Late night shocks and off-the-wall films feature in this showcase of eight movies.
Read our full 2005 Sundance Film Festival coverage.
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9 Songs(Country: UK; Director: Michael Winterbottom; Writer: Michael Winterbottom; Cast: Kieran O'Brien, Margo Stilley, Huw Bunford, Cian Ciaran, The Dandy Warhols, Elbow, Franz Ferdinand, Bobby Gillespie, Bob Hardy, Dafydd Ieuan, Alex Kapranos) Two people meet at a gig and have lots of sex, while Michael Winterbottom watches. Full Review
Dirty Love(Country: US; Director: John Mallory Asher; Writer: Jenny McCarthy; Cast: Jenny McCarthy, Eddie Kaye Thomas, Carmen Electra, Victor Webster, Kam Heskin, Guillermo Díaz, Jessica Collins, Renee Albert, Noah Harpster, Jay Johnston, Judith Drake)
A jilted girl tries to win back her man.
Hard Candy(Country: US; Director: David Slade; Writer: Brian Nelson; Cast: Patrick Wilson, Ellen Page,
Sandra Oh, Odessa Rae, Gilbert
John, Cori Bright, Erin Kraft) A thirtysomething man picks up an underage girl in a cyber cafe and gets more than he bargained for. Full Review
Matando Cabos(Country: Mexico; Director: Alejandro Lozano; Writer: Tony Dalton, Kristoff, Alejandro Lozano; Cast: Tony Dalton, Ana Claudia Talancón, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Kristoff, Raúl Méndez, Joaquín Cosio, Gustavo Sánchez Parra, Rocío Verdejo, Silverio Palacios, Jacqueline Voltaire, Pedro Altamirano) A bungled kidnapping sees the wrong man get nabbed. But a counterkidnapping makes life tricky in this darkly comic thriller. See: Sundown on Sundance 2005 - Sundance Awards
Oldboy (Old Boy)(Country: South Korea; Director: Park Chan-wook; Writer: Hwang Jo-yun, Lim Joon-hyung, Park Chan-wook, Tsuchiya Garon, Minegishi Nobuaki; Cast: Choi Min-sik, Yoo Ji-tae, Kang Hye-jung, Chi Dae-han, Oh Dal-su, Kim Byoung-ok, Lee Seung-shin, Yoon Jin-seo, Lee Dae-yun, Oh Gwang-rok) A revenge drama from South Korea creates a mystery for the long term prisoner who is released. Now out to own as part of the Vengeance Trilogy box set. Full Review
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Strangers With Candy(Country: US; Director: Paul Dinello; Writer: Stephen Colbert, Paul Dinello, Amy Sedaris)
Film prequel to the cult US TV hit about a middle-aged former junkie who emerges from prison hoping to start her life again.
Three Extremes (Saam gaang yi)(Country: Hong Kong, Korea, Japan; Director: Fruit Chan, Takashi Miike, Park Chan-Wook; Writer: Lillian Lee, Park Chan-Wook, Haruko Fukushima, Bun Saikou; Cast: Ling Bai, Miriam Yeung, Tony Leung, Miki Yeung, So-Fun Wong, Kyoko Hasegawa, Mai Suzuki, Yuu Suzuki, Byung-hun Lee, Won-hie Lim, Hye-jeong Kong, Dae-yeon Lee) Three of Asia's premier horror directors deliver spine-tingling short tales of terror, torture and tormented twins. Full Review
What Is It?(Country: US; Director: Crispin Glover; Writer: Crispin Glover; Cast: Michael Blevis, Rikky Wittman, John Insinna, Kelly Swiderski, Lisa Fusco, Crispin Glover, Steven C Stewart, Adam Parfrey, the voice of Fairuza Balk) Full Review See: Sundance Film Festival - Day 7
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