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U2 frontman Bono, left, is interviewed by Brooke Anderson of CNN on Saturday night at the Eccles Center.
PARK CITY - It's a rare moment at the Sundance Film Festival when Robert Redford isn't the most famous person in the room.
    But when he walked into the Eccles Theatre on Saturday night with the members of U2 - Bono, the Edge, Adam Clayton and Larry Mullen Jr. - and took a seat next to Nobel Peace Prize laureate Al Gore, the fame-o-meter hit the red zone.
    Saturday night's event - and, from the anticipation level, the event of the 2008 Sundance Film Festival - was the premiere of "U2 3D," a bold concert documentary of the Irish band filmed on the South American leg of its "Vertigo" tour.
    The show was a must-get ticket, and drew such famous names as Jared Leto, Elisabeth Shue, director Davis Guggenheim (Shue's husband and the director of Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth") and Nickelodeon star Josh Peck.
    The audience screamed when the band entered the theater with Redford, and erupted in even louder cheers when festival director Geoffrey Gilmore called them up to the stage.
    "There's a lot of love and Irish whiskey in the air," Bono said, adding a joke: "If this festival were in Dublin, it would be Raindance."
    "We understand we are guests, and this is not our milieu, so to speak," Bono said, as he praised Redford and Gilmore for their support of independent film.
    Bono did give a minor criticism of the film in advance: "As
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large as The Edge looks in 'U2 3D,' it's not large enough."
    With that, and the foursome's pose in their 3D glasses, the movie started, and the audience treated it like the rock show that it is - cheering and applauding, occasionally singing along and in one arresting image holding up their cell phones like candles when the movie's South American audience did. At the end, festivalgoers delivered a standing ovation.
    In the brief Q&A after the show, Bono noted the appropriateness of playing the movie at Park City High School. "We are a high school band, after all," he said.
    Bono also said "this might be the night to kiss the Salt Lake ass," praising Utah's capital city for its "very sophisticated" music scene and some great radio stations. (This got a laugh from some in the audience, but Bono seemed earnest.) "So, yes, we will be back in Salt Lake."
    The biggest laugh of the night came when an audience member asked an esoteric question about U2's musical narrative, comparing it to the Beatles' "Yellow Submarine" - to which Bono responded with an unprintable two-word rejoinder and a dismissive comment about "Octopus's Garden."