ONLY ON SUNDANCE CHANNEL

Each month, Sundance Channel highlights actors, filmmakers, issues and causes célèbres that are close to our hearts. Here's a listing of this month's on-air events.

	Spotlight on Meryl Streep Thursday February 4 starting at 8pm Sundance Channel salutes the award-winning actress with a triple feature drawn from her recent, delightfully diverse body of work. Streep shows off her fine pipes as a cheerful country singer in Robert Altman’s backstage comedy A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, which follows the final broadcast of a regional live radio variety program modeled after Garrison Keillor’s long-running program. Streep earned her 13th Oscar nomination for her performance as a Manhattan writer drawn into the world of by a manic, toothless Florida orchid thief in ADAPTATION, a meta-fictional tale of creative insecurity, love and identity from director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman. The Spotlight closes out with John Walter’s documentary THEATER OF WAR, which offers a fascinating glimpse of Streep at work, rehearsing for the title role in the 2006 revival of Bertolt Brecht’s play “Mother Courage and Her Children.”

Spotlight on Meryl Streep

Thursday February 4 starting at 8pm

Sundance Channel salutes the award-winning actress with a triple feature drawn from her recent, delightfully diverse body of work. Streep shows off her fine pipes as a cheerful country singer in Robert Altman’s backstage comedy A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, which follows the final broadcast of a regional live radio variety program modeled after Garrison Keillor’s long-running program. Streep earned her 13th Oscar nomination for her performance as a Manhattan writer drawn into the world of by a manic, toothless Florida orchid thief in ADAPTATION, a meta-fictional tale of creative insecurity, love and identity from director Spike Jonze and writer Charlie Kaufman. The Spotlight closes out with John Walter’s documentary THEATER OF WAR, which offers a fascinating glimpse of Streep at work, rehearsing for the title role in the 2006 revival of Bertolt Brecht’s play “Mother Courage and Her Children.”

	Great Directors Thursdays at 10pm Every Thursday in December we offer a double feature of groundbreaking films by influential directors starting at 10pm

Great Directors

Thursdays at 10pm

Every Thursday in December we offer a double feature of groundbreaking films by influential directors starting at 10pm