Reichardt's 'Certain Women' and Herzog's 'Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World' are two films making their world premieres at the January festival.
AceShowbiz - The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled the lineups for the annual festival's Premieres and Documentary Premieres sections. One of the movies in the Premieres section is Todd Solondz's "Wiener-Dog", a comedy that features characters from his 1996 Sundance grand jury prizewinner, "Welcome to the Dollhouse".
Joshua Marston's "Complete Unknown", a drama starring Rachel Weisz, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates and Danny Glover, is another film to make its world premiere at the festival. Other titles in Premieres include Kelly Reichardt's "Certain Women", psychosexual noir love story "Frank & Lola" and Anna Kendrick-starrer "The Hollars".
"The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving" will be the closing-night film. The comedy about a caregiver and an 18-year-old suffering from muscular dystrophy stars Paul Rudd, Craig Roberts, Selena Gomez as well as Jennifer Ehle, and is directed by Rob Burnett.
Meanwhile, in the festival's Documentary Premieres, there are several movies from veteran directors, including Werner Herzog's "Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World" and Spike Lee's "Michael Jackson's Journey From Motown to Off the Wall". Also in the mix are "Richard Linklater - Dream Is Destiny", "Maya Angelou and Still I Rise" and Liz Garbus' "Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper".
As for the Spotlight category, it consists of films which have previously screened at other festivals around the world. "Cemetery of Splendor", "Embrace of the Serpent", "Green Room", "The Lobster" and "Rams" had previously screened at Cannes, while "Land of Mine" and "Maggie's Plan" made their premiere at Toronto International Film Festival.
The 2016 Sundance Film Festival is set to commence on January 21 and run through January 31, 2016 in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
PREMIERES
"Agnus Dei" (France-Poland / Director: Anne Fontaine, Screenwriters: Sabrina N. Karine, Alice Vial, Pascal Bonitzer)
"Ali & Nino" (U.K. / Director: Asif Kapadia, Screenwriter: Christopher Hampton)
"Captain Fantastic" (Director and screenwriter: Matt Ross)
"Certain Women" (Director: Kelly Reichardt, Screenwriter: Kelly Reichardt based on stories by Maile Meloy)
"Complete Unknown" (Director: Joshua Marston, Screenwriters: Joshua Marston, Julian Sheppard)
"Frank & Lola" (Director and screenwriter: Matthew Ross)
"The Revised Fundamentals of Caregiving" (Director and screenwriter: Rob Burnett)
"The Hollars" (Director: John Krasinski, Screenwriter: Jim Strouse)
"Hunt for the Wilderpeople" / New Zealand (Director and screenwriter: Taika Waititi)
"Indignation" / Director and screenwriter: James Schamus)
"Little Men" (Director: Ira Sachs, Screenwriter: Mauricio Zacharias)
"Love & Friendship" (Ireland-France-Netherlands / Director and screenwriter: Whit Stillman) "Manchester by the Sea" (Director and screenwriter: Kenneth Lonergan)
"Mr. Pig" (Mexico / Director: Diego Luna, Screenwriters: Augusto Mendoza, Diego Luna)
"Sing Street" (Ireland / Director and screenwriter: John Carney)
"Sophie and the Rising Sun" (Director and screenwriter: Maggie Greenwald)
"Wiener-Dog" (Director and screenwriter: Todd Solondz)
DOCUMENTARY PREMIERES
"Eat That Question - Frank Zappa in His Own Words" (France-Germany / Director: Thorsten Schutte)
"Film Hawk" (Directors: JJ Garvine, Tai Parquet)
"Lo and Behold, Reveries of the Connected World" (Director: Werner Herzog)
"Mapplethorpe: Look at the Pictures" (Directors: Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato)
"Maya Angelou and Still I Rise" (Directors: Bob Hercules, Rita Coburn Whack)
"Michael Jackson's Journey From Motown to Off the Wall" (Director: Spike Lee)
"Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You" (Directors: Heidi Ewing, Rachel Grady)
"Nothing Left Unsaid: Gloria Vanderbilt & Anderson Cooper" (Director: Liz Garbus)
"Resilience" (Director: James Redford)
"Richard Linklater - Dream Is Destiny" (Directors: Louis Black, Karen Bernstein)
"Under the Gun" (Director: Stephanie Soechtig)
"Unlocking the Cage" (Directors: Chris Hegedus, Donn Alan Pennebaker)
SPOTLIGHT
"Cemetery of Splendor" (Thailand / Director and screenwriter: Apichatpong Weerasethakul)
"Embrace of the Serpent" (Colombia / Director: Ciro Guerra, Screenwriters: Ciro Guerra, Jacques Toulemonde Vidal)
"Green Room" (Director and screenwriter: Jeremy Saulnier)
"Land of Mine" (Denmark / Director and screenwriter: Martin Zandvliet)
"The Lobster" (Ireland-U.K.-Greece-France / Director: Yorgos Lanthimos, Screenwriters: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthymis Filippou)
"Maggie's Plan" (Director: Rebecca Miller, Screenwriters: Rebecca Miller, based on a story by Karen Rinaldi)
"Miles Ahead" (Director: Don Cheadle, Screenwriters: Don Cheadle, Steven Baigelman)
"Rams" (Iceland / Director and screenwriter: Grimur Hakonarson)
"Viva" (Ireland / Director: Paddy Breathnach, Screenwriter: Mark O'Halloran)
SUNDANCE KIDS
"The Eagle Huntress" (Director: Otto Bell)
"Little Gangster" (Netherlands / Director: Arne Toonen, Screenwriter: Lotte Tabbers)
"Snowtime!" (Canada / Directors: Jean-Francois Pouliot, Francois Brisson, Screenwriters: Normand Canac-Marquis, Paul Risacher)
SPECIAL EVENTS
"11.22.63" (Director: Kevin Macdonald, Screenwriter: Bridget Carpenter, Executive Producers: J.J. Abrams, Stephen King, Kevin Macdonald, Bridget Carpenter, Bryan Burk)
Behind the Scenes of "Anomalisa" (Directors: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson, Screenwriter: Charlie Kaufman)
"Chelsea Does" (Director: Eddie Schmidt)
"The Girlfriend Experience" (Directors and screenwriters: Lodge Kerrigan, Amy Seimetz, Executive Producers: Steven Soderbergh, Philip Fleishman, Lodge Kerrigan, Amy Seimetz, Gary Marcus, Jeff Cuban)
"The New Yorker Presents" (Executive Producers: Alex Gibney, Kahane Cooperman, Showrunner: Kahane Cooperman)
"O.J.: Made in America" (Director: Ezra Edelman)
"The Skinny" (Director and screenwriter: Jessie Kahnweiler)
"United Shades of America" (Executive Producers: Jimmy Fox, W. Kamau Bell, Star Price)
