Sundance Watch: John Anderson Pounds Jeff Dowd

Variety.com *, Thompson On Hollywood
Wed, 01/21/2009 - 3:36pm

Opinions fly at the Sundance Film Fest but so did fists Wednesday morning when critic John Anderson, who was covering the 8:30 screening of the agit-prop political doc DIRT for Variety at the Holiday CInemas, told producer's rep Jeff "The Dude" Dowd that the movie "was poor, too simplistic, too redundant," says Dowd, who accompanied him over to the nearby Yarrow.

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