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Sundance on TV
If you aren’t in Park City, Utah, you can still see some of the movies showing at the Sundance Film Festival. In a special arrangement, three titles are being made available on Sundance Selects, a video-on-demand service available through such cable providers as Time Warner.
Three of this year’s movies are screening on Sundance Selects. They are:
‘The Shock Doctrine,’ a radical re-imagining of recent world history, based on the best-selling book by Naomi Klein. If you’re not familiar with Klein, she’s a big opponent of the so-called free-market policies of economist Milton Friedman of Chicago. His theories were widely endorsed by Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, and were the basis for economic experiments in Chile and Argentina. Klein melds economic theory with theories of the 1950s regarding the benefits of torture, some of which made their way into U.S. policy during the recent interventions in Iraq and Afghanistan.
‘The Shock Doctrine’ will air starting on Thursday.
Two other movies became available on Friday, Jan. 22. They are ‘Daddy Longlegs,’ by Josh and Benny Safide, and ‘7 Days,’ directed by Daniel Grou.
‘Daddy Longlegs’ stars Ronald Bronstein, a divorced father who’s desperately trying to keep his two young boys entertained while he has them for a couple of weeks. The responsibilities, however, become a bit much for the father, who tries to juggle his day job while keeping the kids entertained. The Safdie brothers say it’s a partly autobiographical fairy tale. But some troubling incidents make this tale much more complicated that it initially seems.
‘7 Days,’ meanwhile, focuses on a surgeon who decides to capture the killer of his 8-year-old daughter and torture him.
All movies will be available for 30 days through movies on demand.
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