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Sundance Journal: Day 7

Published on January 26, 2006

Luxury Items

The most sought after bling at this festival are items I would normally take for granted. First luxury item is sleep. At the beginning of a festival you want to remain faithful to some sort of crazy viewing list you thought would be feasible. You make a couple of promises to publicists and filmmakers that you’ll catch their work. Well staying out at parties and spending your days in darkness for 10 hours a time means that the energy supply will be lacking towards the end. Getting enough ZZZZ’s and skipping out on a film or two is necessary. Next up Water. Your high up in the mountains and nature screws with your system. Fluids are a must.
Warm socks. Yes warm socks to replace the other pair that you wore and that are now wet. Going to Sundance for 10 days – double up – make it 20 pairs. No joke.

Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris’ Little Miss Sunshine
Read review here.

Rex Bloomstein’s KZ
Read review here.

Chris Gorak’s Right at Your Door
Read review here.

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Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).