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Must See Sundance Film: "Hell And Back Again"

At first, I didn't really want to see "Hell and Back Again." Is it yet another war story, I wondered. The film sounded like a retread of last year's Sundance hit, "Restrepo." But, without pointing out any differences between this and other recent war docs, a few folks close to the movie prevailed an...

Buying is Back at Sundance

Has the tremendous success of "Winter's Bone" -- box office plus Oscar nominations -- boosted the business here at Sundance this year?

#Sundance Daily Buzz: Reagan, Superheroes, YouTube, Brazil and The Oscars!

One year after "Winter's Bone" debuted at Sundance and then won the fest's top prize, the film nabbed a number of Oscar nominations this morning. On the final edition of The Daily Buzz from Sundance, Justin Chang (Variety), B. Ruby Rich (SF Bay Guardian) and Peter Knegt (indieWIRE) chatted about the...

#Sundance Daily Buzz: Talking Twitter with Vachon, Hope, Bernard, Poland, Thompson, Carr & Elmo!

Twitter became a hot topic today on a packed Monday edition of The Daily Buzz from Sundance on KPCW, from a hot topics segment with Anne Thompson (Thompson On Hollywood), David Poland (Movie City News) and Mark Pogachevsky (MPRM), to a conversation with Ted Hope and Christine Vachon and then a chat ...

#Sundance Daily Buzz: Morgan Spurlock, Borderline Films, Marshall Curry and more...

Michael Moore's Art House Declaration

As the Arthouse Convergence came to a close on Thursday not far from Park City, UT, Michael Moore took the podium for more than an hour for an off the record keynote speech. The address concluded with the presentation of a declaration, blown up on a large poster board, that Moore urged each of the 2...

#Sundance Daily Buzz: Geoff Gilmore, Steve James, Marcus Hu, Janet Pierson, Raj Roy, more...

#Sundance Daily Buzz: Danny Glover, James Schamus, Liz Garbus & More

For the first five days of the Sundance Film Festival here in Utah, I'm hosting a daily talk show on local radio station KPCW (produced by Irene Cho). Joining me for a conversation on the first Friday of the fest were Goran Hugo Olsson (pictured above, left) and Danny Glover (above, center), discuss...

John Cooper: Calm Before the Storm