowning his sorrows at finds himself desperately trying to sell his with acerbic wit and seemingly endless a local watering hole, he is for trading empire to a major bank before the supplies of coke and booze, the foul- driving under the influence. This snag, extent of his fraud is discovered. When mouthed femmes embark on one very coupled with a long-ago conviction for an unexpected bloody error challenges long and emotional night filled with major a drug offense, means Lachlan faces his perception of what things are worth, wedding-dress panic, various bodily possible deportation. His only hope of Miller finds that his business is not the fluids, and cute ex-boyfriends. remaining stateside is proving that his only thing hanging in the balance. absence would cause extreme hardship is consistently funny leading for a spouse or relative—forcing him to Building on the chemistry and charisma the talented cast that includes Lizzy confront relationships he thought were of an outstanding cast, including Richard Caplan, Isla Fisher, and delightful scene buried forever. Gere, , , Tim stealer Rebel Wilson, who plays Becky, Roth, and Nate Parker, Jarecki leads us a.k.a. Pig Face. Adding to the tradition of injects equal amounts through the slick and duplicitous limits of successful bridal comedies, this debut of washed-up rock star and winsome impunity and composes an anatomy of the feature by writer/director Leslye Headland charm into the lead role of a lovable loser way asset bubbles can burst.—S.F. is a sassy and sometimes romantic struggling with personal demons and an ride that never forgets to celebrate the intractable legal system. Writer/director ExP: Brian Young, Mohammed Al Turki, Stanisław complexities of female friendship.—K.Y. Tyczyński, Ron Curtis Pr: Laura Bickford, Kevin Turen, Marshall Lewy paints an intimate portrait of human fallibility and the ever-present Justin Nappi, Robert Salerno CoP: Michael Heller ExP: Chris Henchy, Paul Prokop Pr: , Ci: Yorick Le Saux Ed: Douglas Crise Mu: Adam McKay, Jessica Elbaum, Brice Dal Farra, possibility of making things right, even Principal Cast: , Susan Sarandon, Claude Dal Farra, Lauren Munsch Ci: Doug Emmett from the darkest depths.—A.M. Tim Roth, Brit Marling, Nate Parker, Ed: Jeffrey Wolf PrD: Richard Hoover Mu: Michael Wandmacher Principal Cast: Kirsten Dunst, ExP: Robert Carlyle, Joan Huang, Nick Morton, Isla Fisher, Lizzy Caplan, James Marsden, Rick Rosenthal Pr: Mynette Louie CoP: Ross Girard Saturday, January 21, 6:30 p.m. - ARBIT21CE Adam Scott, Kyle Bornheimer Ci: James Laxton Ed: Alex Jablonski Mu: T. Griffin Eccles Theatre, Park City Principal Cast: Robert Carlyle, Alexia Rasmussen, Sunday, January 22, 9:00 a.m. - ARBIT22CM Kathleen Wilhoite, A Martinez, Michael Des Barres, Eccles Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 9:45 p.m. - BACHE23CN Danny Masterson Monday, January 23, 6:30 p.m. - ARBIT23OE Eccles Theatre, Park City Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Tuesday, January 24, 8:30 a.m. - BACHE24MM Saturday, January 28, noon - ARBIT28GD The MARC, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 9:45 p.m. - CALIF25CN

Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Thursday, January 26, 6:30 p.m. - BACHE26OE Eccles Theatre, Park City premieres Saturday, January 28, 8:30 p.m. - ARBIT28MN Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Thursday, January 26, 8:30 a.m. - CALIF26MM The MARC, Park City Saturday, January 28, 5:30 p.m. - BACHE28LE The MARC, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 9:30 p.m. - CALIF28GN Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Sunday, January 29, 10:00 a.m. - CALIF29SM Screening Room, Sundance Resort SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

37 Celeste and Jesse Forever For A Good Time, Call . . . GOATS DIRECTOR: DIRECTOR: Jamie Travis DIRECTOR: Christopher Neil SCREENWRITERS: , SCREENWRITERS: Katie Anne Naylon, SCREENWRITER: Mark Jude Poirier, Will McCormack Lauren Anne Miller based on his novel U.S.A., 2011, 89 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 87 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 100 min., color

Celeste and Jesse met in high school and College ‟frenemies” Lauren and Katie Having a self-absorbed New Age mother got married young. They laugh at the same move in together after losing a relationship and an estranged father means 15-year-old jokes and finish each other’s sentences. and rent control, respectively. Sharing Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an They are forever linked in their friends’ Katie's late grandmother's apartment unconventional guardian: a goat-trekking, minds as the perfect couple—she, a high- in , the girls bicker with marijuana-growing sage called Goat powered businesswoman and budding each other until one fateful night, when Man. So when Ellis decides to leave the novelist; he, a free spirit who keeps things Katie's noisy bedroom activities make alternative ways of his desert homestead from getting boring. Their only problem Lauren barge in and discover a dirty little for a stuffy East Coast prep school, major is that they have decided to get divorced. secret. This revelation brings them closer changes are in store. But not in the way Can their perfect relationship withstand together, and Lauren (the brains) and Katie you’d think. Though often stoned, the this minor setback? (the talent) concoct a wildly successful exceedingly smart and capable Ellis business venture. As profits swell, the girls effortlessly aces school and excels at Lee Toland Krieger finds the perfect tone reevaluate their hopes and dreams and track. As the year progresses, it’s his to tell a story that is at first familiar but realize that just because someone pees in relationships with the adults in his life then transitions into something quite your hair in college doesn't mean she won't that test him, challenging his beliefs about unique and authentic. Rashida Jones and be your best friend 10 years later. responsibility and trustworthiness. Will McCormack have crafted a witty script filled with the insight needed Acclaimed short-film director Jamie Travis With its expansive vision of family and to make Celeste and Jesse fulfill the returns to the Sundance Film Festival (The passel of delicious oddball characters definition of complicated souls seeking Armoire screened in 2010) with his feature transposed from screenwriter Poirier’s same. Jones also stars opposite Andy debut that proves he is equally gifted novel with deadpan naturalism, GOATS Samberg; together they create palpable working in longer films. Sizzling with wryly balances satire with poignancy chemistry and share eccentric dialogue chemistry, cowriter and actor Lauren Anne and tenderness. Ellis’s eventual and infectious humor. Celeste and Jesse Miller and her costar, Ari Graynor, imbue disillusionment with his various “parents” Forever is a delightful romp that examines the film with equal doses of raunch and forces him to seek and find strength within the inner workings of marriage and its charm to deliver a refreshingly original, and to realize the truth about love: it’s evolving place in modern life.—J.C. female-driven comedy that will leave you never perfect, but it is always there.—C.L. screaming in surprise and delight.—T.G. ExP: Rashida Jones, Will McCormack ExP: Daniel Crown, Riva Marker, Richard Arlook Pr: , Suzanne Todd, Lee Nelson ExP: Daniel M. Miller, Ari Graynor Pr: Lauren Anne Pr: Daniela Taplin Lundberg, Eric Kopeloff, Ci: David Lanzenberg Ed: Yana Gorskaya Miller, Katie Anne Naylon, Jenny Hinkey, Josh Shannon Lail Ci: Wyatt Troll Ed: Jeremiah O'Driscoll, PrD: Ian Phillips Mu: Sunny Levine, Zach Cowie Kesselman, Jennifer Weinbaum Ci: James Laxton Kevin Tent Principal Cast: Graham Phillips, Principal Cast: Rashida Jones, , Ed: Evan Henke PrD: Sue Tebbutt Mu: John Swihart David Duchovny, , , , Ari Graynor, Emma Roberts, Principal Cast: Ari Graynor, Lauren Anne Miller, Justin Kirk, Keri Russell Justin Long, Mark Webber, James Wolk, Nia Vardalos

Tuesday, January 24, 9:45 p.m. - GOATS24CN Friday, January 20, 6:30 p.m. - CELES20CE Sunday, January 22, 9:45 p.m. - FORAG22CN Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 a.m. - GOATS25CM Saturday, January 21, 9:00 a.m. - CELES21CM Monday, January 23, 8:30 a.m. - FORAG23LM Eccles Theatre, Park City premieres Eccles Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 6:30 p.m. - GOATS26GE Saturday, January 21, 6:30 p.m. - CELES21GE Saturday, January 28, midnight - FORAG28BL Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Saturday, January 28, 9:30 p.m. - GOATS28YN Saturday, January 28, 6:30 p.m. - CELES28CE Sunday, January 29, 6:30 p.m. - FORAG29GE Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

38 live performance

LAY THE FAVORITE Liberal Arts hit RECord at the movies DIRECTOR: Stephen Frears DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Josh Radnor with joseph gordon-levitt SCREENWRITER: D.V. DeVincentis U.S.A., 2011, 95 min., color DIRECTOR: Joseph Gordon-Levitt U.S.A., 2012, 100 min., color U.S.A., 2012 Newly single, 35, and uninspired by his Beth Raymer is a beautiful girl with a big job, Jesse Fisher worries that his best days Joseph Gordon-Levitt has built heart who leaves her dancing job at a are behind him. But no matter how much a production company around a Florida strip club to become a Las Vegas he buries his head in a book, life keeps beautiful idea. Launched at the 2010 cocktail waitress. Not exactly an ideal pulling Jesse back. When his favorite New Frontier at the Sundance Film career choice, but her borderline-ditzy college professor invites him to campus Festival, hitRECord.org is an online personality doesn’t give her many options. to speak at his retirement dinner, Jesse community that brings artists from In walks Dink, a professional sports bettor jumps at the chance. He is prepared around the world together to work who sees through her bubbly exterior and for the nostalgia of the dining halls and on each other’s projects. A writer offers her a job placing wagers all over town dorm rooms, the parties and poetry can submit a story from Berlin, and to gain an advantage over the casinos. Her seminars; what he doesn’t see coming is someone in Cupertino can illustrate surprisingly impeccable mind for numbers Zibby—a beautiful, precocious, classical- it, while musicians from Dublin, soon cements her status as Dink’s good- music-loving sophomore. Zibby awakens Istanbul, and Topeka, contribute luck charm, until his gorgeous-but-frigid scary, exciting, long-dormant feelings to the soundtrack. Since its launch, wife, Tulip, starts to get jealous. Faced with of possibility and connection that Jesse the hit RECord community has no other choice but to fire Beth, Dink’s luck thought he had buried forever. grown to include 70,000 artists with runs out when she heads to New York to hundreds of projects being produced work for a smarmy bookie named Rosie, a The multitalented Josh Radnor once again in collaboration with their artistic turn of events that lands her squarely on returns to the Sundance Film Festival director, Regular JOE. the wrong side of the law. (happythankyoumoreplease won the 2010 dramatic Audience Award), wearing This special event is your invitation Acclaimed director Stephen Frears first three hats. As writer, director, and star to collaborate with Joseph Gordon- wowed Sundance Film Festival audiences in of Liberal Arts, Radnor could teach a Levitt and surprise guests to make 1985 with his sardonic thriller The Hit, and master class in filmmaking. Given that something new. Bring your digital returned in 1991 with The Grifters, which his engaging costar is Elizabeth Olsen, devices and get ready to participate garnered several Oscar nominations. With the master class here is one in chemistry in this part film screening/part LAY THE FAVORITE, Frears nimbly displays between two exceptional actors.—D.C. filmmaking/part live performance his penchant for interweaving comedy and extravaganza hosted by Regular JOE drama to create a thoroughly satisfying ExP: Paul Prokop Pr: Jesse Hara, Josh Radnor, himself. Hit RECord invites you to join tale of improbable friendship found in the Claude Dal Farra, Brice Dal Farra, Lauren Munsch a new wave of filmmaking by creating Ci: Seamus Tierney Ed: Michael R. Miller unlikeliest of places.—A.M. PrD: Jade Healy CoD: Deborah Newhall art that will live and grow beyond Principal Cast: Josh Radnor, Elizabeth Olsen, this extraordinary evening at the ExP: Agnes Mentre, Richard Jackson, Curtis Jackson, Richard Jenkins, , John Magaro, Festival.—S.F. Brand Andersen, Brandon Grimes Pr: Anthony Elizabeth Reaser Bregman, Randall Emmett, George Furla, D.V. Pr: Jared Geller Ed: Greg Abraham DeVincentis, Paul Trijbits Ci: Michael McDonough Principal Cast: Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis, Catherine PrD: Marke Johnson Sunday, January 22, 3:15 p.m. - LIBER22CA Zeta-Jones, , Eccles Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, 9:00 a.m. - LIBER23CM Thursday, January 26, 9:45 p.m. - HITRE26CN Eccles Theatre, Park City Eccles Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 9:45 p.m. - LAYFA21CN Friday, January 27, 9:30 p.m. - LIBER27ON

Eccles Theatre, Park City Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden premieres Sunday, January 22, 8:30 a.m. - LAYFA22MM Saturday, January 28, 9:00 p.m. - LIBER28BN The MARC, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Monday, January 23, 6:30 p.m. - LAYFA23GE Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Saturday, January 28, 3:30 p.m. - LAYFA28CA Eccles Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 29, 1:00 p.m. - LAYFA29SD Screening Room, Sundance Resort SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

39 Price Check Red Hook Summer Red Lights DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Michael Walker DIRECTOR: DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Rodrigo Cortés U.S.A., 2011, 93 min., color SCREENWRITERS: James McBride, Spike Lee U.S.A./Spain, 2012, 119 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 130 min., color Pete is a good guy who used to be cool. Two investigators of paranormal hoaxes, Once living his dream in the music When his mom deposits him at the Red the veteran Dr. Margaret Matheson and her industry, he now toils away in the pricing Hook housing project in Brooklyn to spend young assistant, Tom Buckley, study the department of a failing supermarket chain the summer with the grandfather he’s most varied metaphysical phenomena with to provide for his loving wife and young never met, young Flik may as well have the aim of proving their fraudulent origins. son. When Pete’s new boss, Susan, takes landed on Mars. Fresh from his cushy life Simon Silver, a legendary blind psychic, over the department, her high-energy in Atlanta, he’s bored and friendless, and reappears after an enigmatic absence of 30 enthusiasm and unconventional ideas his strict grandfather, Enoch, a firebrand years to become the greatest international start to shake things up. She aims to preacher, is bent on getting him to accept challenge to both orthodox science and reinvent the company while grooming Pete Jesus Christ as his personal savior. professional sceptics. Tom starts to develop for the executive fast track. Making more Only Chazz, the feisty girl from church, an intense obsession with Silver, whose money now than he ever hoped to in the provides a diversion from the drudgery. As magnetism becomes stronger with each new music industry, Pete begins to wonder if hot summer simmers and Sunday mornings manifestation of inexplicable events. As Tom this new career is just what he needs to brim with Enoch’s operatic sermons, gets closer to Silver, tension mounts, and his become the man he’s always wanted to be. things turn anything but dull as people’s worldview is threatened to its core. conflicting agendas collide. Written and directed by Michael Walker Red Lights is movie magic at its very and starring the always-wonderful Parker Playfully ironic, heightened, yet grounded, best. Classically conceived and executed, Posey, Price Check is a smart and honest Spike Lee’s bold new movie returns him it is an example of pure cinema, comedy that examines who we think we to his roots, where lovable, larger-than- constructed by combining thrillingly are and what we’re willing to do for the life life characters form the tinderbox of a meticulous filmmaking with extraordinary we think we deserve.—L.O. tight-knit community. A story about the performances. Rodrigo Cortés (Buried coexistence of altruism and corruption, screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Pr: Dolly Hall Ci: Sam Chase Ed: Michael Taylor, Red Hook Summer toys with expectations, Festival) shrewdly straddles both sides Jennifer Lame PrD: Nadya Gurevich Mu: Dean seducing us with the promise of moral and of the paranormal argument, creating Wareham, Britta Phillips Ca: Kerry Barden, Paul Schnee Principal Cast: Parker Posey, Eric Mabius, spiritual transcendence. Spike is back in an analytical conundrum with passion in Parisse, Josh Pais, Cheyenne Jackson, the ’hood.—C.L. its story line. In doing so, he fashions an Edward Herrmann exhilarating cinematic experience where Pr: Spike Lee, James McBride Ci: Kerwin Devonish illusion confronts science, and the truth Ed: Hye Mee Na PrD: Sarah Frank Mu: Bruce Hornsby lies hidden deeply within.—T.G. Wednesday, January 25, 6:30 p.m. - PRICE25CE So: Phil Stockton Principal Cast: Clarke Peters, Jules Brown, Toni Lysaith, Nate Parker, James Ransone, Eccles Theatre, Park City ExP: Cindy Cowan, Lisa Wilson, Irving Cowan Thomas Jefferson Byrd Thursday, January 26, 9:00 a.m. - PRICE26CM Pr: Adrián Guerra, Rodrigo Cortés Ci: Xavi Giménez Eccles Theatre, Park City PrD: Antón Laguna Mu: Víctor Reyes So: James Muñoz Saturday, January 28, 8:30 a.m. - PRICE28MM Principal Cast: Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, The MARC, Park City Sunday, January 22, 6:15 p.m. - REDHK22CE , Elizabeth Olsen, Toby Jones, Saturday, January 28, 9:00 p.m. - PRICE28IN Eccles Theatre, Park City Leonardo Sbaraglia. Library, SLC Monday, January 23, 8:30 a.m. - REDHK23MM The MARC, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. - REDHK24SN Friday, January 20, 9:45 p.m. - REDLI20CN Screening Room, Sundance Resort Eccles Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. - REDHK28GA Saturday, January 21, 8:30 a.m. - REDLI21MM premieres Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC The MARC, Park City Saturday, January 21, 9:30 p.m. - REDLI21GN Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Tuesday, January 24, 6:30 p.m. - REDLI24OE Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Wednesday, January 25, 6:30 p.m. - REDLI25RE Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Saturday, January 28, 5:15 p.m. - REDLI28ME The MARC, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

40 closing night

Robot and Frank Shadow Dancer The Words DIRECTOR: Jake Schreier DIRECTOR: James Marsh DIRECTORS/SCREENWRITERS: SCREENWRITER: Christopher Ford SCREENWRITER: Tom Brady Brian Klugman, Lee Sternthal U.S.A., 2011, 90 min., color United Kingdom, 2012, 96 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 96 min., color English with some French Set sometime in the future, Robot and Growing up in a Republican family in 1970s Frank is a delightful dramatic comedy, a Belfast, Collette McVeigh’s childhood is Rory Jansen, a struggling writer, aspires buddy picture, and, for good measure, a shattered, and her family radicalized, to be the next great literary voice. When heist film. Curmudgeonly old Frank lives when her brother is killed. Twenty years he discovers a lost manuscript in a by himself. His routine involves daily visits later—a single mother with her own young weathered attaché case, he realizes he to his local library, where he has a twinkle son—Collette is active in the IRA, along possesses something extraordinary that in his eye for the librarian. His grown with her two surviving brothers. he desperately wishes he had created. children are concerned about their father’s Rory decides to pass the work off as his well-being and buy him a caretaker robot. During an aborted bomb attempt in own and finally receives the recognition Initially resistant, Frank soon appreciates , Collette falls into the hands of he desperately craves. However, he soon the benefits of robotic support—like an MI5 officer, Mac, who offers her a deal: learns that living with his choice will not nutritious meals and a clean house—and turn informant or go to prison. Fearing for be as easy as he thought as he faces a eventually begins to treat his robot like a her son’s welfare, she returns to Belfast moral dilemma that will make him take a true companion, which reignites his passion where—betraying family and beliefs— hard look at the man he has become. for his old, unlawful profession. she becomes a reluctant mole for British intelligence. As suspicion of Collette In their directorial debut, Brian Klugman makes acting—with a mounts and Mac takes increasing risks to and Lee Sternthal have crafted a subtle robot, no less—look effortless, and his protect her, both feel the net closing in. tale that examines how overwhelming relationship with the machine is filled desire can lead to unforeseen and with poignant exchanges and amusing A thriller with an ever-thickening plot, unwanted consequences. Bolstered by adventures. First-time director Jake Shadow Dancer is a riveting portrait a strong cast, led by Schreier creates a lush world with of shifting convictions and entangled and , The Words adeptly futuristic flourishes and tells a beautiful loyalties. Director James Marsh—working assembles multiple narratives that reveal story about family and the implications of at the top of his craft with actors Clive how one man’s lost legacy holds the life of humankind’s ever-changing relationship Owen and Andrea Riseborough—deftly another man captive.—R.W. with technology.—K.Y. maintains their intense and fascinating connection while exploring the complex ExP: Laura Rister, , Lisa Wilson, Pr: Galt Niederhoffer, Sam Bisbee, Jackie relationship between politics and personal Bradley Cooper Pr: Michael Benaroya, Tatiana Kelly, Kelman Bisbee, Lance Acord Ci: Matthew Lloyd motivations during troubled times in Jim Young Ci: Antonio Calvache Ed: Leslie Jones Ed: Jacob Craycroft PrD: Sharon Lamofsky PrD: Michele LaLiberte Mu: The Mu: Francis Farewell Starlite CoD: Erika Munro Northern Ireland.—J.N. Principal Cast: Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Irons, Principal Cast: Frank Langella, Susan Sarandon, , Wilde, , Ben Barnes James Marsden, Liv Tyler, Saarsgard Pr: Chris Coen, Andrew Lowe, Ed Guiney Ci: Rob Hardy Ed: Jinx Godfrey PrD: Jon Henson Mu: Dickon Hinchliffe Principal Cast: Andrea Riseborough, , Friday, January 27, 6:30 p.m. - WORDS27CE Aidan Gillen, Domhnall Gleeson, Gillian Anderson Friday, January 20, 6:30 p.m. - ROBOT20GE Eccles Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Saturday, January 28, 9:00 a.m. - WORDS28CM Friday, January 20, 9:30 p.m. - ROBOT20GN Eccles Theatre, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Tuesday, January 24, 6:30 p.m. - SHADW24CE Saturday, January 28, 9:30 p.m. - WORDS28ON Saturday, January 21, 3:30 p.m. - ROBOT21CA Eccles Theatre, Park City Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Eccles Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 8:30 a.m. - SHADW25MM Sunday, January 29, 12:30 p.m. - WORDS29GD The MARC, Park City Sunday, January 22, 8:30 a.m. - ROBOT22LM Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC premieres Library Center Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 9:30 p.m. - SHADW26GN Thursday, January 26, 10:00 p.m. - ROBOT26RN Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Saturday, January 28, 7:00 p.m. - SHADW28RE Friday, January 27, 6:30 p.m. - ROBOT27OE Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Saturday, January 28, 6:00 p.m. - ROBOT28EE Egyptian Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 29, 3:30 p.m. - ROBOT29GA

Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL 41 About Face BONES BRIGADE: DIRECTOR: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders An Autobiography U.S.A., 2011, 72 min., color DIRECTOR: Stacy Peralta U.S.A., 2011, 90 min., color Portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield- Sanders’s lush new film is an intimate Today skateboarding is omnipresent. Take view of the women whose images have a walk down any street in any town, and defined our sense of beauty over the you are destined to see someone riding past five decades. An uncensored look at a skateboard. Well, it wasn’t always like many of the biggest names in modeling, that. In the early ’80s, skateboarding About Face reveals the stories behind was fading away until Stacy Peralta the magazine covers displaying these brought a profoundly talented group of multicultural pioneers. Each woman is outsiders together and dubbed them candidly interviewed in the studio and the Bones Brigade. This documentary shares her experiences, ideas on longevity, chronicles their epic rise, using awesome and philosophy of life in the fashion archival footage and moving first-person industry. Elegant archival footage and accounts from Brigade members Steve interviews with designer Calvin Klein and Caballero, Tommy Guerrero, Tony Hawk, agency head Eileen Ford round out this Mike McGill, Lance Mountain, and Rodney absorbing chronicle. Mullen, among others. Through passion, drive, creativity, and a surprising sense of About Face is a step back in time to a teamwork, they revitalized the sport and glamorous, yet complicated, era when influenced generations to come. drugs were rampant and women were routinely harassed and mistreated. The Peralta brings his fourth documentary divergent attitudes among the women to the Festival and continues to display about everything from the business of an uncanny knack for fusing style and modeling, to aging and plastic surgery, substance in his films. BONES BRIGADE are fascinating and priceless. This works on a number of levels and will Furthering our insightful documentary celebrates the raw blow the minds of anyone who grew commitment to this intelligence and staying power of these up emulating these guys, but it also important form timeless icons.—L.V. resonates for anyone who ever found a of storytelling, family or a purpose in an unexpected filmmakers debut ExP: Tommy Walker, Michael Slap Sloane place.—T.G. their new docs Pr: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders, Chad Thompson about big subjects. Ed: Benjamin Gray Ph: Timothy Greenfield-Sanders Pr: Stacy Peralta, John Oliver, Nadine Brown Ti: Sebastian Blanck Ci: Pat Darrin Ed: Josh Altman PrD: Beth Goodnight

Sunday, January 22, 2:30 p.m. - ABOTF22MA Saturday, January 21, 8:30 p.m. - BONES21MN The MARC, Park City The MARC, Park City Monday, January 23, 8:30 a.m. - ABOTF23PM Sunday, January 22, noon - BONES22TD Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 3:00 p.m. - ABOTF25SA Tuesday, January 24, 9:30 p.m. - BONES24GN Screening Room, Sundance Resort Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Thursday, January 26, 11:30 a.m. - ABOTF26LD Thursday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. - BONES26SN Library Center Theatre, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort Friday, January 27, 9:30 p.m. - ABOTF27GN Friday, January 27, 11:30 a.m. - BONES27MD Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC The MARC, Park City Saturday, January 28, 3:30 p.m. - BONES28OA Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden

Bobby Fischer SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL Against the 42 World The D Word: ETHEL A Fierce Green Fire Understanding Dyslexia DIRECTOR: Rory Kennedy DIRECTOR/producer: Mark Kitchell DIRECTOR: James Redford SCREENWRITER: Mark Bailey Based on the book by Philip Shabecoff SCREENWRITERS: James Redford, U.S.A., 2011, 97 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 120 min., color & b/w Jen Bradwell U.S.A., 2011, 51 min., color It would have satisfied even the most In the twenty-first century, the idea voracious history buffs if Rory Kennedy, that we are all connected is almost a The D Word: Understanding Dyslexia youngest child of Robert and Ethel cliché, though it is little understood skillfully explores the complex and often Kennedy, had enlisted her mother’s and rarely acted upon. One twentieth- challenging world faced by those who perspective simply as a fresh angle on century social movement understood have this disability. The film focuses on the Kennedy years. But Ethel is so much this concept at its core. It is, in the eyes high-school senior Dylan as he shares his more. Intimate, humorous conversations of many, the most important ever: the early struggles in school and prepares and never-before-seen images from the environmental movement. It seeks nothing to begin studies at the college of his family troves uncover an enthralling less than saving the planet from its most choice. Interviews with other young story of a vivacious, authentic heroine destructive force—humanity.­­ dyslexics, as well as highly accomplished whose transformation from rambunctious businesspeople diagnosed with the Republican firecracker to savvy Democratic Inspired by New York Times environmental learning disability, including Richard campaigner to socially conscious single journalist, Philip Shabecoff’s, book, Branson, Charles Schwab, and California’s mother of 11 arcs definitively as her director Mark Kitchell returns to the Lieutenant Governor Gavin Newsom, are husband’s drama unfolds. Sundance Film Festival (Berkeley in the seamlessly incorporated into the story. Sixties won the documentary Audience Two prominent doctors in the field at The film’s power surfaces as Ethel’s unique Award in 1990) with a must-see film, the Yale Center for Dyslexia & Creativity value system and the intrinsic connection shot and edited over four years, that help demystify and mitigate the stigma between the family’s private and public documents crucial moments in the surrounding this syndrome. lives come into focus. Tales of the young history of environmental activism. brood attending Senate hearings, of Dramatic personalities and lush archival Focusing on the positive aspects of heartfelt letters RFK wrote as a way of images—many never seen before—bring dyslexia and incorporating creative incorporating them into momentous pivotal moments to life in five chapters animation sequences, James Redford’s political occasions, and of each child’s depicting five stories across five decades. film emphasizes specific areas where assignment to a social-justice mission Each illustrates the power of activism dyslexics excel and suggests thoughtful reveal the respect and love that fueled and commitment at a unique historical strategies for their academic success in Ethel’s household—a microcosm for what moment and often at tremendous personal our often-rigid educational system.—L.V. this country can be. Ethel Kennedy stands cost. A film that will inspire and provoke, alongside her husband as a beacon of A Fierce Green Fire challenges us to ExP: Karen Pritzker Pr: James Redford, Windy integrity and hope.—C.L. rethink our past, our present, and our Borman Ci: John Kiffmeyer Ed: Jen Bradwell future on Earth.—C.M. Mu: Todd Boekelheide An: Petra Myrzk, ExP: Sheila Nevins Pr: Jack Youngelson, Nancy Jean-François Moriceau Abraham CoP: Veronica Brady Ci: Buddy Squires Ci: Vicente Franco, Will Parrinello, and others Ed: Azin Samari Mu: Miriam Cutler Ed: Ken Schneider, Veronica Selver, Jon Beckhardt Preceded by The Movement: Mu: George Michalski, Sonya Kitchell, Randall One Man Joins an Uprising Directors: Greg I. Hamilton, Kurt Miller Wallace, Garth Stevenson Res: Betsy Bayha, U.S.A., 2011, 43 min., color Friday, January 20, 2:00 p.m. - ETHEL20MA Lynn Adler, Alyssa Martin y premieres The MARC, Park City Saturday, January 21, 8:30 a.m. - ETHEL21LM Library Center Theatre, Park City Friday, January 20, 6:00 p.m. - DWORD20SE Monday, January 23, 5:15 p.m. - FIERC23ME

Saturday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. - ETHEL21SE The MARC, Park City documentar Screening Room, Sundance Resort Screening Room, Sundance Resort Monday, January 23, 2:30 p.m. - DWORD23LA Tuesday, January 24, 11:30 a.m. - FIERC24TD Thursday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. - ETHEL26TN Temple Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 4:00 p.m. - DWORD25RA Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. - FIERC25SN Saturday, January 28, 6:30 p.m. - ETHEL28GE Screening Room, Sundance Resort Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center, SLC Thursday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. - DWORD26IE Thursday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. - FIERC26BE Salt Lake City Library, SLC Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Saturday, January 28, 9:30 p.m. - DWORD28TN Saturday, January 28, 6:00 p.m. - FIERC28TE Temple Theatre, Park City Temple Theatre, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

43 SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: under african skies West of Memphis THE ART OF RAP DIRECTOR: Joe Berlinger DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Amy Berg DIRECTORS: Ice-T, Andy Baybutt U.S.A., 2011, 108 min., color & b/w U.S.A., 2011, 150 min., color United Kingdom, 2011, 106 min., color English/Afrikaans/Zulu For many people, the case of the West Hip-hop didn’t invent anything . . . hip-hop Paul Simon’s historic Graceland album Memphis Three has become synonymous reinvented everything.— Grandmaster Caz sold millions of copies and united with wrongful conviction. Despite a lack of cultures, yet divided world opinion on the physical evidence, three Arkansas teenagers Visually luscious and drenched with the boundaries of art, politics, and commerce. were found guilty in 1994 of the ritual big beats of classic cuts and freestyle On the occasion of the twenty-fifth murder of three eight-year-old boys. Media rhyming by some of the masters of the anniversary of Graceland’s release, Simon attention led to an outpouring of support music, SOMETHING FROM NOTHING: THE returns to South Africa for a reunion that has helped to keep them in the public ART OF RAP is a performance documentary concert that unearths the turbulent birth consciousness for nearly two decades. about the runaway juggernaut that is of the album. Despite its huge success as hip-hop. At the wheel of this unstoppable a popular fusion of American and African Director Amy Berg examines the crime beast is Ice-T. The practitioner/filmmaker, musical styles, Graceland spawned and its aftermath, providing a voice for with codirector Andy Baybutt, takes us on intense political crossfire. Simon was the victims’ families, including those a personal journey into the asphalt roots accused of breaking the United Nations’ with doubts about whether the right of the music that saved his life. cultural boycott of South Africa, which people are behind bars. Rather than was designed to end apartheid. focus on the accused, the film follows This film is not about stardom, bling, or their supporters—including loved ones, beef; it’s about craft and skill—what Renowned filmmaker Joe Berlinger attorneys, and celebrity advocates such goes on inside the minds and erupts from brilliantly intertwines both sides of a as and —as the pens of rap legends. Ice-T travels complex story as Simon revisits old ghosts they seek the truth. With of a from coast to coast, engaging intimately and gains insights on his own musical former FBI profiler, a less sensational, yet with the likes of Afrika Bambaataa, journey. With compelling perceptions from still chilling, motive and suspect emerge— Grandmaster Flash, Nas, Mos Def, antiapartheid activists and music legends ones, shockingly, never investigated. , Chuck D, KRS-One, Run-DMC, such as Quincy Jones, Harry Belafonte, Dr. Dre, Ice Cube, and Snoop Dogg. What Paul McCartney, and David Byrne, Under With compelling, immediate access, emerges is a mighty soul tribute to the African Skies is both a buoyant chronicle West of Memphis follows the story of original American art form that brought of unparalleled artistic achievement and the West Memphis Three to its dramatic poetry to a new generation.—S.F. a profound rumination on the role of the and unexpected conclusion, raising artist in society.—D.C. serious questions about justice and its ExP: Paul Toogood, Jorge Hinojosa, Ice-T, Simon D. compromises.—B.T. Pearce, David Kaplan, Alison Toogood, Jelena Nikolic ExP: Robert Friedman, Eddie Simon, David McKillop, Pr: Paul Toogood Ci: Andy Baybutt, Jeremy Hewson Robert DeBitetto Pr: Joe Berlinger, Justin Wilkes, ExP: Ken Kamins Pr: Lorri Davis, , Ed: Kieran Smyth So: Jamie Selway Molly Thompson, Jon Kamen CoP: Sara Enright Fran Walsh, Peter Jackson Ci: Ci: Robert Richman Ed: Joshua L. Pearson Ed: Billy McMillin

Saturday, January 21, 2:30 p.m. - SOMET21MA The MARC, Park City Sunday, January 22, 8:00 p.m. - UNDER22MN Friday, January 20, 4:45 p.m. - WESTM20ME Sunday, January 22, 9:30 p.m. - SOMET22RN y premieres The MARC, Park City The MARC, Park City Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Monday, January 23, 9:00 a.m. - UNDER23YM Saturday, January 21, 8:30 a.m. - WESTM21PM Monday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. - SOMET23WN Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Tower Theatre, SLC Thursday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. - UNDER26IN Saturday, January 21, 5:30 p.m. - WESTM21IE Friday, January 27, 8:30 a.m. - SOMET27EM Salt Lake City Library, SLC Salt Lake City Library, SLC documentar Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 5:30 p.m. - UNDER27ME Tuesday, January 24, 5:30 p.m. - WESTM24SE Saturday, January 28, 6:00 p.m. - SOMET28SE The MARC, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort Screening Room, Sundance Resort Saturday, January 28, 6:00 p.m. - WESTM28YE Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

44 Corpo Celeste Declaration of War DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: La Guerre est déclarée Alice Rohrwacher DIRECTOR: Valérie Donzelli Italy, 2011, 98 min., color SCREENWRITERS: Jérémie Elkaïm, Italian with English subtitles Valérie Donzelli France, 2011, 110 min., color Premiering at the 2011 Cannes Directors’ French with English subtitles Fortnight, Corpo Celeste showcased the talents of its remarkable young writer/ The opening night film of the 2011 Cannes director, Alice Rohrwacher, whom we International Critics’ Week and France’s eagerly welcome to the Sundance official 2011 Academy Award entry, Film Festival. Declaration of War is, above all, a love story.

After growing up in Switzerland, 13-year- After meeting at a party, Romeo and old Marta returns to a city in southern Juliette (they can’t believe it, either) Italy with her mother and older sister. fall in love, move in together, and have a Independent and inquisitive, she joins child, Adam. The young couple, wearily a catechism class at a local church. navigating early parenthood, begin However, the games and religious pop to suspect that Adam has a medical songs she encounters there do not nearly problem, a fear that’s confirmed when satisfy her interest in faith. Struggling doctors discover a brain tumor. Gathering to find her place, Marta pushes the family and friends, they declare war on boundaries of the class, the priest, and his illness, and their storybook romance The Spotlight the church. plunges into an unrelenting world of section is a hospitals, exhaustion, and uncertainty. tribute to the Contemplating religion is an enduring cinema we love. tradition in Italian cinema, but More heart than heartbreak, Valérie Regardless of Rohrwacher brings a fresh inflection and Donzelli’s second feature transforms where these a provocative artistic vision. Her vérité the “disease drama” into an exuberant, impressive films aesthetic emphasizes character and fiercely original experience. With multiple have played subtle behavior. Uninterested in shallow narrators, cinematic flair, free-spirited throughout critique, Corpo Celeste posits a girl editing, and eclectic music, Donzelli’s the world, who is resolutely searching for deeper energetic style invokes la nouvelle vague the Sundance truths. Marta instinctively rebels against but is also purely expressive—of laughter Film Festival is the apathy and hypocrisy of the adults and tears, hope and fear, joy and anger. thrilled to light around her, including a priest who is more Written by Donzelli and Jérémie Elkaïm a marquee for interested in his career than he is in faith. (based on their real-life experience), them. We are Ultimately, her spirituality is as much of Declaration of War is a beautiful portrait confident you’ll the Earth as it is of the heavens.—J.N. of love and survival.—J.N. love them, too. Pr: Carlo Cresto-Dina Ci: Hélène Louvart Ed: Marco Pr: Edouard Weil Ci: Sébastien Buchmann Spoletini PrD: Luca Servino Mu: Piero Crucitti Ed: Pauline Gaillard So: André Rigaut, CoD: Loredana Buscemi Principal Cast: Yle Vianello, Sébastien Savine Principal Cast: Valerie Donzelli, Salvatore Cantalupo, Pasqualina Scuncia Jérémie Elkaïm, César Desseix, Gabriel Elkaïm h t spotlig Sunday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. - CORPO22BN Friday, January 20, 8:30 a.m. - DECLA20PM Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Monday, January 23, noon - CORPO23YD Friday, January 20, 6:45 p.m. - DECLA20BE Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Wednesday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. - CORPO25EE Saturday, January 21, 11:30 a.m. - DECLA21ED Egyptian Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 5:30 p.m. - CORPO28PE Saturday, January 28, 9:00 p.m. - DECLA28SN Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

In a Better World 45 Elena The Orator DIRECTOR: Andrei Zvyagintsev DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: O Le Tulafale SCREENWRITER: Oleg Negin DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Tusi Tamasese Russia, 2011, 109 min., color Canada, 2011, 94 min., color New Zealand, 2011, 110 min., color Russian with English subtitles French with English subtitles Samoan with English subtitles

We are proud to welcome back Andrei We are thrilled to show the work of The Orator premiered at the Venice Film Zvyagintsev (whose first feature, The Québécois filmmaker Philippe Falardeau Festival, introducing Tusi Tamasese as a Return screened at the Sundance Film for the first time at the Sundance Film fresh and powerful voice from the South Festival in 2004) with his extraordinarily Festival. Exemplifying precise filmmaking Pacific. Entirely shot in Samoa, The Orator gripping new film, Elena—made with and deeply affecting storytelling, Monsieur is the first Samoan feature film and has support from the Sundance/NHK Lazhar is Falardeau’s fourth feature film been selected as New Zealand’s entry in International Filmmakers Award. and Canada's 2011 Oscar submission. the foreign language film category at the 84th . Elena has a warm but passionless late- During a harsh Montréal winter, an in-life marriage with wealthy Vladimir, to elementary-school class is left reeling after Saili is a little person and taro farmer who whom she is more caretaker than spouse. its teacher commits suicide. Bachir Lazhar, lives happily with his wife, Vaaiga, and Each has grown children from previous a charismatic Algerian immigrant, steps in stepdaughter, Litia. But fortune turns relationships, but Vladimir is dedicated as the substitute teacher for the classroom when his family plantation is threatened to his distant, spoiled daughter and of traumatized children. All the while, he and he is denied his father’s chiefly status. resents having to provide financial aid to must keep his personal life tucked away: Vaaiga, previously banished from her Elena’s hapless, unemployed son and his the fact that he is seeking political refuge in village, refuses her brother’s demands struggling family. As Vladimir’s health Québec—and that he, like the children, has to return home to restore their family to declines, and he makes concrete plans suffered an appalling loss. health. Suddenly and tragically, Saili’s life to leave everything to his own offspring, is turned upside down, and he must stand Elena must decide swiftly between her Mohamed as Lazhar delivers a up to defend his land and family. loyalty to her husband and her allegiance performance full of charm, compassion, and to her own flesh and blood. humanity, allowing the story of a beloved Where tradition is law, struggle is teacher to breathe with wit and originality. constant, and family is everything, Part domestic thriller, part morality play, With Falardeau’s gentle humor and elegant Tusi Tamasese delivers an authentic all a comment on contemporary Russian touch, Monsieur Lazhar tells a gorgeous and intimate view into the complexities class warfare, Elena delivers an intense story about a man who transcends his own of village life.—O.J. and haunting experience, offering keen grief and tragedy to help his young students insight into human nature. Throughout, process death and loss in their lives.—K.Y. Pr: Catherine Fitzgerald Ci: Leon Narbey the chilling tension is sustained and Ed: Simon Price PrD: Rob Astley So: Tim Prebble CoP: Luc Déry, Kim McCraw Ci: Ronald Plante CoD: Kirsty Cameron Principal Cast: Fa’afiaula heightened by Philip Glass’s striking score Sagote, Tausili Pushparaj, Salamasina Mataia, and Zvyagintsev’s stark visual style.—H.Z. Ed: Stéphane Lafleur PrD: Emmanuel Fréchette Mu: Martin Leon CoD: Francesca Chamberland Ioata Tanielu Principal Cast: Mohamed Fellag, Nélisse, Pr: Alexander Rodnyansky Ci: Mikhail Krichman Émilien Néron, Danielle Proulx, Brigitte Poupart Mu: Philip Glass Principal Cast: Andrey Smirnov, Friday, January 20, noon - ORATO20TD Nadezhda Markina, Elena Lyadova, Alexey Rozin Temple Theatre, Park City Friday, January 20, noon - MLAZH20SD Friday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. - ORATO20WN Screening Room, Sundance Resort Tower Theatre, SLC Saturday, January 21, 6:45 p.m. - ELENA21BE Sunday, January 22, 11:30 a.m. - MLAZH22PD Sunday, January 22, 3:45 p.m. - ORATO22BA Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC

h t spotlig Sunday, January 22, 5:30 p.m. - ELENA22PE Monday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. - MLAZH23BA Monday, January 23, 6:30 p.m. - ORATO23RE Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 3:30 p.m. - ELENA24RA Tuesday, January 24, 8:30 p.m. - MLAZH24LN Friday, January 27, 9:15 p.m. - ORATO272N Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema 2, Park City Friday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. - ELENA27YN Special screening for Park City locals. Pass holders Saturday, January 28, 6:00 p.m. - ORATO28WE Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City and any others need to waitlist. Contact the Tower Theatre, SLC Saturday, January 28, 10:00 p.m. - ELENA284N Park City Main Box Office for ticket information. Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Friday, January 27, 7:00 p.m. - MLAZH27RE Redstone Cinema 7, Park City

SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL Saturday, January 28, 6:30 p.m. - MLAZH28OE Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden 46 Oslo, August 31st The Raid Where Do We Go Now? Oslo, 31. august Serbuan maut Et Maintenant On Va Où? DIRECTOR: Joachim Trier DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER/EDITOR: DIRECTOR: Nadine Labaki SCREENWRITERS: Joachim Trier, Eskil Vogt, Gareth Huw Evans SCREENWRITERS: Nadine Labaki, Jihad based on a novel by Pierre Drieu La Rochelle Indonesia, 2011, 100 min., color Hojeily, Rodney Al Haddad, Thomas Bidegain Norway, 2011, 96 min., color Indonesian with English subtitles France/Lebanon/Italy/Egypt, 2011, Norwegian with English subtitles 100 min., color Gareth Huw Evans first introduced the Arabic/Russian/English with English subtitles We are pleased to welcome back Joachim electrifying Indonesian martial art of Trier to the Festival. His first feature, silat to audiences everywhere with his A striking follow-up to her 2007 Reprise, showed at the 2007 Sundance last feature film, Merantau. We are international hit, Caramel, Nadine Film Festival. With his second feature excited to present the U.S. premiere of Labaki’s musical comedy Where Do We Go film, he continues his mastery of subtle, his latest effort, The Raid, which blew the Now? offers a wildly creative take on the realistic storytelling that explores the minds of action fans at the 2011 Toronto intractable religious conflict in Lebanon. complex transition from youth to adult. International Film Festival. Fed up with mourning their husbands and Anders is in his early thirties, smart, At the break of dawn, an elite SWAT team sons, the women of a remote Lebanese attractive, and finally sober. Yet in his descends upon a rundown tenement in village, where Christians and Muslims live wake are a string of broken relationships, the mammoth city of Jakarta, Indonesia. side by side, concoct radically inventive bad financial decisions, and squandered Their mission? To take down the ruthless schemes to prevent sectarian violence from talent. Today, however, is different. and powerful crime boss Tama, who rules further corrupting their loved ones. To Today Anders has earned a day-visit out the building and its inhabitants with quash interreligious conflicts, the women of rehab, and he is going back to the big implacable brutality. Holed up on the top are not above sabotaging the village’s city—Oslo. He will see his sister and his floor with an array of security cameras and sole television, colluding with the priest old friends and have a job interview. But a legion of massively armed underlings, and imam, nor enlisting a busload of sexy the pressures of the city and his “duty” to Tama appears to be untouchable. The police Ukrainian strippers to distract their men. enjoy his youth and be loved may be too initiate their assault with precision as they much for Anders to handle. make their way through the lower floors of Through Labaki’s wonderfully insightful the building. But when their cover is blown, comic eye, Where Do We Go Now? Taking on the challenge of depicting a bloody cataclysm erupts, first with confronts the hard truths of Lebanon’s drug addiction and rehabilitation bullets, then with a storm of fists and feet. fractured society, offering an alternate realistically, director Joachim Trier shows vision of transcendence and unity. Spirited tremendous skill and empathy by ditching The film’s enigmatic young star, Iko Uwais, musical sequences capture the magical harsh clichés in this mature film. The leads a bone-crunching clinic in hand- qualities of this place and these people, strong dialogue, contrasted by Trier’s to-hand combat that will leave you both illuminating the absurd nature of a war delicate direction, draws remarkable mentally and physically drained. From start between brothers.—H.Z. performances from the cast. Oslo, August to finish, The Raid is an unrelenting, action- 31st is a personal tale that elicits a packed feast for fans of the genre.—A.M. Pr: Anne-Dominique Toussaint Ci: Christophe realism as noble and touching as that of a Offenstein Ed: Véronique Lange PrD: Cynthia Zahar Mu: Khaled Mouzanar So: Michel Casang, documentary.—M.P. ExP: Rangga Maya Barack-Evans, Irwan D. Mussry, Todd Brown, Nate Bolotin Pr: Ario Sagantoro Gwennolé Le Borgne, Dominique Gaborieau Principal Cast: Claude Baz Moussawbaa, Pr: Yngve Sæther, Sigve Endresen, Hans-Jørgen Ci: Matt Flannery, Dimas Subhono ArD: Tomy Dwi Setyanto Mu: , Joseph Trapanese Layla Hakim, Nadine Labaki, Yvonne Maalouf, Osnes Ci: Jakob Ihre Ed: Olivier Bugge Coutté Antoinette Noufaily, Julien Farhat PrD: Jørgen Stangebye Larsen, Solfrid Kjetså Principal Cast: Iko Uwais, Yayan Ruhian, Donny So: Gisle Tveito Principal Cast: Anders Danielsen Alamsyah, Ray Sahetapy, Joe Taslim, Pierre Gruno Lie, Malin Crépin, Aksel M. Thanke, Hans Olav h t spotlig Saturday, January 21, 2:45 p.m. - WHERE21PA Brenner, Ingrid Olava, Øystein Røger Friday, January 20, 11:15 a.m. - RAIDD20MD Prospector Square Theatre, Park City The MARC, Park City Sunday, January 22, 12:45 p.m. - WHERE22BD Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Friday, January 20, 9:00 p.m. - OSLOO20YN Friday, January 20, 9:45 p.m. - RAIDD20BN Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Wednesday, January 25, 9:45 p.m. - WHERE25RN Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Monday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. - OSLOO23TA Sunday, January 22, 11:30 p.m. - RAIDD22PL Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 11:30 p.m. - WHERE28PL Temple Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 a.m. - OSLOO25TM Thursday, January 26, 4:00 p.m. - RAIDD26RA Temple Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 7, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL Friday, January 27, midnight - RAIDD27BL Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC 47 Wuthering Heights Your Sister's Sister DIRECTOR: Andrea Arnold DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: SCREENWRITERS: Andrea Arnold, U.S.A., 2011, 90 min., color Olivia Hetreed United Kingdom, 2011, 128 min., color Lynn Shelton first came to the Festival in 2009 with Humpday. We are thrilled Acclaimed filmmaker Andrea Arnold to show her fourth feature, Your Sister’s (Red Road, Fish Tank) offers a Sister, a subtle, heartfelt romantic comedy breathtaking reinvention of Emily that premiered at Toronto earlier this year, Brontë’s classic novel of a passionate, and to count her as a member of our U.S. destructive love set on the Yorkshire Dramatic Competition jury. moors during the late eighteenth century. One year after his brother’s death, Jack Mr. Earnshaw returns to his family farmhouse hasn’t recovered. His best friend, Iris, with young Heathcliff, an orphan he has prescribes solitary reflection and sends him rescued from the streets. Mr. Earnshaw’s to her father’s empty cabin. But she doesn’t son, Hindley, shows Heathcliff only cruelty, realize her sister, Hannah, is there for similar but his daughter, Catherine, warms to him, reasons, having just walked out on a seven- and the two develop an intensely intimate year relationship. Over tequila shots, Hannah and reckless bond that spans many years and and Jack get acquainted. When Iris drops their changing fortunes. in unexpectedly, complications arise in the form of rivalry and more than a few surprising Arnold’s adaptation is audacious and revelations. artful—a stark cinematic expression of the novel’s fierce beauty. Always provocative, Your Sister’s Sister shows Lynn Shelton as Arnold casts a black actor as Heathcliff. a complete filmmaker. As always, Shelton Stripping the story to its elemental is brilliant with actors. and form, she dispenses with narrative Rosemarie DeWitt excel under her method embellishments, music, literary sheen, and of combining improvisation with scripted romanticism—leaving a wondrous, spare dialogue. The film is both cinematic and aesthetic of somber hues and harsh textures lyrical, going beyond a simple story about dominated by nature, natural sounds, sisters to take a progressive look at how animals, and the craggy, windswept terrain. relationships get redefined.—K.Y. Heathcliff and Catherine—governed by visceral emotions—are like creatures in this Pr: Steven Schardt CoP: Mel Eslyn, Megan Griffiths primordial wilderness, trying to find peace. Ci: Benjamin Kasulke Ed: Mu: Vinny Smith Principal Cast: Emily Blunt, Rosemarie The result is a uniquely sensual, corporeal DeWitt, , space designed to convey the erosion of human happiness.—J.N. Preceded by Fungus Director: Charlotta Miller Pr: Robert Bernstein, Douglas Rae, Kevin Loader Sweden, 2011, 8 min., color Ci: Robbie Ryan Ed: Nicolas Chaudereuge, Helen Scott So: Nicolas Becker CoD: Steven Noble Principal Cast: Kaya Scodelario, James Howson, Friday, January 20, 8:30 a.m. - YRSIS20LM Solomon Glave, Shannon Beer, Steve Evets, Oliver Milburn Library Center Theatre, Park City h t spotlig Friday, January 20, 8:30 p.m. - YRSIS20MN The MARC, Park City Saturday, January 21, 11:30 a.m. - WUTHE21MD Saturday, January 21, 9:30 p.m. - YRSIS21ON The MARC, Park City Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Saturday, January 21, 10:00 p.m. - WUTHE21RN Monday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. - YRSIS23IN Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Salt Lake City Library, SLC Sunday, January 22, 3:00 p.m. - WUTHE22OA Tuesday, January 24, 7:00 p.m. - YRSIS24RE Peery's Egyptian Theater, Ogden Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Friday, January 27, 11:30 a.m. - WUTHE27ED Special screening for Park City locals. Pass holders Egyptian Theatre, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL and any others need to waitlist. Contact the Saturday, January 28, 6:45 p.m. - WUTHE28BE Park City Main Box Office for ticket information. 48 Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Saturday, January 28, 8:30 p.m. - YRSIS28PN Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Presented by COMPLIANCE adobe systems DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Craig Zobel incorporated U.S.A., 2011, 90 min., color

Becky and Sandra aren’t the best of friends. Sandra is a middle-aged manager at a fast-food restaurant; Becky is a teenaged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day (too many customers and too little bacon), a police officer calls, accusing Becky of stealing money from a customer’s purse, which she vehemently denies. Sandra, overwhelmed by her managerial responsibilities, complies with the officer’s orders to detain Becky. This choice begins a nightmare that tragically blurs the lines between expedience and prudence, legality and reason.

Craig Zobel (his The Great World of Sound appeared at the Festival in 2007) returns with this riveting film, based on a true story. The cast delivers hauntingly authentic performances that make the appalling events unfolding onscreen all the more difficult to watch, but impossible to turn away from. Delving into the complex psychology of the real-life story under its sensationalized surface, COMPLIANCE proves that sometimes truth really is stranger than fiction.—T.G.

Pr: Sophia Lin, Lisa Muskat, Tyler Davidson, Theo Sena, Craig Zobel Ci: Adam Stone Ed: Jane Rizzo PrD: Matthew Munn Mu: Heather McIntosh CoD: Karen Malecki Principal Cast: Ann Dowd, Dreama Walker, Pat Healy, Bill Camp

Saturday, January 21, 11:30 a.m. - COMPL21LD Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 9:00 p.m. - COMPL21WN Tower Theatre, SLC Monday, January 23, 11:30 p.m. - COMPL23PL NEXT encompasses a selection of pure, bold works by promising filmmakers Prospector Square Theatre, Park City distinguished by an innovative, forward-thinking approach to storytelling. Wednesday, January 25, 6:00 p.m. - COMPL25SE Digital technology paired with unfettered creativity proves the films selected Screening Room, Sundance Resort NE X T in this section will inform a “greater” next wave in American cinema. < = > Thursday, January 26, noon - COMPL26YD Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

Bellflower 49 I Am Not a Hipster KID-THING Mosquita y Mari DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: David Zellner DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Destin Daniel Cretton U.S.A., 2011, 83 min., color Aurora Guerrero U.S.A., 2012, 90 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 85 min., color On the outskirts of Austin, 10-year-old English and Spanish with English subtitles Things are not looking good for Brook, a Annie tears around on her BMX bike, young, talented singer/songwriter who hurls dough at cars, and smashes things With this auspicious feature film debut, has become the clichéd tortured artist. up with her baseball bat. Her father, a Aurora Guerrero explores the complexities Slow to come to terms with the death goat-farmer-cum-demolition-derby driver, of a budding friendship between two of his mother, Brook is self-absorbed, does little parenting. Annie has no friends Chicana high schoolers in Los Angeles’ aggressive, and the major obstruction to her age, so her daily routine is filled with Huntington Park. Yolanda is stellar in her his own career success. His isolation is solitary mischief. Playing in the woods one studies and makes her parents proud, lifted when his three sisters and estranged day, she hears a woman’s plaintive call while Mari has just moved to town with father come to spread his mother’s ashes. for help from an abandoned well. Though her undocumented family. On her first Brook’s loving sisters have a magical Annie feels driven to visit the well daily, day of school, Mari is assigned to be effect on his anger and apathy, suggesting she is unsure about how to deal with the Yolanda’s study partner. After a rocky there may be hope for the misanthropic woman’s plight. start, the two find a bond that confuses musician after all. them at times. Guerrero’s steady direction Brothers David and Nathan Zellner have allows more intimate understanding of Writer/director Destin Daniel Cretton made an exciting discovery in Sydney the girls’ aspirations and their families’ (whose short film Short Term 12 won the Aguirre, an extraordinary child actor expectations. Jury Prize at the 2009 Sundance Film who gives Annie a rich inner life. The Festival) returns to the Festival with an Zellners return to the Festival with a With evocative performances from extraordinarily moving debut feature. carefully observed film that is both harsh Fenessa Pineda as Yolanda and Venecia Set in a wannabe-cool, art-and-indie and poignant, but one that retains their Troncoso as Mari, we experience their rock scene, I Am Not a Hipster is true idiosyncratic humor—you will learn how struggles: adjusting to their new reality; to its title. Not tragically hip but, rather, to “blow a chicken’s mind.” Atmospheric and charting their own paths in the emotionally rich, this portrait of a man and visually striking, KID-THING is a face of parental sacrifice, immigration in pain celebrates the healing power of haunting fable that explores the choices experiences, and peer pressure. In family love. It aims straight for the heart, an isolated child might make when left to Mosquita y Mari, Aurora Guerrero delivers and hits it.—K.Y. her own morality-free devices.—K.Y. an impressionistic meditation on desire, set in a vibrant Latino community, and Pr: Ron Najor, Destin Daniel Cretton, Trevor Fernando Pr/Ci: Nathan Zellner Ed: Melba Jordorowsky emerges as an exciting new voice in AsP: Asher Goldstein, Ci: Brett Mu: The Octopus Project Principal Cast: Sydney American cinema.—B.R. Pawlak Mu: Joel P. West So: Onnalee Blank CoD: Joy Aguirre, Susan Tyrrell, Nathan Zellner, David Zellner Cretton, Kahana Kalama Principal Cast: Dominic Pr: Chad Burris Ci: Magela Crosignani Ed: Augie Bogart, Alvaro Orlando, Brad William Henke, Tammy Preceded by Don't Hug Me I'm Scared Robles PrD: Dalila Mendez Mu: Ryan Beveridge Minoff, Kandis Erickson, Lauren Coleman Directors: Joseph Pelling, Rebecca Sloan Ca: Michael Sanford Principal Cast: Fenessa United Kingdom, 2011, 3 min., color Pineda, Venecia Troncoso, Laura Patalano, JoaquÍn Garrido, Dulce Maria Solis, Omar Leyva Friday, January 20, 11:30 a.m. - IAMNO20PD Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, 2:30 p.m. - IAMNO21IA Monday, January 23, 2:30 p.m. - KID-T23PA Sunday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. - MOSQU22EN Salt Lake City Library, SLC Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Sunday, January 22, 10:00 p.m. - IAMNO22RN Tuesday, January 24, 9:00 p.m. - KID-T24EN Monday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. - MOSQU23SE Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort ne x t Thursday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. - IAMNO26YE Thursday, January 26, 3:00 p.m. - KID-T26SA Tuesday, January 24, 1:00 p.m. - MOSQU24RD Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Screening Room, Sundance Resort Friday, January 27, 9:00 p.m. - KID-T27BN Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Friday, January 27, 3:00 p.m. - MOSQU27YA Saturday, January 28, 10:00 a.m. - KID-T284M Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Holiday Village Cinema 4, Park City Saturday, January 28, noon - MOSQU28BD Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

50 My Best Day Pursuit of Loneliness Sleepwalk With Me DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Erin Greenwell DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: DIRECTOR: Mike Birbiglia U.S.A., 2012, 75 min., color Laurence Thrush SCREENWRITERS: Mike Birbiglia, U.S.A., 2011, 96 min., b/w Ira Glass, Joe Birbiglia, Seth Barrish Karen can't believe that she has to U.S.A., 2012, 90 min., color work her receptionist gig on a gorgeous After an elderly hospital patient dies, Fourth of July. Then a call comes from a nurse tries unsuccessfully to contact I’m going to tell you a story, and it’s her long-lost father and sets in motion a the next of kin. Later, a social worker true. . . . I always have to tell people that. crazy chain of events that will change one continues the effort but finds only the small town forever. Meanwhile, Megan neighbor who was feeding the patient’s So asserts comedian-turned-playwright- must decide between the stability of dogs. A county investigator fails to turned-filmmaker Mike Birbiglia directly her longtime girlfriend and the thrill of locate any relatives and ultimately must to the viewer at the outset of his a new love. Young Ray fends off bullies process the belongings in the decedent’s autobiographically inspired, fictional and organized sports to woo the girl he home. Meanwhile, we follow a frail man’s feature debut. Birbiglia wears his incisive likes. In a little burg like this, you’d better discharge from the hospital and an older wit on his sleeve while portraying a believe everything is connected, which woman’s day spent running errands and cinematic surrogate. We are thrust means that pretty soon everyone is mixed trying to stay cool during a heat wave. into the tale of a burgeoning stand-up up in each other’s business. comedian struggling with the stress of Laurence Thrush’s wistful Pursuit of a stalled career, a stale relationship Writer/director Erin Greenwell confidently Loneliness underplays conventional threatening to race out of his control, and juggles the multiple plots, serving up dramatic elements in favor of heightened the wild spurts of severe sleepwalking he a charming, up-to-the-minute slice of aestheticism—gorgeous, fixed-frame, is desperate to ignore. Americana. This is Mayberry, 2012, where black-and-white compositions; a Opie waxes existential and Aunt Bea has disquieting score by experimental media Based on the successful one-man show, finally come out of the closet. Greenwell's composer, William Basinski; and a cast of Sleepwalk With Me engages in the kind quirky script and great ensemble nonprofessional actors. Thrush’s precise of passionate and personal storytelling performances ensure that My Best Day vision, with its detached, observational that transfigures intimate anguish into is both subversive and sunny. Cue the quality, passes fluidly among the comic art. Bursting with sincerity, Mike fireworks!—J.K. characters and emphasizes routine, Birbiglia’s foray into the medium marks bureaucracy, and a sense of anonymity. the invigorating emergence of a strong and Pr: Erin Harper Ci: Adam Benn Ed: Babak Rassi With a heartbreaking awareness of poignant American voice, at once hilarious Mu: Terry Dame So: David Briggs Ca: Allison impermanence, we watch the artifacts of a and heartbreaking.—L.Z. Twardziak Principal Cast: Rachel Style, Ashlie Atkinson, Raúl Castillo, Jo Armeniox, Robert life—pets, belongings, memories—reduced to paperwork. We also find ourselves aware Pr: Ira Glass, Jacob Jaffke Ci: Adam Beckman Salerno, Harris Doran Ed: Geoffrey Richman PrD: Tania Bijlani Mu: Andrew of the one thing that appears nowhere in Hollander CoD: Ciera Wells Principal Cast: Mike Preceded by Hellion the film—family.—J.N. Birbiglia, Lauren Ambrose, James Rebhorn, Carol Director: Kat Candler Kane, Cristin Milioti, Aya Cash U.S.A., 2011, 6 min., color Pr: Ken Hanada Ci: Gary Young PrD: Diane Kami Mu: William Basinski SoRec: Vincent Fatato SoDes: Eric Ryan Principal Cast: Joy Hille, Sandra Monday, January 23, 5:30 p.m. - SLEEP23LE Saturday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. - MYBES21YE Escalante, Suzanne Faha, Sharon Munfus, Natalie Library Center Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Fouron, Monique Flores Tuesday, January 24, 9:30 p.m. - SLEEP24RN Monday, January 23, 7:00 p.m. - MYBES23RE Redstone Cinema 8, Park City Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Thursday, January 26, 6:00 p.m. - SLEEP26WE Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. - MYBES25BN Sunday, January 22, noon - PURSU22ED Tower Theatre, SLC Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Egyptian Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 11:30 a.m. - SLEEP27PD ne x t Friday, January 27, 2:30 p.m. - MYBES27PA Monday, January 23, 9:00 p.m. - PURSU23BN Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Wednesday, January 25, 10:00 p.m. - PURSU25RN Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Thursday, January 26, 6:45 p.m. - PURSU26BE Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Saturday, January 28, 3:00 p.m. - PURSU28YA Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

51 That's What She Said TWENTY-EIGHT HOTEL ROOMS DIRECTOR: Carrie Preston DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Matt Ross SCREENWRITER: Kellie Overbey U.S.A., 2011, 82 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 84 min., color While traveling for work in a city far Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee from their homes, a novelist and a are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met corporate accountant find themselves someone new and is in the exuberant phase in bed together. Although she’s married, of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to and he’s seeing someone, their intense move on from someone she can’t forget— attraction turns a one-night stand into mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe waits an unexpected relationship and a respite for the perpetually late DeeDee at their from the obligations of daily life. Through favorite coffee shop, she meets Clementine, a series of moments—some profound, a distraught young woman with love some silly, some intensely intimate—we problems of her own. With Clementine in see a portrait of an evolving relationship tow, Bebe and DeeDee soon embark on the that could become the most significant kind of outrageous misadventure that only one of their lives. New York City can offer. Chris Messina and Marin Ireland turn in Actor/director Carrie Preston takes us on a outstanding performances. Each exhibits touching, emotional, and hilarious ride full a vulnerability and emotional honesty of heart. With sharp writing and strong that allows the audience to connect comedic performances all around, That’s intensely with the two characters and What She Said is a brazen and honest look every moment they share. TWENTY-EIGHT at friendship, love, and the lies we tell HOTEL ROOMS is director/screenwriter ourselves along the way.—L.O. Matt Ross’s first feature, and it is a candid, exquisitely constructed mosaic. The ExP: Mark Holmes, James Vasquez Pr: Lucy Barzun film adeptly illustrates how seemingly Donnelly, Joshua Astrachan, Mona Panchal, Carrie inconsequential moments and actions can Preston Ci: William Klayer Ed: Anita Brandt Burgoyne ArD: Bobby Berg Mu: Tim Adams, Mike often mean more than we suspect.—L.O. Viola Principal Cast: Anne Heche, Alia Shawkat, Marcia DeBonis, Kellie Overbey, Kate Rigg ExP: Chris Messina, Joey Carey, Stefan Nowicki, Alex Sagalchik Pr: Lynette Howell, Louise Runge, Samantha Housman CoP: Crystal Powell Ci: Doug Emmett Ed: Joseph Krings Mu: Fall on Your Sword Friday, January 20, 5:30 p.m. - THATS20PE Principal Cast: Chris Messina, Marin Ireland Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, noon - THATS21ID Salt Lake City Library, SLC Saturday, January 21, 11:30 p.m. - THATS21PL Saturday, January 21, 3:00 p.m. - 28HOT21YA Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Yarrow Hotel Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 2:30 p.m. - THATS25LA Sunday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. - 28HOT22IN Library Center Theatre, Park City Salt Lake City Library, SLC Monday, January 23, 1:00 p.m. - 28HOT23RD Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Friday, January 27, 6:00 p.m. - 28HOT27EE Egyptian Theatre, Park City ne x t SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

52 Black Rock Excision DIRECTOR: Katie Aselton DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: SCREENWRITER: Mark Duplass Richard Bates Jr. U.S.A., 2011, 83 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 81 min., color

Sarah invites her old friends, Abby and Pauline isn’t your typical teen. She picks Lou, on a reunion trip to a remote island in scabs, dissects road kill, and fantasizes . There will be laughter, tears, and a about performing surgery on strangers. boozy catharsis. It’s the sort of weekend Her fascinations disturb her parents that can transform the three into fully and her classmates. Pauline reserves realized, grown-ass women. You already special disdain for “the church” and her know this movie, right? Wrong. “therapist,” Reverend William, who, in Pauline's mind, is in no position to judge, Emotional release will come, but this is no or indulge in, her psychosexual fantasies. weepy ballad of reconciliation. Working from No one understands Pauline except for a script by her husband, Mark Duplass, Katie Grace, her younger sister, who suffers Aselton returns to the Festival with a taut, from cystic fibrosis. An outcast at school satisfying thriller. As the danger rises, the and at home, Pauline decides she is ready gorgeous cinematography transforms the to lose her virginity . . . and this is when the bucolic island into sinister and elemental weirdness really begins. Raucous, rowdy, terrain. Kate Bosworth, Lake Bell, and and rebellious; director Aselton capitalize on the material Richard Bates Jr. directs the hell out of softies need not and deliver remarkable performances, this film with an expert understanding enter. Park City imbuing moments of unbearable suspense of multiple genres. Elements of horror, at Midnight is with raw emotion. teen comedy, and cult classic are blended for the hard- into a bone-jarring vision and peppered So go get your chick-flick jollies core film lovers with great performances from the likes somewhere else! The women of Black who get so of and John Waters. But it is Rock have to confront something far more engrossed in Annalynne McCord’s hideously captivating dangerous—and heavily armed—than a cinematic performance as Pauline that we may never their feelings.—J.K. experience forget. Excision will burrow under your they don’t skin and remain with you long after the ExP: Mark Duplass, Jay Duplass Pr: Romanski lights come on.—T.G. even notice it’s CoP: Mary Budd Ci: Hillary Spera Ed: Jacob Vaughan Mu: Peter Golub Principal Cast: Kate tomorrow. From ExP: Robert Higginbotham, Thomas Wood Jr. Bosworth, Lake Bell, Katie Aselton horror flicks Pr: Dylan Hale Lewis Ci: Itay Gross Ed: Yvonne to comedies Valdez, Steve Ansell Mu: Mads Heldtberg, Steve to works that Damstra II CoD: Anthony Tran Principal Cast: defy any genre, Saturday, January 21, 11:45 p.m. - BLROC21LL AnnaLynne McCord, Traci Lords, , Library Center Theatre, Park City Roger Bart, Jeremy Sumpter, John Waters these unruly Sunday, January 22, 9:00 p.m. - BLROC22WN films will keep Tower Theatre, SLC Preceded by LAZAROV you edge- Tuesday, January 24, 9:00 a.m. - BLROC24TM Director: Nieto seated and Temple Theatre, Park City France, 2010, 5 min., color wide awake. Wednesday, January 25, midnight - BLROC25EL Egyptian Theatre, Park City

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Three . . . Extremes 53 Grabbers JOHN DIES AT THE END The Pact DIRECTOR: Jon Wright DIRECTOR: Don Coscarelli DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: SCREENWRITER: Kevin Lehane SCREENWRITER: Don Coscarelli, Nicholas McCarthy United Kingdom, 2011, 92 min., color based on the novel by David Wong U.S.A., 2011, 91 min., color U.S.A., 2011, 108 min., color & b/w Something sinister has come to the Annie returns home to attend her much- shores of Erin Island, unbeknownst to On the street, they call it “soy sauce.” despised mother’s funeral as a favor to her the quaint population of this sleepy It’s a paranormal, psychoactive drug that older sister. Sleeping in her old bedroom, fishing village resting somewhere off promises an out-of-body experience with Annie senses something unfamiliar in Ireland’s coast. First, some fishermen go each hit. Its users drift across time and the house. She enlists the help of a local missing. Then there is the rash of whale dimensions, but some who come back cop and a clairvoyant to answer some carcasses suddenly washing up on the are devoid of all humanity. While most questions surrounding her mother’s death. beach. When the murders start, it’s up to of Earth’s inhabitants remain blissfully As long-repressed nightmares begin to two mismatched cops—an irresponsible oblivious to its threat—make no mistake— haunt Annie’s life again, an unsettling alcoholic and his new partner, a by-the- an otherworldly invasion is under way, and presence emerges in her childhood home. book woman from the mainland—to mankind needs to be saved. Enter John and protect the townsfolk from the giant, David, a pair of college dropouts who can Based on a short film that premiered at bloodsucking, tentacled aliens that prey barely hold down jobs. How can these guys the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, Nicholas upon them. Their only weapon, they possibly be expected to rescue mankind McCarthy’s The Pact penetrates beneath discover, is booze. If they want to survive from certain destruction? your skin from the opening drone of its the creatures’ onslaught, everyone will score with an uneasiness that grows have to get very, very drunk! Originally erupting from the devilishly steadily with every unsettling twist. ingenious mind of David Wong, alter ego McCarthy’s debut feature modernizes Director Jon Wright’s whimsical of Cracked.com’s senior editor Jason the classic haunted house story by throwback to classic monster flicks Pargin, JOHN DIES AT THE END began sharply mixing genre elements to keep relishes in delivering perfectly timed as a Web serial that became an Internet the audience always on their toes. thrills and madcap antics. In true cult phenomenon. In the highly capable hands Cinematographer Bridger Nielson’s fashion, Grabbers imparts the great fun of legendary cult horror director Don camera stalks badass heroine Caity Lotz, of a spooky old carnival ride with an Irish Coscarelli (, Bubba Ho-Tep), both in sudden action and in silent terror, twist. Don’t forget to grab a drink!—L.Z. Pargin’s wildly trippy vision is forged into as she uncovers the dark mysteries behind big-screen eye candy. The end result will each door.—C.R. Pr: Tracy Brimm, Kate Myers Pr: Martina Nilard, take you to places in your subconscious that Piers Tempest, Eduardo Levy, James Martin you shouldn’t be allowed to visit.—A.M. ExP: Jamie Carmichael Pr: Ross M. Dinerstein Ci: Trevor Forrest Ed: Matt Platts-Mills CoP: Jaime Burke AsP: Sam Zuckerman Mu: Christian Henson Principal Cast: Richard Coyle, ExP: , Daniel Carey Pr: Brad Baruh, Ci: Bridger Nielson PrD: Walter Barnett Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey, Lalor Roddy, Don Coscarelli, Andy Meyers, Roman Perez Principal Cast: Caity Lotz, Casper Van Dien, David Pearse, Bronagh Gallagher Ci: Mu: Haley Hudson, Kathleen Rose Perkins, Sam Ball, Principal Cast: Chase Williamson, Rob Mayes, Agnes Bruckner Paul Giamatti, , , Monday, January 23, 11:45 p.m. - GRBBR23LL Doug Jones Preceded by Once It Started Library Center Theatre, Park City It Could Not End Otherwise Wednesday, January 25, 9:45 p.m. - GRBBR25BN Director: Kelly Sears Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Monday, January 23, midnight - JOHND23EL U.S.A., 2011, 8 min., color Thursday, January 26, midnight - GRBBR26EL Egyptian Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City Wednesday, January 25, 9:00 p.m. - JOHND25WN Friday, January 27, 11:30 p.m. - GRBBR27PL Tower Theatre, SLC Friday, January 20, midnight - PACTT20EL

midnig h t cit y at park Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 11:45 p.m. - JOHND26LL Egyptian Theatre, Park City Library Center Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 21, midnight - PACTT21BL Saturday, January 28, 10:00 p.m. - JOHND28RN Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Tuesday, January 24, 11:45 p.m. - PACTT24LL Library Center Theatre, Park City Thursday, January 26, 9:00 p.m. - PACTT26EN Egyptian Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, midnight - PACTT28WL Tower Theatre, SLC SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

54 SHUT UP AND PLAY THE HITS Tim and Eric's Billion V/H/S DIRECTORS: Dylan Southern, Will Lovelace Dollar Movie DIRECTORS: , Glenn United Kingdom, 2011, 105 min., color DIRECTORS/SCREENWRITERS: McQuaid, Radio Silence, , Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim , With the release of their debut album in U.S.A., 2011, 94 min., color SCREENWRITERS: Simon Barrett, Glenn 2005, New York City’s LCD Soundsystem McQuaid, Matt Bettinelli-Olpin, Tyler changed the face of dance music, Tim and Eric are given a billion dollars to Gillett, Justin Martinez, Chad Villella, combining equal parts punk, soul, and make a movie but squander every dime, David Bruckner, Nicholas Tecosky, Ti West disco. Their devoted fan base steadily and the sinister Schlaaang Corporation is U.S.A., 2011, 104 min., color grew, bolstered by Grammy nominations pissed. Their lives at stake, the guys skip and recognition as one of the best live town in search of some way to pay the When a group of petty criminals is hired bands in the world. In early 2011, touring money back. They happen upon a chance by a mysterious party to retrieve a rare to support their first Billboard Top 10 to rehabilitate a bankrupt mall full of piece of found footage from a rundown debut, LCD Soundsystem announced its vagrants, bizarre stores, and a man-eating house in the middle of nowhere, they soon largest gig to date—Madison Square wolf that stalks the food court, and they realize that the job isn’t going to be as Garden—and that the concert would be see dollar signs—a billion of them. easy as they thought. In the living room, a their last ever. lifeless body holds court before a hub of After conquering cable, animation, music, old television sets, surrounded by stacks With fly-on-the-wall access, Dylan and the Internet, Tim and Eric’s feature upon stacks of VHS tapes. As they search Southern and Will Lovelace’s concert film debut is full of inappropriate humor that for the right one, they are treated to a captures the final 48 hours of a band in you will never be able to unsee. The duo seemingly endless number of horrifying complete control of its destiny. Packed write, direct, and star in this twisted videos, each stranger than the last. with high-energy farewell performances, adventure through the extremes of narrated by a frank conversation on comedy, featuring some of the biggest Bringing together some of the top success and rock stardom between movie stars today in some of the strangest filmmakers in the game today, this bandleader James Murphy and writer roles of their careers. This is a film like wickedly conceived horror anthology Chuck Klosterman, Shut Up and Play none other. “Great job!”—C.R. sends the viewer through a gauntlet of the Hits proves that if you’re hearing suspense, terror, shock, and downright about LCD Soundsystem just now, you’ve Pr: Dave Kneebone, Jon Mugar, Ben Cosgrove, brutality—instantly distinguishing itself already missed the party.—C.R. Todd Wagner, Adam McKay, Will Ferrell, Chris from a sea of lackluster found-footage Henchy Ci: Ed: Daniel Haworth PrD: Rosie Sanders Principal Cast: Tim Heidecker, horror flicks. The diverse and deviously ExP: Christine Vachon, Keith Wood, The Creators Eric Wareheim, Will Ferrell, John C. Reilly, creative minds behind V/H/S shatter any Project Pr: Lucas Ochoa, Thomas Benski, James Zach Galifianakis, Will Forte preconceived notions about the genre, Murphy Ci: Reed Morano Ed: Mark Burnett making it feel inventive and captivating once again.—A.M. Friday, January 20, 11:45 p.m. - TIM&E20LL Sunday, January 22, midnight - SHUTU22EL Library Center Theatre, Park City Egyptian Theatre, Park City ExP: Tom Owen, Zak Zeman Pr: Roxanne Benjamin, Saturday, January 21, 6:00 p.m. - TIM&E21WE Monday, January 23, 9:45 p.m. - SHUTU23BN Gary Binkow, Brad Miska Principal Cast: Joe Swanberg, Tower Theatre, SLC Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Adam Wingard, Sophia Takal, Kate Lyn Sheil, Tuesday, January 24, 6:00 p.m. - TIM&E24EE Wednesday, January 25, 11:30 p.m. - SHUTU25PL Calvin Reeder, Lane Hughes Egyptian Theatre, Park City Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Friday, January 27, 11:45 p.m. - TIM&E27LL Friday, January 27, 10:00 p.m. - SHUTU27RN Library Center Theatre, Park City Redstone Cinema 7, Park City Sunday, January 22, 11:45 p.m. - V/H/S22LL Saturday, January 28, 6:00 p.m. - TIM&E28BE Saturday, January 28, 9:45 p.m. - SHUTU28BN Library Center Theatre, Park City Broadway Centre Cinema 6, SLC Broadway Centre Cinema 3, SLC Monday, January 23, 6:00 p.m. - V/H/S23WE

Tower Theatre, SLC midnig h t cit y at park Tuesday, January 24, 11:30 p.m. - V/H/S24PL Prospector Square Theatre, Park City Saturday, January 28, 11:45 p.m. - V/H/S28LL Library Center Theatre, Park City SUNDANCE.ORG/FESTIVAL

55 Daughters of the Dust Reality Bites DIRECTOR/SCREENWRITER: Julie Dash DIRECTOR: Ben Stiller U.S.A., 1991, 113 min., color SCREENWRITER: Helen Childress U.S.A., 1994, 94 min., Color Julie Dash’s vibrant tribute to her Gullah ancestors is a celebration of their unique Lainie just graduated from college traditions and lifestyle, which these as valedictorian, but she’s already descendants of African slaves struggled disenchanted with life. Only one to preserve on the seacoast islands off the thing seems meaningful—shooting Carolina and Georgia coasts. It is 1902, a documentary about her equally and many members of the Peazant family disillusioned friends: her clever, irreverent are preparing for a new, assimilated life on roommate, Vickie; easygoing, sexually the mainland. Their choice to leave sparks confused Sammy; and Troy, a chronically tension with those who are remaining unemployed musician who uses incisive behind. There are snatches of story, but wit to keep people and commitment at a the film concentrates on capturing a time safe distance. When yuppie Michael, who and place that no longer exist. works for an edgy television network, takes an interest in Lainie and her videos, It is no wonder that this film won the 1991 things start looking up. Soon, though, Festival’s Excellence in Cinematography Troy’s ambivalent reaction to her new Award. Arthur Jafa’s camera embraces relationship makes all three look hard the Gullah world and lingers lovingly on at what they value. Rediscover classic works its details, creating incandescent images: of independent cinema girls in white dancing on a beach; three When it premiered at the Sundance as the Sundance Film women unfurling an enormous, tattered Film Festival, Reality Bites marked Festival present two parasol; the soft ocean breeze stirring the Stiller’s directorial debut and his first film from the vaults of curtains of a cabin. chance to transfer his savvy sense of Universal Studios and humor to film. Stiller’s sardonic eye and the Sundance Institute Daughters of the Dust is noteworthy on screenwriter Helen Childress’s realistic Collection at UCLA. A multiple levels: it documented a slice of ear for the language of her generation unique archive devoted to little-known history, marked the debut turn this portrait of the aspirations preserving indie film, the of an accomplished female filmmaker, and frustrations of twentysomethings Collection exists not only and was part of a surge of black cinema in the chaotic, materialistic 1990s into to save important works in the 1980s and ’90s. Thanks to Kino something deeper than just romantic that would otherwise International and the UCLA Film and comedy. Even the film’s title does disappear but also to Television Archive for providing this print, double-duty: is “bites” a noun or a verb? make them accessible which has been beautifully restored by to new audiences and Janice Allen and Cinema Arts.—B.B. Thanks to Universal Studios for this newly show them as they were struck print, a result of the studio’s intended to be seen: on ExP: Lindsay Law Pr: Julie Dash, Arthur Jafa, Steven significant commitment to restoring its the big screen. Formed Jones Ci: Arthur Jafa Ed: Amy Carey, Joseph Burton most-loved films in celebration of its PrD: Kerry Marshall Mu: John Barnes Principal in partnership with the Cast: Cora Lee Day, Alva Rogers, Barbarao, Trula rich history and cultural impact on its UCLA Film and Television Hoosier, Cheryl Lynn Bruce, Adisa Anderson hundredth anniversary. —B.B. Archive and growing

midnig h t cit y at park through the support of ExP: Clay Malcolm, Stacey Sher Pr: Danny DeVito, donor companies and Monday, January 23, 3:00 p.m. - DAUGH23EA Michael Shamberg Ci: individual filmmakers, the Egyptian Theatre, Park City Ed: Lisa Churgin PrD: Sharon Seymour Principal Cast: Ben Stiller, , Collection now contains Winona Ryder, Janeane Garofalo, Steve Zahn more than 800 films.

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56 X: The Unheard Music