Best Sundance Films Ever - a list by chad

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It's the season of Sundance and I'm particularly giddy about what's going to come out of it. My biggest interest, I Love You Phillip Morris. But, let's forget about speculating what will come out of this year because I found a list on, The Screengrab, where they list their 5 favorite Sundance films ever. I haven't seen them all, but I certainly trust a list with Bottle Rocket

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Stranger Than Paradise - Criterion Collection

First to recommend

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as the Grand Jury Winner of Sundance 1984, Stranger Than Paradise put Jim Jarmusch on the map. The absurdist comedy tells the storys of a self-identified hipster living in New York when his Hungarian cousin comes to visit.

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Poison

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This 1991 winner of Sundance is composed of three intercut stories.

-Hero: A young boy shoots his father and then flies away. The story is told in the style of a documentary film.

-Horror: Told in the style of 1950s drive-in sci-fi movies, Horror is about a scientist who isolates the "elixir of human sexuality" and, after drinking it, is transformed into a hideous murdering monster.

-Homo: The story of a prisoner who finds himself attracted to another prisoner whom he had known and seen humiliated as a youth in a juvenile facility.

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Bottle Rocket

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Though it didn't bag any of the big prizes in Park City, it was through Sundance that this gem of a film really started to generate some serious buzz, subsequently becoming one of the more cherished films of the 90s and resulting in the launch of the careers of Wes Anderson (and the Wilson brothers).

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Welcome to the Dollhouse

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This coming of age dark comedy won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in'96 and Launched the career of director, Todd Solondz. It is still one of the most touching and sympathetic, albeit incredibly uncomfortable, views of adolescence ever captured on film.

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Ballast

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Set in the Mississippi, this 2008 Sundance film, where one mans suicide effect 3 others lives.

*outside of a few screenings, you can't see this one yet. But hold on and keep it on your to see list.

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