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Sunday, January 20, 2008
Scenes from Sunday’s Sundance
Park City, Utah — Everyone is blasted tired at this point during the first weekend of the festival. Except me. Carry on!
Finally saw Austin doc-maker Margaret Brown’s “The Order of Myths,” a lyrical, layered and provocative look at race relations in the context of the annual Mardi Gras in Mobile, Alabama, which happens to be the oldest Carnival in America.
The obligatory Q-and-A was vivacious and probing, as the audience rained passionate questions on Brown and several of the films’ subjects, who came from Mobile.
Margaret Brown, at mike, and subjects from her doc “The Order of Myths” conduct a sometimes heated Q-and-A following a Sunday screening of the movie
Jay and Mark Duplass and an actual baghead, for their comedy “Baghead,” premiering this week at Sundance
Greta Gerwig and Steve Zissis, co-stars of the Duplass’ “Baghead”
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Tim League’s rip-roarin’, karaoke-in’ Sundancin’ bash
Park City, Utah — There will be hangovers.
Tim League, Alamo Drafthouse and Fantastic Fest honcho, hosted the big Friday night party for the Sundance premiere of Nacho Vigalando’s sci-fi thriller “Timecrimes,” which was purchased by Magnolia during Fantastic Fest in September.
The party’s buzz laced through the late-night festival crowd like a virus, and people kept pouring in well after 3 a.m. Some shots:
Tim League strikes some ‘tude as he plays karaoke DJ on Friday night during his orgiastic all-night Sundance party. He later crooned to Elton John’s “Bennie and the Jets.” It was not pretty.
SXSW Film Festival producer Matt Dentler annihilates the great Pulp song “Common People” during kara-ouchy
Morgan Spurlock of “Super Size Me” fame broke his finger snowboarding Friday. He still came to the party. He’s at Sundance plumping his new doc “Where In the World Is Osama Bin Laden?”
Austin actor Wiley Wiggins (“Dazed and Confused,” “Waking Life”) has a part in the Zellner brother’s festival feature “Goliath.”
Cerebral funnyman David Wain of comedy troupes The State and Stella and the films “Wet Hot American Summer” and “The Ten” mugs ‘hello.’
League, as DJ Dufus, insists on filling the house with fake fog that quickly overcomes every room and every guest. The fire alarms go off, the fire department shows up. This is the kitchen area caked in a chemical weather occurrence and the fire dude, who actually came on two occasions. The second time, Tim cries, “OK! It was a bad idea!” to pump more fog.
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