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Notes From Sundance: Lou Taylor Pucci On Playing A Brain-Damaged Character

Notes From Sundance: Lou Taylor Pucci On Playing A Brain-Damaged Character

25-year-old actor Lou Taylor Pucci took on a challenge by playing the lead in a film called The Music Never Stopped. The movie, which co-stars the awesome J.K. Simmons, dramatizes the true story of a hippie kid who lost part of his memory and brain function after suffering a massive brain tumor. Through the help of a music therapist and songs by The Grateful Dead, he starts to make progress toward forging new memories.

Lou plays the lead character, Gabriel (based on a real man named Gary), who we see both after he’s suffered the brain damage and also in flashbacks as a rebellious high school kid. In a Q&A after the screening, Lou talked about the methods he took toward being able to effectively play the challenging role: More »

Video: See The Trailer For ‘Red State,’ The Film Kevin Smith Plans To Self-Distribute

Video: See The Trailer For 'Red State,' The Film Kevin Smith Plans To Self-Distribute

We stopped by Sundance’s Red State after party last night and the room was abuzz with news of a stunt auction director Kevin Smith‘s pulled at the flick’s world premiere not an hour before. Kevin bid on his own movie, for $20, and said that he plans to self-distribute the horror film about a group of radical Christian fundamentalists. He plans to promote the movie through social networking, podcasting, and taking it around on a 15-city tour as party of a new DIY distribution mentality. Kevin explained: More »

Gallery: The Facial Hair Of Sundance

Gallery: The Facial Hair Of Sundance
Emile Hirsch took liberty with a soul patch.
Franco! Rocking the rugged look.
Bellflower director/star, Evan Glodell. Yikes!
Hugh Dancy and a five o'clock shadow.
Liam Hemsworth, getting a little too scruffy.

Here at Sundance, stars and commoners alike are waking around in snow boots and giant parkas. Winter: It’s the great equalizer. And a lot of smart guys thought ahead and grew some facial hair in advance to guard against the cold. Check out our gallery of some of the scruffy stars who’ve been wandering the streets of Park City. More »

Miranda July’s New Film Greeted By A Press Walkout At Sundance

Miranda July's New Film Greeted By A Press Walkout At Sundance

Miranda July‘s 2005 film Me And You And Everyone We Know was hard to follow. In fact, it was so hard to improve on that it took Ms. July six years to complete her next feature film. And screening at the Sundance film festival this year, things didn’t go exactly according to plan. In fact, at the press screening of The Future I attended, multiple people walked out. More »

Crush Links: James Franco Sings About Porn, ‘Three’s Company,’ At Sundance

Crush Links: James Franco Sings About Porn, 'Three's Company,' At Sundance

• James Franco continues to be the weirdest person in the world when he made an MTV interviewer sing a dirty version of the Three’s Company theme with him at Sundance. (Socialite Life)

• Aaron Carter has entered rehab for “emotional and spiritual issues.” And drugs. Most likely drugs. (People)

• Baby Spice announced she was getting married on Twitter. Well, this way she could post a Twitpic of the ring. (TMZ) More »

Video: Watch Lizzie Olsen Freak Out In The Horror Movie ‘Silent House’

Video: Watch Lizzie Olsen Freak Out In The Horror Movie 'Silent House'

Elizabeth Olsen is stepping out of the shadows of her older sisters and into the shadows of a dark, unidentified presence. (Can dark, unidentified presences have shadows? Questions like this one are why we wish The X-Files were still on.) Lizzie stars in the film Silent House which will screen this week at Sundance. This clip is mostly just a bunch of horrified panting, but Lizzie does it quite convincingly! More »