You've already read the 378,000 posts we filed before, during and after this year's Sundance Film Festival, but now I'm back to let you know what we left on the cutting room floor! What was going on when the Cinematical team wasn't watching movies or writing about them? Where were we, who were we with and why did someone bring a farm animal with them? Fear not, I'm kidding -- no farm animals were brought to Sundance (and if they were, whoever brought them kept the things hidden pretty well). So here's some of what was left out of our coverage:
-- While watching a Slamdance screener at one in the morning, Erik got pissed off, woke up James and asked him why films set in New York City never feature characters who have New York accents, with the exception of racist cops, gangsters or angry taxi drivers. James agreed. Erik then went off on Boston, and how every film set in Boston needs to feature the Bahston accent -- but, for some reason, the New York accent always gets dissed. James and Erik agreed to write Spider-Man Begins, featuring Peter Parker with a thick New York accent (he grew up in Queens, after all).
-- At four in the morning at some point over the weekend, James woke up Erik to tell him he was snoring. Erik spazzed out because he thought he was being mugged by a giant. From then on out -- and because of his freakishly large shadow -- James referred to himself as the Cloverfield monster whenever he had a few drinks in him. In fact, while outside on a balcony with Michael Pitt, James actually referred to himself as the Cloverfield monster. Everyone laughed.
-- Colin Hanks told James during an interview that he reads Cinematical every day. The Cinematical team cheered later on over the fact that we've finally crashed the Hanks household.
-- In a supermarket at one in the morning, inebriated, Kim, Scott, Eric Snider and I bump into filmmaker Joe Swanberg, Baghead actress Greta Gerwig and a couple of their peeps. We were searching for late-night munchies, their cart was packed with chocolate chip cookies and ice cream. Clearly we were all there for the same reasons.
-- I asked Scott and Erik Childress if I could borrow a Slamdance screener of Frost. Scott goes, "Yeah, that's cool, Childress already scanned it for nudity and he's done with it now."
-- Kim and Snider's one big Sundance complaint was that there weren't enough lesbian-themed films.
-- Every time James played his iPod in the hotel room, his "mix" always kicked off with Eminem's Lose Yourself. Erik found this to be extremely hilarious.
-- For some odd reason, this was the joke of the festival:
How do you get a fat guy/girl out of bed?
... a piece of cake.










1. No, it's...
How do you get a fat girl into bed?
Piece of cake.
--My apologies to "fat girls." Some of my all-time favorite females are overweight. Hell, most of 'em.
Posted at 10:16PM on Jan 30th 2008 by Scott Weinberg