Posted by editor@vimooz.com on September 2, 2009 under Short Films, Sundance Channel, Television | 
Sundance Channel today unveiled plans for its multi-platform third season premiere of the network’s critically acclaimed and Webby Award-winning short film series, “Green Porno,” from iconic actress Isabella Rossellini. The series, which focuses on the reproductive habits of sea animals, will have its world premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on Friday, September 11. The series will then make its online debut at www.sundancechannel.com on Monday, September 14 followed by the on-air premiere on Monday, September 21 at 8 pm, ET/PT. In addition, HarperStudio will release GREEN PORNO: A Book and Short Films by Isabella Rossellini in bookstores nationwide on Tuesday, September 22.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on March 31, 2009 under Sundance Channel, Television |
Isabella Rossellini’s critically acclaimed and provocative online series, “Green Porno”, goes from land to sea with the April 1st premiere of the second season on sundancechannel.com. The series features Rossellini as she acts out the reproductive habits of marine animals in six all new episodes entitled “Why Vagina”, “Limpet”, “Barnacle”, “Starfish”, “Whale” and “Angler”. Like the first season of “Green Porno,” this batch of films is scientifically accurate yet extremely entertaining.
Posted by editor@vimooz.com on February 4, 2009 under Sundance Channel |
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This Week
February 3-8 |
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10:00 PM |
BURNING THE FUTURE: COAL IN AMERICA |
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West Virginia provides coal to produce electricity for half the nation. Ironically, while preserving jobs, coal mining disfigures mountainsides, destroys plant and animal species and spreads toxic groundwater. Yet so effective is the coal industry’s public relations campaign promoting “clean coal” that these long-term environmental disasters remain largely unreported. In response, documentary filmmaker David Novack provides an impassioned, harsh exposé of big coal.
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| Wed Feb 04 |
9:00 PM |
SPECTACLE: ELVIS COSTELLO WITH HERBIE HANCOCK |
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Herbie Hancock is unquestionably a living legend, not only of jazz but of music, period. In this captivating program, he speaks eloquently, candidly and revealingly about his life, his music and the extraordinary people with whom he’s worked, played and created over the past 50 years – from Miles Davis to Joni Mitchell. Jimi Hendrix. Seated at a grand piano, Hancock conducts a musical master class in between the animated conversation, with impromptu demonstrations and illustrations of at the keyboard. Karriem Riggins and Christian McBride add their considerable chops on drums and bass, respectively, joining Herbie on a couple of riveting performances; and in the end, Elvis and Herbie join forces to tackle a song from “River”, the album of Joni Mitchell material for which Herbie won the 2008 Grammy Award for Album of the Year.
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| Thu Feb 05 |
6:30 PM |
ROOM |
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Appeared at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
As talk of terror, anxiety and war fills the airwaves, Julia Barker (Cyndi Williams), an overworked Houston housewife, is troubled by visions that prompt her to take flight on a hero’s journey. With his dramatic feature directorial debut, former documentary and experimental filmmaker Kyle Henry presents an enigmatic, “nervy” (Austin Chronicle) “existential horror film” (New York Times) about America in the early 21st century.
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| Fri Feb 06 |
12:00 AM |
KURT COBAIN: ABOUT A SON |
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Documentary filmmaker A. J. Schnack (GIGANTIC: A TALE OF TWO JOHNS) breaks nearly every established rock documentary convention in this “deeply moving” (Village Voice) examination into the short life of Kurt Cobain. The voice of the Byronic grunge rock icon is heard in excerpts from revealing interviews recorded a little more than a year before his 1994 suicide. Cobain is heard ruminating about fame, drugs, his childhood and his band as impressionistic images of locales from Cobain’s life in the Pacific Northwest provide a visual counterpoint.
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| Sat Feb 07 |
10:00 PM |
THE DEAD |
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Filmmaker John Huston concluded a half-century career in cinema with a subtle and sublime adaptation of James Joyce’s celebrated short story, costarring daughter Anjelica Huston and Donal McCann. Awakened memories, intimations of mortality and the uncertainty of knowing anyone fully confront Dublin intellectual Gabriel Conroy (McCann) and his wife in the course of a January evening in 1904. Best Adapted Screenplay Oscar® nomination to Tony Huston. “One of the great romantic films, fearless in its regard for regret and tenderness” – Roger Ebert. |
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| Sun Feb 08 |
9:00 PM |
SHAMELESS SEASON 4 – EPISODE 2 |
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In this episode, Frank tries to keep Sheila from realizing that he is still legally married to Monica (Annabelle Apsion). |
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on January 27, 2009 under Sundance Channel, Television |
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This Week
January 27 – February 1 |
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10:00 PM |
THE PUFFY CHAIR |
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Brothers Mark and Jay Duplass take a cringingly honest, comic look at modern romance in a “charmer [that] wins your heart, even as it’s breaking it” (Austin Chronicle).
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| Wed Jan 28 |
9:00 PM |
SPECTACLE: ELVIS COSTELLO WITH RENEE FLEMING |
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One of the truly exceptional voices in the world is front and centre when Elvis welcomes Renée Fleming to Spectacle for a compelling and eclectic program of conversation and music. Renowned internationally for her dynamic operatic and recital performances and recordings, the revered American soprano proves to be disarmingly funny and candid about life as a diva, telling hilarious inside-opera stories and providing detailed insight into the rigors, demands and sacrifices involved in taking the human voice to the unnatural (but exhilarating) levels required in opera. Ms. Fleming also generously demonstrates her range and versatility as a performer, singing one of Puccini’s most gorgeous arias, a jazz piece with guitarist Bill Frisell and even an old Appalachian folk standard. And on top of all that, opera fan Rufus Wainwright turns up to pay his respects and sing something special for Renée! |
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| Thu Jan 29 |
10:00 PM |
NOISE |
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Innovative sound design and a refreshingly revealing perspective on police work and the psychological scars of violent crime distinguish this award-winning thriller, the feature-length directorial debut of Australia’s Matthew Saville.
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| Fri Jan 30 |
10:00 PM |
MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES |
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Filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal considers the work of photographer Edward Burtynsky and presents a mesmerizing meditation on man’s troubled relationship with his planet.
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| Sat Jan 31 |
10:00 PM |
ON THE ROAD WITH JUDAS |
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With his feature debut, novelist-turned-filmmaker J.J. Lask explores the nature of storytelling and literary reality with a multilayered self-reflective experimental narrative. Plot and character are secondary in this singular puzzle-box of a film about the adaptation of a novel by Lask (played by Kevin Corrigan), the “real people” who inspired the story and the actors who play the characters in the film-within-a-film.
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| Sun Feb 01 |
9:00 PM |
SHAMELESS SEASON 4 |
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In the opening episode of season four, Lip (Jody Latham) turns 18. However, with that birthday comes a very big surprise. |
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on January 20, 2009 under Sundance Channel, Television |
This Week
January 19-25 |
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8:15 PM |
DOCDAY: CRAZY LOVE |
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From the late ’50s through the ’70s, New York tabloids fed on the lurid and bizarre tale of lawyer/stalker Burt Pugash and his obsession with Linda Riss, a young working-class woman whose life was forever changed by a shocking act of violence. Noted publicist and documentarian Dan Klores tells this morbidly fascinating story with its many twists and surprises.
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| Tue Jan 20 |
10:00 PM |
SEX & LUCIA |
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Spanish filmmaker Julio Medem (LOVERS OF THE ARCTIC CIRCLE) presents an enthralling and sensual narrative set in Madrid and on a sunny Mediterranean isle. |
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| Wed Jan 21 |
9:00 PM |
SPECTACLE: ELVIS COSTELLO WITH KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, ROSANNE CASH, NORAH JONES & JOHN MELLENCAMP |
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The “guitar pull” is said to have started in Johnny Cash’s living room in Tennessee, with writers and musicians like Kris Kristofferson, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan taking turns playing their songs for the Man in Black and his guests. Some years later, Elvis gathers a stellar group for a “guitar pull” of his own – and it includes a couple of people who were at the original gatherings in the Cash home, namely American songwriting royalty, Kris Kristofferson and Cash’s daughter, Rosanne. Rounding out the group are the golden-voiced Norah Jones (who brings along a “new” song co-written by none other than Hank Williams) and American rock superstar John Mellencamp, who strips his music (old and new) down to the bare essentials. If not exactly a hootenanny, this star-studded edition of Spectacle is a showcase for – and an embarrassment of riches of – the craft of songwriting, from some of the best-known (and loved) tunes of the past 40 years to brand-new, previously-unheard compositions.
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| Thu Jan 22 |
10:00 PM |
FOR THE BIBLE TELLS ME SO |
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Bravely tackling one of the most politically and religiously divisive issues in contemporary America, documentary filmmaker Daniel Karslake presents a consideration of the intersection of scripture and homosexuality. Profiled are five devout families who each have dealt with the disclosure that a relative was gay or lesbian.
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| Fri Jan 23 |
10:00 PM |
FORTY SHADES OF BLUE |
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Rip Torn gives one of the best performances of his distinguished career as a Memphis music mogul (and selfish drunk) in this leisurely romantic drama with Oedipal overtones from Ira Sachs. When rock ‘n’ roll producer Alan James (Torn) is feted, his grown son (Darren Burrows) returns home to discover he has much in common with his dad’s young girlfriend (Dina Korzun).
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| Sat Jan 24 |
10:00 PM |
SAVAGE GRACE |
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Julianne Moore gives an “acute, captivating, and shattering” (New York Sun) performance as Barbara Baekeland, a former model whose marriage to the heir to the Bakelite plastic fortune catapulted her into international society. Barbara, known for her tart tongue and shocking behavior, and her troubled son Tony (Eddie Redmayne), came to personify decadent wealth when their story made lurid headlines in 1972.
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| Sun Jan 25 |
10:00 PM |
MANDA BALA |
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Winner of a Grand Jury Prize and a Cinematography Award at Sundance, Jason Kohn’s disturbing and provocative free-form documentary looks at life in contemporary Brazil and finds a Darwinian struggle between the rich and poor, the powerful and the weak. |
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on January 6, 2009 under Sundance Channel, Television |
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This Week
January 6-11 |
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10:00 PM |
SWIMMERS |
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The Chesapeake Bay, where generations of “watermen” made their living harvesting blue crabs, oysters and striped bass, is the setting for this award-winning coming-of-age family drama from Doug Sadler (RIDERS).
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| Wed Jan 07 |
9:00 PM |
SPECTACLE: ELVIS COSTELLO WITH THE POLICE |
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Fresh off the concert trail together, Elvis and The Police team up for an action-packed hour that includes individual interviews with Sting, Andy and Stewart, as well as a raucous group session. It all provides a rare glimpse into the combustible chemistry that made The Police the biggest band in the world in the 1980s. In addition to the illuminating talk, there’s plenty of amazing music: Sting illustrates the original incarnation of “Roxanne”, the song which put The Police on the map; Sting and Elvis harmonize together on an Elvis gem; Andy and Elvis team up for a bit of jazz; and, for the finale, Elvis and his band, The Imposters, join forces with The Police for an unprecedented “mash-up” of a Costello classic and a Police essential, as well as a surprising cover of a time-tested hard rock anthem. |
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| Thu Jan 08 |
10:00 PM |
GOOD MORNING HEARTACHE |
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When newly married Giovanni (Marco Foschi) and Lucia (Alba Rohrwacher) decide to become the subjects of a documentary about working temp jobs in the Italian film business while raising a toddler, they don’t realize how much their lives will change. Soon documentarians Giorgio (Stefano Fresi) and Eros (Alessandro Averone) are recording a marital breakup in intimate detail. |
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| Fri Jan 09 |
10:00 PM |
FRIENDS WITH MONEY |
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With her third feature, filmmaker Nicole Holofcener (WALKING AND TALKING; LOVELY AND AMAZING) presents a bittersweet, subversive comedy about four contemporary women friends and how their lives are defined by jealously, marriage, pity and materialism.
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| Sat Jan 10 |
10:00 PM |
CRAZY LOVE |
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From the late ’50s through the ’70s, New York tabloids fed on the lurid and bizarre tale of lawyer/stalker Burt Pugash and his obsession with Linda Riss, a young working-class woman whose life was forever changed by a shocking act of violence. Noted publicist and documentarian Dan Klores tells this morbidly fascinating story with its many twists and surprises.
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| Sun Jan 11 |
10:00 PM |
ART SCHOOL CONFIDENTIAL |
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The creators of GHOST WORLD, cartoonist/screenwriter Daniel Clowes and filmmaker Terry Zwigoff (CRUMB), return with a dark and subversive portrait of art school as a hotbed of ego, pretension, insecurity and phoniness.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on December 24, 2008 under Sundance Channel, Television |
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December 23-28 |
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9:35 PM |
ECO DOC: KOKUA FESTIVAL 2008 |
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Now in its fifth year, Hawaii’s Kokua Music Festival features A-list guests – such as Willie Nelson and Eddie Vedder – while also raising funds for environmental causes. This one-hour documentary captures highlights of the 2008 Festival, at which Kokua’s founder Jack Johnson, Dave Matthews, Paula Fuga and Mason Jennings performed.
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| Wed Dec 24 |
12:00 AM |
CHRISTMAS ON MARS |
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Oklahoma City’s spacey band The Flaming Lips present a bizarre DIY sci-fi original, reportedly shot over the course of seven years in the backyard of writer, co-director and Lips frontman Wayne Coyne.
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| Thu Dec 25 |
10:00 PM |
ICONOCLASTS: VENUS WILLIAMS + WYCLEF JEAN |
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Five-time Wimbledon® champion Venus Williams towers over the world of professional tennis and still finds time to challenge herself off the court as a designer running her own fashion line. Grammy Award®-winning musician and former Fugees member Wyclef Jean is equally ambitious, testing himself in new realms. Watch Wyclef give Venus her first guitar lesson and she returns the love with a crash course in tennis. A playfully competitive friendship unfolds as both of these self-made superstars explore the discipline and dedication of each other’s pursuits.
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| Fri Dec 26 |
10:00 PM |
RUNNIN’ DOWN A DREAM |
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Comprehensive, revealing and epic in scope, this rare examination of three decades in the history and development of an American rock band from filmmaker Peter Bogdanovich (THE LAST PICTURE SHOW) focuses on 2002 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.
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| Sat Dec 27 |
10:00 PM |
SATURDAY NIGHT SPOTLIGHT: CAPOTE |
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Academy AwardTM-winning Best Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a performance of remarkable nuance in director Bennett Miller and writer Dan Futterman’s account of author Truman Capote’s life during the creation of his best-seller In Cold Blood.
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| Sun Dec 28 |
10:00 PM |
MONTY PYTHON’S THE MEANING OF LIFE |
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Following the controversial success of THE LIFE OF BRIAN (1979), the British comedy troupe Monty Python returned to their sketch comedy roots with this dark, rude and pointed consideration of life, death and some of the in-between.
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on December 15, 2008 under Sundance Channel, Television |
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December 15-21 |
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10:05 PM |
GUMBY DHARMA |
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Art Clokey, grandmaster of stop-motion animation and the artist behind beloved icons from the early years of children’s television – Gumby, Pokey, Davey and Goliath – is the focus of this fascinating documentary by Robina Marchesi. |
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| Tue Dec 16 |
9:35 PM |
ECO DOC: GRASS |
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While it’s unlikely to change US drug policy, Ron Mann’s entertaining documentary chronicling the bizarre 100-year history of laws against the use of marijuana may prompt outrage, discussion and a perverse sense of nostalgia. |
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| Wed Dec 17 |
9:00 PM |
SPECTACLE: ELVIS COSTELLO WITH BILL CLINTON |
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Elvis Costello and the 42nd President of the United States in an unprecedented and revealing chat about President Bill Clinton’s early career aspirations as a jazz saxophonist; the astonishing degree to which music shaped him as a man, a politician and a President; the challenges – and critical importance – of music education; the shared skills of musicians and politicians; with observations on Elvis (Presley), John Coltrane, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Nina Simone and N.W.A. Special guest musicians on the episode include Charlie Haden and Pat Metheny.
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| Thu Dec 18 |
10:00 PM |
ICONOCLASTS: BILL MAHER + CLIVE DAVIS |
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Political commentator, talk show host and comedian Bill Maher always speaks his mind, making him one of today’s most controversial yet widely respected personalities. Clive Davis has been called “the man with the golden ear” – this music titan’s extraordinary career spans multiple decades in which he’s discovered artists from Joplin to Springsteen, from Manilow to Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys. Sit in on one of Davis’ legendary A & R meetings, laugh along with Maher on stage, and tour LA haunts like the Improv as these two outspoken individuals exchange stories and opinions on everything from relationships to religion to the early days of their careers.
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| Fri Dec 19 |
10:00 PM |
SIGUR ROS: HEIMA |
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Sigur Ros, Iceland’s most famous musical export since Bjork, is a melodic chamber-rock band whose ethereal recordings combining elements of classical, experimental and minimalist traditions have won ardent fans around the world. Dean DeBlois (LILO & STITCH) directs Heima (meaning “at home” and “homeland”), a captivating documentary in which Sigur Ros performs 13 songs against some of Iceland’s most striking and unusual locations, from its ravishingly beautiful wilderness to eerie sites like the interior of an abandoned herring-oil tank.
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| Sat Dec 20 |
10:00 PM |
PEDRO ALMODÓVAR DOUBLE FEATURE |
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Spain’s Pedro Almodóvar gained worldwide acclaim and an Oscar® for Best Foreign Language Film with ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER, then cemented that renown with BAD EDUCATION. Catch them back to back in a Saturday Night Spotlight double feature this week.
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| Sun Dec 21 |
10:00 PM |
BROKEN FLOWERS |
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Bill Murray plays an aging Don Juan in search of his past in this bittersweet comedy from Jim Jarmusch (DEAD MAN). When his current girlfriend (Julie Delpy) walks out on him and coincidentally he receives an anonymous letter informing him that his 19-year-old son is searching for him, Don Johnston (Murray) sets off on a road trip to revisit his conquests of two decades earlier. Sharon Stone, Frances Conroy, Jessica Lange and Tilda Swinton costar as the women from his past. “Funny, tender and generous” – New York Times. |
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on December 10, 2008 under Documentary, Sundance Channel, Television |
Sundance Channel has scheduled a Christmas week premiere for Paul Davids’ documentary Jesus in India, which examines controversial theories and legends that place a traveling Jesus Christ in India. Written, directed and produced by Davids, the film will debut as part of the Channel’s regular Monday DOCday programming on Monday, December 22nd at 9:00pm et/pt.
Jesus in India explores questions surrounding Jesus’ whereabouts from the ages of 12 to 30, a period variously known as the “Hidden Years” or “Lost Years.” The New Testament offers no detailed description about His activities during that period; the only reference to those 18 years is a single sentence in the Gospel of Luke. Leading the film’s investigation of these years is Edward T. Martin, the author of the new book “Jesus in India: King of Wisdom – The Making of the Film & New Findings on Jesus’ Lost Years,” and he also authored the previous book that inspired this motion picture, “King of Travelers: Jesus’ Lost Years in India” (either book available upon request). Martin dates his curiosity about the “Hidden Years” back to his youth in Lampasas, Texas, where he was raised as a member of the fundamentalist Church of Christ. While working as Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan in 1974, Martin had his first encounter with East Asian accounts of the historic Jesus Christ – including the Indian legend that the young Jesus joined a caravan and took the Silk Road to the East, where He lived in India with both Hindus and Buddhists before returning to the Holy Land to begin His ministry.
Jesus in India follows Martin as he travels through India in search of documentary evidence of Jesus’ presence in the region. The journey spans some 4,000 miles, including a visit to the Hemis Monastery in the Himalayan Mountains, where an ancient Tibetan manuscript about Jesus is said to be housed. The film also delves into other astonishing stories concerning Jesus’ possible presence in the region, including the legend that Jesus survived the crucifixion and secretly returned to India, where he lived out his days.
As it attempts to sort legend from history, Jesus in India presents all points of view through interviews with respected theologians and religious authorities of the world’s major faiths. Scholars appearing in the film include Princeton University Professor Elaine Pagels, author of “Beyond Belief: The Gospel of Thomas”; Professors Alan C. Mitchell and Anthony Tambasco of Georgetown University; and Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein, Professor of Jewish Law and Ethics at Loyola Law School. Representing Buddhist and Hindu viewpoints are the Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the world’s Buddhists, and, in a rare interview, the 145th Shankaracharya, one of Hinduism’s four ecclesiastical leaders. Among the others joining in the film’s lively discussion are the late Monsignor Corrado Balducci, Apostolic Nuncio of the Vatican; historian/author Michael Hesemann, a Vatican-accredited journalist; and Brother Chidananda, director of publications at the Self-Realization Fellowship (SRF), the spiritual movement founded in the 1920’s by Indian sage/teacher/author/philosopher Paramahansa Yogananda. According to noted critic Pete Hammond, “Jesus in India is a fascinating and profound film, a deeply spiritual journey certain to make you think and question in ways you never have before.”
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Posted by editor@vimooz.com on December 3, 2008 under Film Festival, Sundance Channel, Television |
Sundance Channel and sundancechannel.com will be the premiere destination for independent film fans to celebrate and connect to the Sundance Film Festival for the month of January 2009.
Sundance Channel’s coverage of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival offers viewers more opportunities than ever to explore this major cinematic event according to their personal interests and schedules. Thirteen past festival favorites are available via video-on-demand, with a lineup ranging from breakout hits that went on to Oscar(R) nominations (Andrew Jarecki’s Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner Capturing the Friedmans, Ryan Fleck’s Half Nelson) to films that earned critical acclaim and ardent fans even in the absence of wide release (Goran Dukic’s Wristcutters: A Love Story, Jessica Yu’s documentary Protagonist — both U.S. television premieres). Viewers can get a peek at fresh new talent and potential prize winners via a special festival preview hosted by Sundance Film Festival Director Geoffrey Gilmore, also available on-demand.
Feature film highlights of “31 Days of Sundance” include: Read more of this article »