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Like a mid-tier Judd Apatow movie, this years edition of theSundance Film Festivalis all about turning 40.

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AsNew Yorksocial-media editor Zach Schiffman put it, Everything is like a joke fromThe Other Two.

Jodie Foster then presented the Vanguard Award toEternal Memorydirector Maite Alberdi, making for an unofficialPanic Roomreunion.

I shudder at the thought of Josh Peck getting a UTI.

Was I ever an independent filmmaker?

I think painters are independent.

I think poets can be independent.

As filmmakers, weresodependent on other people.

At Sundance, there is no playoff music.

A Sundance fave whose name I shall not reveal refused to speak to Vulture on the red carpet.

He did paint his nails for the gala, though!