Ep. 604 - The White Tiger

The Filmcast

Tv & Film, Entertainment News, News

4.7 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

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David, Devindra, and Jeff navigate the difficult task of attending the Sundance Film Festival remotely. For the feature review, the cast switches gear from Little Things to White Tiger, a new drama directed by Ramin Bahrani now available on Netflix.

Read more about White Tiger:

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Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~23:30)

David - The Little Things (Se7en), Glitch in the Matrix

Jeff - Black Bear

Devindra - Flee, Users, On the Count of Three, Prisoners of the Ghostland, In the Earth

Feature (~1:09:42)
White Tiger
Spoilers (~1:25:00)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Slash Filmcast.
0:22.6	I am David Chen and I get uncomfortable when movie protagonists refer to my people as
0:27.8	yellow skinned. Joining me today is DaVindra Hardowar. Come to you live from virtual Sundance.
0:34.3	It's not very cold here. And also Jeff Kanata. I am also a creature that comes by once every generation.
0:43.0	Welcome to the Slash Filmcast ladies and gentlemen. Today on the podcast of course our main
0:47.6	review is going to be the white tiger new film that's out right now on Netflix. But before that we
0:53.0	got some what we've been watching some interesting reflections on the new nature of the Sundance film
0:58.7	festival. And then some weekly plugs for you as well. In the after dark we have nothing really
1:04.9	planned. We got some got some COVID related talks. We got some movie festival related talks.
1:12.1	Really talented. I'm gonna say. You're welcome.
1:15.8	Welcome to and maybe we'll talk about COVID. Yeah. Yeah. That's how I play. That's how I go.
1:22.6	Oh, I'm so happy. You're on Slash Filmcast.
1:26.2	Anyway, you can find more episodes of this podcast of Slash Filmcast.com.
1:29.5	Email us to slash fromcast at gmail.com. You know Jeff, I've started to realize over the course of
1:36.3	the last two years very slowly that our approaches to introducing podcasts are really different.
1:45.6	You know, I listen to DLC quite regularly. Jeff can not elix to amp people up. He's like,
1:50.5	welcome to DLC. You know, and I'm more of a I'm more of a understand.
1:57.0	I kind of make them live and want to make them leave. Yeah. Yeah. No, no, no, no.
2:01.5	Because you're a little wrong. Keep listening. Yeah. Under promise over deliver guy. You know,
2:06.6	it's easy to get them from the start Jeff harder to drive them away and bring them back. You know,
2:11.8	you know, I get it. Yeah. Yeah. This is true. It's a brilliant strategy. Oh,
2:17.0	make them think there's nothing to listen for. Yeah. And then little by little,
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