Your wit makes my day
man i love these columns.

the clause
The Lisa thing seems so obviously part of keeping conflict alive. At it says at the end of the show "Winning and elimination decisions were made by the Judges in consultation with the producers. Some elimination decisions were discussed with Bravo." So, whether she's cut to be nasty or kept because she…

Sundance Home
Park City beautiful? Can't say I see that one. Telluride, now yes, I can imagine growing up there, especially before it became rich and famous, but Park City seems to have most of its original life sucked out of it. And what's new looks like a quickly shot up suburb of Ohio plucked in a good location.…

Anvil tucked away
So why did Sundance program Anvil in the usually ignored Spectrum section? Were the other docs that much more necessary? I'm glad you wandered off the competition to find it. I bet we'll be hearing little about it from anyone else.

Who cares about Wackness
I sorta assumed you'd review The Wackness as some rebuttal to Variety's praise but I admire the spirit of finding what might otherwise go unfound. I know one thing is for sure though: you won't find good noodles.

the wackness
Based on what i've been reading, I'm going to go out on a limb and say The Wackness looks like the kind of precious indie that you'll have a good time trashing. Besides Stranded, nothing else you've talked about is making me miss Sundance that much.

In Bruges & Mermaid
The trailer for In Bruges manages to be completely humorless although it clearly thinks it is funny, so i was expecting the disappointment. As for Mermaid, it also sounds like that old Canadian film Leolo, in which you assume the director watched Fellini's Amarcord 100 times and decided he needed…

THANK GOD FOR NEIL
I was dreading another year of lame Sundance coverage and lo and behold THE A.V. finally decided to send you out. I've spent quite a few years going there myself, but through your daily missives I think I may enjoy it that much more.