Filmnews Item: Sundance Gets Up Close & Personal

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Mon., Dec. 1, 2003, 2:08pm PT

 

Sundance goes up close and personal

13 of 16 pics in dramatic competish are debuts

 

By TODD MCCARTHY

"This is the first year when I feel we have films from a real post-9/11 world," fest director Geoffrey Gilmore noted of the lineup of the 2004 Sundance Film Festival. "Just as we did after the 1950s, we've lost a degree of insularity and comfort that we had in the 1990s. The films are not broad or about the big picture, but about the disruption of everyday life, with a search for knowledge and meaning about what's going on in a specific world, often in an alternate reality."

Variety.com