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Sundance Unveils Competition Lineups for '06 Fest; 84 World Premieres To Screen At Upcoming Event

Sixty-four feature films will screen in competition at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, in four sections, festival organizers have announced. The competition is the heart of the United States' leading film festival, which this year will screen 120 features from January 19 - 29, 2006. Organizers sele...

Citing a Festival of "New Faces" Sundance's Gilmore and Cooper Discuss '06 Event

"I think that this year is going to be the festival of new faces," Sundance Film Festival director of programming John Cooper told indieWIRE Monday during a telephone interview alongside festival director Geoff Gilmore. Cooper cited discoveries both in front of and behind the camera this year. "I th...

Is "Match Point" Woody's comeback?

The Top Ten, so far...

Each Monday, indieWIRE compiles the final weekend numbers for specialty releases in theaters. This is our top ten for the past weekend so far, with most numbers already in. The top ten is subject to change before the final chart is published tomorrow and the weekly box office column is written.

"Hedwig" at IFC Center

John Cameron Mitchell offers, in an email to friends and colleagues this weekend, that his film "Hedwig & The Angry Inch" will be screening at midnight this Friday and Saturday at the IFC Center in New York. He said in the email that he will be at both screenings, which will include a costume contes...

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Sundance '06 Lineup Coming Soon...

Sundance Film Festival organizers will unveil the feature film lineup for the 2006 event early this week. Planners intend to reveal the American and World Competition films on Tuesday, November 29th at 1:00 a.m. ET, followed by the announcement of the Spectrum, Frontier and Park City at Midnight lineups on Wednesday, November 30th at 1:00 a.m. ET. On Thursday, December 1st at 1:00 a.m. ET, the Premiere's Feature Film list is scheduled to be unveiled. The festival's short film lineup will be released on Monday, December 5th, according to festival organizers. indieWIRE will have comprehensive coverage of the announcements when they are official...

Video Drone: Takashi Shimizu's "Marebito"

"By looking at her through the lens," explains cameraman and obsessive voyeur Masuoka (Shinya Tsukamoto), speaking of a mysterious woman he films from his apartment building, "I believe that I've salvaged her soul." But Masuoka wants to accomplish even greater, and more disturbing, metaphysical feat...