#sundance-film-festival

#sundance-film-festival

Shortly, the Oscar fate of hundreds of feature and short documentary hopefuls will be decided during what is known as "preliminary voting" (December 8-12), when the 736 documentary branch members give each film they've seen a numbered score. This will yield the shortlist of 15, from which they will rank those films on a preferential ballot. The shortlist announcement will come on December 16. The whole Academy will vote on the final five. But only those who have seen all five can vote.

I was a newspaper reporter with USA Today at the time, and I'd arranged an hour-long sit-down with the bandwhich they abruptly canceled shortly before we were set to meet. Why? Well, Robert Redford had made them a better offer. The Sundance founder (and Sundance Kid) had invited them to his mountainside Sundance Mountain Resort to have a drink at his personal watering hole.

Ben Affleck green-lit Jennifer Lopez's dream project, the film adaptation of Kiss of the Spider Woman, despite opposition from other executives at Actors Equity.

'Together' is a blatant rip-off of 'Better Half,' copying the latter's plot, themes, characters, dialogue, mood, setting, pace, and sequence of events.

What we love so much about 'Unzipped' is the unflinching way it exposes every neurotic high and low of the fabulously connected, then-30-something designer as he readies an Eskimo-inspired fall fashion collection that's way less harebrained than it sounds.

"I just fell in love with it. It was such a well written script with just exactly the right kind of situation for comedy. It's just ordinary people, chosen family, the kind of love that they couldn't find in their families, they found in each other."