2017 Sundance Film Festival

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[esteban²]

Nice. I used to do that at Filmfestival Ghent (Flanders), few days of movies and ... more movies. I whish you a great time, even though it's a bit early.

Any titles rumored yet?

[kylec123]

Would love to go to a large film festival like this. Someday!

[esteban²]

Better too early than too late, JWFord

Ow, didn't realize I mentioned it before. Um, it's a smaller European Film Festival, I would say if Cannes and Venice share the first place, Berlin number two ... Flanders International Film Festival Ghent is number three, the way I see it. It's the festival where the World Soundtrack Awards take place every year in October.

[Foggy]

Sundance has gone too mainstream now, it's no longer the place that optimistic young raw talent goes to show off their skill. At most it's just rich kids with an investment out of the bank of Mum and Dad to show all their cool friends that they're filmmakers. It's all just too corporate now, with big conglomerates pouncing on the lifeblood of the place.

[jacobsever]

I really want to go and just buy single tickets. All the passes are so expensive. But I could swing a few solo tickets at $20 a pop.

[jacobsever]

Originally Posted by Foggy

Sundance has gone too mainstream now, it's no longer the place that optimistic young raw talent goes to show off their skill. At most it's just rich kids with an investment out of the bank of Mum and Dad to show all their cool friends that they're filmmakers. It's all just too corporate now, with big conglomerates pouncing on the lifeblood of the place.

I kinda see where you're coming from. Slamdance is always another option. Takes place in Park City at the same time as Sundance. It was created to keep things smaller/more indie/lower budget/etc. Kinda an opposition to how mainstream Sundance got.

With that being said, just from this year's Sundance we got:

Morris From America
White Girl
Swiss Army Man
Captain Fantastic
Certain Women
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Manchester by the Sea
The Fits
Under the Shadow
Trash Fire
The Greasy Strangler
Carnage Park
Operation Avalanche
The Eyes of My Mother
Tickled
Sing Street
Green Room
Embrace of the Serpent
The Lobster
Rams

Those all played and/or premiered at Sundance this year.
All the ones in bold are in my Top 10. So yeah, I'm still a fan of Sundance.

[Foggy]

I was only being half serious with my post. Most films I love come out of Sundance, but how many would you really say are "discovered" there. The Lobster came out October last year over here and was already nominated for BAFTA's by the time Sundance came around, let alone it has Colin Ferrell, Rachael Weitz and John C. Reilly amongst many others. Embrace of the Serpent was up for the Oscar, Green Room had Patrick Stewart and Anton Yelchin. It sort of goes on and on. I think my point is it's no longer different than stuff like Toronto or Vancouver film festivals for award run films, it's less about getting found and just promotion. I think the biggest piss take of it was premiering Jupiter Ascending there, regardless of your thoughts on the film, it doesn't really belong amongst films that have zero exposure.

[Buscemi]

Usually, I look forward to the Documentary section more but this year, the Narrative films look to be where it's at. The most interesting one to me might be The Hero for a variety of reasons.

And they are still calling David Lowery a filmmaker of the future? You think after having made a big-budget film for Disney, they would put him in the main competition.

Lastly, something tells me Patti Cake$ is going to the 2017 festival's The Bronze/Bound to Venegance.

[Scottie]

From the U.S. dramatic, Walking Out sounds very good.

In terms of world dramatic, Free and Easy, The Nile Hilton Incident, and I Dream in Another Language have caught my attention.

[UltraMario9]

Band Aid immediately caught my attention for having Fred Armisen (Most underrated SNL alumni IMO) in the cast but The Hero sounds very fascinating. 2017 is going to be a very promising if not great year in cinema, that's for sure

[Margot Robbie Fan]

Is there a particular site which is good at reporting which film has been sold to which distributor during/after Sundance?

[spanky87]

Marti Noxon's directorial debut, "To The Bone", sounds like such typical indie bullshit.

Really, that's the best she's got?

Originally Posted by Margot Robbie Fan

Is there a particular site which is good at reporting which film has been sold to which distributor during/after Sundance?

Hollywoodreporter.com

[MikeScott]

Colossal looks awesome. I would love to go to a big film festival. Especially this year as I'm dying to see Call Me By Your Name. I'm also very interested in Thoroughbred and several others.