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Article: The United States Film Festival.
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- The Nation
- Article date:
- March 14, 1987
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The United States Film Festival
After eyestrain and despair, theunhealthiest effect film festivals produce in their audiences is surely the impulse to generalize. As each film gives way to the next, day after day, the viewer's powers of discrimination start to weaken, the experiences of individual movies tend to blur into a hazy impression of the state of the art--What Movies Are Today. We're worn out, our senses overloaded, and trends present themselves, unbidden, to our imaginations, like the clammy anxieties of an insomniac. The United States Film Festival, held every winter in the ski resort town of Park City, Utah (for proximity to its sponsoring body, ...