Sundance Film Festival
So this week was the Sundance Film Festival. Rob got one of the local passes and saw more movies this week than he had seen in nearly a year (not to mention the fact that we only see them after everyone else has and they come out on DVD, not before they're even distributed like these). He saw ten films, and I saw four with him. They were, in order of appearance: Love Comes Lately: based on three short stories about a Viennese writer living in New York. The acting was good, but the screenwriting needed to be beefed up. Rob liked it, but there isn't anyone I would recommend it to. The Wave: based on an experiment in Palo Alto to teach high schoolers about facism and the Nazis. Rob was excited that it's going to be available to German students (who have to read the book), but said that it looked like an American film set in Germany, and you could "see the seams" between the two. His friend said it was too much like the after school special. Absurdistan: (picture abo