1999 Sundance Film Festival
Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg: Speaking in Strings
$21.95 | 75 minutes
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
This acclaimed documentary tracks the tumultuous life and career of powerhouse classical violinist, Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg. Eccentric, wild, and unorthodox are just a few of the adjectives that have been used to describe this "bad girl" performer. Though audiences seem divided over Salerno-Sonnenberg's&hellip…
Splendor
$24.95 | 93 minutes
BEVERLY HILLS 90210 star Kathleen Robertson plays Veronica, a young woman who suddenly kickstarts her love life by falling for the awkward but astute Abel (Shaech), a budding Rock critic. There's only one problem: Zed (Keeslar), a daft but virile drummer who Veronica meets on the same night, proves equally enticing. The three decide to&hellip&hellip…
Sing Faster: The Stagehands' Ring Cycle
$23.95 | 56 minutes
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
Filmmakers Trophy, Documentary
With its massive set designs and 17-hour running time, Richard Wagner's RING CYCLE makes for the most daunting production an opera house can stage. Jon Else's award-winning documentary SING FASTER chronicles the San Francisco Opera's production of Wagner's&hellip…
Death: A Love Story
$21.95 | 63 minutes
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
Filmmaker Michelle Le Brun and producer/actor Mel Howard (HESTER STREET, RENALDO AND CLARA) were married only two years when Mel was diagnosed with terminal liver cancer. Accustomed to living life through the medium of film, the couple courageously decided to document Mel's yearlong struggle&hellip…
Brakhage
$26.95 | 75 minutes
Over the course of 40 years, avant-garde film legend Stan Brakhage made nearly 400 films. Using experimental techniques of his own creation and no sound, he changed the both way we think about film and what we expect from light passing through celluloid. From "Window Water Baby Moving" (1958) to later works, such as "Dante's Quartet"&hellip&hellip…
Regret to Inform
$25.95 | 72 minutes
Grand Jury Prize(Nominee)
Jury Award, Best Cinematography
Jury Award, Best Director
Director and writer Sonnenborn's universally acclaimed film about Vietnam, told from a very personal viewpoint. Sonnenborn's first husband was killed in the war, and he left her an audio tape of his thoughts and feelings about his experience&hellip…
Treasure Island
$25.95 | 84 minutes
Grand Jury Prize, Dramatic(Nominee)
Special Jury Prize, Dramatic
Frank (Lance Baker) and Samuel (Nick Offerman) are government employees working in a secret base in Northern California in 1945. World War II is in full swing, and the body of an unidentified American has been discovered by the military. Frank and Samuel are&hellip…
The Source
$19.95 | 88 minutes
Grand Jury Prize, Documentary(Nominee)
The story of three young men who defined the "Beat Generation" in the mid '40s through poetry and prose. Jack Kerouac (Depp), Allen Ginsburg (Turturro), and William S. Burroughs (Hopper) are the subject of this insightful documentary by Chuck Workman (SUPERSTAR: The Life And Times Of Andy&hellip…
Genghis Blues
$25.95 | 80 minutes
Audience Award
In 1995, blind bluesman Paul Pena, who has played with Muddy Waters, B.B. King, John Lee Hooker, Jerry Garcia, and Merl Saunders and wrote the Steve Miller Band hit "Jet Airliner," traveled to Tuva, a small land in Northern Mongolia, with a small film crew and radio DJ Mario Casetta. Pena had become fascinated with&hellip…
Tumbleweeds
$22.95 | 100 minutes
Grand Jury Prize-Dramatic(Nominee)
Filmmakers Trophy-Dramatic
Mary Jo Walker (Janet McTeer) is a Southern mother who hides her self-consciousness by overcompensating. She drinks, wears revealing outfits, and says things that other people would never even consider. Fleeing her latest abusive relationship, she and her daughter&hellip…
Judy Berlin
$21.95 | 91 minutes
Director's Award
Grand Jury Prize(Nominee)
A sensitive glimpse into the lives of several Babylon, Long Island residents that takes place on the second day of school. Thirty-year-old David Gold (Harnick) has moved back home with his parents after failing to become a successful Hollywood director. He mopes around the house apathetically&hellip…
The War Zone
$18.95 | 99 minutes
Tim Roth's directorial debut, based on the novel by Alexander Stuart (who adapted the screenplay), is not for the faint of heart. When a seemingly normal family moves from London to rural Devon, 15-year-old Tom (Freddie Cunliffe) stumbles into a shocking secret concerning his father (Ray Winstone) and 17-year-old sister, Jessie (Lara&hellip&hellip…
Life Is To Whistle
$15.95 | 106 minutes
Special Jury Prize, Latin America Cinema
The dawning of a new millennium is the backdrop for this chaotic Cuban comedy interweaving the diverse lives of three Havana residents. Marianna is a beautiful dancer with strong sexual urges who must suppress her desires in preparation for a new ballet; Eilipido is an orphaned boy in search&hellip…
The Blair Witch Project
$8.95 | 87 minutes
Made for $30,000 by two young filmmakers from Florida, THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT wowed festival audiences for several months before finding distribution at the 1999 Sundance Festival. It is an ingenious creation which makes effective use of its lack of budget and cast of unknowns. The film is composed entirely of reportedly "found" footage&hellip&hellip…