Jameson Kowalczyk

Jameson reports in on his first day at NY Comic Con!

Definitely one of the more hyped films that played this year at Sundance, Black Snake Moan is the third feature film from writer/director Craig Brewer, who broke out in 2005 with Hustle and Flow (and helped make history when the Best Original Song Oscar went to Tennessee-native rappers Three 6 Mafia and their song “It’s Hard Out Here for a Pimp”).

If you’re in the mood for something really different this weekend (and you’re not faint of heart) head to the IFC Center (323 Sixth Avenue at W. 3rd Street, NYC) and spend the evening with Crispin Glover (Back to the Future, Wild at Heart, River’s Edge). The show starts with a live performance of Crispin Glover’s Big Slide Show, followed by a screening of What is it?, the first film in Glover’s It trilogy, a Q&A with Mr. Glover, and a book signing. Tickets are twenty bucks, and the whole thing begins at 7:30 pm, Friday through Sunday (Feb. 9th – 11th).

I had a really great time at Sundance, and have to say that for the most part, every film I saw was a pretty solid effort from the filmmakers. There were a few that really impressed me, and a few that didn’t. Here’s an overview of how I spent my time in Park City:

Offscreen is the third feature film from award-winning Denmark-native filmmaker Christoffer Boe (Reconstruction, Allegro) that screened as part of the New Frontier program last week at Sundance. It stars Nicholas Bro, an stage and screen actor, as himself. As his relationship with his girlfriend Lene dissolves, Bro borrows a camera from director Boe with the intention of filming a love story starring Lene and himself as their loves grows together again. What he ends up capturing on camera is his own mental and emotional breakdown as Lene flees to Berlin, and he develops a serious psychological dependency on the camera and falls into a downward spiral of obsession, alienation, and self-destruction.