(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.
I also think its encouraging that no single film dominated the buzz-sphere.
The images didnt have a trace of that murky-clinical video immediacy.
They now had thesensualityof film.
And thats a tremendous technological-aesthetic victory, and opportunity, for indie filmmakers.
So why didnt Fox establish its post-Rice Sundance bona fides by finding and trumpeting a major acquisition?
(To be fair, they could, as I write, be working on one.)
And no one has picked it up yet.
The excitement of the moment.
The movies of the moment.
Sometimes, it takes a director quite a while to bear the full fruits of his or her promise.
