“Moon”: You’ll see no crater f…
Saturday, January 17th, 2009“Moon”: You’ll see no crater film this year!
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“Moon” will Rock-well your wor…
Saturday, January 17th, 2009“Moon” will Rock-well your world!
If you don’t like “Moon” you m…
Saturday, January 17th, 2009If you don’t like “Moon” you must be a lunar-tic!
Sundance Diary Days 1-2: http:…
Saturday, January 17th, 2009Sundance Diary Days 1-2: http://tinyurl.com/8mnlyt
2009 Sundance Diary: Days 1-2
Saturday, January 17th, 2009Day 1 (Thursday, Jan. 15)
Gentlemen, start your lesbians! The 2009 Sundance Film Festival has commenced in the quaint mountain town of Park City, Utah, with 120 independent features and goodness knows how many short films scheduled to play here over the next 10 days. Insiders are predicting quite a bit less whining this year, as the weather forecast calls for sunny skies all week long. Apparently Robert Redford got my angry letter after last year’s constant snow.
This is a milestone year for the festival: It was in 1985 that Redford’s Sundance Institute took over the Salt Lake City-based United States Film Festival — it was a bloody coup, hundreds of filmmakers were slain — making 2009 the 25th year that the fest has appeared under the Sundance banner. It is also a milestone for me, as I first covered Sundance full-time in 2000, making this my 10th. With my punchcard, I get the next one free!
The first day of the fest, as longtime readers know, consists only of an opening-night gala screening, with the film playing simultaneously for the press in another location. We do not object to being segregated from the public; having been to the gala before, we know that it’s not worth the hassle. We’re fine with being kept among our own kind in the screening room.
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I’m picking a fight with Defam…
Saturday, January 17th, 2009I’m picking a fight with Defamer, just for fun: http://tinyurl.com/7wnqjt
