By Lynn Rapoport. Read Lynn’s report from the first SFIFF weekend here, and Natalie Gregory’s review of SFIFF flick Crude here.
Parked a little ways past the midway point in the SFIFF calendar, the fest’s official centerpiece film, the romantic comedy 500 Days of Summer, packed the Sundance Kabuki’s main house on Saturday night, with most of the appreciative audience lingering for the post-screening Q&A with director Marc Webb and stars Zooey Deschanel and Joseph Gordon-Levitt. (The latter set a lighter tone, or perhaps just startled audience members, by adopting a Ministry of Silly Walks stride and monster-metal voice for the pre-screening introductions.)
Eternal Summer of the spotless mind?