11 Influential Sundance Movies
Before the annual film festival kicks off in Park City, Utah, we look back at some of the films that shook up audiences and the industry
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John Lurie, Eszter Balint, ...
Credit: Stranger Than Paradise: Everett Collection
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Sex, Lies, and Videotape, Andie MacDowell, ... | Writer-director Steven Soderbergh's debut feature exploring the intersection of emotional and sexual ennui laid the foundation for the hegemony of the two empires that would
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Reservoir Dogs, Harvey Keitel, ... | High school dropout Quentin Tarantino put himself through a self-styled film school while working as a clerk in a video store, where he devoured everything
Credit: Reservoir Dogs: Everett Collection
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El Mariachi, Consuelo Gomez
Credit: El Mariachi: Everett Collection
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Clerks | Kevin Smith, inspired by Stranger Than Paradise , turned his camera on his own nothing-much-happens life, shooting at night on a budget of $28,000 in
Credit: Clerks: Photofest
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Spanking the Monkey, Alberta Watson, ...
Credit: Spanking the Monkey: C. Strother
3. THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT (1999)
The Blair Witch Project | This ingenious mock-documentary jumps off from the premise that three young filmmakers, journeying into the Maryland woods in search of the legendary Blair Witch, have
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Memento, Guy Pearce | Inspired by his brother's yet-to-be-published short story about an amnesiac avenging his wife's death that plays out from end to beginning, Christopher Nolan had no
Credit: Memento: Danny Rothenberg
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Napoleon Dynamite, Jon Heder, ... | Written by married Mormons Jared and Jerusha Hess, this hilariously warped tale of arrested development and geek love had Hollywood scratching its head when Fox
Credit: Napoleon Dynamite: Aaron Ruell
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Super Size Me, Morgan Spurlock | Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock's intrepid human-lab-rat experiment — he ate exclusively at McDonald's for a month — tapped a rich vein in the zeitgeist as
Credit: Super Size Me: Julie Soefer
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LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (2006)
Little Miss Sunshine, Abigail Breslin, ... | Sundance audiences have never been stingy with their standing ovations. But Little Miss Sunshine unleashed a charm offensive so powerful, Park City cheered like Red
Credit: Little Miss Sunshine: Eric Lee
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