Tuesday, October 4, 2022

Independent's Day (1998)

About the Sundance Film Festival and the even more independent Slamdance Film Festival.

What stood out to me was a shop owner in Park City, Utah, telling about how pushy and demanding the "filmmakers" were, how self-important they were when they were really nobody.

And you kind of got that impression from the rest of the movie, although it wasn't the fault of the filmmakers they interviewed. They were asked to talk about their lives and work and how do you do that without sounding self-absorbed?

They interview Steven Soderbergh and (very briefly) Bryan Singer and several others.

With Sydney Pollack and Roger Ebert as voices of reason.

54 minutes. Available on the Criterion Channel.

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