1. Talker TV premieres and a basic absoluteness bang
The fest is accepted for showcasing avant-garde filmmakers, “but a lot of filmmakers are traveling aback and forth,” says Trevor Groth, Sundance’s administrator of programming. “They’re authoritative a film, they’re accomplishing a series.” J.J. Abrams will bare his James Franco-led sci-fi Hulu alternation 11.22.63, Starz has its adult adult Steven Soderbergh-produced alternation The Girlfriend Experience, and Amazon offers The New Yorker Presents.
This year's 30 VR adventures amount Notes on Blindness, which puts audiences into the shoes of a dark person, to Giant, which plants users central war-torn Serbia.
2. Famous faces
Behind the flannel-and-boots vibe is an electric testing arena for riskier fare. Nick Jonas plays a fraternity brother in Goat, Daniel Radcliffe embodies a body befriended by a abandoned survivor (Paul Dano) in Swiss Army Man, and Casey Affleck allotment home to affliction for his orphaned nephew alongside Michelle Williams in Manchester By the Sea.
3. Comedians agee the narrative
Wyatt Cenac (Jacqueline: Argentine), Molly Shannon (Other People), Craig Robinson (Morris From America) and Maya Rudolph (Maggie's Plan) are all arduous perceptions. For Chelsea Handler's Netflix documentary series, Chelsea Does, "she in fact brings her ancestors in," Groth says. "People will see a altered ancillary of her."
4. Films to watch
Keep your eyes on films that capsize expectations. Christine (with Rebecca Hall in the appellation role) and Kate Plays Christine (a documentary/thriller) play off the aforementioned accountable amount of a Florida TV anchorman who committed suicide on camera in 1974. "It’s accompaniment that they both came to us in the aforementioned year," Groth says.
Thanks to The Big Short and George Clooney's accessible Money Monster, Wall Street films accept never been hotter, and Sundance is affable the woman-led Equity, with Anna Gunn arena an investment broker arch a high-profile tech IPO "who has been gluttonous a advance aural her aggregation and hasn’t been validated," says administrator Meera Menon.
Then there's How to Tell You're a Douchebag from first-time affection filmmaker Tahir Jetter, who took artistic authorization from a bootless accord to humorously appraise the misogynistic meanderings of Millennial relationships. Douchebag has "a little Sleepless in Seattle, a little When Harry Met Sally vibe," Jetter says.
5. Hot docs
Keep your eyes bald for documentaries like Norman Lear: Just Another Version of You and Spike Lee's Michael Jackson's Journey from Motown to 'Off the Wall.'
Katie Couric and Stephanie Soechtig's Under the Gun debuts at the aforementioned time as documentary Newtown. "What we are attempting to do is absolutely to explain all the altered layers that go into gun assurance issues in this country," Couric says.
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