Movie City Indie Archive for February, 2014
A Tribute To Ann Carter In CURSE OF THE CAT PEOPLE (4’11”)
“Happy Talk” With Simon Critchley And Philip Seymour Hoffman (45’43”)
MSNFW: Hungarian Filmmakers Go “O” For NYMPHOMANIAC
[Via MUOSZ. Click for larger, largest.]
“To Hell With Your Honor And Dignity,” James Schamus Invokes (3’14”)
[Via Scott Macaulay at Filmmaker.]
Picturing Sundance 14: Awards Night
Middle of the week, familiar faces aren’t recurring so often, Sundance theaters are mostly full, but not completely. But the traffic. The traffic never stops. Sundance 2014 was the first festival I’ve been to where what would once have been a workable schedule of screenings went to hell repeatedly because of traffic standstills all around Park City. The good thing about that is three or four films I would never have seen, but saw because they were the next option, half an hour forward, an hour forward, and they were good. I Pollyanna’ed that idea day and night long. Sundance: wherever you are, you’re where you were meant to be. And here are some people who stayed through to the sunshiny end, until Saturday’s awards ceremony. Screens are a theme, it seems. [For more from the night, including Nick Offerman’s manly full-length fur coat, click here.]
Last movie before the awards ceremony on a supershuttle across the city. You have been warned.
A picture of a picture of a backdrop that will be torn down in a few hours.
Mr. Nick Offerman officiated with the help of his “Legal Property,” Megan Mullaly. They sang a forgettable ditty about how movies get to Sundance, called “Pussy and Weed.”
Guides wave placards to facilitate seating in the pre-show cocktail crush.
Beards. Beards examining beards. Many beards.
William Macy will remember this until the last of his memory card.
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Bob Dylan Super Bowl Comm’l (2’00”) + Bob Dylan Victoria’s Secret Comm’l (0’30”)
“Uncool” (1’42”)
“We are uncool. While women will always be a problem for us, most of the great art in the world is about that very same problem. Good-looking people don’t have any spine. Their art never lasts. They get the girls, but we’re smarter Great art is about conflict and pain and guilt and longing and love disguised as sex, and sex disguised as love. The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what we share with someone else when we’re uncool.”