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Monday, January 21, 2008
Greetings from Park City!
Posted by Chris Madalena & Jenn Dietz on Mon, Jan 21, 2008 at 11:09 PM
We arrived in Park City on Saturday afternoon a little too late to wait-list for our first selection - the premier of "What Just Happened" at 6:15pm. Since we wanted to jump right into the Sundance experience, we headed to Main Street for some evening people watching and to shoot some filler footage for our film.Here is a shot of Main Street at night:
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After a stroll and getting acclimated to the altitude (wheeze) we jumped back on the shuttle to head to the hotel. The game plan was to head down to Eccles to film some of the chaos for "U23D", however that was soon laid to rest when we discovered that there was nowhere in PC that we could get in for dinner in under 2 hours. A little dejected, we reminded ourselves that we were here for a week and we could catch the 8:30am showing of "What Just Happened" at our hotel on Sunday morning.We strolled in around 7:30am to find the longest wait-list line either of us had ever seen for this venue. We chatted with some of the people around us and learned about the 400 plus people who tried to wait list for the showing on Saturday night with less then 80 getting in. Obviously, a lot of those shut out joined the Sunday morning line-up with a bit more urgency then our stroll implied. After getting our numbers (111 & 112) we knew right then there was no way we were going to get into this film since the theater only holds about 300. We hung out anyway and just talked to our neighbors listening to some of the tales from the first couple of days.Since the 3:15pm premier of "Be Kind Rewind" was on my short list of films I wanted to see here, we decided based on this mornings experience and tales of woe, we were going to have to step it up a notch. We had a quick cup of coffee and a pain au chocolat and jumped into the car to head to Eccles by 11:30am.Once we arrived, the tales seemed all too brutally true. There was already an "unofficial pre-wait-list" line formed with over 70 individuals in the queue. As an extra kick in the stomach, construction at Eccles has turned what is usually the best venue to wait-list, to something out of a refugee camp with outdoor lines between snow banks. Oh the humanity! To top it off we had the most annoying group of college kids with adhd behind us constantly running their mouths. Excedrin take me away!
The wait-listing hit a new low when the unofficial pre-wait-listers got wind that the individuals in the previous movie's wait-list who did not get in became the front of the wait list for "Be Kind Rewind". The irony is that when we first rolled up, we originally got in the end of the previous line because we have both done this before, but went into the other line. Obviously the altitude is effecting our better judgement.
Once we got in to the tent to get our numbers (105 & 106), we headed to the car and blasted the heater and cracked open a barley wine to get warm and relaxed. On the way back to the line, I made a sign for tickets and headed to the front of the venue to work it. A lot has changed from my first Sundance in 2003. My Grateful Dead and Phish lot smarts had me looking for a miracle when everyone around me thought it was quite the novelty and my girlfriend Hazy was appalled - but it got results. Today's profileration of hippie ticket seeking ways tell me that this has caught on in a big way. While chatting up industry folks, I was able to say high to Danny Glover as he got out for the premier. But that apparently crossed the line and I was quickly religated back to serf status by the over zealous staffers and joined Hazy in line waiting to get in.
About 30 minutes later, we were both inside, with some nice seats in the balcony. Woohoo! We finally got into our first film of the 2008 festival. "Be Kind Rewind" was a fun first film to see because it celebrated grassroots filmmaking at its finest. When a video store accidentally has its inventory erased, two clerks (Jack Black and Mos Def) work to recreate their own versions of hits like "Ghostbusters" and "The Lion King." Directed by Michel Gondry ("Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "The Science of Sleep"), this film will soon be out in theaters. But as the wait-listers said around us, it's more fun to be able to say you caught it at Sundance. Here is shot of the Q & A.
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Very cool that Creative Loafing would send you to this event. Your postings have been great but I was wondering if you could have started from the beginning of your journey. Start from your packing what you had to bring etc….and even go into how you arrived to the airport was it in one of those vans the airport sends for you or was it in some pimped out white caddy …you know what I mean, really get into it from the beginning of how this journey began…ïŠ
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Yea! Glad to see your Phish following days helped you guys out! Ooooh a new Michel Gondry! Can't wait for more updateds!
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