When you cover a film festival either solo or as a team, you manage to always have a title that “got away”, which happened to be the case in Park City earlier in the year when we missed Rodney Ascher’s documentary — low-budget in design, but if you’re fan of Kubrick (who isn’t?) and you’re a fan of The Shining, then Room 237 is definitely of interest, especially in an era of quicktime conspiracy theory films and blu-ray over analysis. You can count them on a pair of thumbs, the number of Sundance films to crack the Cannes Film Festival were a total of two, you had Beasts of the Southern Wild receive its Un Certain Regard showing a couple of days back, and today the Directors’ Fortnight showcased Room 237 in its international debut. Both Ascher and his producer Tim Kirk were on hand.
"Ron and I wanted to make a film that looked at what it means to be an outsider and we wanted to explore what it takes to reach out to someone whose life is very removed from your own."
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