Sundance 2010 Day Two

Get Low. A really good movie starring Robert Duvall, Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray and Lucas Black (I took this photo before Robert Duvall walked out on stage). Left to right in the photo above: Sissy Spacek, Bill Murray and his crutch, Lucas Black, and Lori Beth Edgeman. The movie was amazingly well acted, I truly expect an Oscar nod for Duvall in 2011. Duvall plays a recluse who wants to plan a "funeral party" for himself while he's still alive. But he's the scary old hermit who everyone in town has a story about, a mysterious past haunts him and it's a slow reveal to find out why he shut himself away forty years ago. Fantastic supporting performances by Spacek, Murray, and Black.

When the Q&A for Get Low was over and we fought our way out of the claustrophobically full lobby, we boarded a bus to Main Street. I wanted to check out the hitRECord.org REC Room at the New Frontier on Main. I have been so antsy to get over there, but when I got there it was closed. They had it closed from 5-8 for closed recording. I wasn't aware this was going to be happening and I'm hoping it was a last minute thing. I'll be over there probably all day after I go see one of the short film programs, number IV with the new Don Hertzfeldt (!!!!!!!).

Sundance 2010 Day One

Last night, Thursday night, we stayed in but watched two Slamdance films. One was really good, one sucked. How did we do this? One of the house guests brought screener DVDs to review since he's press. The good one was The Scenesters. If you liked Brick, you'll dig The Scenesters. The sucky one was Yellowbrickroad. I was actually going to try to get a ticket to see this on Monday, but thank goodness I didn't have to waste time & money, it was awful.

Today, Friday 1/22/10, my official Day One. Got off to a lazy, sleepy start and didn't get to the theater as early as I had planned to waitlist for Hesher. When I got my number, it was 114 and my friend couldn't even get a number since they only hand out so many. We decided to try to see Hesher next week and head over to a different theater to waitlist for Teenage Paparazzo. We got in and we loved it. Teenage Paparazzo is a documentary by Adrian Grenier about paparazzi and celebrity culture in our society. The film focusses on a boy named Austin, the blonde in the picture above, who was a professional paparazzi at the age of 13. It showed a fascinating insight into many sides of the whole "fame" fiasco. I highly recommend trying to track this one down when it gets released either in theaters or on DVD. Oh, and I didn't get a chance to ask Adrian Grenier if he knows about hitRECord.org, he made a comment saying that he welcomes us to take this film and remix it and put our own spin on it, he said that it wasn't finished because he welcomes people to add to it. Sounds a bit like hitRECord speak to me. Unfortunately, after the Q&A he was mobbed by people and their cameras which I found terribly ironic considering the film he just presented to us.