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Home / Podcasts / Bonus Episode 23: Sundance 2022: Fiction films

Seventh Row Editors / February 9, 2022

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.

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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  • Bonus Episode 16: Watching Lena Dunham’s Girls in 2021
  • Ep. 106: Christine and Kate Plays Christine: Reviving Christine Chubbuck
  • Ep. 78: Sundance 2021, part 1
  • Ep. 79: Sundance 2021, part 2

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