Sundance

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Contents 1 2008 2 2007 3 2006 4 2005

[edit] 2008

• Z @ Sundance 2008
• You can see all the movie descriptions on the Sundance 2008 web site

1. Fields of Fuel: A - EXCELLENT movie on the environment and what you can do about helping to fix it; this is not another michael moore or Inconvenient Truth type of documentary - this one is very informative and positive
2. Documentary Shorts Spotlight
   1. kids + money: A - great tale of LA kids and their obsession with $ and spending/consumption
   2. Carlin: D - disturbing and tough to follow
   3. Pilgrimage: B - documentary of when the US put many American Japanese in concentration camps
   4. Farewell Packets of Ten: B - sad and funny commercial-like short of two Irish women talking about smoking
   5. Scoring: C+ - up close kissing scene with narrative about scoring... when in a wheel chair
   6. La Corona: B+ - documentary about a beauty pageant in a Columbian womens jail
3. Downloading Nancy: B - very depressing and graphic, but a tale (disturbingly) based on a true story
4. Frozen River: B+ - good overall movie with a decent plot but somewhat predictable character development
5. Quid Pro Quo: A- - good acting, with a good storyline, slightly predictable
6. August: B - dot com era story of the hype and the bust using a fictitious company as its base for the story; David Bowie does an excellent job in his 5 minutes of the movie
7. Year of Getting to Know Us: B - childhood story of a boy and his crazy family... entertaining
8. King of Ping Pong: B+ - subtitled movie based in Sweden of a boy struggling with maturing as a kid and struggling with family issues... all paralleled with distracting games of ping pong
9. Wackness: B+ - funny "in 1994" movie with a serious side as well
10. Trouble the Water: A - excellent movie about hurricane Katrina; shot mainly from the perspective of a woman with a family in the 9th ward

[edit] 2007

• Z @ Sundance 2007
• (Ratings are x/5)

1. Sweet Mud: 4
2. Fay Grim: 3
3. Grace is Gone: 5
4. Starting Out in the Evening: 4
5. Interview: 3
6. Black Snake Moan: 4
7. Rocket Science: 4
8. Teeth: 3
9. Broken English: 3
10. Manda Bala: 4
11. Weapons: 2
12. Shorts III - The Substitute: 3
13. The Signal: 3
14. Joshua: 3
15. Padre Nuestro: 4

[edit] 2006

• Weekend I
• Weekend II

1. Shorts Program VI: B
2. Dear Pyongyang: B
3. The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros: B-
4. Quinceanera: B
5. This Film Is Not Yet: B
6. The Descent: B+
7. God Grew Tired Of Us: A-
8. Iraq In Fragments: B
9. Alpha Dog: B+
10. Kinky Boot: B+
11. Thank You for Smoking: A-

[edit] 2005

• Weekend I
• Weekend II

1. Palermo Hollywood (4/5)
2. Hustle and Flow (4/5)
3. Love, Ludlow (2.5/5)
4. The Squid and the Whale (3/5)
5. Why We Fight (4/5);
6. Viewed Short Films:
   1. Are You the Favorite Person of Anybody? (4/5)
   2. Pura Lengua (All Tongue) (2/5)
   3. Swim Test (2/5)
   4. The Youth In Us (2/5)
   5. Victoria Para Chino (3/5)
   6. Tama T? (5/5)
   7. West Bank Story (5/5)
   8. The Act (2/5)