The 2014 Sundance Film Festival kicked off on Jan. 16, once again bringing dozens of new and innovative films to Park City, Utah. The 11 day event, which runs through Jan. 26, featured stars such as actor and festival founder Robert Redford.
WHIPLASH
The film Whiplash was premiered is about a drama about an aspiring drummer (Miles Teller) who is criticized by his art college professor (J.K. Simmons) has received one of the warmest receptions for an opening film in recent memory at the Sundance festival. Miles Teller — who can be seen on screen later this month with Zac Efron in That Awkward Moment — took four-hour drum lessons three times a week to play the lead in Whiplash, shown below in the movie scenes.
CAMP X-RAY
Camp X-Ray is about a young woman who joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees. As two people on opposite sides of a war, they struggle to find their way through the ethical quagmire of Guantanamo Bay. In the process, they form an unlikely bond that changes them both.
INFINITELY POLAR BEAR
The year is 1978, and the Stuart family is struggling to hold it together. Cameron (played by Mark Ruffalo), is a bipolar father, and has had a nervous breakdown that leaves him unemployable, and Maggie, a hardworking mother, can’t quite make ends meet. Despite Cameron’s aristocratic genes and the couple’s top-notch education, they’re broke. When Maggie decides to accept a scholarship to pursue her MBA in New York, she must leave her daughters, Faith and Amelia, in Boston with their now-somewhat-convalesced father. So begins an untamed, unpredictable, 18-month experiment as eccentric, exuberant Cameron takes over primary parenting of his precocious, sensitive little girls.
Inspired by writer/director Maya Forbes’s childhood, Infinitely Polar Bear lovingly and honestly portrays the pain and frustration of being raised by a father incapable of managing adult responsibilities and explores the gifts inherent in not being sheltered from that reality.
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