It’s that time of the year again in the snowy mountains of Park City, Utah — the infamous Sundance Film Festival. Two of our Starworkers are out there trekking through the screenings and watching up to 5 films a day — that’s devotion.

Here’s the progress report so far:

Cyrus looks like another film that Marisa Tomei kicks serious ass in. In this one, she pairs up with love interest, the awesome John C. Reilly. The trailer pretty much says it all. Marni, who is at Sundance right now combing through films for our magazine editors has this to say: “I just saw Cyrus, written and directed by the bothers Duplass. Such a funny and clever film. John C Reilly was unreal, and Jonah Hill was genius as the creepy, closet evil son”

Catfish is described on slashfilm.com as “a documentary about a young New York City photographer who is contacted on Facebook by an 8-year-old painting prodigy from rural Michigan. He becomes deeply enmeshed in her life, even falling in love with her older sister–that is, until a crack appears in her story.” In the words of our Marni, “Catfish was such a crazy, unexpected, and touching ride– a must see for sure.”

To hear the directors speak of the film, go to: Making of Catfish.

(Catfish)

Marni was also crazy about Please Give, Nicole Holofcener (writer/director of Walking and Talking, Lovely and Amazing and Friends with Money). Additional cast is Oliver Platt, Rebecca Hall and Catherine Keener. Voicefilm.com refers to her films as a “less prolific, estrogen-producing Woody Allen”. Marni says “the film was classic Nicole Holofcener. It doesn’t disappoint. Amanda peet steals the show”.

(Amanda Peet in Please Give)

We shall be posting Greg Krelenstein’s picks in the next few days as well.
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