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Sundance coverage is one of my favorite times of year for this page and Hollywood-Elsewhere. It's the time when I jot down a lot of the smaller movies making waves that I will eventually make an effort to find when they come out near me, or to add to my Blockbuster queue.

In Bruges! In Bruges!

The films "Baghead" (from the Puffy Chair Duplass Bros) and " Goliath" from the truly nutty Zellner Bros are both excellent! They're total small, DIY flicks that deserve some love. Both remind me of the olden days of truly indie films that find an audience at Sundance.

DGA made tentative three-year deal with AMPTP. Full details no doubt to follow, but preliminary story at Variety here:

http://www.variety.com/VR1117979228.html

Full details of agreement available at www.dga.org or, more easily, at United Hollywood site here:

http://unitedhollywood.blogspot.com/2008/01/dga-official-annoucement.html

It's also the time of year that I take mental notes of movies that won't be released for nearly an entire year and - for a lot of them - will lose all their buzz.

I've been in LA the last six years, and seen many films at the American cinematheque since my first month here, and this is the first time they've done anything close to a John Ford retrospective. At the Aero, early february, about damn time.

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