
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 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 […]

Sundance Review: Dee Rees’ “Pariah”
Dee Rees’ debut feature film Pariah demonstrates an insightful give and take of love and need, anger and forgiveness, anguish and growth in the life of a gay black teenage girl in Brooklyn.

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!!!