Sundance Film Festival is coming up quick. Take a glance at these films on the Sundance Channel. These films, showing tonight, were shown at the festival in 2005, an interesting take on Iraq and teenage boys. Let me know your thoughts on these films.
Monday, January 14<
9:00 p.m. The Liberace of Baghdad directed by Sean McAllister
In Iraq to make a film about Saddam Hussein’s trial, British documentarian Sean McAllister turns his cameras on an alternative Baghdad celebrity: Samir Peter, a colorful lounge pianist who entertains mercenaries and contractors in a hotel catering to foreigners. As Peter travels in post-invasion Baghdad telling his story — including his bad luck when Saddam’s regime disapproved of his Western tastes — McAllister records a rare glimpse of contemporary Iraqi life, where stray bullets, assassinations and visits to the morgue are routine. Appeared at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival
Followed by:
Dimmer directed by Talmage Cooley
A poignant and memorable snapshot of life within a gang of sight-impaired teenage boys who create their own world among the abandoned factories of Buffalo’s rust belt. Appeared at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival. Runtime 12:22.
