The Sundance Film Festival, the annual winter showcase for new indie feature films, shorts and documentaries has begun on January 18th and marks the thirty-fifth year of this Park City, Utah event. There will be 122 feature-length films and 69 short films screened that are part of this year's lineup. With so many films and so little time, it seems impossible to decide exactly what to see. Emily Yoshida and Kyle Buchanan of New York magazine has done everyone a favor by narrowing down to twenty films you should check out whether you are actually going to the fest or when these films make it to your local theaters, possibly later in the year.
Some of the interesting titles include "Wildlife", the directorial debut by actor, Paul Dano and he co-wrote this with his girlfriend, actress, Zoe Kazan ("The Big Sick"); Another feature debut directed by an actor, Idris Elba with "Yardie", a thriller about a young Jamaican man who pursues revenge against the man who killed his brother; "Ophelia", a re-telling of the Shakespeare play, 'Hamlet" but now from this character's point-of-view and stars Daisy Ridley and Naomi Watts; "Private Life", the first film directed by Tamara Jenkins ("Slums of Beverly Hills", "The Savages") in eleven years; "The Kindergarten Teacher" an American remake of the acclaimed 2014 Israeli film and stars Maggie Gyllenhaal; and "Lizzie", another take on the sensational story of Lizzie Borden (I remember the TV-movie from the '70's that starred Elizabeth Montgomery and would love to see that again) and features Chloë Sevigny as the alleged ax murderess and Kristen Stewart as her possible lover.
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The 20 Most Anticipated Films at 2018 Sundance
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