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Sundance 2027 reveals first Legacy Program lineup for its inaugural Boulder edition

Sundance Film Festival announced the first lineup of its Legacy Program, formerly From the Collection, for the 2027 festival in Boulder, Colorado (Jan. 21-31), with Letterboxd as co-presenter.

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Mixed · 2Sundance Film Festival announced the first lineup for its 2027 edition, the first held in Boulder, Colorado, starting with the Legacy Program, which was formerly called From the Collection. Centre · 1The festival runs Jan. 21-31 in Boulder; Deadline reports the Legacy portion takes place in the second half, Jan. 27-31, and that an online portion will run Jan. 28-31. Mixed · 2Letterboxd joins as co-presenter of the Legacy program, with details of onsite activations to come.

Mixed · 2The lineup includes the original 2002 Sundance cut of Justin Lin's Better Luck Tomorrow, a 4K restoration of Stacy Peralta's Dogtown and Z-Boys, 35th-anniversary screenings of Julie Taymor's Fool's Fire and Tom Kalin's Swoon, Barbara Hammer's Nitrate Kisses, a 25th-anniversary screening of Patricia Cardoso's Real Women Have Curves, and a 25th-anniversary 4K restoration of Alfonso Cuarón's Y tu mamá también. Mixed · 2A two-part session on the festival's final weekend, "Sundance Film Festival presents: Cinema Interruptus featuring Memento," will offer a 4K restoration of Christopher Nolan's 2000 film plus a discussion. Centre · 1Deadline adds that Legacy screenings will include director appearances and select cast members, and that the Sundance Institute Collection at UCLA, created with the UCLA Film & Television Archive, holds material from over 1,000 titles and has helped restore Better Luck Tomorrow and Swoon this year.

Left · 1Festival director Eugene Hernandez said the festival honors founder Robert Redford's legacy each year and that the move to Boulder "will bring change," but that its core remains its history; programming director Kim Yutani said the restored films complement new films to be announced soon. Left · 1The Hollywood Reporter says additional Legacy programming will be announced in the coming weeks.

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The Hollywood Reporter treats it as a concise news item about Sundance bringing past hits to its new Boulder home, leading with the Nolan, Lin and Cuarón names.
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Marquee filmmakers, star-making turns (America Ferrera, Diego Luna, Gael García Bernal), Letterboxd tie-up.
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Omits the restoration credits, UCLA archive background, the Legacy dates and the online portion that Deadline gives.
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“star making turn”
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“Old will be new again at Sundance 2027.” — The Hollywood Reporter

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Deadline runs a detailed press-release-style rundown of the full lineup, with restoration credits and descriptions of each film.
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Dates, restoration partners and funders, UCLA preservation initiative, full quotes from Hernandez, Yutani and John Nein.
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Does not add independent commentary on the move to Boulder beyond the officials' quotes.
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“includes archival and restored screenings of indie classics that launched at the fest” — Deadline

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