Movie Cricket

In Wednesday's announcement of the Sundance Film Festival USA program — which will bring the fun and films of Park City to eight American cities on Thursday, Jan. 28 — there was another bit of buried news: We now know the title of one movie playing the festival.

That movie is "The Shock Doctrine," a documentary by filmmakers Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross ("The Road to Guantanamo") based on Naomi Klein's book of the same name. The movie makes Klein's case that corporations engage in "disaster capitalism," pushing economic change to their own benefit while people are reeling from shock in their societies — whether it be war, natural disaster or terrorist attack.

A work-in-progress cut of "The Shock Doctrine" played at the Berlin Film Festival in February. The Sundance screening will be the film's North American premiere. The screening will be followed by a discussion featuring Klein, Winterbottom, Whitecross and Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford.