Katie Brown, producer of the Darfur doc The Devil Rode on Horseback, one of the buzz-y films at Sundance that I missed, with Pac-Man, star of Chasing Ghosts, a video-gaming history I just couldn't get to. I should probably talk to my therapist about this, rather than burdening ToM readers, but no matter how many films I see, I always feel a sense of failure about the ones I missed (insert weepy music here). Films I wish I had consumed, with some clips, beneath the fold:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qql7Gw0wfmw
• Finishing the Game: a mockumentary about the quest to finish Bruce Lee's last film
• the Animation Spotlight, with titles including: Destiny Manifesto,Duct Tape and Cover, One Rat Short, and Phantom Canyon
• Fido, starring domesticized zombies
• the rotoscoped Year of the Fish
• The Savages, everyone's Sundance fave, with Laura Linney and Philip Seymor Hoffman
• Chicago 10, with two of my favorite things – animation and political documentary – in bed together for the first time
• Teeth, which would have allowed me to use ToM's Phrase of the Month: "vagina dentana" and thus feel a more essential part of the team
• Everything's Cool, a scan of activism intended to call attention to global warming
• And the award-winners I missed: Padre Nuestra, Enemies of Happiness, Sweet Mud, Hear and Now, Once and Rocket Science
