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Festivals

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”

The Film Comment Podcast: Sundance 2020 Preview

By Nicolas Rapold
January 22, 2020
Keeping watch: Amy Taubin and Devika Girish join for an early look at this year’s offerings