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NTD had a chance to sit down with the producers and director of the new concert film U2 3D at the Sundance Film Festival.

PARK CITY—Judging by the title, “Just Another Love Story” promises a romantic story with that sweet and warm feeling that all of us enjoy, which is what the popularity of romantic comedies and melodramas rests on. Well, in reality the film is anything but. It is a masterful, skillfully crafted thriller that is meant to […]

PARK CITY—“Durakovo: Village of Fools” is a remarkable documentary brought to Sundance by Nino Kirtadze, a Russian-born film director. She took her camera to a risky but representative place—an estate outside of Moscow, which has been separated from the rest of the world by walls and gates.
Durakovo is a modern-day Russian phenomenon, a territory where […]

Sarah Jessica Parker’s hubby Mathew Broderick made an appearance at the Sundance Film Festival this week, but not for the film she starred in Smart People, but for Diminished Capacity, a new film from director Terry Kinney which stars Broderick as the lead. Interestingly enough, the film is also a comedy!
Broderick plays Cooper an editorial […]

There were more than a couple hilarious films here at Sundance, yet one was as laugh out loud funny as it gets: “Smart People.”
The films stars Dennis Quaid as Lawrence Wetherhold, a pompous English Literature professor at Carnegie Mellon University who has yet to move on after losing his wife many years before. He is […]

Writer/Director Johnathon Levine wowed crowds this weekend with his new film “The Wackness”, starring Ben Kingsley, Josh Peck, Framke Janssen, and Method Man. Newcomer, Josh Peck stars as Luke Shapiro, a drug dealing high-schooler who receives counseling from a middle-aged pot-smoking psychiatrist Dr. Squires (Ben Kingsley). Payment for these therapy sessions comes in the form […]

Produced by Tom Hanks, “The Great Buck Howard” stars Colin Hanks (yes there is a relation to the two-time Academy Award winning actor) as Troy Gable, a law school drop-out who must come to grips with the life of a starving artist and find a job to pay for his bills while he […]

Foreign short Film-maker Jens Johnson brings this odd tale to the screen, and if there was ever a pointed moment to use the phrase “lost in translation” it certainly came with this Sundance screening. The film centers on Rille a portly clad 16 year old in Sweden, whose looks have fatally left him to […]

 
The 2008 Sundance Film Festival kicked off today, and not a moment to soon! Organized in the small skiing town of Park City Utah, Sundance has become one of the premier Film Festivals known as a launching pad for up and coming filmmakers.
The Festival in Year’s passed has produced the likes of Quentin Tarantino, […]