by James Rocchi | Jan 29, 2014 | Awards, Editor's Picks, Festivals, Interviews, Podcast, Staff Picks, What's Hot
William Goss (of Film.com, Empire Magazine’s U.S. iPad Edition and TheDissolve.com) joined The Lunch Podcast this week either late Saturday night or early Sunday morning to talk about the rest of the best of the fest, from Listen Up Philip to Cooties, Love is...
by James Rocchi | Jan 23, 2014 | Festivals, Reviews, What's Hot
Premiering at Sundance 2014, Cooties takes place in the heartland, U.S.A. town of Fort Chicken; the film’s opening montage paraphrases the adage about how you never want to see the sausage made, as a poultry nugget oozing with unclean effluvia comes off the line at...
by James Rocchi | Jan 22, 2014 | Festivals, Reviews, What's Hot
One of the pleasures of Sundance – one of the pleasures of filmgoing – is when you know almost nothing about a film beyond title and cast, and then have to take your chances; it’s even better when that film then takes its own chances with its choices. The One I...
by James Rocchi | Jan 21, 2014 | Festivals, Reviews, What's Hot
It’s often hard – if not impossible – to try and give a nuanced critical response at Sundance; there’s something in the thin air that makes every film either majestic or misshapen, a classic worthy of close inspection for the rest of time or trash to be tossed over...
by James Rocchi | Jan 21, 2014 | Festivals, Interviews, Podcast, What's Hot
A year ago, Shane Carruth was debuting his mind-bending, heartbreaking Upstream Color at Sundance; in this episode of The Lunch, host James Rocchi and Carruth talk about filmmaking, self-doubt, subtlety vs. over-explanation, time-travel, mind-worms and silence …...
