It’s that time of year again – there’s a crisp in the air, snow is on the ground (in Buffalo, anyway) and the Film Independent Spirit Awards are here to remind you about movies that debuted at Sundance way back in January. The Indie Spirits aren’t exactly a roadblock on the way to Oscar – considering the annual contenders that don’t even qualify (whose ranks this year included “The Theory of Everything,” “Foxcatcher” and “Unbroken”), Academy success is hardly reliant on a bunch of drunk independent filmmakers in a tent. But, as Weinstein pseudo-indies like “The King’s Speech,” “The Artist” and “Silver Linings Playbook” can tell you, it certainly doesn’t hurt.
It was a bit of a surprise today, then, considering how good Harvey Weinstein has been at wrangling votes for his films from this particular group, that his big play of the year – Morten Tyldum’s “The Imitation Game” – was…
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