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January 31, 2023

Sundance 2023: Earth Mama, by David Bax

Savanah Leaf’s Earth Mama, as you may have gleaned from the title, is a movie about motherhood and womanhood in general. But it’s not only about those things. In fact, the strongest move the film makes is in its depiction...

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January 30, 2023

Sundance 2023: L’immensita, by David Bax

As a genre, the coming of age movie is an oft-used one for a reason. It’s endlessly malleable in that every sort of person can come of any age at any time. Emanuele Crialese‘s L’immensità goes, in many ways, the...

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January 29, 2023

Episode 828: Sundance 2023 Wrap-Up

In the Sundance 2023 wrap-up, David discusses the movies he saw at this year’s Sundance Film Festival. The Sundance 2023 wrap-up includes discussion of Celine Song’s Past Lives and many more! attleship Pretension is a movie discussion podcast started in...

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January 27, 2023

Sundance 2023: Other People’s Children, by David Bax

Not having previously seen any of director Rebecca Zlotowski‘s work (an error I now intend to correct), I had no way of knowing, as Other People’s Children started, what good hands I was in. So when the opening shots included...

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January 26, 2023

Sundance 2023: The Eight Mountains, by David Bax

Despite a hefty (and, make no mistake, well-earned) running time approaching two and a half hours, Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch‘s The Eight Mountains wastes no time establishing the close boyhood friendship (not to be confused with the boyhood...

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January 25, 2023

Sundance 2023: Kim’s Video, by David Bax

On its most superficial level, David Redmon and Ashley Sabin‘s Kim’s Video is a kind of fan movie. In recounting the history and the strange story of the aftermath of the legendary New York City cult video store of the...

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January 24, 2023

Sundance 2023: The Longest Goodbye, by David Bax

There are a lot of different documentaries about space travel. So part of the challenge of making one must be finding a new angle. And director Ido Mizrahy would, at first, seem to have done just that with The Longest...

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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...

Tagged: sundance

Sundance 2023: Earth Mama, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: L’immensita, by David Bax

Episode 828: Sundance 2023 Wrap-Up

Sundance 2023: Other People’s Children, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: The Eight Mountains, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: Kim’s Video, by David Bax

Sundance 2023: The Longest Goodbye, by David Bax

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

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