For those attempting to parse the business climate at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, today’s piece by David Halbfinger in the New York Times is pretty on the money.

Also, I should note that I was a trifle embarassed to have been called by Ann Thompson one of the passionate bloggers who would be reporting from Sundance and then not to have written anything. Well, I was there more in producer mode this year rather than daily reporting mode, but I did catch a bunch of films I’ll be writing about during the year. And, I am heading to Rotterdam now where I look forward to catching up to a couple films I missed, including Old Joy, and will be hopefully posting a couple of times from there.