Sundance 2010 Preview: SKATELAND

First off let me say that I absolutely love movies that are based in the 80’s, maybe it has something to do with my Patrick Swayze obsession but I just cant get enough of them. I was stoked to see another 80’s film at this years festival because I fell in love with ADVENTURELAND at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival. SKATELAND is from first time writers/director Anthony Burns so we have no idea what to expect but an 80’s film that revolves around a roller rink…count me in.

Official Synopsis:

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 disco and roller-skating were king. The party scene is getting stale, and 19-year-old Ritchie’s romantic life is as cloudy as his future. He struggles to make sense of it all, and decisions do not come easily to the carefree young man. When tragedy strikes his friends and family, Ritchie must face the music—and make the biggest decision of his life.

Without the benefit of a studio budget or name casting, Anthony Burns and Brandon and Heath Freeman capture the ’80s in startling detail. The result: a cinematic scrapbook of a time and place, a visceral visual, and an aural experience that reclaims the decade for those of us lucky enough to have lived through it once. While the atmosphere is time specific, the themes of the joys and pains of growing up are universal.

SKATELAND plays at the following times:

5:15 PM Mon, Jan 25 Racquet Club
2:15 PM Tue, Jan 26 Racquet Club
7:00 PM Thu, Jan 28 Peery’s Egyptian Theater
12:15 PM Fri, Jan 29 Eccles Theatre
11:59 PM Sat, Jan 30 Prospector Square Theatre
12:30 PM Sun, Jan 31 Rose Wagner Performing Arts Center

Official Website:

http://www.freemanfilm.com/skateland/