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Best Movies of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival

/Film Daily

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4.6930 Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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On the January 29, 2020 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta is joined by /Film senior writer Ben Pearson and writer Chris Evangelista to discuss the best films of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Opening Banter: Ben and Chris are back! Our Feature Presentation: The Best of Sundance 2020 Chris: Miss Americana Ben: Bad Hair Chris: Horse Girl Ben: Come Away Chris: Shirley Ben: Sylvie’s Love Chris: Possessor Ben: Palm Springs What were some of the most buzzed about films (that you saw or didn’t see)? Was this year’s sundance any different than usual? Ben’s VR thing Andy Samberg’s ‘Palm Springs’ Breaks Sundance Sales Records — By 69 Cents Other Articles Mentioned: Our Sundance Reviews All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com. You can subscribe to /Film Daily on iTunes, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS). Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at [email protected]. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on iTunes, tell your friends and spread the word! Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Our Sponsors: * Check out Express VPN: expressvpn.com/SLASHFILM Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to slash film daily for Wednesday, January 29th, 2020.

0:06.0

On today's episode we're going to talk about the best films of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.

0:11.0

This is slash film, editor-in-chief Peter Sorretta. And joining me on today's podcast is slash film. Film. Hello folks. So Ben and Chris are back. Chris you survived not just one but two plane flights.

0:27.5

Technically three because I had to stop in Atlanta on the way there so it was three plane flights. Yeah people want to know how were the plane

0:34.9

flights? They were fine. I I think I'm pretty much as good as I'll ever be with flying right now which is

0:42.3

I'm beyond the point where I have a complete meltdown and I just feel nervous all the time instead. So I guess that's progress. I went from being like sobbing at the airport to just being like oh I feel awful but I don't sob so there you go everyone.

0:59.0

I know on the way back you arrived at the airport early because you mistook your flight time for an earlier flight time.

1:09.0

So is it worse being in the airport in like the dread knowing that the flight's coming or it

1:14.6

it depends so I usually like to get to the airport a little early because I head

1:19.9

right to the airport bar and start a drinking.

1:23.0

But the problem with this was we're in Utah,

1:26.0

which is a very morminy area,

1:29.2

and they actually have, you know, the Philadelphia Airport,

1:32.3

you can get there at like 5 a.m. and they'll serve you whatever you want but in Utah they don't start serving

1:37.3

alcohol until 8 a.m. and I actually got there at 7 so they were like sorry we can't serve you because I went to a place

1:44.1

that had a bar and I was like, bummer.

1:46.0

So this was actually the first time I didn't

1:48.0

get liquored up before a flight.

1:49.7

So that is also progress, I guess.

1:52.0

Wow.

1:53.0

I know when I first started going to the Sundance Film Festival in 2004,

1:57.0

the whole bar situation was a lot different.

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