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...institute and its film festival, which began in 1985, have brought to light such audacious talents as Steven Soderbergh (sex, lies, and videotape), Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) and Kimberly Peirce (Boys Don't Cry), and provided a valuable antidote to Hollywood in its post-Jaws era of quick thrills and saturation bookings. But while moviegoers have benefited from Sundance, the institute has exacted a high price from its godfather. "Sundance turned out to be something far more personal than I ever imagined," says Redford, who has poured much energy into developing labs for screenwriting, directing, theater and music, as well...
...hold still. As we follow the nameless central character (Wiley Wiggins, an alumnus of Dazed and Confused) through a wiggly, trippy dreamscape, we begin to wonder along with him whether it is all real. We recognize the famous faces and voices of the likes of Ethan Hawke, Steven Soderbergh and the director, but we wonder: Is that really them? Or an animated representation of them? The technology tells us it’s both. It is this paradox that makes the dreamworld from which Wiggins finds he cannot escape all the more intense...
...editing and camera effects to create a kind of hyperreality. As in Traffic, filtered lenses indicate time and mood, so scenes on Manhattan Beach in California appear sun-bleached, almost sepia-toned, while the sex scenes between Depp and Penelope Cruz (All About My Mother) are red-hued. (Steven Soderbergh may have started a trend in the drug-movie genre. Cheech and Chong might want take note.) Freeze frames indicate the passage of time...
UNDEREXPOSED Luis Guzman Other directors should join Steven Soderbergh and Paul Thomas Anderson, who try to put him in every movie they make. He turns small roles into memorable characters, as evidenced in Traffic by his doomed cop Ray Castro...
...venal smirk off the evening. Maybe everyone was worried sober by the market. The proceedings and most of the clothes were even unexpectedly dignified. The cameramen, who must have worked for Ed Sullivan in the days of Elvis, were forbidden to show Jennifer Lopez below the collarbone. Stephen Soderbergh, Best Director (for "Traffic") gave a feeling and self-effacing speech about creativity ("the world would be intolerable without art"). Bob Dylan materialized from Australia, geezer indeed, with a fascinatingly cunning, wolfish look in his pale gray eye, like Vincent Price when he's up to something...