Reviews Sundance 2009: The Yes Men Fix the World
The Yes Men Fix the World is “part screwball comedy about the apocalypse, part call to arms,” according to its press kit. It’s a collection of the group’s most recent missions, strung together by overarching themes and a comedic structural device: Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno r...
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Opinions & IdeasBook to Film: Adapting Wristcutters: A Love Story
I am a huge Patrick Fugit fan. So, in my process of monthly film column screening, I stumbled upon Wristcutters: A Love Story. About 30 seconds into the film, text pops up saying that the indie is based on a novella. I paused the movie, did some research into it, and sure enough, I had stumbled on a book crossover perfect for my article! Actually finding the novella that the film was based on was a bit harder, however, although I managed to get a hold of it in the end.
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At this year's much quieter, much warmer Sundance Film Festival, filmmakers Lynn Shelton, Ben Kasulke and Nat Sanders made a habit of closing out a number of bars with a celebratory “Humpdance.” It was always a needed moment of levity, considering that no joke, the last couple months of have been kind of a downer. The election got us all riled up into an hourly news-checking frenzy just in time for the media to scrutinize the knuckles of every Wall Street sucker punch. We residents of Bummer City needed at the festival a good laugh. To the rescue was the film made by these three celebrators, a film thats intelligence transcends the question that drives it: “Are you man enough to bone a dude?”