Slouching towards Park City, 1/15.

"[A]bout 100 new feature films are arriving at the [Sundance Film Festival] with available US rights," reports indieWIRE's Eugene Hernandez. "Coming off what was by all accounts a bad year for documentaries and low budget indies theatrically, not to mention the pressures created by the ongoing WGA strike, Sundance 08 has the potential to be a busy one for buyers at the festival."

"For many of the sleep-deprived, debt-saddled filmmakers trekking to the Sundance Film Festival this week, gaining acceptance to the world's most competitive indie market was the easy part," writes Gina Piccalo in the Los Angeles Times. "It's finishing their films in time that will take nothing short of a miracle."

Daniel Kreps previews the music-related movies for Rolling Stone. Via Movie City News.

Glenn Kenny's wondering how Tom Arnold got himself into two Sundance films this year.

Online viewing tip. "One particularly fascinating entry is Carlos Moreno's Columbian crime drama Perro Come Perro (Dog Eat Dog), a film revolving around corrupt cops, hired killers, betrayal, revenge, and the drug trade with a bit of South American witchcraft thrown in for good measure," notes Todd Brown, who's got the trailer at Twitch.

Posted by dwhudson at January 15, 2008 3:21 PM