Take director Paul Verhoeven's recent Oscar-nominated Elle in contrast: yesterday's rape-revenge exploitation fare is today's thoughtfully feminist festival film.
Take director Sam Mendes, who said he wasn't going to direct the next film, only to relent two months later.
He added that he had taken directors, including Peter Sellars and Robert Wilson, to the State Theater, and "they liked the space and saw real possibilities".
The latter, which took director Christopher Quinn four years to make, chronicles the lives of three Sudanese refugees after they emigrate to the US.
Another Sundance premiere, "Boyhood," is the much talked about film that took director Richard Linklater and his cast 12 years to film.
It took director Tim Ruse and his team three years of research, development and funding (including a grant from Film Victoria) to launch Zero Latency.
It took director Chazelle, 32, six years to get "La La Land" off the ground, fusing a 1950s musical sensibility with a contemporary love story.
Bazin stated that by not cutting but instead choosing to depict the action in a single long-take, directors like Orson Welles (here and in Citizen Kane, 1941) evoke: a more active mental attitude on the part of the spectator and a more positive contribution on his part to the action in progress.
Worley H. Clark, Jr, previously Millennium's lead director, takes over as chairman of the board.
