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February 10, 2021

Episode 725: Sundance Film Festival 2021 Wrap-Up with Angie Han

In this episode, David is joined by Mashable’s Angie Han to discuss the movies of this year’s Sundance Film Festival. Find Angie’s writings on Sundance and plenty more here!

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February 4, 2021

Sundance 2021: Misha and the Wolves, by David Bax

Right at the beginning of Sam Hobkinson’s Misha and the Wolves, we hear the voice of a radio personality (one of the first people to report on the story the documentary will unpack), say, “Sometimes a story is so astonishing,...

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February 3, 2021

Sundance 2021: Judas and the Black Messiah, by David Bax

After nearly a year of video-on-demand premieres–and coming almost at the end of an entirely virtual film festival–the larger-than-life, widescreen photography (by Sean Bobbitt) and the abundant close-ups in Shaka King’s Judas and the Black Messiah made me long for...

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February 3, 2021

Sundance 2021: Pleasure, by David Bax

It should come as no surprise that any serious-minded film about the pornography industry is also going to be a good Los Angeles movie. Most of the time, when a filmmaker sets out to depict a city, they understandably focus...

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February 3, 2021

Sundance 2021: Prisoners of the Ghostland, by David Bax

To answer the question on the minds of all the irony hounds, who speak in memes and love nothing, yes, Sion Sono’s Prisoners of the Ghostland is that kind of Nicolas Cage movie. With died black hair, he wields an...

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February 3, 2021

Sundance 2021: Land, by David Bax

Early on in Land, it begins to feel like first-time feature film director Robin Wright (she also helmed a hefty number of House of Cards episodes) is leaning a little too hard on indie signifiers, like the au courant 1.66:1...

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February 3, 2021

Sundance 2021: All Light, Everywhere, by David Bax

In his new documentary, All Light, Everywhere, director Theo Anthony (Rat Film) invokes an old adage that, “The eye sees only what it looks for and it looks only for that which it has been taught to expect.” It’s a...

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February 2, 2021

Sundance 2021: A Glitch in the Matrix, by David Bax

It’s a comment both on the singularity of director Rodney Ascher’s vision and on the singularly weird moment in history in which his new film, A Glitch in the Matrix, has emerged to note that it’s unclear how much of...

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February 2, 2021

Sundance 2021: Eight for Silver, by David Bax

Sean Ellis first made his name with an insufferably self-satisfied, cutesy/creepy short film called “Cashback” in 2004. Too put off by that effort, I hadn’t checked back in with his work until the new werewolf flick Eight for Silver. In...

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February 2, 2021

Sundance 2021: El Planeta, by David Bax

Amalia Ulman’s El Planeta is the most Los Angeles-feeling movie that’s not actually set in Los Angeles I’ve ever seen. From the beginning, there’s a running joke about not knowing how to dress for the weather because while it’s not...

Category: sundance 2021

Episode 725: Sundance Film Festival 2021 Wrap-Up with Angie Han

Sundance 2021: Misha and the Wolves, by David Bax

Sundance 2021: Judas and the Black Messiah, by David Bax

Sundance 2021: Pleasure, by David Bax

Sundance 2021: Prisoners of the Ghostland, by David Bax

Sundance 2021: Land, by David Bax

Sundance 2021: All Light, Everywhere, by David Bax

Sundance 2021: A Glitch in the Matrix, by David Bax

Sundance 2021: Eight for Silver, by David Bax

Sundance 2021: El Planeta, by David Bax

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