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December 2, 2010

Sundance 2011 (pt. 1)

Monday brought the news that Bryan Poyser and Megan Gilbride have been nominated for an Independent Spirit Award for Lovers Of Hate, roughly a year to the day that it was announced that that very film would be playing in competition at Sundance. Which means that it's time for this year's Sundance Lineup, which but for the short films has been revealed in its entirety.

Folks whose names I'm thrilled to see:

Joe's is the only one I've seen a cut off. It's also, incidentally, the only one which doesn't feature a fine actor and wonderful human being named Robert Longstreet in the cast. I was telling a friend the other day that everyone who meets Robert wants to work with him, so a landslide like this was bound to happen at some point.

Other films I'm excited to see include Azazel Jacobs' Terri, Meagan Griffith's The Off Hours, Matthew Lessner's The Woods and especially Zach Godshall's Lord Byron (Zach's Low and Behold - starring Robert Longstreet! - premiered at Sundance a few years ago, but his follow-up, the beautiful documentary God's Architects, was sadly underseen). I'm also, of course, looking forward to the films I know nothing about.

(Conspicuously absent from the lineup: Ti West's The Inkeepers, Dustin Guy Defa's Bad Fever and Clay Liford's My Mom Smokes Weed followup Wuss, all of which I'll be keeping an eye out for at other spring festivals...)

Posted by David Lowery at December 2, 2010 3:02 PM