The Sundance Film Festival has unveiled its 2026 lineup, which includes the world premiere of a Courtney Love documentary titled Antiheroine. Co-directed by Edward Lovelace and James Hall, the feature film promises to reveal the now-sober Love's "unfiltered and unapologetic" story as she sits on the precipice of releasing new music for the first time in over a decade.
Shortly, the Oscar fate of hundreds of feature and short documentary hopefuls will be decided during what is known as "preliminary voting" (December 8-12), when the 736 documentary branch members give each film they've seen a numbered score. This will yield the shortlist of 15, from which they will rank those films on a preferential ballot. The shortlist announcement will come on December 16. The whole Academy will vote on the final five. But only those who have seen all five can vote.
I was a newspaper reporter with USA Today at the time, and I'd arranged an hour-long sit-down with the bandwhich they abruptly canceled shortly before we were set to meet. Why? Well, Robert Redford had made them a better offer. The Sundance founder (and Sundance Kid) had invited them to his mountainside Sundance Mountain Resort to have a drink at his personal watering hole.
What we love so much about 'Unzipped' is the unflinching way it exposes every neurotic high and low of the fabulously connected, then-30-something designer as he readies an Eskimo-inspired fall fashion collection that's way less harebrained than it sounds.