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Sundance Winners: ‘The Miseducation of Cameron Post,’ ‘Kailash’ Take Top Honors
The Sundance Film Festival wrapped with awards for “The Miseducation of Cameron Post,” director Desiree Akhavan’s accepting look at Christian teens wrestling with gay conversion therapy, and documentary winner “Kailash,” about a Nobel Prize winner’s crusade to end child slavery in his native India. Compared with last year’s kudofest, which took place a week after […]
CelebrityRaechal Leone Shewfelt#TBT: Kim Kardashian, Diddy, and other celebs at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival
Kim Kardashian had a different love in her life, Elle Fanning was still in elementary school, and, well, the cameras looked a lot different.
- EntertainmentNick Schager
Jon Hamm is given an offer he can’t refuse in 'Beirut' clip (exclusive)
In a departure from "Mad Men," actor plays an unwilling hostage negotiator.
- MoviesYahoo Movies Editorial
Sundance 2018: The 8 movies you need to know about
Films like “Beirut,” “Wildlife,” and “Sorry to Bother You” are among the must-see attractions in Park City this year.
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Sundance Film Festival Unveils Full 2018 Features Lineup
Brace yourself. In a break from previous years, when the lineup was divided up and revealed section by section over several days, the Sundance Film Festival has unveiled its entire feature program in a single announcement, touting 110 films — 99 of them world premieres — set to screen in Park City next month, where […]
MoviesGwynne Watkins'Lemon': Michael Cera and Gillian Jacobs in exclusive clip from Sundance breakout comedy
Watch Yahoo Movies' exclusive clip from Sundance Film Festival breakout comedy 'Lemon' featuring Michael Cera and Gillian Jacobs, directed by Janicza Bravo
MoviesNick Schager'Step' Exclusive Clip: Documentary Follows Baltimore Team Striving to Win in Competition and Life
Exclusive peek at 'Step,' documentary about a high-school team of young women from Baltimore school traveling to national competition, striving for goals
- MoviesEthan Alter
John Cho Talks New Film 'Columbus' and Its 'Opportunity to Play a Very Deep Character'
John Cho talks with Yahoo Movies about new film 'Columbus,' in theaters after successful debut at Sundance, plus 'Star Trek Beyond,' #starringjohncho meme
MoviesEthan Alter'Gook' Exclusive Clip: Customers Walk All Over Shoe Salesman and His 'Manager's Discount' (NSFW)
Exclusive peek at Justin Chon's 2017 Sundance award-winner, 'Gook,' a drama set in Los Angeles on chaotic day verdict was announced in Rodney King case
MoviesNick Schager'Patti Cake$' Trailer Shines Spotlight On an Unlikely Hip-Hop Star
First trailer for Sundance hit 'Patti Cake$,' about a working class Jersey girl who dreams of being a hip-hop artist — and has skills to make it come true
- MoviesEthan Alter
Sundance Report: Gloomy 'Where Is Kyra?' Marks Michelle Pfeiffer's Latest Big Screen Comeback
Once a prominent fixture on movie screens, Michelle Pfeiffer sightings have become increasingly rare in recent years. Now, after a four-year break, 2017 is shaping up to be a four-film Pfeiffersance, one that kicks off with her Sundance debut, Where is Kyra?, a psychological drama directed by festival veteran Andrew Dosunmu, whose previous features, 2011’s Restless City and 2013’s Mother of George, both premiered in Park City.
MoviesYahoo! Movies StaffSundance 2017: See All the Biggest Stars Making the Park City Scene
It’s that time of year again when Hollywood descends on Park City, Utah, as the 2017 edition of the Sundance Film Festival gets going. Here’s a peek at who’s making the scene at the premieres and parties — or just breaking out their winter wear for a snowy stroll. Keep checking back: We’ll add more photos from the festival as it rolls through Jan. 29.
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Stars Party at the Sundance Film Festival 2017
Celebrities usually schmooze and make deals in Tinseltown, but around this time every year, they move their dealmaking and exclusive fetes to a new locale: Park City, Utah, for a film fest founded by A-lister Robert Redford.
MoviesNick SchagerKevin Smith Reminisces About Hitting It Big With 'Clerks' at the Sundance Film Festival
It’s been 23 years since Kevin Smith went to the Sundance Film Festival with a low-budget black-and-white comedy about two convenience store employees goofing off at work. Clerks launched Smith’s career and defined the voice he’d continue developing in numerous subsequent comedies. In the above interview, Smith remembers how he received the phone call notifying him that Clerks had been accepted into Sundance while he was working behind the same counter that Dante (Brian O’Halloran) mans in the movie.
- MoviesWill Lerner
What to Stream: Three Sundance Success Stories
The Sundance Film Festival, the internationally renowned annual event that started in 1978, is back for another year. What Artisan Entertainment knew was that it was going to be a smash. One of the greatest indie hits of all time, The Blair Witch Project was made in Maryland for $35,000.
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Sundance: New Buena Vista Social Club Documentary Pulled From Lineup
Broad Green, the film’s distributor, attributed the last minute decision to pull the film to the need to make more post-production tweaks. It was originally slated to have its first public screenings on Friday.
MoviesNick Schager'Wilson' Sneak Peek: Woody Harrelson Drops a Parental Bombshell on His Ex-Wife
Daniel Clowes is one of America’s most acclaimed graphic novelists, thanks to works such as Ghost World and his comic Art School Confidential — both of which were subsequently adapted for the big screen. Ahead of its debut at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Yahoo Movies is premiering an exclusive clip (watch it above) from the film, directed by Craig Johnson (The Skeleton Twins) and scheduled to reach theaters on March 24. Wilson will chart Harrelson’s less-than-totally-lovable loser on an odyssey sparked by a stunning discovery: he has a teenage daughter (Isabella Amara) who he never knew existed.
- MoviesKevin Polowy
Sundance Report: Al Gore Is All Action, Some Talk in Fiery 'Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power'
In 2006, Al Gore presented what is arguably the most influential PowerPoint presentation of all time in the groundbreaking global warming documentary An Inconvenient Truth. It’s not the kind of movie that typically gets a followup, even in sequel-happy Hollywood — but 10 years later Gore, is once again on movie screens in An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power, which opened the 2017 Sundance Film Festival Thursday night.
MoviesNick Schager'The Discovery' Trailer: Rooney Mara, Jason Segel, and Robert Redford Learn There's an Afterlife — and That's a Real Problem
There’s nothing more precious than life — except, that is, if you live in the world of The Discovery, the new thriller from director Charlie McDowell (The One I Love). Here, humanity has established scientific proof of an afterlife, and is slowly torn apart by an increasing desire to “cross over” via suicide. The all-star film will have its world premiere at the upcoming Sundance Film Festival before debuting exclusively on Netflix; ahead of those bows, we now have its sterling first trailer (watch it above).
- MoviesGiana Mucci
Red Carpet Flashback! 2002 Sundance Film Festival
For 10 days every winter, Hollywood's brightest stars pack their finest ski-wear and head to the snowy climes of Park City, Utah, for the annual Sundance Film Festival. With this year’s fest set to kick off on Thursday, we thought we'd flashback 15 years to January 2002, when some very famous faces were fest-bound.
MoviesJordan ZakarinSundance Report: North Korean Dictator Kim Jong-il's Evil Plans to Make Movies Was Even Crazier Than 'The Interview'
There was only one problem: He was a hostage of the brutal North Korean leader Kim Jong-il. Just over a year after the uproar over The Interview, Seth Rogen’s goofy satire about foreigners infiltrating the North Korean dictatorship, a new documentary that premiered at Sundance tells the very real story of two people who survived an even closer encounter in Pyongyang. The saga of Shin Sang-ok and Choi Eun-hee, also recently detailed in a book by Paul Fischer, is brought to life in The Lovers and the Despot from directors Ross Adam and Robert Cannan, with the help of photos, interviews, re-enactments, and secretly taped conversations featuring Kim Jong-il.
MoviesJordan ZakarinSundance Report: Improved Virtual Reality Films Take Viewers Around the World (and Galaxy)
The Sundance Film Festival has long been on the cutting edge of indie film, and this year’s 10th iteration of its forward-looking New Frontier program is focused on the burgeoning field of virtual reality. VR has been buzzed about on and off since the ‘90s, but over the last several years, the emergence of consumer products such as the Oculus Rift and Google Cardboard has brought the technology closer to a viable storytelling medium. Google Cardboard: A basic hardware combination made of a cardboard mask and Android cell phone, it is already being used for niche projects and marketing experiments, making it the most accessible iteration of VR currently available.
MoviesEthan AlterWatch a 1995 Sundance Interview With 'Before Sunrise' Stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy
A vintage interview with 'Before Sunrise' Stars Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy when they were premiering the movie at Sundance in 1995
