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Sundance 2012: Locals Best Bets 1/26

{Ak_posted} Local Sundancers get a look at the life of a stand-up comic and a couple of intriguing documentaries tonight. --- The highlight of the early evenin...

Sundance 2012: Digital Underground

{Ak_posted} Sundance documentaries are often savvy about catching of-the-moment topics. In 2012, the ubiquity and power of social media continue to be a subject o...

Sundance 2012: Locals Best Bets 1/27

{Ak_posted} Heading into the final weekend, catch one of the festival's best performances, and its biggest adrenaline rush. --- The early evening SLC slot offe...

Sundance 2012: All Kinds of Crazy

{Ak_posted} The popular perception of Sundance films involves seriousness: gritty dramas, documentaries about urgent issues, etc. But the festival is sometimes at...

What's behind the wit?

{Ak_posted} "There's nothing less funny than talking about being funny," said Jon Korn to begin the Sundance Film Festival's "Wide World of Wit&quo...

Sundance 2012: Locals Best Bets 1/25

{Ak_posted} Documentaries are heavy on the schedule, with a dose of frisky romantic comedy as dessert for Salt Lake Sundancers. --- This afternoon leads off wit...

Interview: Roger Paradiso on Sugar Hill Gang doc

{Ak_posted} The story of hip-hop pioneers the Sugar Hill Gang has a whole lotta (hip-hop) hippity hop. It is one that goes well beyond the cliched musician’...

Interview: T. Griffin & Doreen Ringer Ross

{Ak_posted} On top of exploring the unique atmosphere of composing a film score, the BMI Composer/Director Roundtable at Sundance is an excellent way to see how t...

Sundance 2012: Reverting to Formula

{Ak_posted} Yes, there are definitely certain plots that seem to recur in Sundance movies. But what a film is about isn’t the same as how it’s about w...

Sundance 2012: Locals Best Bets 1/24

{Ak_posted} Do your tastes tend towards the subtly emotional, or the genuinely experimental? Both options are available today to SLC Sundancers. --- Word on th...

Sundance 2012: Locals Best Bets 1/23

{Ak_posted} Romance -- for better and for worse -- heads the list of top picks for Salt Lake City Sundancers. --- The gem of the early evening slot is writer/d...

Slipknot's Living Breathing Films: DOA?

{Ak_posted} “If Death is Life, then we want to scare you to Life,” was just one of the many golden-phrased bits of propaganda that helped launch Slipk...

Sundance 2012: Lookin' for Love

{Ak_posted} When you come to a festival like Sundance, you can expect a wide variety of approaches to even the most familiar of premises—even something as s...

Sundance 2012: Reviews Batch 2

{Ak_posted} We're not even at the halfway point of Sundance 2012. Here's a roundup of a dozen reviews from over the weekend. --- Simon Killer (U.S. Competition)...

Sundance 2012: Locals Best Bets 1/22

{Ak_posted} There are fewer top-notch options for today, but you might  be able to find at least one winner in every slot. --- The early afternoon pick is...

Peter Jackson's passion project: West of Memphis

{Ak_posted} Our geek friends will be thrilled to know director Peter Jackson is a pretty down-to-earth, rumpled guy in real life, which clearly hasn't cramped his...

Stargazing at the Bing Bar

{Ak_posted} Dodging the blizzard at Sundance Saturday that will surely be talked about for years to come, at least by anyone who witnessed I-80 over Parley's at s...

Sundance Showdown Solved: California Solo vs. I Am Not a Hipster

{Ak_posted} For the CW Sundance 2012 preview feature, we offered purely speculative predictions about which of two films on a similar theme would wind up being m...

Sundance 2012 Reviews: Batch 1

{Ak_posted} Here's a look at all the Sundance 2012 films we've had a chance to review over the first day and a half. --- The Law in These Parts (World Documen...

Sundance 2012: Locals Best Bets 1/21

{Ak_posted} There are plenty of great options for local Sundancers today. Too bad most of them are at the same time. --- In the early slot, early word on the s...

Review: ASCAP Music Cafe Day 1

{Ak_posted} Terence Etc. graced the first day of the Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe with his brand of vulnerable, insightful soul.--- I missed A Fine Frenzy,...

Review: Gary Clark, Jr. at Bing Bar

{Ak_posted} There undoubtedly wasn't a better guitar player in Park City on the opening day of the Sundance Film Festival than Gary Clark Jr., as he demonstrated ...

Interview: Jenny O.

{Ak_posted} The lovely songstress Jenny O. will take the Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe stage this Saturday and Sunday. She answered a couple of questions via e-mail b...

Sundance 2012: Locals Best Bets for 1/20

{Ak_posted} Every day throughout the festival, we'll advise Salt Lakers where to use their Sundance Locals Quick Passes, or where to try to wait-list. --- ...

Sundance 2012 Day 1: Character Study

{Ak_posted} The first day of Sundance film festival screenings inspired thoughts about the way filmmakers control their movies to affect the way viewers think abo...

Music Interview: John Forte

{Ak_posted} The legendary John Forte, who will be playing the Sundance ASCAP Music Cafe this weekend, took some time to answer some of our questions via e-mail.--...

Review: Q at The State Room

{Ak_posted} What was originally intended as a showcase of a popular Canadian radio show at the Sundance Film Festival turned into a poignant remembrance of Canadi...

Club Matters

Sundance: Beyond Park City

Posted // January 19,2012  - Huka Bar, Fats & Lucky 13 If you’re in town for the film festivals and find yourself wandering about in the va ...

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Cover Story

Sundance 2012 Showdowns

Posted // January 19,2012  - More bang for your film buck If you're facing the question of how to choose between two films that seem superficially s ...

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The Ocho

Sundance Panels

Posted // January 18,2012  - 8 Sundance 2012 panels not to miss Eight Sundance Film Festival panels and roundtables not to miss this year ... ...

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Music Articles

Sundance 2012: Music

Posted // January 18,2012  - Music happenings in & around Sundance Music happenings in and around the Sundance Film Festival 2012 ... ...

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