Podcast

Sundance 2026 #4

Sentimental moods: critics Robert Daniels, Will Tavlin, Natalia Winkelman join to discuss Once Upon a Time in Harlem, Closure, Union County, and zi

Aaron Douglas, Jean Blackwell Hutson, Nathan Huggins, Richard Bruce Nugent, Eubie Blake and Irwin C. Miller appear in Once Upon A Time In Harlem by William Greaves and David Greaves, an official selection of the 2026 Sundance Film Festival. Courtesy of Sundance Institute

It’s late January, and the intrepid Film Comment crew is on the ground reporting from an extra special edition of the Sundance Film Festival—the last to take place on the snowy slopes of Park City, Utah, the festival’s home since 1981, before moving to Boulder, Colorado in 2027. For the next week, we’ll be gathering the best critics on the scene to talk about each day’s premieres on the Podcast.

For our fourth Podcast from the fest, critics Robert Daniels, Will Tavlin, and Natalia Winkelman joined Film Comment Editor Devika Girish to discuss William Greaves and David Greaves’s Once Upon a Time in Harlem (2:15), Michał Marczak’s Closure (22:30), Adam Meeks’s Union County (31:03), and Kogonada’s zi (41:35).

Catch up on all of our Sundance 2026 coverage here.

This story is part of the Winter-Spring 2026 issue of Film Comment.

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