The Sundance Festival has chosen 64 movies for this season’s event. “The festival has become so famous it is practically synonymous with independent film. In a rare discussion of the festival’s inner workings, the programmers said they were suffering not only from the sheer volume of images cascading into their heads, but the pressure of discriminating among them. Five people combed through 1,004 American and 936 international features (up from last year’s 761 and 843, respectively) and 760 American and 448 international documentaries (up from 624 and 385). Then there were the shorts: 4,311 of them (3,887 last year).”