A demur and mostly tacit Kristen Stewart held a brief interview with clamoring journalists outside of the Eccles Theater in Park City. And she wasn’t the only celebrity in town for Sundance Twenty Ten.
Kristen Stewart’s two films, “The Runaways” and “Welcome to the Rileys,” have caused great excitement among Twilight fans. I heard that two girls spent over a thousands dollars for tickets to the premiere screening. I told this to one of our creative executives and she laughed out loud, saying she had just sold her extra “Runaways” ticket to an excited mom for 20 bucks.
The Runaways is a biopic about the 1970′s band, “The Runaways” with Joan Jett and Cherrie Currie.
Kristen Stewart at Sundance 2010
As irrationally popular as K-Stew is right now, these movies haven’t gotten rave reviews.
With hands in pockets and bent heads with parkas, hoods and hats hurrying through the flurries and snowy streets, it’s not easy to spot celebrities at Sundance. But famous faces are here in force to experience the excitement of the world’s most celebrated independent film festival.
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The midnight screening of “Lucky” in Park City last night was surprisingly full. Jeffrey Blitz, who brought us the doc “Spellbound,” introduced his new film about lottery winners. Not as nuanced as “Spellbound,” but still fascinating, “Lucky” explores the motivations and characters of several lucky lottery winners. One character’s comment sums up the movie best:
Winning the lottery is like throwing Miracle-Gro on your character defects; everything is magnified.
The documentary was preceded by a delightful short doc called “Mr. Okra” about a vegetable salesman in New Orleans.
The whole short is available here at the Austin Film Festival.
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This morning, the third or fourth morning of the Sundance 2010 film festival, there’s yet another fresh blanket of snow on all the cars, houses and trees. The snowplows work constantly on the streets. Yet people still go out. Main street seems always to be bumper-to-bumper and lined with people jostling up and down the narrow channel scooped out of the sidewalk snow. The bars overflow, the VIP lounges bump music, and the filmmakers hand out their fliers. It’s an interesting mix of talented artists, lucky first-timers, entertainment executives and celebrities. I saw Michael Moore walking out of a screening yesterday, then 5 minutes later I saw Bill Gates. Then I spot ill.gates, the DJ who stayed on my couch last month. And I run into more than one friend.
It’s harder to get into movies here than in Telluride. The theaters are separated by distance and slush. The crowds are fierce. The lines are long. But I’ve managed to see:
All of them are good. At least the first two will find theatrical releases, I predict.
I’ve heard some great buzz about the documentary “Catfish.” I also hope to see Kristen Stewart’s two Sundance films (both which feature her as a 16-year old runaway).
DJ Ill.Gates:
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