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Bonus Episode 23: Sundance 2022: Fiction films

We discuss the ups and downs of Sundance 2022, and chat about some of the festival’s fiction films, including Sharp Stick and Living.

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Stills from four films at Sundance 2022. Clockwise from top left: Kristine Froseth and Jon Bernthal in Sharp Stick, Bill Nighy in Living; Linnea Leino and Eleonoora Kauhanen in Girl Picture, Dakota Johnson and Cooper Raif in Cha Cha Real Smooth
Clockwise from top left: Kristine Froseth and Jon Bernthal in Sharp Stick, Bill Nighy in Living; Linnea Leino and Eleonoora Kauhanen in Girl Picture, Dakota Johnson and Cooper Raif in Cha Cha Real Smooth

This episode features Editor-in-Chief Alex Heeney and Executive Editor Orla Smith

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On this episode:

  • How was Sundance 2022? (1:13)
  • Klondike (Maryna Er Gorbach) (9:25)
  • Girl Picture (Alli Haapasalo) (10:34)
  • The Sundance Bingo Card and the narrow view of Sundance programming (11:40)
  • Sundance needs more Indigenous films (17:18)
  • Why directors may not want to premiere at Sundance (20:40)
  • Sharp Stick (Lena Dunham) (24:18)
  • Living (Oliver Hermanus) (40:00)
  • Fresh (Mimi Cave) (48:10)
  • Cha Cha Real Smooth (Cooper Raif) (49:31)
  • Am I OK? (Tig Notaro and Stephanie Allynne) (55:17)
  • Good Luck to You, Leo Grande (Sophie Hyde) 57:14)
  • Call Jane (Phyllis Nagy) (58:00)
  • A Love Song (Max Walker-Silverman) (59:32)
  • When You Finish Saving the World (Jesse Eisenberg) (59:53)
  • Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul. (Adamma & Adanne Ebo) (1:03:29)
  • Nanny (Nikyatu Jusu) (1:04:21)
  • Conclusion (1:05:56)

Notes

  • Read our selections of the 10 best films of Sundance 2022
  • Read the source of the “blocking is everything” quote: Alex’s 2018 interview with Andrew Haigh
  • See Alex’s Sundance Bingo Card
  • Read Orla’s review of Fresh
  • Read an excerpt of Lindsay Pugh’s interview with The Worst Person in the World star Renate Reinsve
  • Sign up to be the first to pre-order Existential detours: Joachim Trier’s cinema of indecisions and revisions, the first book to ever be published on Joachim Trier, and receive the full interview with Reinsve

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