I’ve not been hired to work the Sundace Film Festival this year, which has its ups and its downs (I won’t go into all of that here). The most obvious disadvantage is that I won’t be able to see any of the films. However I just worked for Larry Busacca last night and Sheryl (Kevin Mazur’s assistant who shares the office) says that the festival will be scaled down a lot this year, partly due to the wonderful economy, but also because of the inauguration of our new President. In fact, Kevin isn’t going to Sundance as apparently he’ll be shooting all the celebrity goings on in DC and around. I would post a picture of Park City that I took, but all my negatives got stolen from a bar last year so I’m S.O.L.
If I was going, I’d keep my eye out for – “Brief Interviews of Hideous Men,” the directorial debut of John Krasinski, whom you know and love as Jim Halpert from the American version of “The Office.” “Brooklyn’s Finest” which was directed by Antoine Fuqua sounds pretty interesting, if only to see Richard Gere as a cop and our fellow SUNY Purchase boy Wesley Snipes. “An Education” written by Nick Hornby is probably just about British enough for me to have a few laughs during. The International documentary “Let’s Make Money” sounds like it’ll have some relevance to the situation today! Of course I need to mention this “Tibet in Song” which doesn’t sound amazing, but could have some character? Amanda may enjoy “Helen” starring Ashley Judd as a psychiatrist who fights her own depression. Here are some movies that will also probably be the talk of Park City – The Greatest, Spring Breakdown, The September Issue, Adam, The Informers, I love you Phillip Morris, Peter and Vandy, Bronson and Unmade Beds.
This one wins for best title and strangest synopsis I’ve read so far – “The Immaculate conception of Little Drizzle” – Dory, a computer programmer experiencing a crisis of faith, is laid off from his suit-and-tie job and must resort to cleaning toilets with a brown-collar band of janitorial misfits. Unbeknownst to him, he is made the subject of a bizarre experiment involving deliciously addictive cookies that simulate oven freshness by warming in your mouth when eaten. It turns out that the cookies cause spectacular visions, wild mood swings, and quasi-pregnancies in the male janitors. The men must pull together to become midwives for one another as each gives birth to a small, beautiful, immaculately conceived blue fish.
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