Not that we're ever overtly patriotic here on GreenCine, but certainly the 4th of July conjures up both a fondness for things Americana and thoughts (okay, brief thoughts) about our founding fathers. Sherman Edwards and Peter Stone's dated but still amusing musical, and its subsequent movie version directed by Peter Hunt, 1776 features some fine songs (who knew those founders could be so musically adept?) but one of the numbers from the film was excised from the theatrical version due to a complaint from then-president Richard Nixon (who soon would have a little less pull, but at the time was friends with producer Jack Warner).

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Sam Rockwell, currently featured in Frost/Nixon, and filmmaker Duncan Jones chatted  with our friends at FilmCatcher at Sundance about their new film Moon, a most intriguing sci-fi/mystery. 

IFC called out Rockwell as "remarkable," as he "spends the entire movie reacting to robots, videos, and figments of his imagination that were only given life in post-production. All of these high-tech shenanigans were brought to convincing life by director Duncan Jones (son of "Space Oddity" David Bowie), but the movie could have looked half as good and still worked thanks to Rockwell's nuanced performance."

Courtesy of our friends at FilmCatcher comes this interview with Zooey Deschanel on her lead role in the indie romantic comedy 500 Days of Summer.

Click to watch the flash video Q&A.