MONDAY
I woke up this morning, took a shower, called my mom, and then went up to grab some breakfast. After eating a muffin, drinking some coffee, and updating my iCal with all the Sundance movies, the group left the house to head into Park City. I put up that picture of the house at night, but here's one from this morning:
We got to Park City and drove around for a bit so we could get a feel for the town. Not gunna lie, it's kinda confusing. Luckily there are people standing at pretty much every corner who can tell you where to go. We ended up at the Eccles theater for our first movie: Another Earth. here's us a picture of line.... or maybe it's more of a picture of the mountains.
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MOVIE REVIEW #! - Another Earth
The movie reviews I do on here are not going to be that in-depth. I don't really feel like I have the time to do in-depth reviews. anyway, with that said, Another Earth was possibly the best movie we could have started with. It was a unique and exciting story with great acting performances and possible one of the best endings I have ever seen in a movie. Seriously mind-blowing.
The tagline of the movie is, "What if there were two?" and the plot pretty much consists of the fact that there are two Earths and everything about them is the exact same. Each of us exists on this other Earth. We were born at the same time and have done all the same things. What would you do if you met you? It's a really strange thing to think about and could have gone horribly wrong, but director Mike Cahill handled it perfectly. He made the movie intriguing instead of hokey.
My rating for Another Earth: 4.5/5
MOVIE REVIEW #2 - Take Shelter
Phenomenal acting. All the characters are so believable even though the story itself wanes in and out of reality.
The movie is about a guy who starts to have these semi-apocolyptic dreams about storms. He starts to build a big storm-shelter in his back yard. He becomes obsessed with it. His obsessions cause him to lose almost everything. That's a pretty cut and dry description. The movie itself has tons of character depth and complex psychological issues.
Take Shelter was bought by Sony Picture Classics before the movie even showed at this world premier, so you might be seeing it in theaters in the next year or so.
My rating of Take Shelter: 4/5
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Celebrity spottings of the day:
- Anton Yelchin outside of the Eccles Theater.
- William Mapother answering Q&A after Another Earth
After the movies we went to the first session of the Windrider Forum. Windrider is a program that meets in a church here in Park City and hosts students from Fuller Seminary, Biola, Tayloru, BYU, and one other that I can't remember. They fed us and then we watched the short film The Butterfly Circus. Afterwards we had a Q&A with the director of said film and also heard from Heartland Film Festival founder Jeff Sparks. It was a good time. I'm looking forward to everything else that Windrider has going on for us this week.
I'm still having a hard time believing that I got to see two world premiers of movies today.
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