Line forms Saturday for tickets to Sundance films

OGDEN -- Tickets for Ogden screenings in the upcoming Sundance Film Festival go on sale Saturday at Peery's Egyptian Theater.

People standing in line at 7 a.m. will receive appointment cards, assigning them a time later on Saturday to return and make purchases for local screenings. The Egyptian is at 2415 Washington Blvd.

Tickets are $15 per screening; $10 for students age 18 and older and for military employees and their families. Valid school or military identification must be shown.

As many as 20 tickets may be purchased per appointment, with no more than four tickets allowed for a specific screening.

For information about the festival, and about tickets for other screening sites, visit www.sundance.org.

Best of Fest tickets for two local post-festival screenings, titles to be announced, will be available from noon to 5:30 p.m. Jan. 16 at the Peery's Egyptian Theater box office. The limit is two free tickets per person, per screening. The screenings will be on Feb. 1.

The regular Ogden film schedule:

SBlt "I Am Love," 6:30 p.m. Jan. 22. (Italy) English subtitles. Starring Tilda Swinton. In the villa of a wealthy Italian family, the Recchis prepare to celebrate the birthday of their patriarch. Grandson Edoardo introduces his new girlfriend, and the grandfather, knowing this is his last birthday, names the successor to his empire.

SBlt "Hesher," 6:30 p.m. Jan. 23. (USA) Starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Natalie Portman, Rainn Wilson, Devin Brochu, Piper Laurie. A 13-year-old loses his mother in a recent accident, leaving him and his grieving dad to move in with grandma to pick up the pieces. Hesher (Gordon-Levitt) is a loner who hates the world and everyone in it. He likes fire and blowing things up, and he moves in with the family.

SBlt "Homewrecker," 9:30 p.m. Jan. 23. (USA) Mike is a locksmith and a prisoner on work release. He's trying to focus on his house calls and reconcile with his ex-girlfriend when a stranger, Margo, hijacks his day. A live-wire kook who's certain her boyfriend is cheating on her, Margo makes Mike spy on the alleged cad.

SBlt "Waiting for Superman," 3:30 p.m. Jan. 24. (USA) Director Davis Guggenheim ("An Inconvenient Truth") turns his documentary lens on students who are let down by the public education system.

SBlt "Boy," 6:30 p.m. Jan. 24. (New Zealand) It's 1984, and Michael Jackson is king, even in Waihau Bay, New Zealand. Boy, 11, lives on a farm with his gran. She leaves for a week, and Boy's father, Alamein, appears out of the blue. Having imagined a heroic version of his father during his absence, Boy comes face to face with the real version: an incompetent hoodlum who has returned to find a bag of money he buried years before. Screens with the short "My Rabit Hoppy."

SBlt "Sympathy for Delicious," 7 p.m. Jan. 25. (USA) Starring Christopher Thornton, Mark Ruffalo, Juliette Lewis, Orlando Bloom, Laura Linney. A recently paralyzed DJ battles the mean streets of Los Angeles, struggling to survive in his wheelchair and seeking out faith healers.

SBlt "Bran Nue Dae," 7 p.m. Jan. 26. (Australia) Featuring Geoffrey Rush. This is a screen adaptation of a stage musical, a hit in Australia. It's the summer of 1969, and with his evangelical mother pointing him toward the priesthood, earnest young Willie attends a Catholic boarding school in Perth but, protesting its strict rules, runs away to his homeland with Father Benedictus (Rush) in hot pursuit.

SBlt "thankyoumoreplease," 7 p.m. Jan. 27. (USA) Sam is a struggling New York writer having a bad day who finds a lost boy on the subway and brings him home, leading to a friendship. Described as a wryly funny script about young people on the cusp of truly growing up.

SBlt "Skateland," 7 p.m. Jan. 28. (USA) It's 1983, and Skateland, the roller rink and local hangout of a small town, is becoming a fading memory of an earlier time when roller disco was king. Manager Ritchie, 19, struggles with finding his future. When tragedy strikes his friends and family, Ritchie must make the biggest decision of his life.

SBlt "Please Give," 6:30 p.m. Jan. 29. (USA) Starring Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt. A married couple live in Manhattan with their teenage daughter. Wanting to expand their two-bedroom apartment, they buy the unit next door, planning to knock the walls out. However, before doing so, they have to wait for the occupant, a cranky elderly woman, to die.

SBlt "Nowhere Boy," 9:30 p.m. Jan. 29. (United Kingdom) Growing up in Liverpool in 1955, and raised by his aunt and late uncle, John Lennon is a smart and spirited but directionless teen who skips school, steals records and is told he's going nowhere. His estranged mother encourages John's interest in music, a journey that leads to The Beatles.

SBlt "Mother & Child," 3:30 p.m. Jan. 30. (USA/Spain) Starring Naomi Watts, Annette Bening, Jimmy Smits, Samuel L. Jackson. Destiny plays a part in the lives of three women: a 50-year-old physical therapist, the daughter she gave up for adoption 35 years earlier, and a woman looking to adopt her first child.

SBlt "Get Low," 6:30 p.m. Jan. 30. (USA) Starring Bill Murray, Robert Duvall and Sissy Spacek. Felix (Duvall) is a miserable old hermit in 1930s Tennessee who has lived in an isolated cabin for 38 years and hatches a plan to throw himself a "funeral party."

SBlt "The Romantics," 9:30 p.m. Jan. 30. (USA) Starring Katie Holmes, Josh Duhamel, Anna Paquin. Seven close friends, all members of an eclectic college clique, reconvene for a wedding and wrestle with old rivalries.

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