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January 14, 2006
Redford: Paris Hilton is not about anything
Sundance founder Robert Redford says "the festival's programmers still have the same strategies they had 20 years ago and that all the dollars flowing down Main Street have altered only one aspect of what Sundance is about," writes Daniel Fienberg of Zap2It.com. "Once it started to roll and you had the success of films like Sex, Lies, and Videotape and other films... more people began to come... Then the merchants came. When the merchants came, then the celebrities came and the actors came, the talent came. Then the paparazzi came, and then the fashion came. And it's like a pebble being dropped in a pond, but these ripples come out... And when a media person comes in and looks at the festival, but from an outer tier, they're going to see a completely different picture than the one we're programming. They'll think it's about Paris Hilton, which is not about anything."
Posted by pride at January 14, 2006 01:32 PM
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