I'm pleased to report that we saw some celebrities today, but I'll get to that in a moment. We saw 3 films today - two of them decent and one incomprehensible. I'm still hoping for a couple of transcendent, outstanding, memorable movies. Not sure if this isn't as strong a festival as previous years or we just got unlucky in our picks. We've still have 7 more to go and I'm optimistic.

The planning and picking of one's films is a laborious process. Most everyone I know has spreadsheets and lists and spends quite a bit of time figuring it all out. I take in to consideration theater location, travel time, eating time, the parking options, in addition to selecting films that sound interesting for whatever reason.

It always amazes me how things work out once we are here. Today for example, we had a 3 hour break between films 1 and 2. We had a quick lunch at the Albertson's in the same shopping center as our theater (its almost functions as festival HQ), getting Davey some soup and OJ. He's still not better but is holding up well. We may go to the clinic where Nancy knows a nurse practitioner in the morning. Anyway, we then hopped a shuttle up to Main Street in search of celebrities. Here's who we did NOT see but were spotted by others: Jack Black, Dennis Quaid, Sara Jessica Parker, Paul Giamatti, Thomas Hayden Church, Bono and U2, Robert Redford, and Al Gore. (De Niro was a no-show this morning, glad we didn't get up early for that).

David and I ambled up and down the main area a couple of times seeing no one. It was a warmish day today (mid-twenties) but decided to ride the Main Street Trolley as a more efficient and warmer way to star spot. We had a perfect view of a second floor balcony where press interviews were being conducted. First we saw Colin Firth; then Dave Chappelle.

I think we'll employ this strategy again tomorrow. We also saw Colin Farrell from the trolley but I couldn't get my camera out quick enough. And some teenage girls we were riding with pointed out Casey Straus from High School Musical. Let me know if you want to see that photo.

After our Main Street jaunt we saw our second film, then hooked up with Nancy and Jeff and Pat who we met last year at Linda's. We had a nice, casual dinner at a pub just outside of Park City (to avoid the crazed crowds) and made it back in time for a 9:30 screening at Eccles - this big performing arts theater that seats 1200. We saw our first premiere tonight, called Incendiary, it stars Michelle Williams and Ewen McGregor, neither of whom showed up. I thought it was pretty good, David wasn't so impressed. It takes place in London after a terrorist bomb hits a soccer stadium.

Our favorite today was a documentary about the Yangtze River and its impact on the folks who fell through the relocation cracks. A beautifully filmed and lovingly told story. Our last film of the day was a Swedish coming-of-age story which was billed as a gentle comedy. There was nothing funny in this movie, in fact it was missing a plot too. We have no idea what was going on. We stayed for the Q&A with the director in hopes of getting some answers, but were told there wouldn't be one because they had to clear the theater for the next screening. So we'll never know.