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Title: Sundancing : Hanging Out And Listening In At America's Most Important Film Festival by John Anderson, David Morgan ISBN: 0-380-80480-8 Publisher: Quill Pub. Date: 01 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: It draws a fair picture
Comment: A previous reviewer claimed author John Anderson was some kind of piteous wannabe. He didn't read this book very closely: it's not Anderson talking. The author almost completely relies on interviews with others; they make up 9/10ths of the book. It's an *oral history*, or maybe an oral snapshot, of the 1999 festival. I just got back from my first Sundance (2003) last month, and read this book afterwards. Very amusing, very "human-sized," as the back cover blurb puts it. Some movie suits are their own self-parodists; it's interesting to read about people who live in Park City, Utah all year and then get overrun for two weeks annually. This is not snobby at all, not whiny. It's fun and funny and true.
Rating: 1
Summary: So sad . . . . .Just reeks of the empty life of a hanger-on
Comment: Far from informative, this book does nothing toward providing any sort of accurate rendition of the madness that has engulfed Sundance of late. Both the dashed dreams and the fulfilled hopes of the various players are often obscured by the author's tedious, hackneyed prose. Prose that is so cliche-ridden I wonder whether the esteemed Mr. Anderson actually wrote it himself or simply gave the book as an assignment to another drear film student, a pre-John Anderson in its larval stage if you will. On every page we learn not so much about the Sundance festival or its participants as we discover Anderson's yearnings to fit into that world, to find a place for himself among the glamor and achievement that only true creators attain. Sour grapes and misgivings on every page, it might more aptly be titled "Tales of a Film Critic Nothing."
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Title: Party in a Box: The Story of the Sundance Film Festival by Lory Smith ISBN: 0879058617 Publisher: Gibbs Smith Publisher Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: The Ultimate Film Festival Survival Guide (2nd Edition) by Chris Gore ISBN: 1580650325 Publisher: Lone Eagle Publishing Company Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: The Film Festival Guide: For Filmmakers, Film Buffs, and Industry Professionals by Adam Langer ISBN: 1556524153 Publisher: Chicago Review Press Pub. Date: September, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Down and Dirty Pictures : Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film by Peter Biskind ISBN: 068486259X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 January, 2004 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Sundance to Sarajevo: Film Festivals and the World They Made by Kenneth Turan ISBN: 0520218671 Publisher: University of California Press Pub. Date: 01 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $35.00 |
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