Schadenfreude alert: As someone who cares at least a little bit about keeping film criticism separate from unapologetic Hollywood whoring, I can't help but find some small measure of delight in the fall of Paul Fischer.

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Problem: You want to pick the Oscar winners with your film-buff pals, but you haven't seen all the documentary features. Solution: SLC Film Center screenings the week of Feb. 22.

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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has made its announcements, and movie buffs are lining up either to cheer or fume. Here are a few interesting bits of trivia connected to the 2010 nominations.

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The 2010 Sundance Film Festival has come to a close, and the winners have been announced, but you might still have something to say about the films. Would you like to get some free stuff for doing so? 

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The awards have been announced and the out-of-towners are heading home, but there's still one more day of Salt Lake City Sundance screenings.

Your best choice should you head down to the Rose Wagner Center -- not the Tower Theatre, as mistakenly indicated in the Film Guide -- is Nowhere Boy, a biographical sketch of John Lennon as a teenager. If you take a chance on Twelve, be forewarned that the word of mouth on Joel Schumacher's adaptation of teen author Nick O'Donnell's novel has been fairly toxic. If possible, go out on a high note.

The last full-day Sundance slate of Salt Lake City films offers a few great choices -- including what may be the festival's consensus best film.

Winter's Bone has been hailed by most festival attendees as the strongest film in the U.S. Dramatic Competition. Meanwhile, Life 2.0 proved to be one of its most interesting documentaries (though it screened out of competition in the Spotlight category). And later tonight, the Shorts Program I collects four great pieces, including one by director Spike Jonze (Where the Wild Things Are, Being John Malkovich).

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If there’s anything that a good film festival should do—indeed, that good art of any kind should do—it’s to introduce you to worlds and points of view you hadn’t contemplated before. Even more compelling is when you think you have contemplated a word before, but realize that there much more to it than you though.

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Got a Sundance movie on your Friday night agenda? You've certainly got quite a few good ones to choose from at SLC theaters.

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