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21 Movies We Can’t Wait to See at This Year’s Sundance Film Festival
The horror movies we’re watching at midnight, a Kristen Stewart double feature, and the Lucy Liu and Julia Fox team-up of our dreams.
Last night marked the start of the 40th annual Sundance Film Festival, and it is putting on all kinds of programming to commemorate the fest’s history, like a 4K restoration of Napoleon Dynamite, which premiered in Park City 20 years ago. The prolific independent director Nathan Silver’s work has received more and more attention in recent years, and now he makes his Sundance debut with this comedy starring Jason Schwartzman as a depressed cantor and the great Carol Kane as an older woman who wants to finally have her bat mitzvah. It seems like this will be less Behind the Music scandal and more fond reminiscing by a twinkly eyed Lionel Richie (who co-wrote the song with Michael Jackson), but it should be thoroughly entertaining to watch old footage of a bunch of coked-up pop stars harmonizing.
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