This year, in celebration of its fortieth anniversary, the Sundance Film Festival asked more than five hundred industry professionals and film buffs to pick their favorite films that premiered at Sundance over the years. The resulting top-ten list is a road map of the past four decades of independent film—and it runs straight through Texas.Austin-based director Richard Linklater is the only filmmaker to make the list twice, first for his Vienna-set Gen X backpacker romance Before Sunrise and again for his 2014 Oscar contender Boyhood, which was shot in Houston, San Marcos, and Big Bend National Park, among other Texas locations. Another spot on the list goes to Blood Simple, the 1984 debut film by brothers Joel and Ethan Coen, set in Texas and shot…The post Seven Texan Stories at Sundance 2024 appeared first on Texas Monthly.