Sundance 2007, Day One
I don't mean day one of the festival. I mean day one of the festival for my friends and me. The festival has been going strong for several days now. We arrived in Utah yesterday afternoon. This marks my third consecutive year at the Sundance Film Festival.
We arrived yesterday in time to catch a screening of Never Forever. I enjoyed the screening. The writer and director, Gina Kim, did the Q & A session following the screening. David McInnis was also there. No one had any questions for him so he just came up and said "hi." Unfortunately, Vera Farmiga wasn't around. Although, that wasn't a huge surprise since it's late in the fest and a lot of actors only stick around for the first part of the fest so they can catch the premier screening of their film. I swear that Gina Kim kept staring at tk and me during the whole time she was answering questions. We were some of the very few Korean-Americans in the audience. Either that or it's because she wanted to know who the bastards were who came in 15 minutes late to her screening. We were the last people they let into the theater. We ended up sitting about five rows back from the front.
We have tickets to view a screening of Waitress, tonight in Ogden. (My lottery spot to purchase tickets made Park City screenings hard to come by.) The film's writer and director, Adrienne Shelly, met an untimely end late last year after an altercation with a construction worker apparently led to her murder in her Greenwich Village office. It's unfortunate that she wasn't able to see Waitress picked up for distribution earlier in the fest by Fox Searchlight. Tk is hoping that Keri Russell will be there to do the Q & A. I think if she remembers him she might be a little freaked out after running into him on Martha's Vineyard last summer. Although, I think jy may be going instead of tk. Who knows, maybe Keri Russell will remember jy. We'll be driving there and back in a 525xi thanks to Keely and Stephanie at BMW's Mountain Driving Experience.
tk saw Adrian Grenier, of Entourage and The Devil Wears Prada fame, on his way out of the Park City Albertsons. I missed the sighting because a Park City cop made me move the car right before tk came out of the store. I saw Lisa Wiegand, the Cinematographer (I thought they preferred Director of Photography, but the official Sundance film guide refers to them as Cinematographers–must be an indie thing…) for the documentary Chasing Ghosts, at the Park City, Sundance box office. She was kind of hard to miss with her knit cap emblazoned with UCLA across her forehead.
I've been sick with some kind of viral bug so I haven't been up to hitting the slopes yet. I started on a Z-Pak the night before I left for Utah. Apparently Jessica Simpon swears by it. Unfortunately, my bug is viral so the Z-Pak isn't really helping. Oh well. The snow hasn't been that great here, anyway. I think Park City may be in the midst of an inversion. There's only about 36 inches of base and no new snow in the last few days.
