Columbus with Kogonada, Pather Panchali with Dana Stevens at Filmspotting Fest

Filmspotting

Film History, Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 4.3K Ratings

🗓️ 5 September 2025

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Best of the fest.

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0:00.0	Film spotting is presented by Regal Unlimited, the all-you-can-watch movie subscription pass that pays for itself in just two visits.
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0:19.5	What kind of a show are you guys putting on here today?
0:22.4	You're not interested in art?
0:23.5	No.
0:24.0	No, look, we're going to do this thing.
0:25.3	We're going to have a conversation.
0:28.5	From Chicago, this is Film Spotting, celebrating our 20th year.
0:32.3	I'm Adam Kempinar.
0:33.5	You feel this hope and possibility of a time, you know, where people really felt like they could make a difference by the spaces they created.
0:42.9	And I just, I thought, I have to make a film here because there's such a story.
0:47.1	That's director Koganada, who went on to make that film, his first, 2017's Columbus, which is set in Columbus, Indiana, a mecca for modernist architecture.
0:56.6	We screened the film earlier this year as part of Film Spotting Fest, and Koganada was kind enough to join us.
1:02.7	We'll share our post-screening Q&A.
1:04.9	Also from Film Spotting Fest, Slates Dana Stevens on Statujit Ray's Pother Panchali.
1:10.3	That and more.
1:11.5	Ahead on FilmSpotting.
1:21.1	Welcome to FilmSpotting.
1:22.9	Adam Flying Solo this week with Josh's big move.
1:26.6	Back in March of this year, we celebrated 20 years of
1:29.1	film spotting with the first ever film spotting fest, six films over three days at two great
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