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Spike Jonze & Arcade Fire Working on Unknown New Film Project

by Andrew Robinson Posted: April 11th, 2010 at 8:56 am

Spike Jonze (Where the Wild Things Are) has been casting for a new project in Austin, Texas. According to /Film, the Oscar nominated director has been looking mainly for actors in their late teens. The film is apparently about “friends growing apart“. Spike plans to collaborate with the indie rock band Arcade Fire, whose music he used in the trailer for his last film Where the Wild Things Are.

It’s also been speculated that the project that he’s working on is another short film. Spike Jonze, who started out as a music video director, isn’t new to short filmmaking. He just premiered his newest short film I’m Here at the Sundance Film Festival 2010. The film has been released online for all to view here. As a fan of Jonze I’m always interested in seeing more and the same applies here.

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Competition Line-up Announced for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival

by Matt Goldberg Posted: December 2nd, 2009 at 2:15 pm

The Sundance Film Festival is where some of the great films of the year will get their first viewings, and if you don’t believe me, here’s just some of the great films this year that made their debut at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival: Precious, World’s Greatest Dad, Big Fan, Bronson, Moon and even (500) Days of Summer, which I didn’t care for but made a big splash.

The festival is where buzz starts happening and now Sundance has released the list of which films will be in competition for 2010. Keep in mind that there are plenty of other films which play out of competition and can be just as great. But some of the big names fighting for the crown are the Allen Ginsberg obscenity trial film Howl starring General Hospital’s James Franco, Hesher starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Natalie Portman, Mark Ruffalo’s directing debut Sympathy for Delicious, and then there are separate categories for domestic documentaries, foreign documentaries, and foreign narrative films and who knows what great treasures will be among those. I’m sure we’ll hear from those lucky bastards who are attending.

Hit the jump for the full list of the films in contention. We’ll bring you a list of films playing out of competition once we have it.