Sundance: Kudos to John Cooper for a year in which 'rebel spirit' really meant 'terrific films'
(Rebellion, as a word, was long ago co-opted by those who arent for it.) I said that what mattered would be whether there was fresh creative DNA in the programming itself. On that score, Cooper and his team came through, triumphantly. The programming this year was bold, sharp, tasteful, and demanding. It did a first-rate job of separating the wheat from the chaff and leaving the chaffoutof the festival. This year, I never had that experience, or anything close to it....