Festivals

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2020 #6

By Nicolas Rapold

January 30, 2020

Fault lines: Ashley Clark joins to discuss Epicentro, Palm Springs, The 40-Year-Old Version, and more

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2020 #5

By Nicolas Rapold

January 29, 2020

Now hear this: Ela Bittencourt and Eric Hynes join to discuss City So Real, Some Kind of Heaven, Tesla, and more

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2020 #4

By Nicolas Rapold

January 28, 2020

Another green world: Sierra Pettengill joins to discuss The Assistant, Spaceship Earth, Kajillionaire, and more

Sundance Dispatch: Never Rarely Sometimes Always

By Devika Girish

January 28, 2020

Looking forward: Eliza Hittman's portrait of fraught teenagehood is the most overtly political of the writer-director’s work

Dispatch: The Borscht Film Festival

By Nick Pinkerton

January 27, 2020

Gazing into the void: after a two-year hiatus, the Miami-based collective returned with Borscht 0, the latest iteration of their shorts-focused film festival

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2020 #3

By Nicolas Rapold

January 27, 2020

Hitting the jackpot: Abby Sun joins to discuss Josephine Decker’s Shirley Jackson biopic, Garrett Bradley’s Time, and more

The Film Comment Podcast: Dee Rees on The Last Thing He Wanted

By Nicolas Rapold

January 26, 2020

International situation: the filmmaker sits down to discuss her thriller, one of the most highly anticipated films at Sundance

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2020 #2

By Nicolas Rapold

January 25, 2020

Go big or go home: Slate's Sam Adams joins to discuss Never Rarely Sometimes Always, Zola, Jumbo, and other festival standouts

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2020 #1

By Nicolas Rapold

January 24, 2020

Star power: our first salvo from the snowy hinterland covers Miss Americana, Crip Camp, Bad Hair, and much more

Interview: Bill and Turner Ross

By Nicolas Rapold

January 23, 2020

Knocked out loaded: the filmmakers behind standout Sundance doc Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets on great bar films and “spiritual itineraries”