The Circuit

The LA Times reports that Southern California supermarket Glensons has pulled the AFI FEST guide from its shelves and revised its festival sponsorship after a customer (a single customer, it seems) complained of a particular film catalog picture showing two girls wearing thongs in a changing room.  Adam Rifkin's "Look" is about surveillance saturation.  According to a mass email from the director, it's legal 37 states to put video cameras in public dressing room:

"Yes, the image of two tweens' glutes might be controversial to some, but millions of people unknowingly undressing under surveillance is way more shocking if you ask me.  Who is watching this footage and who is keeping it safe from public distribution? preventing it from being distributed. Who has access to it and for how long?  What safeguards exist to make sure highlights of YOUR ass are not making it onto the most viewed list on YouTube?"

This soapbox email keeps on-topic, making the film suddenly sound like an interesting, important, timely, ACLU-endorsed documentary.   But it's not.  It's a "serious drama" shot entirely from the POV of surveillance cameras, from the screenwriter of "Underdog" and "Small Soldiers" and "He-Man and the Masters of the Universe."  Looking at the "controversial" guide pic from "Look" (above), you can feel the air deflating out of this teapot tempest.  Stupid for Glensons to pull the catalog but it'd be surprising if this garnered much more than a collective "what a shame" just before a collective shrug.