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Sundance 8 Favorites Meme

Karina Longworth
By Karina Longworth posted 10 months ago
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I’ve been tagged by Indiepix’s Danielle DiGiacomo to participate in this Sundance favorites blog meme. I’ve, in turn, tagged eight over bloggers. Find out if you’re one of the lucky octuplet after the jump.

Rules:
1. We have to post these rules before we give you the facts.
2. Players start with listing their Sundance favorites, separated into 8 categories.
3. People who are tagged write their own blog post about their 8 favorites and include these rules.
4. At the end of your blog, you need to choose 8 people to get tagged and list their names. Don’t forget to leave them a comment telling them they’re tagged and that they should read your blog.

Here goes:
1. Favorite feature: Moon by Duncan Jones
2. Most problematic/interesting/thought-provoking feature: A tie between O’er the Land by Deborah Stratman and Spring Breakdown, starring Rachel Dratch, Parker Posey and Amy Poehler. I’ll be writing more about the surprising connections between the two films this week.
3. Favorite short film: I don’t remember a single short I saw other than The Blindness of the Woods. Which was pretty great.
4. Film most regrettably missed: Push, Big River Man, Stay the Same Never Change.
5. Most fun party: I didn’t go to any real parties — I was not invited to the now-legendary BritDoc party, alas –– but I had a few memorable nights at the Late Night Lodge.
6. Best post-screening Q & A: Bobcat Goldthwait’s World’s Greatest Dad on the morning of the inauguration.
7. Favorite nonfiction character(s): If we’re confining this to characters that appear directly on screen, then Grace Coddington, The September Issue. If their presence is dramatized/implied, I’ll go with Colonel William Rankin from O’er the Land.
8. Most memorable moment: Getting called out by Steven Soderbergh at the IFC breakfast. More details on this week’s episode of FilmCouch.

The following 8 people, consider yourself TAGGED!

Tom Hall

Matt Dentler

David Carr - The Carpetbagger

Scott Macaulay - FILMMAKER Blog

Alison Willmore - Indie Eye

Mike Jones - The Circuit

Noel Murray - The A.V. Club

Lou Lumenick

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  • Derek said

    I am so curious to hear the soderbergh story.

  • Noel Murray said

    Thanks for the tag, but I’m afraid I can’t participate. I’ve already done a wrap-up for The A.V. Club, and don’t really have my own blog-space to do another.

    Also, in your “film most regrettably missed,” you misspelled PASSING STRANGE three times.

  • davis said

    I’m curious to hear about the O’er the Land Spring Breakdown connection! Colonel William Rankin’s voice is heard at the beginning of the Stratman doc, of course, on a telephone answering machine, so he does sort of appear, if only to say that he no longer does interviews.

  • Scott Macaulay said

    Just discovered this here in Rotterdam. Although these things always summon up my fear of chain letters, this will be a good opportunity for me to get down some thoughts that haven’t made it into my coverage. Will try to respond in a day or two.

  • Lou Lumenick said

    Hey Karina, you’re supposed to tell me I’m tagged. Not that I don’t try to read your blog every day.