Sundance or Sin-dance?
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Reprinted from NewsMax.com

Monday, Jan. 31, 2005 1:11 p.m. EST

Rabid environmentalist Robert Redford demands clean air and clean water, but when it comes to the films his Sundance Film Festival is showing this year, filth is what you get - and mountains of it.

Redford's vision of the festival is as an area for dissent. He says he wants it to encompass viewpoints he believes the American media fail to reflect, particularly how the U.S. is perceived internationally.

"It's the ability to maintain the importance of dissent in a democratic system which right now is under threat with the attitude of this administration," he says. "I think many voices are being shut down or accused of being unpatriotic if they want to express another point of view. That's very unhealthy and very dangerous. If we take that policy into the world, there will be the same victims and the same consequences."

If this year's offerings are Redford's idea of legitimate dissent, he appears to confuse controversy with smut.

In film after film the producers let it all hang out, with every form of sexual activity and perversion known to mankind, according to the New York Post, which backs up its charge in salacious detail, neither mincing words nor shying away from explicit descriptions of the film fare featured at the festival, which might be better described as an equal opportunity orgy where nothing is taboo.

Writes the Post's Lou Lumenick, "Sundance screens were awash in [all] kinds of bodily fluids, as audiences were treated to graphic scenes of rape, castration, dismemberment and sex acts that crossed the threshold of almost every imaginable taboo - sometimes by performers who will be too young to attend these movies when (or if) they make it into theaters."

He adds, "This was also a festival where one of the most-talked-about films, 'The Aristocrats,' was a documentary that consists of 100 well-known comedians, including Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg, telling variations on the dirtiest joke in history - replete with graphic references to rape [and] incest."

Lumenick runs through each of the feature films, describing the ins and outs of the plots, but NewsMax.com can't report any of the details - yes, they are that bad.

As NewsMax has reported, the liberal Redford has decided to stay in the U.S. despite George Bush's re-election.

He had threatened to move to Ireland, but recently said, "I love Ireland, I have family heritage in Ireland, but I'm an American.

"I love it here and I'm not leaving just because of some barking dog on the TV. I'm not going to do that.

"We are who we are and we're not going to shy away from something we need to stand up for."

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