Sundance 2024 #5, with Monica Castillo, Robert Daniels, and Vadim Rizov
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It’s January, which means that your intrepid Film Comment crew is once again on the scene in snowy Park City, bringing you dispatches, interviews, and podcasts covering all the highlights of the 2024 edition. For the next week, we’ll be gathering the best critics on the scene to talk about each day’s premieres on the Podcast. On today’s episode, Film Comment Co-Editor Devika Girish is joined by critic and programmer Monica Castillo (The Jacob Burns Film Center) and critics Robert Daniels (RogerEbert.com) and Vadim Rizov (Filmmaker) for a documentary-centric discussion of festival selections including DEVO, Eno, Power, Union, and Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, along with the narrative feature Kneecap. Catch up on all of our Sundance 2024 coverage here: https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/category/festivals/sundance/sundance-2024/
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