Crisis Schmisis!

"Sundance 2005: Crisis In Park City"

Oy.

The reason why there is a crisis in Park City is because guys like Kohler, whom I like, and Amy Taubin, who I really don't know, are busy screaming their danged fool heads off.

Sundance finally makes the forward thinking move of creating World Cinema categories and the softness of the first year's choices are A CRISIS!

It's called "the first year." Sundance has had a decade of indie filmmakers timing their films to end up on the Sundance schedule, if they are lucky enough to get in. The festival has the absolute top choice of indie films from new filmmakers who are not likely to break into Cannes. But that is not the case with World Cinema. Films launch in Cannes, Berlin, Venice, San Sebastian, etc, etc, etc... the machine isn't used to saving the best for Sundance.

That will change.

A few sales and that will change in a hurry.

As for all the Sundance parties... uh... stay off Main Street. There is only one theater there and nothing playing there isn't playing elsewhere. And the hype machines have not invaded any of the other theaters. If you are obsessing on Sundance obsessing on Paris Hilton, it is no one's fault but your own.

In other words... move along... nothing to see here...