About an hour ago, text messages started to fly around Park City, regarding an altercation between film critic John Anderson and producer (and Big Lebowski inspiration) Jeff Dowd in the restaurant at the Yarrow Resort. I’m staying in the hotel, so I went downstairs as soon as I heard to investigate. Here’s what I was able to put together:
According to the typically preposterously effusive Sundance catalogue entry, Bill Benenson and Eugene Rosow’s documentary Dirt! The Movie, based on William Bryant Logan’s book Dirt, The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth “posses[es] both a cosmic perspective that reaches into the vastness of time and space, and the kind of warm, earnest energy that inspires small revolutions inside human hearts.” We like cosmic revolutions! When Benenson and Rosow answered the 4 Questions We Ask Everybody, they namechecked Buster Keaton, quoted Margaret Atwood, and made a lot of “dirty” puns.
