Episode 780: The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)

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Tv & Film, Film Interviews, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 31 December 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Writer, director, and star Joanna Arnow delivers one of the sharpest, most quietly uncomfortable comedies of recent years with The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023), a film that weaponizes awkwardness, deadpan humor, and emotional stasis. Arnow plays Ann, a thirty-three-year-old woman drifting through New York City, desperate for connection but seemingly incapable of advocating for herself. She works a job that barely registers as meaningful, endures social interactions that feel transactional at best, and navigates a BDSM relationship that has quietly slipped from consensual ritual into something emotionally hollow.

Lisa Vandever and Keith Gordon join Mike to unpack Arnow’s deceptively modest narrative and the precision with which it captures a very modern kind of paralysis.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Aaron West. I am the author of the A-24 New Wave.
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0:47.7	Hello, my name is Kevin Tudor, and I'm one of the three hosts of almost major a film podcast dissecting many major indie studios in the films they
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