Sundance Diary, Day 3: Every Californian Has A Cold

Since Sundance began a week ago, four and a half feet of snow has muffled Park City. The world is white and the festivalgoers are weary. Every Californian has a cold. (Myself included.) I’ve been coming here for years, and the weather’s never been this much of a slog. So the climate is right to… Read more »

Sundance Diary, Day 2: Landline, Bitch, And The Goddess Salma Hayek

Obnoxious women dominate this year’s Sundance festival, and not always for the good. Landline, Gillian Robespierre and Jenny Slate’s follow-up to the abortion comedy Obvious Child, totally misjudges Slate’s charm. Here she plays newly engaged Manhattanite Dana, who gets second thoughts about her sexually repressed fiancé, Ben (Jay Duplass). She burps and yells and snort-giggles… Read more »