I have no idea how to tell this story I
don’t even know how to start it this is
the story of my senior year of high
school and how it destroyed my life
this annual cinematic event showcases
the best in indie film you are one she
bastard Harvey Nolan tiny Dan I’m living
a government wage welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 movies
awarded the dramatic Grand Jury Prize at
the Sundance Film Festival
only films that actually one Sun dances
top fries are eligible their quality is
truly impressive and will hopefully
inspire our cinephile viewers to revisit
some of these gems come on Sean – Sean
tongue show it up gun number ten
Fruitvale station you’re safe inside
with your cousins what about you daddy
me he won’t be fine
this feature-length debut by Ryan
Coogler explores the last day in the
life of Oscar Grant a young black man
killed in a clash with police on New
Year’s is that real or based on an
actual event the film is a moving story
of a young man trying to make amends for
the mistakes he’s committed towards the
people he loves and towards himself I
was going through some shit before try
and get back on my feet you feel me but
I need this you can start me off of one
shift a week or whatever I’ll be here
working 40 hours only payments for 20
Michael B Jordan gives an astounding
performance you arresting us is we do
shit all and this Grand Jury Prize and
audience award winning film became a
sensation for it’s honest depiction of
race struggles and police brutality in
America
number nine precious noble in love you
me people do love you precious reason
based on the novel push by Sapphire this
intense and powerful Sundance winter is
a story about growing up in an abusive
family and a judgmental society what’s
the first thing that comes to your mind
when you think about home this was I’m
on TV so I could watch her man room the
film stars Gabourey Sidibe as precious
an illiterate and overweight 16 year old
sexually abused by her father marry me
as well as mentally and physically
tormented by her mother
mr. Weiss I don’t like you looking at me
like that you got this bitch looking at
me like I’m some kind of Pokemon we
don’t talk like this in my office okay
her only Escape is in TOR daydreams
where she creates a world in which she
is loved and respected in addition to
its three Sundance Award wins precious
was nominated for six Oscars with the
Adapted Screenplay and Monique’s
incredible supporting performance as a
monstrous mother taking home the gold
statues you’re a dummy bitch you will
never know shit don’t nobody want you
don’t nobody need you number eight
primer what you want to put my camcorder
inside the box is so dangerous we can’t
look into it here’s a true example of an
independent film shane carruth directed
wrote produced edited and scored primer
and starred as the main character Aaron
oh and he made it on a micro budget of
$7,000 but normal Aaron and his friends
are engineers but they work on their own
projects at night
from his garage you gotta use it right
whoa Harry no any feeling that’s not us
just wearing me on one of those projects
turns out to be a time machine which
ends up creating all kinds of
existential and scientific dilemmas
there’s some sort of probability there
okay every time it hits to begin there’s
a chance okay a small chance her back
around towards the a end and for some
reason it takes about 1,300 trips before
it finally does not only did primer take
home the dramatic grand jury prize from
Sundance we also won the Alfred P Sloan
prize awarded to films that focus on
science technology or those working in
the fields since then primer has become
a bona fide alt class a
I know I know you probably feel like
you’re being tricked or made fun of but
you’re not okay crumbs you’re not number
seven American Splendor my name is
Harvey Pekar oh that’s an unusual name
Harvey Pekar this comedy-drama and
almost mockumentary depicts the life of
cartoonist Harvey Pekar author of the
cult American comic series American
Splendor our next guest tonight works as
a file clerk at a Cleveland hospital he
also writes comic books which deal with
his day-to-day pains and pleasures and
this is an anthology of benign of those
comics it’s entitled American Splendor
starring Paul Giamatti aspic are the
movie quickly became a critics favorite
and won the award for Best Adapted
Screenplay from the Writers Guild of
America in addition to its Sundance win
hey Toby
no you can’t have any of my White Castle
hamburgers so please don’t even ask to
add in some authenticity and a meta
effect there are even appearances from
the real cacar and his wife and
sometimes writing partner Joyce Brandner
you know I mean I’m just a gloomy guy
that’s all my perspective gloom and doom
quirky and revelatory the movie is
celebrated today as one of the best
films about the art of writing real life
you know stuff that uh the every man’s
got a deal with number six these
of the southern wild daddy says up above
the levee on the dry side they’re afraid
of the water like a bunch of babies
this next indie film is a magical fable
about a little girl and her hot-tempered
ailing father if I will come over there
and smack you in the face that’s against
the rules so that’s a plus for you
living in a Louisiana bayou community
named the bathtub with her dad wink hush
puppy prepares for a devastating storm
that will soon strike her home town for
the animals that didn’t have a dad to
put him in a boat the underworld already
happened cut off from the rest of the
world residents have the choice to
either flee by boat or remain in the
bathtub and fight prehistoric creatures
freed from melting IceCaps heartbreaking
and bittersweet this little story about
a brave girl earned the dramatic Grand
Jury Prize and the Award for
cinematography at Sundance and received
four Academy Award nominations including
Best Picture and Best Actress for
nine-year-old kevin Jenna Wallace when I
die
the scientists of the future
they’re gonna find it all they gotta
know
once there was a hushpuppy
and she lived with her daddy in the
bathtub number five you can count on me
I’m so glad to see you Gracia tation
starring indie favorites Laura Linney
and Mark Ruffalo our next entry is a
story about the bond between a brother
and sister who have drifted away from
each other let me get my own place I
mean I mean here in Scottsville yes why
would I do that I mean what why don’t I
just leave period when they were
children Samantha and Terry’s parents
died in a car accident mom’s parents
died in a car accident yeah I know my
parents two years later they’re reunited
Samantha now a single mother living in
the same town and Terry’s still a wild
child trying to stay out of trouble the
only way she can help you is by her
example by trying to be a model for you
in the way she lives her life
Roger Ebert praised the film for its
portrayal of this prickly relationship
between these adult siblings with the
film itself winning the Grand Jury Prize
as well as for Best Screenplay Ruffalo
and Linney were applauded for their
perceptive heartbreaking performances
and before things got so messed up I was
doing pretty well out there
seriously number four Winter’s Bone you
must have heard what Dolly’s are ain’t
you mister well I’ve heard was similar
any out and I had bonded the few I’m a
dolly bread and buttered and that’s how
I know dad’s dead before she was Katniss
Everdeen Jennifer Lawrence was we dolly
an Ozark Mountain girl who isn’t afraid
to skin a live squirrel if circumstances
demanded now get in there get them gets
out he’ll want to Sonny there’s a bunch
of stuff that you’re gonna have to get
over being scared up Ria’s the sole
caretaker of her two siblings and her
mentally ill mother mama was sick my
dad’s gone to prevent her family from
getting evicted from their house she has
to track down her father he was out on
bail for drug dealing what’s your
business here
my dad’s Jessup he’s pals with little
Arthur and I gotta find it hailed for
its originality and emotional intensity
the film put Lawrence on the map and
earned her first Oscar nomination in
addition to winning the Grand Jury Prize
and Best Screenplay awards at Sundance
what are we coming into with you pan
girl kill me again number three
whiplash if your ass is not on that
stool with your own sticks in hand or if
you make one in mistake one I will drum
your ass back to Nassau where you can
turn pages until you graduate or to drop
out who would have thought that a movie
about a drummer trying to become the
next Buddy Rich could look and feel so
much like a boxing movie
our next entry stars miles teller as
Andrew Namath and JK Simmons as his
tyrannical teacher Terrence Fletcher I
didn’t know they allowed retards into
Shaffer am I to understand that you
cannot read tempo can you even read
music explosive intense and loaded with
heart whiplash was only made thanks to
the successful screening of a short film
version at 2013 Sundance Film Festival
there are no two words in the English
language more harmful than good job the
next year it was 2014’s biggest Sundance
success winning both the dramatic grand
jury and audience awards and becoming an
instant classic
for critique and an embrace of a hard
intense dedication to career whiplash is
also one of the most memorable
teacher-student stories in film I’m
gonna keep pursuing what I’m pursuing
and because I’m doing that it’s gonna
take a more more my time and I’m not
gonna be able to spend as much time with
you
number two welcome to the dollhouse I’ve
been thinking seriously building another
clip house well I wanted to know would
you be interested in being my first
honorary member this next movie on our
list is a coming-of-age story about the
insecurities of being a girl mom wanted
to tear down your Clubhouse suspicions
painful cloak dawn played by Heather
moderato is not popular she’s not pretty
and her only friend is an effeminate boy
two years her junior do you think anyone
would join our club I don’t want anyone
to join I wouldn’t be popular
Donna has two siblings her brother Mark
gets points because he’s a good student
and her annoying little sister Missy is
constantly doted on are you playing with
my dolls no while hilarious
the film is also a bitter portrayal of
life as an outcast for Dawn things only
get worse with time
why do you hate me cuz you’re ugly this
unflinching attitude is why the film
earned four dramatic grand jury award
and why get remains
timeless classic dignity is a new point
equality everyone should have louder
that way you will never gray Krupp Creek
rapping is bad before we unveil our top
pick here are some honorable mentions I
need to know something
am i doing a good job
I still have a lot to learn you’re
earning your money if that’s what you
mean I punished him his father hit him
just like any kid but I definitely
didn’t realize realize what that he was
a gift from God what did you do well sod
you was killing your son what could he
have done what could he have done
sergeant’s killing his kid what could he
have done he could have jumped a guy
gouged his eyes out grabbed his bayonet
they’re gonna shot him on this bus just
move your neck right now if I feel like
Oh mom begged did you stop when she said
please
number one Blood Simple I’ll take care
of the money
you make sure those bodies aren’t found
just one year after the Sundance
Institute took over the festival and
established the award this film was
honored with the dramatic Grand Jury
Prize give me a call whenever you want
to cut off her head written and directed
by the Coen brothers before they were
the Coen brothers let’s simple put the
dynamic indie film duo on the map as
film otres to watch I don’t want the
asshole near my money
and I don’t want him in the bar
featuring Frances McDormand who quickly
became amused for the directors the
movie tells the story of a jealous
husband who hires a private detective to
murder his cheating wife and her lover I
got a job for you big fan right in this
legal Albury viciously violent and
surprisingly funny Blood Simple is
clearly the product of filmmakers with a
unique vision and personal style and the
Sundance grand jury agreed do you agree
with our list this is weird now what’s
your favorite Sundance dramatic Grand
Jury Prize winner people are gonna come
on if you keep shouting early for more
top 10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
you
don’t even know how to start it this is
the story of my senior year of high
school and how it destroyed my life
this annual cinematic event showcases
the best in indie film you are one she
bastard Harvey Nolan tiny Dan I’m living
a government wage welcome to
watchmojo.com and today we’re counting
down our picks for the top 10 movies
awarded the dramatic Grand Jury Prize at
the Sundance Film Festival
only films that actually one Sun dances
top fries are eligible their quality is
truly impressive and will hopefully
inspire our cinephile viewers to revisit
some of these gems come on Sean – Sean
tongue show it up gun number ten
Fruitvale station you’re safe inside
with your cousins what about you daddy
me he won’t be fine
this feature-length debut by Ryan
Coogler explores the last day in the
life of Oscar Grant a young black man
killed in a clash with police on New
Year’s is that real or based on an
actual event the film is a moving story
of a young man trying to make amends for
the mistakes he’s committed towards the
people he loves and towards himself I
was going through some shit before try
and get back on my feet you feel me but
I need this you can start me off of one
shift a week or whatever I’ll be here
working 40 hours only payments for 20
Michael B Jordan gives an astounding
performance you arresting us is we do
shit all and this Grand Jury Prize and
audience award winning film became a
sensation for it’s honest depiction of
race struggles and police brutality in
America
number nine precious noble in love you
me people do love you precious reason
based on the novel push by Sapphire this
intense and powerful Sundance winter is
a story about growing up in an abusive
family and a judgmental society what’s
the first thing that comes to your mind
when you think about home this was I’m
on TV so I could watch her man room the
film stars Gabourey Sidibe as precious
an illiterate and overweight 16 year old
sexually abused by her father marry me
as well as mentally and physically
tormented by her mother
mr. Weiss I don’t like you looking at me
like that you got this bitch looking at
me like I’m some kind of Pokemon we
don’t talk like this in my office okay
her only Escape is in TOR daydreams
where she creates a world in which she
is loved and respected in addition to
its three Sundance Award wins precious
was nominated for six Oscars with the
Adapted Screenplay and Monique’s
incredible supporting performance as a
monstrous mother taking home the gold
statues you’re a dummy bitch you will
never know shit don’t nobody want you
don’t nobody need you number eight
primer what you want to put my camcorder
inside the box is so dangerous we can’t
look into it here’s a true example of an
independent film shane carruth directed
wrote produced edited and scored primer
and starred as the main character Aaron
oh and he made it on a micro budget of
$7,000 but normal Aaron and his friends
are engineers but they work on their own
projects at night
from his garage you gotta use it right
whoa Harry no any feeling that’s not us
just wearing me on one of those projects
turns out to be a time machine which
ends up creating all kinds of
existential and scientific dilemmas
there’s some sort of probability there
okay every time it hits to begin there’s
a chance okay a small chance her back
around towards the a end and for some
reason it takes about 1,300 trips before
it finally does not only did primer take
home the dramatic grand jury prize from
Sundance we also won the Alfred P Sloan
prize awarded to films that focus on
science technology or those working in
the fields since then primer has become
a bona fide alt class a
I know I know you probably feel like
you’re being tricked or made fun of but
you’re not okay crumbs you’re not number
seven American Splendor my name is
Harvey Pekar oh that’s an unusual name
Harvey Pekar this comedy-drama and
almost mockumentary depicts the life of
cartoonist Harvey Pekar author of the
cult American comic series American
Splendor our next guest tonight works as
a file clerk at a Cleveland hospital he
also writes comic books which deal with
his day-to-day pains and pleasures and
this is an anthology of benign of those
comics it’s entitled American Splendor
starring Paul Giamatti aspic are the
movie quickly became a critics favorite
and won the award for Best Adapted
Screenplay from the Writers Guild of
America in addition to its Sundance win
hey Toby
no you can’t have any of my White Castle
hamburgers so please don’t even ask to
add in some authenticity and a meta
effect there are even appearances from
the real cacar and his wife and
sometimes writing partner Joyce Brandner
you know I mean I’m just a gloomy guy
that’s all my perspective gloom and doom
quirky and revelatory the movie is
celebrated today as one of the best
films about the art of writing real life
you know stuff that uh the every man’s
got a deal with number six these
of the southern wild daddy says up above
the levee on the dry side they’re afraid
of the water like a bunch of babies
this next indie film is a magical fable
about a little girl and her hot-tempered
ailing father if I will come over there
and smack you in the face that’s against
the rules so that’s a plus for you
living in a Louisiana bayou community
named the bathtub with her dad wink hush
puppy prepares for a devastating storm
that will soon strike her home town for
the animals that didn’t have a dad to
put him in a boat the underworld already
happened cut off from the rest of the
world residents have the choice to
either flee by boat or remain in the
bathtub and fight prehistoric creatures
freed from melting IceCaps heartbreaking
and bittersweet this little story about
a brave girl earned the dramatic Grand
Jury Prize and the Award for
cinematography at Sundance and received
four Academy Award nominations including
Best Picture and Best Actress for
nine-year-old kevin Jenna Wallace when I
die
the scientists of the future
they’re gonna find it all they gotta
know
once there was a hushpuppy
and she lived with her daddy in the
bathtub number five you can count on me
I’m so glad to see you Gracia tation
starring indie favorites Laura Linney
and Mark Ruffalo our next entry is a
story about the bond between a brother
and sister who have drifted away from
each other let me get my own place I
mean I mean here in Scottsville yes why
would I do that I mean what why don’t I
just leave period when they were
children Samantha and Terry’s parents
died in a car accident mom’s parents
died in a car accident yeah I know my
parents two years later they’re reunited
Samantha now a single mother living in
the same town and Terry’s still a wild
child trying to stay out of trouble the
only way she can help you is by her
example by trying to be a model for you
in the way she lives her life
Roger Ebert praised the film for its
portrayal of this prickly relationship
between these adult siblings with the
film itself winning the Grand Jury Prize
as well as for Best Screenplay Ruffalo
and Linney were applauded for their
perceptive heartbreaking performances
and before things got so messed up I was
doing pretty well out there
seriously number four Winter’s Bone you
must have heard what Dolly’s are ain’t
you mister well I’ve heard was similar
any out and I had bonded the few I’m a
dolly bread and buttered and that’s how
I know dad’s dead before she was Katniss
Everdeen Jennifer Lawrence was we dolly
an Ozark Mountain girl who isn’t afraid
to skin a live squirrel if circumstances
demanded now get in there get them gets
out he’ll want to Sonny there’s a bunch
of stuff that you’re gonna have to get
over being scared up Ria’s the sole
caretaker of her two siblings and her
mentally ill mother mama was sick my
dad’s gone to prevent her family from
getting evicted from their house she has
to track down her father he was out on
bail for drug dealing what’s your
business here
my dad’s Jessup he’s pals with little
Arthur and I gotta find it hailed for
its originality and emotional intensity
the film put Lawrence on the map and
earned her first Oscar nomination in
addition to winning the Grand Jury Prize
and Best Screenplay awards at Sundance
what are we coming into with you pan
girl kill me again number three
whiplash if your ass is not on that
stool with your own sticks in hand or if
you make one in mistake one I will drum
your ass back to Nassau where you can
turn pages until you graduate or to drop
out who would have thought that a movie
about a drummer trying to become the
next Buddy Rich could look and feel so
much like a boxing movie
our next entry stars miles teller as
Andrew Namath and JK Simmons as his
tyrannical teacher Terrence Fletcher I
didn’t know they allowed retards into
Shaffer am I to understand that you
cannot read tempo can you even read
music explosive intense and loaded with
heart whiplash was only made thanks to
the successful screening of a short film
version at 2013 Sundance Film Festival
there are no two words in the English
language more harmful than good job the
next year it was 2014’s biggest Sundance
success winning both the dramatic grand
jury and audience awards and becoming an
instant classic
for critique and an embrace of a hard
intense dedication to career whiplash is
also one of the most memorable
teacher-student stories in film I’m
gonna keep pursuing what I’m pursuing
and because I’m doing that it’s gonna
take a more more my time and I’m not
gonna be able to spend as much time with
you
number two welcome to the dollhouse I’ve
been thinking seriously building another
clip house well I wanted to know would
you be interested in being my first
honorary member this next movie on our
list is a coming-of-age story about the
insecurities of being a girl mom wanted
to tear down your Clubhouse suspicions
painful cloak dawn played by Heather
moderato is not popular she’s not pretty
and her only friend is an effeminate boy
two years her junior do you think anyone
would join our club I don’t want anyone
to join I wouldn’t be popular
Donna has two siblings her brother Mark
gets points because he’s a good student
and her annoying little sister Missy is
constantly doted on are you playing with
my dolls no while hilarious
the film is also a bitter portrayal of
life as an outcast for Dawn things only
get worse with time
why do you hate me cuz you’re ugly this
unflinching attitude is why the film
earned four dramatic grand jury award
and why get remains
timeless classic dignity is a new point
equality everyone should have louder
that way you will never gray Krupp Creek
rapping is bad before we unveil our top
pick here are some honorable mentions I
need to know something
am i doing a good job
I still have a lot to learn you’re
earning your money if that’s what you
mean I punished him his father hit him
just like any kid but I definitely
didn’t realize realize what that he was
a gift from God what did you do well sod
you was killing your son what could he
have done what could he have done
sergeant’s killing his kid what could he
have done he could have jumped a guy
gouged his eyes out grabbed his bayonet
they’re gonna shot him on this bus just
move your neck right now if I feel like
Oh mom begged did you stop when she said
please
number one Blood Simple I’ll take care
of the money
you make sure those bodies aren’t found
just one year after the Sundance
Institute took over the festival and
established the award this film was
honored with the dramatic Grand Jury
Prize give me a call whenever you want
to cut off her head written and directed
by the Coen brothers before they were
the Coen brothers let’s simple put the
dynamic indie film duo on the map as
film otres to watch I don’t want the
asshole near my money
and I don’t want him in the bar
featuring Frances McDormand who quickly
became amused for the directors the
movie tells the story of a jealous
husband who hires a private detective to
murder his cheating wife and her lover I
got a job for you big fan right in this
legal Albury viciously violent and
surprisingly funny Blood Simple is
clearly the product of filmmakers with a
unique vision and personal style and the
Sundance grand jury agreed do you agree
with our list this is weird now what’s
your favorite Sundance dramatic Grand
Jury Prize winner people are gonna come
on if you keep shouting early for more
top 10s published every day be sure to
subscribe to watchmojo.com
you
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