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  1. best of the fest
    Best. Sundance. Ever?Special acting prize recipient: Mo’Nique!
    By Bilge Ebiri
  2. chat room
    An Education’s Carey Mulligan on Not Playing a LolitaWe speak to Mulligan about having an “out-of-body experience” experience at Sundance and realizing how young she looks in a school uniform.
    By Logan Hill
  3. best of the fest
    Sundance Shocker: Michael Cera’s Paper Heart Takes a Schoolyard Beating“A holocaust of twee.”
    By Bilge Ebiri
  4. chat room
    Stella Schnabel on Her Breakout Sundance PerformanceWe speak to Schnabel about improvising scenes with non-actors, the difference between acting and real life, and her famous father.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  5. best of the fest
    James Gandolfini on a Sopranos Movie: ‘It Would Be Great to Bring Everyone Back Together’“Obviously it is the writing of the script, and if David [Chase] and them come up with something.”
    By Steve Ramos
  6. best of the fest
    Brittany Snow Can Act!Every so often we see a film at Sundance that shows us actors we had previously dismissed in a wondrous new light.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  7. best of the fest
    Critic Hits Dude at SundanceIndie producer and sales agent Jeff ‘the Dude’ Dowd turned a late-morning interview into a Sundance smackdown today.
    By Steve Ramos
  8. best of the fest
    Blogger’s Cowboy-Hat Ordeal Comes to Close at Sundance“Leaving an article of clothing, something with your scent on it, means that you intend to come back and spray your scent around some more.”
    By Bilge Ebiri
  9. best of the fest
    We’ve Seen Steven Soderbergh’s Porn-Star Flick, The Girlfriend ExperienceThe movie was shot in sixteen days with a cast of non-professionals, save for the lead: porn actress Sasha Grey.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  10. best of the fest
    Sundance Wants to Sex You UpAshton Kutcher gigolo flick! Amber Heard constantly naked! Possible secret screening of Steven Soderbergh’s Sasha Grey flick!
    By Bilge Ebiri
  11. best of the fest
    The Obama Sundance: The Buzz So FarThis weekend, optimistic, humanist stories bloomed like daisies.
    By Logan Hill
  12. best of the fest
    Sundance: Shock Docs Seize the Power of the ImageThis year’s documentarians are bringing us images from places we’re not meant to see.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  13. best of the fest
    Sundance: Fest Director Suggests The Greatest May in Fact Be, Well, the GreatestSo far, the most important question of the festival.
    By Bilge Ebiri
  14. apropos of nothing
    Dead Snow Becomes First Film to Tackle Delicate Nazi Zombie RelationsIt’s about time!
    By Mark Graham
  15. trailer mix
    I Love You Phillip Morris Trailer: Jim Carrey in Near-Fatal, Gay-Making Car AccidentPitched as ‘Catch Me If You Can’ meets ‘Brokeback Mountain,’ this looks more like ‘Chuck and Larry’ meets ‘Let’s Go to Prison.’
    By Lane Brown
  16. sundance
    Sundance Announces Bummer-Less, Iraq-Free Lineup’We’ve moved away from the syndrome of filmmakers only able to talk about themselves,’ says fest director Geoffrey Gilmore.
    By Lane Brown
  17. countdown
    Michael Cera to Star in ‘Paper Hearts,’ the World’s Best MovieThe makers of the top-secret ‘Hearts’ are trying to keep the movie under wraps in hopes that it’ll take Sundance by surprise in January.
    By Lane Brown
  18. awesome
    Sundance Opens With ClaymationSundance’s opening-night film? ‘Mary and Max,’ a claymation drama starring Philip Seymour Hoffman and Toni Collette.
    By Logan Hill
  19. prop 8
    Prop 8 Protesters Target SundanceProp 8 stinks, but we don’t see much point in boycotting Sundance.
    By Lane Brown
  20. chat room
    ‘Sangre de Mi Sangre’ Director Christopher Zalla on Making New York Scary“When we were shooting in these conditions on this low budget, we would never have thought people would say this is too slick.”
  21. chat room
    Jason Ritter on LL Cool J, ‘Good Dick,’ and Sundance“I’m not exaggerating at all when I say his bicep is the size of my head.”
  22. chat room
    Rock-Star Cinematographer Ellen Kuras on Sundance, the Stones, and Her Directorial DebutThe cinematographer of epic films like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and He Got Game is presenting her directorial debut at Sundance this week — Nerakhoon (The Betrayal), a project 23 years in the making.
  23. chat room
    ‘Be Like Others’ Director Tanaz Eshaghian on Sundance, Sex Changes, and the Ayatollah“She claims it was the happiest moment of her life — when Khomeini called her a woman.”
  24. chat room
    ‘Momma’s Man’ Director Azazel Jacobs on Sundance, Real Estate, and Living With His ParentsIf you’d grown up an aspiring filmmaker with parents like experimental director Ken Jacobs and his longtime collaborator-wife Florence, it’s only natural that we’d see their influence on your work. Their son Azazel Jacobs took things a bit further, though.
  25. the industry
    The New Savior of Sundance Is … Steve Coogan?Plus industry news on Kirsten Dunst, Selma Blair, and Blind Melon. Yes, Blind Melon. Yes, that Blind Melon.
  26. news reel
    Is a Slamdance Horror Movie the Next ‘Cloverfield’?But with ghosts instead of a big-ass monster.
  27. tube junkie
    Katrina Survivors Score a Sundance HitTwo days before Katrina hit, small-time hustler, sometime drug dealer, and non-stop motormouth Kim Roberts bought a used video camera for twenty bucks. Then she filmed as she and her husband helped 25 neighbors survive and escape the waters.
  28. news reel
    Harvey Weinstein Just Wants to Kiss and Make Up at SundanceThe volatile executive makes a play for a movie by a filmmaker whose last film he dumped.
  29. chat room
    ‘Gonzo’ Director Alex Gibney on Hunter S. Thompson, Torture, and SundanceThe director of Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room on his new Sundance documentary.
  30. the early word
    What’s Buzzing at Sundance: Hold On, We’ll Find SomethingYou can’t say Sundance is a bust — if these films were at Tribeca, everyone would be thrilled. But so far it’s definitely a dud.
  31. the early word
    ‘Art Star’ Vanessa Beecroft: Slammed at SundanceA new documentary shows the art provocateur at her worst.
  32. the early-evening news
    The Rolling Stones Are the Anti-RadioheadPlus: Sundance begins!
  33. agenda
    Screen NYC-centric Sundance Shorts in Your CubicleStarting at midnight, you can catch Sundance films by New Yorkers!
  34. the early-evening news
    Hilarious Doug Morris Interview Now a Hilarious Web ComicPlus: Conan O’Brien the world’s greatest boss?
  35. apropos of nothing
    Next Year’s Sundance Film Festival Lineup Just As Depressing As This Year’sIf you were planning on attending the Sundance Film Festival but had some reservations about sitting through yet another batch of miserable indie flicks and vitriolic documentaries, well, you may just want to stay home and play Nintendo.
  36. countdown
    New ‘His Dark Materials’ Book Coming in the SpringThis is exactly what we wish J.K. Rowling would do.
  37. the early-evening news
    Jerry Bruckheimer Back to What He Does Best: Blowing Shit UpPlus news on Jeffrey Katzenberg, Bob Dylan, and the coming zombie apocalypse.
  38. trailer mix
    ‘Southland Tales’ Trailer Presents World’s Greatest Cast in World’s Weirdest MovieRichard Kelly’s follow-up to Donnie Darko boasts one of the all-time great WTF casts in the history of cinema.
  39. leak of the week
    Will.I.Am’s New Solo Album Unlikely to Be Mistaken for TimbalandYep, it’s a stinker.
  40. art candy
    A Sub-Continental Picasso Gets His DueS.H.Raza’s Prakriti Purush, 2006.
  41. quote machine
    Jerry Seinfeld Takes Orders From a Higher PowerSarah Michelle Gellar, Jim Gaffigan, and more!