Utah film festival lineup in January will include new Spike Lee drama and Julie Delpy's follow-up to 2 Days in Paris
The Sundance film festival has announced its lineup of premieres, this year featuring new movies from Spike Lee, Stephen Frears and Julie Delpy among others.
Lee will present Red Hook Summer, his drama about an Atlanta boy who spends a summer in Brooklyn with his grandfather, who he's never met before. It stars The Wire's Clarke Peters, Jules Brown, Toni Lysaith, James Ransone and Thomas Jefferson Byrd. Frears, the British director of The Queen and Dirty Pretty Things, will screen Lay the Favourite, described as a film about an adventurous young woman who gets involved with a group of geeky older men who work the Las Vegas sportsbook system to their advantage. The film stars Rebecca Hall, Bruce Willis and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
French actor-director Delpy arrives with comedy drama 2 Days in New York, her follow-up to the critically acclaimed 2007 two-hander 2 Days in Paris. This time around she's sharing screen time with Chris Rock.
Opening in the documentary premiere section ? also announced on Monday after in-competition films were revealed last week ? is the Peter Jackson-produced West of Memphis, about the recent release of the West Memphis Three. Film-maker Joe Berlinger, who directed three documentaries under the title Paradise Lost helped secure the release of the three men by questioning the original police case against them. He brings a new work, Untitled Paul Simon Project, in the same category. It's described as a chronicle of a return trip the singer-songwriter made to South Africa following his musical ventures there during the mid-80s.
A full list of films is available on the Sundance website. Robert Redford's annual event takes place next year from 19 to 29 January in Park City, Salt Lake City, Ogden and Sundance, Utah.
Source: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2011/dec/06/sundance-2012-spike-lee-stephen-frears
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