Sundance Weeps

The schedule for the 25th annual Sundance Film Festival was released today, and the films chosen are more emotional than some of the alienated, outsider tales of the recent past. "Audiences this year are going to be surprised," festival director Geoffrey Gilmore told The New York Times. "The range of emotions evoked by the films is going to be greater than in the past." The Greatest, starring Pierce Brosnan and Susan Sarandon reeling from the death of their teenage son, was singled out as a "three-hankie, if not more" film. The rest of the slate leans heavily towards international fare. The festival runs January 15 to 25 in Park City, Utah.