Ep. 655 - A Hero (GUEST: Roxana Hadadi from Vulture)

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🗓️ 1 February 2022

⏱️ 122 minutes

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Summary

David and Devindra, along with Vulture film critic Roxana Hadadi, attend the Sundance Film Festival remotely. For the feature review, the Filmcast and guest watch A Hero, the newest movie by acclaimed Iranian director Asghar Farhadi.

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Weekly Plugs

David - David’s review of the BenQ HT2050A Projector

Devindra - Engadget Podcast on Sundance

Jeff - We Have Concerns

Roxana- Roxana’s Archive81 Review

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)

What we've been watching (~3:00)

Jeff - The Afterparty, The Woman in the House Across the Street from the Girl in the Window

David - Throne of Blood, Sundance: Emergency, Nanny, Cha Cha Real Smooth, Piggy

Devindra - The Afterparty, Sundance: Resurrection, A Love Song, Dual, Neptune Frost, When you Finish Saving the World

Roxana- The Afterparty, The Righteous Gemstones, Sundance: Master, Emily the Criminal, Palm Trees and Power Lines, Something in the Dirt

Feature (~1:15:49)
A Hero
Spoilers (~1:36:40)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Filmcast, a podcast about movies.
0:23.1	I'm David Chen and I need a hero.
0:26.6	I'm holding out for a hero till the morning light.
0:30.7	He's got to be sure and it's got to be soon and he's got a star to film directed by critically
0:37.4	acclaimed Iranian filmmaker Oscar for a hot.
0:40.7	It was 15 second shorter and it was a good joining me today is DaVindra Hardowar.
0:51.1	You know, I was going to say I'm holding out for that Bonnie Tyler needle drop, but I think
0:55.6	Dave just did it.
0:57.4	You got it.
0:58.4	All yeah nailed it nailed it.
1:01.2	Uh, and Jeff Kanada.
1:03.8	What I learned from the movie this week is that gold is a terrible investment, which is
1:09.2	why I'm going all in on crypto this year, baby.
1:14.0	Woo.
1:15.0	Wow.
1:16.0	Uh, joining us also for our conversations today about a variety of topics.
1:21.7	She is a TV critic at Vulture.
1:24.7	Roxana Hadadi welcome back to the film cast.
1:27.0	How are you doing this evening Roxana?
1:28.2	I'm doing good.
1:29.2	I didn't know we were going to talk about like crypto and NFTs and like stuff that hurts
1:32.5	my brain.
	...

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