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Show A-18 The Park Record Wed/Thurs/Fri, January 27-29, 2010 CORE SAMPLES By Jay Meehan Film Festival, Jan 21-31, Park City, UT Best Bets for Tickets: Tickets are still available for many great films and panels! Stop by the Park City Main Box Office, Gateway Center, 136 Heber Ave. or visit sundance.org/tickets to purchase tickets. A few highlights include: Night Catches Us WED, 1.27,12:15 RM.( ECCLES THEATRE Within the complex and charged environment of the Black Panther movement in late-1970s Philadelphia, a boy comes of age. The Imperialists Are Still Alive! THURS, 1.28,8:30 A.M..THE RACQUET CLUB A French Manhattanite juggles the sudden abduction of her childhood sweetheart with the blossoming of a new love affair. The Shock Doctrine THURS, 1.28,6:15 RM., ECCLESTHEATRE Closely based on Naomi Klein's book, The Shock Doctrine exposes how shock is used to implement economic policy in vulnerable environments. Following this screening, Robert Redford, Naomi Klein and filmmakers Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross will discuss how the film's themes relate to current events, including the recent earthquake in Haiti. Shorts Program 1 SAT, 1.30,8:30 A.M., RACQUET CLUB THEATRE Catch the shorts that opened the 2010 Festival! This shorts line up runs the gamut from love to greed to misery, and to tearing the whole thing down. Featuring work by Spike Jonze, Rory Kennedy, and more. Jack Goes Boating SAT, 1.30,3:15 RM., ECCLESTHEATRE A tale of love, betrayal, and friendship set against the backdrop of working-class New York City. The directorial debut of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman. Sundance.org/festival LOYAL SERVICE Guaranteed 7 day turnaround on all custom framing ART& FRAME Taking Art Higher Between Staples & Pier 1 next to Wai Mart at Kimball Junction Open 7 days a week - Mon-Sat 10am-7pm - Sunday 12pm-4pm 435.649.0801 www.peakartandframe.corri Snowbound daze With midnight just around the corner and the game invented by O.D. McGee back in the nearly 12 hours of schmoozing with films and day up at that fine old saloon in Evanston, film fans and film folk socked away in the ol' Pete's Roc N Rye. The competition, comculture bank, strolling through the postcard prised of flipping a "plumber's friend" so that, that is Sundance Resort after a fresh snowfall when it lands, it sticks to the floor, in some cirhas a surreal quality about it. There is some- cles has become a classic indoor sport. thing in the way the light plays across the Situated as it is above and to the side of the slopes and through the trees up at Redford's pool that is formed when the melting waters of joint. Cascade Cirque flow over Stewart Falls and Then the dreamscape collapses with the on down past the on-guard stone Indian Chief news that they had reopened North Fork to rest for a spell before continuing on, the Canyon road to traffic with chains or four- space echoes with light. wheel-drive. Drat! What better place than Of course, we would have had to keep the Sundance to become snowbound? OK, Alta - night ski lifts running and the rental shop but not during the film festival. It was the open. And those cool log cabins that dot the perfect opportunity for the inmates to run the landscape, it would be unconscionable not asylum. to, in some fashion, make them part of the The Owl Bar, of course, would have served rebellion. as anarchy-central. And with the Tree Room Revolution does bring with it a sense of having only one waiter type that had made it responsibility, however! Such a place as up the canyon prior to the road closure, Sundance would itself rebel against disrespect rounding up chow for the troops wouldn't on any level. The manner in which the human ___ spaces were incorpohave been an issue. Every mess hall / f rated into the surshould have a huge • • With its fireplace and wall tapes- rounding natural Navajo rug hanging environment has an tries and bookshelves, the sense obvious on the wall just above spiritual an encased museum- js Qf a reverence bom deep down in quality about it. quality collection of be Eon geology that most evident in the Hopi Kachina Dolls. the Proterozoic The Screening forms the bedrock of Mount library just off the Room could have Tree Room. With its been kept open Timpanogos itsell\" fireplace and wall round the clock to ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ tapestries and bookserve any variety of shelves, the sense is functions, from the continual-looping of what- of a reverence born deep down in the ever film stock had been previously re-spliced Proterozoic Eon geology that forms the together by those with either a creative bent bedrock of Mount Timpanogos itself. When or maybe just one-too-many cocktails to those you enter, you usher a "hush" in with you. looking to curl up in a corner. Dibs on the But now, with the road down the canyon couch! reopened, all bets are off. The rebellion up at I haven't made it into the Rehearsal Hall so the Sundance Resort will have to continue far this year, so I'm not sure what it could offer only in its originally intended cinematic fashthe revolution. Did I mention that this year's ion. But that's OK. Up there it has a holiness festival is all about rebellion? about it that somehow is lacking in its other The manifesto goes something like, "This is manifestations. the renewed rebellion. This is the recharged Arriving as it does during the often bleak fight against the establishment of the expect- days of January, the Sundance Film Festival ed. This is the rebirth of the battle for brave has always had perfect timing. Although many new ideas. This is Sundance, reminded. And of my friends cringe at the thought of it tranthis is your call to join ... us." So it's like we secting their lives, it's become one of my had been invited, had we become snowbound, favorite times of year. The films just keep getto rebel - creatively, of course! ting more interesting and there's always the But back to the Rehearsal Hall and how we chance of getting snowbound up North Fork could utilize it for our unmitigated pleasure. It Canyon. If you're lucky! would be great if they still had the same piano in there that Cyrus Chestnut performed upon Jay Meehan is a culture junkie and a free-lance back when the Sundance Film Festival put on writer with a background in commercial and that great series dedicated to jazz piano trios. community radio, among other pursuits. He With its highly-polished floor, it could also has been a columnist and feature writer for varserve at a dance hall or for a hastily-put- ious Park City publications going back to 1973. together game of "floor darts." That would be With 30,000 Sundancers passing through John Wayne, Gregory Peck, Maureen O'Hara town, and films projected on most flat sur- and Ronald Reagan camped in places like faces (remember the guy who screened his Kanab, Moab, and Monument Valley for weeks film against a snow bank one year?), its hard at a time while filming such movie classics as not to think about the movies this week. I "Stagecoach" (Monument Valley) and "Rio heard a story on the radio the other day that Grande" (Moab), and TV classics like "The said the three top states appearing in theatri- Lone Ranger" and "Gunsmoke" (Kanab). cal movies are California, first, New York secUtah's days as a movie location didn't end ond and Utah third. when westerns faded. Look at the opening It's no wonder. Filmmakers with a clever eye sequence of "Indiana Jones and the Lost can turn downtown Salt Lake into New York Crusade" and you'll see Double Arch inside City, and Salt Lake alleys into teeming Chinese Arches National Park. Watch the gasoline cities. They can go to the Bonneville Salt Flats tanker blow up in "Thelma and Louise" and for sci-fi, horror and space films. The mountains you might recognize the 1950s ghost town of appear in everything from road scenes in the Cisco, north of Moab along the Colorado River. iconic '60s "Easy Rider" to Sundance founder And when the gal pals gun it over therimof the Robert Redford's "Jeremiah Johnson," a moun- Grand Canyon, they're actually at Dead Horse tain-man epic filmed literally in his own back- Point in Canyonlands. yard at Sundance Resort. On websites for movie hot spots like Moab and Kanab you can Speaking of Mr. find maps of movie Redford, how about his breakthrough role kkA lot Of US in Utah TV neWS back locations and match as the Sundance Kid ., _i _ - • . # _ them up with some of in what is still my allthen snagged parts in those, usu- y o u r favorite films, in time favorite movie, Kanab v o u can stand reporters "Butch Cassidy and ally playing TVne\A/s , . . „ asking r 3 ' ^ Jbreathless * on the rock the Lone the Sundance Kid"? stupid, questions. his Ranger show's stoodopening on in It's Utah made. Go to ^ M M ^ ^ ^ H sequence. In Moab the ghost town of you can recreate Grafton near Zion Park and you'll find the ranch buildings that Indiana Jones's escape in Arches. were central to the tale. Utah has such incredible scenery, and such a Remember Harvey Logan challenging wild, wide variety of it that filmmakers can turn Butch (Paul Newman) to a knife fight for lead- the place into anywhere on the planet (or anothership of the Hole in the Wall Gang? Butch says er planet - see "2001: A Space Odyssey.") You can Google to find movies shot in Utah. I found he won't fight until the rules are set. "Rules?" Logan asks incredulously. "In a 185 feature films and too many TV shows to knife fight? No rules!" Butch immediately kicks count. Logan hard in the groin. Fight over. Butch rules. Back in the 70s and '80s the TV networks The corral still stands. Stand in Grafton, close shot a lot of cheap TV movies of the week and, your eyes, and you can see Newmanridingthe in those days, Utah was front and center bicycle while B.J. Thomas sings, "Raindrops because of all our "only in Utah" weird crimes. keep falling on my head" as lovely Katherine A lot of us in Utah TV news back then snagged Ross smiles down through the window. parts in those, usually playing TV news The mother of an old friend who grew up reporters asking stupid, breathless questions. nearby was an extra in that corral scene, and The best role I ever snagged was "man in blue their family motel hosted movie people over the coat" in "Incident at Marion." What? You don't years. He played piano as a lad and remembers remember that? well the night in 1962 Sammy Davis, Jr., Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra, along with Marilyn Free-lance writer Larry Warren has been wanMonroe, gathered around the family piano and dering the West covering news stones for televisang while he accompanied them. The Rat Pack sion and magazines since he landed in Utah in was in town to film "Sergeants Three." the mid-1970s. In this column he writes about Someriver-runningbuddies remember when the favorite places he goes back to when he can. they pulled into the classic San Juan Inn in Mexican Hat to find Michael J. Fox and THE VITALS: Christopher Lloyd shooting pool. They were in Websites: www.film.utah.gov www.discoverthe neighborhood to shoot "Back to the Future moab.com/movie www.frontiermovietown.com II" in Monument Valley. Insider tip: Stay at Parry Lodge in Kanab. It's on Many southern Utah old timers have their the National Register of Historic Places. Maybe own fond stories of those good old days, when you'll get John Wayne's room. i |
