Sundance, you gotta love it

PARK CITY — So there I was on Park City's Main Street talking comic books with filmmaker/comics-lover Kevin Smith when we were joined by "Super Size Me" director Morgan Spurlock.

Smith was at the Sundance Film Festival to promote a documentary he produced, "small town gay bar," and had just wandered out from a restaurant. Spurlock was walking down Main Street and just got pulled into the conversation.

It was one of those moments that you wish you could capture on film . . . at least if you're me. Unfortunately, there was no photographer around, so you'll just have to trust me.

On the other hand, I'm glad there was no photographer around when Leslie Bibb got a little too touchy-feely.

The actress is apparently one of those "touchers," a person who puts her hands on you while being interviewed or just in the throes of conversation — you know, she'll touch your arm, your hand, your knee or whatever.

She kept doing that while I was trying to interview her about her role in the comic fantasy "Wristcutters: A Love Story," and the physical contact was starting to make me feel uncomfortable.

Ah, Sundance. You gotta love it.

Of course, there are also movies, and, as is often the case, it's been a hit-and-miss experience. In particular, I've had bad luck when it comes to music documentaries. I missed "Neil Young Heart of Gold" "Leonard Cohen I'm Your Man" and "Glastonbury," all of which I've heard good things about.

And instead I saw "American Hardcore," "Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out" and "Awesome: I (expletive) Shot That!"

"American Hardcore" is a rambling, unfocused documentary about hard-core punk-rock music, and it's notable only for rare musical-performance footage of such bands as Black Flag, Minor Threat and Bad Brains, along with some interesting interview snippets of punk-rock legends Ian MacKaye and Henry Rollins.

Stewart Copeland's yawn-inducing "Everyone Stares," a musical diary of the years he spent with the Police, is proof he should have kept that footage to himself.

Still, neither of those is as bad as "Awesome," the attention-deficit Beastie Boys concert film that doesn't even come close to living up to its title. The movie was shot by fans in the audience who were given digital cameras, and it's headache-inducing. And remember, this is coming from a Beastie Boys fan.