The Case for Compulsory (Film) Education
Every year Sundance picks out movies to screen for students at Park City High School. I make the case for why kids shouldn’t decide for themselves what films they watch – we should decide for them.
Sundance Lesson #2: Sometimes, the Party Will Be Cool
My reflections on Sundance hotel room cable movie watching, my friend Todd Rohal’s hilarious film The Catechism Cataclysm and whether or not the party will, in fact, be cool.
Day 5 Recap: Remakes, mysterious tiles and lesbian aliens
Some news to start: 1. Remake rights to documentaries are selling today. The rights to make a fiction feature based on Bengali Detective (which I saw yesterday and liked) sold to Fox Searchlight and HBO bought the rights to Knuckle and plan to turn it into a TV show. In both cases I think they […]
Sundance Favorites
Banksy, Martha Marcy May Marlene, and getting to see an edit of my new feature.
Lindsay Drinks Things
Lindsay Pulsipher, star of my Sundance film The Oregonian (and recently seen on True Blood), gets thirsty.
John Salley Takes Pity on Me and Laughs at My Joke
Got interviewed by John Salley, said he had a new line of vegan foods out. I suggested he change his name to John Salad. He laughed out of kindness.
Park City Best and Worst
The Green Hornet vs. How to Die in Oregon
Dear Isabella Rossellini:
You were at the director’s brunch; I was at the director’s brunch. Our eyes met. You smiled. Then I waved, which admittedly might have been a little misleading.
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.