Park City, 1/19.

"Slamdance officially got underway last night with the underwhelming Real Time, which despite containing the best dramatic performance of Randy Quaid's career, left something to be desired in the originality category," writes Brandon Harris in his first dispatch for Filmmaker, where he's been interviewing directors with films at Slamdance - films that will, hopefully, soon have entries here of their own.

Craig Zobel (Great World of Sound) at FilmInFocus: "Five Things To Know in Going to the Sundance Film Festival."

Cathleen Rountree is catching one doc after another.

"While many film festivals have midnight sections that screen outré and impolite genre films, there is something about Sundance's 'Park City at Midnight' that defies expectations," writes Mark Olsen in the Los Angeles Times. "Frequently brimming with frenzied horror, outrageous mayhem and dark comedy, the section has consistently featured some the most commercially successful films to emerge from Sundance."

Photos: Matt Dentler.

Online viewing tip. David Carr "chats it up with industry folks and keeps warm in a promotional hat."

Posted by dwhudson at January 19, 2008 3:47 PM