Movie Cricket

Can't get to the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City?

Sundance will bring the festival to you — if you live in eight American cities.

Sundance organizers today announced "Sundance Film Festival USA," bringing festival films and special events to eight cities on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 — during the festival's run in Park City.

The program aims, according to Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford, "to ignite dialogue as people across the country engage in a collective film experience. It is an extension, really, of the work we have done for decades: supporting the independent voice, bringing artists to the table and inserting art more and more into the social context of how we live."

Titles for the films to be show in the eight cities has yet to be announced (the festival's slate won't be released until early December). Here are the cities and theaters where the events will take place:

• Ann Arbor, Mich. — Michigan Theater
• Brookline, Mass. — Coolidge Corner Theatre
• Brooklyn, N.Y. -- BAM
• Chicago — Music Box Theatre
• Los Angeles — Downtown Independent
• Madison, Wisc. — Sundance Cinemas Madison
• Nashville — The Belcourt Theatre
• San Francisco — Sundance Kabuki Cinemas

Meanwhile that night, in Park City, Sundance will host the North American premiere of the documentary "The Shock Doctrine." Directed by Michael Winterbottom ("Tristram Shandy," "A Mighty Heart") and Mat Whitecross (Winterbottom's collaborator on "The Road to Guantanamo"), and based on Naomi Klein's book, the movie exposes "how shock is used to implement economic policy in vulnerable environments." The screening at the Eccles Theatre will be followed by a conversation with Winterbottom, Whitecross, Klein and Redford.