Park City, 1/18.

Rob Davis is blogging the festival for Paste and, via Peter Knegt, Bruce LaBruce is blogging for CBC.

Time's Rebecca Winters Keegan reports on the "BlackBerry to BlackBerry" buzz in Park City as news of the DGA's deal with producers broke yesterday.

Celluloid Dreams has picked up Ballast, reports Brian Brooks at indieWIRE, where Eugene Hernandez has news of HBO Documentary Films' acquisition of Elvis Mitchell's The Black List: Volume One.

Also, Kim Adelman previews the best of the shorts. Speaking of which, Midnites for Maniacs programmer Jesse Hawthorne Ficks picks his favorite shorts so far.

"While, in the eyes of some, there remains a clear distinction between fine arts and the relative pop art of cinema, Sundance is the latest in a long line of institutions to acknowledge the influence of the moving image on the art world, and vice-versa," writes S James Snyder in the New York Sun.

"Sundance says it wants a 'webolution.' Just don't look for it at the indie film fest's website, which has slashed its online offerings even as internet video is taking off." For Wired News, Jason Silverman asks programmer Trevor Groth why.

Also via Movie City News: "[T]he festival has always had a mandate to explain Americans to themselves," writes Liam Lacey in the Globe and Mail.

"Heading into this year's Sundance, a look at the recent past enforces the idea that a festival pedigree doesn't guarantee a happy ending in and of itself." Another look at the Class of 07, this time from Chris Lee in the Los Angeles Times.

Photo galleries: Ray Pride (more), Chris Garcia and Shawn Levy.

Online viewing tip. Michel Gondry's curating YouTube's homepage throughout Sundance. Via Fimoculous.

Online viewing tips. Joel Heller rounds up links to video interviews with documentary directors.

Posted by dwhudson at January 18, 2008 4:04 PM