Sundance Review: Sean Durkin’s “Martha Marcy May Marlene”
The lead of Rooftop grantee Sean Durkin’s astonishing debut feature Martha Marcy May Marlene is one of the most fascinating and damaged characters in recent cinema.
Day 3: Threesomes, Tree Huggers and Sleuths
Updates from a busy third day of Sundance.
Sundance Post #2, In Which I Get to See My Own Movie at Sundance
My film Pioneer premiered last night. As you can see from the pictures, I was, in fact, there. Any suspense over whether or not I would gain admittance to my own screening can now be laid to rest.
A Sociological Study of Sundance Directors in their Natural Habitat
The director is a small, bug-eating gnome. Between 25-35 years old, caucasian male with a bearded face.
Sundance Oxygen Bar-Hopping
My Sundance to do list: Arrive, replace toiletries thrown away by the TSA, watch non-California-based filmmakers sample oxygen bar with air of giddy why-notism.
Day 2: Black Power and Lots of Fire and Ice
It is kind of hard to imagine that I only arrived in Park City at 7 PM Thursday. Something about seeing 7 feature films makes a day seem much too epic to have lasted merely 24 hours. But it was a tremendously satisfying day, to be sure, and I have already seen several films that […]
You Know You’ve Made It When the Scalpers Start Showing Up
First screening of Incident by a Bank. Sold out and ticket scalpers outside the theater even though the screening took place far from Park City in an Jewish Temple!!!
Sundance Lesson #1: The Party Will Not Be Cool
Why Sundance forced me to go back on my vow never to fly Southwest Airlines, my happiest moment of 1/20/11, courtesy of Patton Oswalt, and why the PARTY WILL NOT BE COOL.
To Ski or to Entourage?
When the best Swedish filmmakers arrived in Park City, the main question facing them was: To ski or to Entourage?
Packing for Sundance can be tricky…
Looks like my suitcase is full with just my jacket, guess I’ll make room for the drugs in my body.