Tag Archives: Sundance Film Festival
You Can’t Get What You Want ‘Til You Know What You Want
Day 26
The Director of the Sundance Film Festival , John Cooper , told a true story as he introduced the documentary “Cane Toads: The Conquest.”
Every year, the Sundance Institute conducts filmed interviews with over a dozen directors whose films are featured in that year’s festival. In 2000, Mark Lewis was one of the chosen. His documentary that year was The [...]
There Is No Try – Do Or Do Not
Work ethic- it was pounded into me from earliest childhood.
Kids had chores, and were expected to exercise some creativity, ingenuity, and enterprise to earn their own money. I can’t remember when I wasn’t busy. I usually had more than one job – even in high school, I was working at a radio station and a [...]
Five Out of Five
Rare day in the Sundance screening rooms yesterday: saw 5 films, enjoyed all.
GOOD HAIR – highly recommended, more on this one later.
ARLEN FABER – great feature film. Every coach, priest, minister, rabbi, counselor, social worker, and confused human should see it.
SPRING BREAKDOWN – enjoyable for what it is, which isn’t much.
IN THE LOOP – I [...]
Attention, Secretary Clinton! Security Breach!
Madam Secretary, while you’re cleaning up the other messes left by your predecessor, I respectfully call your attention to a breach of security at the State Department which was revealed at the screening of “In The Loop” at the Sundance Film Festival.
Of course, you should see the movie. It’s hysterical, and it’s probably closer to [...]
Sundance: I Could Just Screen
No matter what you do, who you know, how much you pay, you are still going to be stuck in traffic, stuck standing in the cold, stuck waiting in lines, stuck. Every year I swear it will be my last time to put my body and spirit through this nonsense.
At least once, you will probably [...]
