Walking down the main drag in Park City, The Observer remembered one thing: This place is tiny. We’re talking NoLita tiny. Nestled between Park City and Deer Valley Ski Resorts, the diminutive town transforms itself once a year, at the crack of Robert Redford’s whip, into the epicenter of the Sundance Film Festival. It’s 10:30 p.m. on the first night (sort of), and this frigid hamlet is slammed. Read More
Even though it may seem like an inordinate amount of coverage has been given over to the Occupy Wall Street movement, we here at The New York Observer are still committed to giving you the full taste of what is happening in NYC. Like this morning, when the cast of Today gave Elijah Wood major props for being quirky enough to ride the subway to Rockefeller Center. The subway! Can you believe it?
Al Roker couldn’t. Read More
Hard to know what to make of a hack job called The Romantics. Seven postgrad friends dedicating their lives to the question “Is there life after campus sex?” gather on a weekend near the sea for the wedding of two of their most popular pals. Since the bride (Anna Paquin) and her sister, who is Read More
9
Running time 79 minutes
Written by Pamela Pettler
Directed by Shane Acker
Starring Elijah Wood, Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, John C. Reilly, Jennifer Connolly, Crispin Glover
In 2004, a UCLA film student named Shane Acker created an 11-minute animated short called 9 that people lost their minds over. It earned him Read More
Rodarte is the fashion equivalent of a Basquiat: people in the know really love it, but to everyone else it’s inscrutable or a little bit ugly. So it was no surprise that the couture-like label, designed by sisters Kate and Laura Mulleavy, managed to attract to its Tuesday runway show an insider-ish crowd including Anna Read More
DAY ZERO
Running Time 92 minutes
Directed by Bryan Gunnar Cole
Written by Robert Malkoni
Starring Elijah Wood, Chris Klein and Ginnifer Goodwin
From World War I through Vietnam, 16 million American boys were recruited by the draft to serve their country. Day Zero is a small but interesting Read More
