Other titles certain to spark debate are Rodrigo Garcia’s Last Days in the Desert, with Ewan McGregor playing Jesus - and the Devil - in an imagined chapter from the Bible’s 40 days of fasting and praying in the desert story the Eliot Spitzer-esque drama Zipper about a sex-addicted federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political future and Experimenter, about real-life social psychologist Stanley Milgram, who in 1961 conducted a series of radical behavior experiments that tested ordinary humans’ willingness to obey authority by using electric shock ( Peter Sarsgaardand Winona Ryder star).Įwan McGregor Says It Was Nice to Rewatch 'Star Wars' Prequels 'Now Knowing That People Love Them' This year’s batch is chock-full of hot-button titles including the James Francostarrer I Am Michael, based on the true story of a gay activist who rejected his homosexuality and became a Christian pastor ( Zachary Quintoand Emma Roberts also star).
The Sundance Film Festival revealed its 2015 out-of-competition Premieres and Documentary Premieres sections Monday, and there will be no shortage of controversy.
