On this edition of the podcast, we report on the Sundance Film Festival that wrapped last weekend, from two different perspectives.
0:00 Intro
1:35 Sundance Film Festival '08
2:09 Sugar (Boden/Fleck)
6:29 The Visitor (McCarthy)
8:05 Momma's Man (Jacobs)
10:15 Ballast (Hammer)
12:21 Mumblecore, Baghead (Duplass/Duplass)
14:28 Documentaries, Man On Wire (Marsh)
18:38 Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired (Zenovich)
21:16 Awards, Frozen River (Hunt)
22:50 King of Ping Pong (Jonsson)
23:47 Documentary Award Winners
24:34 Good Dick (Palka)
25:36 Pretty Bird (Schneider)
27:23 People, Parties, Products
32:22 The New American Realism
34:45 Checking in with Brian Darr
36:45 Sundance Collection: Edward II (Jarman)
37:57 Derek (Julien)
40:43 Ballast, take 2 (Hammer)
42:04 Eat, For This is My Body (Quay)
48:57 Brian's Sundance Recap
50:59 Outro
Coming Up: (yes, still) A year-end speed round, with reviews of I'm Not There, The Savages, My Kid Could Paint That, and quick reviews of nearly a dozen other new films that are in theaters now or will be on DVD soon, plus our 2007 year-in-review, all properly aged like fine but stinky cheese.
Related Links
- Many of the links above go to blog entries that I posted over on Paste Magazine's web site.
- Brian Darr writes about film at his site, Hell on Frisco Bay.
- Here is my review of Azazel Jacobs' little-seen first film Nobody Needs to Know. (Download). Momma's Man, his third film, is a leap forward, but I'm excited to see a filmmaker who showed great promise early in his career now developing into a confident artist.
- And here is an aggregation of Sundance coverage from GreenCine Daily.