Park City, 1/25.

A few odds and ends. First, today at noon, there'll be an event at the intersection of Main Street and Heber Avenue: "Filmmakers Rally Against Troop Surge... We stand in solidarity with the nationwide protests planned for Saturday Jan 27."

David Bordwell: "We call a bland Indie film quirky, but there are others we call dark. They're Indie Guignol.... Reports from Sundance indicate that the trend isn't flagging."

Rob Nelson in the City Pages on a few docs: "Zoophiles are people, too, but not so the genocidal monsters of the Darfur doc The Devil Came on Horseback."

"An alleged cult, the police and HBO all mingled in a wild night Tuesday in Park City," reports Steven Zeitchik for Variety. "At a Slamdance screening of Noah Thomson's docu Children of God, two members of 'the Family,' the alleged cult profiled in the docu, were ushered out of a Q&A after they began protesting the film and one was found to be wearing a microphone."

Via the Film Panel Notetaker, Shooting People's Jesse Epstein's notes on the Documentary Funding panel.

A bit of online viewing that hasn't been mentioned in other entries:

• A series from Casimir Nozkowski (Crying, while eating) for the Daily Reel.

• The IFC's Matt Singer talks with Crispin Glover.

• A Cinematical roundtable with Anne Thompson, Kim Voynar and James Rocchi.

• IndieWIRE talks with Christine Vachon.

• David Poland's growing a beard.

Coverage of the coverage: The Park City Index.

Posted by dwhudson at January 25, 2007 6:31 AM