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Siobhan
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Be in with a chance to see Felicity’s new film Like Crazy – it looks like it’s creating quite a buzz in the film industry!
One of the biggest draws at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah, later this month is the romantic dramedy “Like Crazy.” It premieres on Saturday, Jan. 23, in the cavernous 1,700-seat Eccles Theater at the festival, and as of now, the premiere screening is sold out.
So you can buy your ticket to Park City and get on the waiting list to possibly get a last-minute seat at the screening. Or you can stay in Madison and see it at Sundance Cinemas five days later.
Last year, the “Sundance Film Festival USA” program brought eight films to eight cities around the country, along with their filmmakers, just days after they premiered at the festival. Madison was lucky enough to get “The Runaways,” and as a bonus, former Runaways lead singer Cherie Currie was at the sold-out Madison screening.
This year, we get “Like Crazy,” on Thursday, Jan. 27 at 7 p.m. at (naturally) Sundance Cinemas, 702 N. Midvale Blvd. Filmmaker Drake Doremus (who premiered the unforgettably titled “Douchebag” at last year’s festival) and a couple of other filmmakers will be present at the Madison screening. And I’ll be moderating a post-show discussion with them.
While “Douchebag” was a wry, improv-heavy comedy with a bitingly honest heart, “Like Crazy” seems to be a real tonal departure for Doremus. It stars Anton Yelchin (Chekov from the “Star Trek” reboot) as an American college student who falls in love with a Brit (Felicity Jones) while in Los Angeles. After college, the pair are forced into a cross-continental long-distance relationship that really puts their love to the test.
Tickets for the Madison screening of “Like Crazy” are $15 and are on sale now at the Sundance box office or through sundancecinemas.com. It should be a memorable night.
