Sundance announces titles for inaugural Sundance Film Festival USA

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The Sundance Film Festival announced that it will show eight select films from the 2010 festival at special screenings across the country. The screenings take place in 8 cities on Jan. 28, close to the end of the film festival’s scheduled Jan. 21-31 dates. And yes, the filmmakers will be in attendance.

For those of us who can’t afford can’t find the time to go to the actual festival this is a great way to feel like you’re at least part of the goings on in Park City. Looks like I may have to make a trip to Ann Arbor in January.

From Sundance (edited):

Sundance Institute today announced eight films from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival scheduled to screen in eight different cities nationwide on the night of Thursday, January 28, 2010. Tickets for the January 28 screenings are available through each individual theater’s box office.

Films screening as part of Sundance Film Festival USA are:

Cyrus — Ann Arbor, MI — Michigan Theater www.michtheater.org
Directors and screenwriters: Jay Duplass and Mark Duplass —A recently divorced guy meets a new lady. Then he meets her son who is, well…interesting. Cast: John C. Reilly, Marisa Tomei, Jonah Hill, Catherine Keener. World Premiere

The Company Men — Brookline, MA — Coolidge Corner Theatre www.coolidge.org
Director and screenwriter John Wells will screen his drama — filmed on location in North Boston — about three company men attempting to survive a round of corporate downsizing while trying to fend off its effects on their families and their identities. Cast: Ben Affleck, Kevin Costner, Maria Bello, Tommy Lee Jones, Chris Cooper, Rosemarie DeWitt. World Premiere

Daddy Longlegs — Brooklyn, NY — BAM www.bam.org
Directors, screenwriters, brothers and Native New Yorkers Benny Safdie and Josh Safdie will bring to New York their latest film—A swan song to excuses and responsibilities, to fatherhood and self-created experiences, and to what it’s like to be truly torn between being a child and being an adult. Cast: Ronald Bronstein, Sage Ranaldo, Frey Ranaldo. North American Premiere

Jack Goes Boating — Chicago, IL — Music Box Theatre www.musicboxtheatre.com Director: Philip Seymour Hoffman; Screenwriter: Bob Glaudini, both well know to Chicago film and theatre lovers. – A limo driver’s blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship, and grace centered around two working-class New York City couples. Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Ryan, John Ortiz, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Tom McCarthy.

Teenage Paparazzo — Los Angeles, CA — Downtown Independent www.downtownindependent.com Where better than Los Angeles to explore the effects of celebrity on culture? Director Adrian Grenier’s documentary does exactly that. A 13-year-old paparazzi boy snaps a photo of Grenier, leading the actor/director to explore the effects of celebrity on culture.

The Runaways — Madison, WI — Sundance Cinemas Madison www.sundancecinemas.com Director and screenwriter: Floria Sigismondi—In 1970s LA, a tough teenager named Joan Jett connects with an eccentric producer to form an all-girl band that would launch her career and make rock history. Cast: Kristen Stewart, Dakota Fanning, Scout Taylor-Compton, Michael Shannon, Alia Shawkat, Tatum O’Neal.

The Extra Man — Nashville, TN — The Belcourt Theatre www.belcourt.org Directors: Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini; Screenwriters: Robert Pulcini, Jonathan Ames, Shari Springer Berman, based on the novel by Jonathan Ames — A down-and-out playwright who escorts wealthy widows in Manhattan’s Upper East Side takes a young aspiring writer under his wing. Cast: Kevin Kline, Paul Dano, John C. Reilly, and Katie Holmes.

Howl — San Francisco, CA — Sundance Kabuki Cinemas www.sundancecinemas.com Directors and screenwriters: Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman, both local San Franciscans, will be on hand to screen their nonfiction drama about the young Allen Ginsberg finding his voice, the creation of his groundbreaking poem HOWL, and the landmark obscenity trial that followed. Cast: James Franco, David Strathairn, Jon Hamm, Mary-Louise Parker, Jeff Daniels.