Sundance Comes To Your Town With Sundance Film Festival USA
The2011 Sundance Film Festivalis fast approaching and if you can’t make it to Utah yourself, the festival is bringing some of its highest profile films to a city near you.
The largest and most important U.S. film festival will take place from January 20-30 in and around Park City, Utah and the selection of films this year is nothing short of remarkable.In competition thereare films like Michael Rapaport’s Tribe Called Quest documentaryBeats, Rhymes and Life, and Vera Farmiga’sHigher Ground,out of competition thereare films like Kevin Smith’sRed Stateand Morgan Spurlock’s documentaryThe Greatest Movie Ever Soldand even theshort film selectionshave films with stars like Will Ferrell, Jack Black, Julia Stiles and Isabella Rossellini. And that’s not even beginning to scratch the surface. All in all, over 200 brand new movies will be screening at the festival and, if you are a film fan, you owe it to yourself to get up to Utah at some point for this momentous annual event.
If you can’t, though, there are two options. The first is to keep you browser locked onto /Film because we’ll have extensive coverage. Or, if you live in Ann Arbor, Michigan, Brookline, Massachusetts, Brooklyn, New York, Chicago, Illinois, Los Angeles, California, Madison, Wisconsin, Nashville, Tennessee, San Francisco, California or Seattle, Washington, just head to your local theater. On January 27, those cities are going to host special screenings of high profile films will be premiering at Sundance. It’s theSundance Film Festival USAprogram. Get all the specifics after the break.
“A major component of the Sundance Institute mission is to expand and engage audiences for independent storytelling,” said Keri Putnam, Executive Director, Sundance Institute in a news release. “Sundance Film Festival USAis an extension of the Institute’s year-round support of independent theaters across the country – designed both to provide people with access to films premiering at the Festival, and to encourage interaction between artists and audiences.”
To that aim, here are the films that will be playing in each of the cities listed above complete with their stars and more. Tickets for all the films are available through each theater’s individual box office, which is linked.
Win Win/ U.S.A. –Ann Arbor, MI–Michigan Theaterwww.michtheater.org
My Idiot Brother/ U.S.A. –Brookline, MA–Coolidge Corner Theatrewww.coolidge.org
Kaboom/ U.S.A. –Brooklyn, NY–BAMwww.bam.org
The Music Never Stopped/ U.S.A. –Chicago, IL–Music Box Theatrewww.musicboxtheatre.com
The Details/ U.S.A. –Los Angeles, CA–Vintage Cinemas Vista Theatre(323) 660-6639
Like Crazy/ U.S.A. —Madison, WI–Sundance Cinemas Madisonwww.sundancecinemas.com
Letters from the Big Man/ U.S.A. –Nashville, TN–The Belcourt Theatrewww.belcourt.org
Connected: An Autoblogography about Love, Death & Technology/ U.S.A. –San Francisco, CA–Sundance Kabuki Cinemaswww.sundancecinemas.com
Cedar Rapids/ U.S.A. –Seattle, WA–The Egyptian Theater and special post-festival screening in Ann Arbor, MI–Michigan Theater (date TBA)http://www.landmarktheatres.com/market/Seattle/EgyptianTheatre.htmandwww.michtheater.org
If you can’t make it to Sundance, what better way to get into the spirit than to go see one of these movies? Are you going to head out to the theater?
