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A few days ago we featured the first teaser poster for David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom , one of my favorite Sundance films that I saw a week ago during the first half of the fest. Also a few days ago, while working at our condo, Dave Chen from SlashFilm decided to record a video discussion of Animal Kingdom involving anyone who had seen the film (which included me, our own Brandon Lee Tenney , and Dave Chen himself). You can watch that video review below but in addition to that we’ve got a quick written review from Brandon as well (below). Watch this if you want to know why Animal Kingdom is one of the best films of the fest! Here’s a little blurb on Animal Kingdom from the Sundance film guide : “Wielding a formidable cinematic lexicon, writer/director David Michôd shows complete command of every frame as he shifts between simmering intensity and gut-wrenching drama

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Sundance Video Review: David Michôd’s Animal Kingdom

One location. One actor. One phenomenal filmmaking achievement

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Brandon’s Sundance 2010 Review: Rodrigo Cortés’ Buried

It was first announced almost two years ago that Steven Spielberg would be developing a new live-action adaptation of the beloved manga Ghost in the Shell . Since then we’ve heard bits and pieces regarding the project, but they still haven’t really progressed past the development stage on it. We also learned last October that Shutter Island writer (and Avatar executive producer) Laeta Kalogridis would be writing the script for Spielberg.

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Live-Action Ghost in the Shell Writer Talks About the Script

The Hurt Locker and director Kathryn Bigelow have finally won their first major award at the Directors Guild of America Awards held yesterday at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza. Bigelow won the award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Feature Film over her fellow nominees including: James Cameron for Avatar , Lee Daniels for Precious , Jason Reitman for Up in the Air , & Quentin Tarantino for Inglourious Basterds . Louie Psihoyos also won the documentary award for The Cove . Could this be an early sign that The Hurt Locker and/or Kathryn Bigelow might end up wining some Oscars in March?

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Hurt Locker’s Kathryn Bigelow Wins Directors Guild Award!

The official awards for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival were announced tonight at a ceremony in Park City. The big winner this year is HappyThankYouMorePlease , taking home the coveted Audience Award, but there are plenty of other big winners as well. As expected, the juries made some odd choices, and this year no one thought Sympathy for Delicious or Obselidia should’ve won anything (but they did). Anyway, these awards always start to put the finishing touches on yet another Sundance, which means things are winding down.

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Sundance Film Festival 2010 Awards Officially Announced