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Certain reviews have been really bad, but it apparently got a standing ovation from the audience at its screening.
That tends to be failry common in film festivals, especially if the film-maker is attending. Except for Cannes. There, you're expected to boo.

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Variety recaps the festival so far.

http://variety.com/2014/film/news/varie ... 201067172/
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The Battered Bastards of Baseball doesn't have a distributor yet but a narrative version of the story is already being prepared with Todd Field (a former batboy for the Portland Mavericks as well as the director of In the Bedroom and Little Children) as director. Justin Lin will produce and the project is being shopped to prospective buyers at the festival.

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/sundanc ... ball-docu/
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The winners (I was not expecting Whiplash to win both the Grand Jury and Audience Awards):

http://www.deadline.com/2014/01/sundanc ... wards-list
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How rare is that, that a film wins both the Grand Prix and the Audience Award ? I'm very curious about this film now.
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Yeah, it didn't appeal to me from the outset but now I really should watch it.

Interestingly, very few of the award-winners sound like films I want to see. Instead I was more into seeing the following after the reviews:

I Origins: A smart sci-fi from the makers of Another Earth
20000 Days on Earth: A creative documentary on Nick Cave.
Boyhood: Everyone is raving about Linklater's 12-year film experiment.
The Guest: An ambitious genre film from the You're Next director
Young Ones: A post-apocalyptic western. The new Mad Max?
The Voices:A serial killer film from the director of Persepolis.
The One I Love: A deconstruction of the modern couple with apparently some amazing performances
Obvious Child: Like Juno, except smart and funny.
God Help the Girl: The debut feature from the singer of Belle and Sebastien.
Wetlands: A controversial film about a girl's sexual perversions. Hell yeah!

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Narrative dual winners:
1999: Three Seasons
2006: Quinceanera
2009: Precious
2013: Fruitvale Station
2014: Whiplash

Documentary dual winners:
1989: For All Mankind
1991: American Dream
2006: God Grew Tired of Us
2013: Blood Brother

Indeed, it doesn't happen often but a dual win doesn't necessarily translate to box office success. Out of these, only Precious was a breakout success. Though reviews are strong, Whiplash will be a hard sell at the box office. Miles Teller isn't a box office draw and films about rock music are box office poison.
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Hitfix on the best and worst of Sundance (including the first negative review I've read on Listen Up, Phillip, a positive review for the weather and pans of the logistics):

http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/bes ... rt-boyhood

Meanwhile, it looks like Camp X-Ray and The Voices were the most polarizing titles at the festival. The general consensus on the former seemed to be "Stewart is serviceable but the film could have been better" while one of the Variety critics called the latter the worst of the festival (Hitfix and the Village Voice liked it though).
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Buscemi wrote:Narrative dual winners:
1999: Three Seasons
2006: Quinceanera
2009: Precious
2013: Fruitvale Station
Mm. I've seen them all, and if those won both Grand Prix and Audience Award, well. I don't know. I'm no big fan of any of them. Apart from Precious they're all good films, but nothing special. And Precious is atrocious.
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In a deal made this morning, Sony will distribute Infinitely Polar Bear in the US. I guess they wanted to wait for the price to go down.

Now, expect a flood of deals beginning tomorrow for acclaimed titles that weren't picked up (and there seemed to be a lot of them).
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