William Shatner a cult classic.
Yesterday at #Sundance, I sat through the “live” documentary film “Utopia,” a rather egotistical experiment of a movie “unlike all other movies” in that it can be only one place at a time with filmmaker Sam Green and musician Dave Cerf. The two things I took away from the film: Victor Gruen is known as the “architect of the American Dream” because he invented the shopping mall (before retiring to Austria in embarrassed disappointment.) And William Shatner starred in Incubus, a cult classic entirely in Esperanto, the most widely spoken international auxiliary language. Esperanto was created in the late 1800s by L.L. Zamenhof who thought that a neutral world language could foster peace and international understanding. Esparanto, which means “one who hopes,” has up to 2 million speakers in about 115 countries, including William Shatner. If you’d like to join this utopia, here’s a lesson.