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.
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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 Altmans backstage comedy A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION, which follows the final broadcast of a regional live radio variety program modeled after Garrison Keillors 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 Walters documentary THEATER OF WAR, which offers a fascinating glimpse of Streep at work, rehearsing for the title role in the 2006 revival of Bertolt Brechts play Mother Courage and Her Children.
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Great Directors
Thursdays at 10pm
Every Thursday in December we offer a double feature of groundbreaking films by influential directors starting at 10pm
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