January
20
Sundance Watch: U23D
Yet another hot doc screened at Park City's Eccles Theatre Saturday night: U23D (here's the trailer). Bono and U2, Robert Redford and Al Gore (revisiting the scene of his first Inconvenient Truth triumph) were there. Why Al Gore? "He's with his friend Bono," said one of the National Geographic contingent.
The fans were rocking the house to U2 concerts in Mexico, Argentina, Brazil and Australia, seamlessly woven together by long-time U2 graphics artist turned rookie director Catherine Owens and director Mark Pellington. Owens spent two years editing the film in 2D before "knitting" together the 3ality 3D. "Thank you Bono for saying yes," said Owens. After Bono and U2 took the stage, Bono said, "There's a lot of love and Irish whiskey in the house. If this festival were in Dublin it would be called Raindance." After the screening, which inspired moviegoers to applaud as if they were in the live venue and wave their cellphones in the air, the gang trooped back on stage for a Q & A.
When one audience member asked Bono if he'd follow this movie up with something narrative like Yellow Submarine, Bono said, "You're telling me that Yellow Submarine has a deep narrative? You know how to hurt a fellow's feelings. Underneath this movie there is a narrative operating; it starts with social action and moves through ideas that have fired up our engines over the years--non-violence, human rights--it's hardly a flippant thing to do, under the circumstances, in this country."
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