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U.S. Dramatic Competition highlights the exciting work of upcoming American filmmakers. It's the section of Sundance that produces most of the movies that end up with record-breaking purchases, and it's the section that can turn an unknown into a new star. It's also maybe the strongest program of the 2021 Sundance Film Festival! TIMECODES... 0:00 Coda 7:06 I Was a Simple Man 11:27 Jockey 15:20 John and the Hole 21:06 Mayday 24:35 On The Count of Three 27:49 Passing 30:04 Superior 32:47 Together Together 36:35 Wild Indian 41:58 Our Sundance Favorites If you like this podcast share it and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! www.theatzshow.com/intercut Facebook - Facebook.com/IntercutPod Instagram - Instagram.com/IntercutPod Twitter - Twitter.com/IntercutPod YouTube - YouTube.com/IntercutPod

Frequently containing some of the most pleasant surprises of the festival, the U.S. Documentary category held to tradition for 2021 with several exciting new docs! There were a slew of high school-set docs, a few profiles of iconic figures, while many others films dealt with technology's progression into our daily lives. Check out our favorites! TIMECODES... 0:00 Ailey 02:09 All Light Everywhere 05:02 At The Ready 08:05 Cusp 13:04 Homeroom 16:13 Rebel Hearts 17:53 Rita Moreno: Just A Girl Who Decided To Go For It 20:54 Summer of Soul (...Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) 24:58 Try Harder! 31:42 Users If you like this podcast share it and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! www.theatzshow.com/intercut Facebook - Facebook.com/IntercutPod Instagram - Instagram.com/IntercutPod Twitter - Twitter.com/IntercutPod YouTube - YouTube.com/IntercutPod

In the World Cinema Dramatic Competition program, Sundance selects a slate of narratives from around the world and this year's lineup had so much to chew over. From movies that feel like they've predicted real world events, to a drama about the adult film industry, to a "reverse Scott Pilgrim," the World Cinema section had some of Sundance 2021's best offerings. TIMECODES... 0:00 The Dog Who Wouldn't Be Quiet 01:55 El Planeta 04:28 Fire in the Mountains 08:16 Hive 11:31 Human Factors 15:05 Luzzu 18:23 One For The Road 24:01 The Pink Cloud 30:00 Pleasure 35:58 Prime Time If you like this podcast share it and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! https://www.theatzshow.com/intercut Facebook - Facebook.com/IntercutPod Instagram - Instagram.com/IntercutPod Twitter - Twitter.com/IntercutPod YouTube - YouTube.com/IntercutPod

The Midnight section holds Sundance's most daring, dark, and occasionally dirty movies. Though 2021 had a limited slate, there were still plenty of scares and a lot of shocks among these 6 movies. Also, Zach and Art run through their favorites in the Shorts Program! TIMECODES... 0:00 Censor 04:07 Coming Home in the Dark 06:55 A Glitch in the Matrix 10:05 Knocking 12:15 Mother Schmuckers 15:36 Violation 19:06 Short Films If you like this podcast share it and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! Facebook - Facebook.com/IntercutPod Instagram - Instagram.com/IntercutPod Twitter - Twitter.com/IntercutPod YouTube - YouTube.com/IntercutPod

Sundance's Next section features the most daring, innovative and experimental movies of the festival. This year's selection didn't all live up to the name of the program to which they were selected. Which movie stood out from the Next pack? TIMECODES... 0:00 Weird Sundance Parallels 01:43 The Blazing World 04:53 Cyptozoo 09:41 First Date 13:25 Ma Belle, My Beauty 16:55 R#J 22:39 Searchers 26:06 Son of Monarchs 30:06 Strawberry Mansion 32:42 We're All Going to the World's Fair If you like this podcast share it and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! Facebook - Facebook.com/IntercutPod Instagram - Instagram.com/IntercutPod Twitter - Twitter.com/IntercutPod YouTube - YouTube.com/IntercutPod

Another Sundance Film Festival is in the books and even though everything went virtual for 2021, this year's Sundance was still a trip! Join Art, Zach, and Amanda the Jedi as we discuss every movie to play at the festival this year - starting with the Premieres & Spotlight sections. TIMECODES... 0:00 Intro 3:24 Virtual Sundance 11:48 Judas and The Black Messiah 19:15 The Night of the Kings 21:30 The World to Come 28:11 Amy Tan: Unintended Memoir 31:21 Bring Your Own Brigade 33:54 Eight for Silver 38:49 How It Ends 42:17 In the Earth 44:46 In the Same Breath 47:17 Land 49:21 Marvelous and the Black Hole 52:36 Mass 01:00:10 My Name is Pauli Murray 01:03:11 Philly D.A. 01:05:27 Prisoners of the Ghostland 01:11:23 The Sparks Brothers 01:15:09 Street Gang: How We Got to Sesame Street If you like this podcast share it and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! Facebook - Facebook.com/IntercutPod Instagram - Instagram.com/IntercutPod Twitter - Twitter.com/IntercutPod YouTube - YouTube.com/IntercutPod

Passing, world premiering in the U.S. Dramatic section at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival, is the directorial debut of actress Rebecca Hall, who also adapted the screenplay based on Nella Larsen's novella. The film follows two African American women who can “pass” as white choose to live on opposite sides of the color line in 1929 New York in an exploration of racial and gender identity, performance, obsession and repression. Stars Tessa Thompson, Ruth Negga, André Holland, Alexander Skarsgård, and Bill Camp. If you like this podcast share it and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! Facebook - Facebook.com/IntercutPod Instagram - Instagram.com/IntercutPod Twitter - Twitter.com/IntercutPod YouTube - YouTube.com/IntercutPod

The buzzy comedic drama On the Count of Three was one of the hottest tickets at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. Jerrod Carmichael makes his directorial debut starring alongside Christopher Abbott who come to a deadly agreement. The movie also stars Tiffany Haddish, JB Smoove and Henry Winkler. If you like this podcast share it and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! Facebook - Facebook.com/IntercutPod Instagram - Instagram.com/IntercutPod Twitter - Twitter.com/IntercutPod YouTube - YouTube.com/IntercutPod

One of the Day One premieres at the Sundance Film Festival, CODA, also made the biggest headlines at this year's fest when Apple swooped in to buy the movie for $25 million. Does the movie work? Did Apple make a smart decision dropping big money on it? Where have YOU seen Marlee Matlin before? All these questions and more answered in our First Impressions review of Coda. Note: We recorded this mini-review prior to Coda sweeping up at the Sundance awards. We'll mention it on a future podcast! If you like this podcast share it and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! Facebook - Facebook.com/IntercutPod Instagram - Instagram.com/IntercutPod Twitter - Twitter.com/IntercutPod YouTube - YouTube.com/IntercutPod

New year, new releases. Pieces of a Woman, Our Friend and Wandavision, plus the Netflix show where Martin Scorsese laughs a lot. Also, we answer questions from the Intercuties and quickly run through the news highlights. TIMECODES... 0:00 INTRO 02:26 WHAT WE’RE WATCHING / Pretend It’s A City 05:24 Pieces of a Woman 13:00 Wandavision 19:22 Our Friend 26:05 INTERVIEW / Furthest film festival 28:21 Home theater setups 31:31 Favorite film history books 34:33 Looming Oscar contenders 36:51 Smaller 2021 movies to look out for 39:20 Will a woman get nominated for Best Director? 40:36 What category would you add to the Oscars? 43:10 Underrated awards category 46:04 Biopic you want to see 50:11 YAY OR NAY NEWS / Moon Knight 52:10 Chris Evans returns to MCU? 53:25 Syndercut to be 4 hour film 55:39 Netflix continues spending spree 58:18 PICKS FOR THE WEEK / Identifying Features 59:05 Breaking Fast 59:24 Our Friend 59:35 The Climb 59:47 Derek DelGaudio’s In & Of Itself 01:01:58 The Human Factor 01:03:31 The Mole Agent The New York Times article on Matthew Teague and 'Our Friend': https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/20/movies/our-friend-matthew-teague.html?referringSource=articleShare If you like this podcast share it and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! Facebook - Facebook.com/IntercutPod Instagram - Instagram.com/IntercutPod Twitter - Twitter.com/IntercutPod YouTube - YouTube.com/IntercutPod

We spent more time than ever in front of our TVs in 2020 but did it translate into a year of great TV? Once again, Amanda the Jedi joins Art and Zach to list their favorite half-seasons, full seasons and miniseries from the past year from Netflix and Hulu to HBO Max and AppleTV+ (sorry, Quibi). TIMECODES... 0:00 INTRO 05:23 Shows We Missed 08:33 Honorable Mentions 12:31 Ted Lasso 14:37 Sex Education 16:31 McMillion$ 18:15 How to With John Wilson 19:50 I Am Not Okay With This 21:38 Cheer 23:40 Search Party 26:06 Betty 29:24 BoJack Horseman 31:36 The Great 33:44 What We Do in the Shadows 36:08 Gangs of London 38:09 The Boys 39:54 The Haunting of Bly Manor 42:30 Dark 44:43 Devs 45:41 How to With John Wilson 47:32 BoJack Horseman 48:29 I May Destroy You 49:56 Curb Your Enthusiasm 52:30 City So Real 56:32 The Boys 58:30 The Last Dance 01:00:24 The Queen's Gambit 01:02:38 The Umbrella Academy 01:06:15 I May Destroy You 01:09:22 The Queen's Gambit If you like this podcast share it and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! Facebook - Facebook.com/IntercutPod Instagram - Instagram.com/IntercutPod Twitter - Twitter.com/IntercutPod YouTube - YouTube.com/IntercutPod

Because a Top 10 never feels like quite enough, we stuck around after our Best of the Year videos to talk about some of the underrated, overlooked and misunderstood movie gems of 2020. NOTE: Zach forgot to turn his mic on for the beginning two minutes, sorry for the drop in audio quality! TIMECODES... 0:00 Intro 0:37 The Climb 02:33 Cane Fire 03:35 Deerskin 05:03 Unpregnant 06:01 White Lie 07:25 The Kid Detective 08:30 Driveways 10:31 The Killing of Two Lovers If you like this podcast share it and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! Facebook - Facebook.com/IntercutPod Instagram - Instagram.com/IntercutPod Twitter - Twitter.com/IntercutPod YouTube - YouTube.com/IntercutPod

2020 was an unusual year for movies, not just in the way they were released but in the types of movies we saw. But just because 2020 was a year without Marvel, James Bond or Dune doesn't mean it wasn't stacked with great films! Art and Zach list their Top 10 Films of the Year, as per tradition, Amanda the Jedi is here to give her picks, too! SKIP TO... 0:00 Welcome to the Best Movies of 2020 06:03 Honorable Mentions 13:08 Top 10 Movies of the Year 13:41 One Night in Miami 16:37 Spree 19:31 Bloody Nose Empty Pockets 22:23 Beasts Clawing at Straws 24:15 The Happiest Season 26:50 Tenet 31:28 Swallow 34:15 The Wolf of Snow Hollow 38:28 The Vast of Night 40:26 First Cow 42:57 Soul 46:19 Borat Subsequent Moviefilm 48:30 Boys State 53:14 Never Rarely Sometimes Always 54:46 Sorry We Missed You 59:03 Black Bear 01:03:52 Bad Education 01:06:13 Shiva Baby 01:10:49 Minari 01:11:18 Promising Young Woman 01:14:45 Small Axe: Red, White & Blue 01:18:31 Kajillionaire 01:22:44 Palm Springs 01:25:44 Bad Education 01:27:39 Sound of Metal 01:31:04 Never Rarely Sometimes Always 01:33:06 Minari 01:37:59 Portrait of a Lady on Fire If you like this podcast share it and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! Facebook - Facebook.com/IntercutPod Instagram - Instagram.com/IntercutPod Twitter - Twitter.com/IntercutPod YouTube - YouTube.com/IntercutPod

The streamers released their big, holiday movies but who won the weekend? Art and Zach catch up on the last big movies of 2020 and talk about their plans for Intercut heading into 2021. Plus, Yay or Nay News and Picks for the Week! SKIP TO... 0:00 Intro 1:43 HOUSEKEEPING / Intercut Updates 05:05 WHAT WE'RE WATCHING / Burrow 06:30 Soul 13:52 Wonder Woman 1984 27:23 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom 33:47 The Midnight Sky 34:17 Greenland 39:15 Cobra Kai Season 3 42:45 The Last Blockbuster 45:50 YAY OR NAY NEWS / 'Minari' is "Foreign" 51:03 Maria Bakalova pushed to Lead by Globes 51:54 'Dune' Producers Sue HBO Max 57:52 WW84 Loses Certified Fresh Rating 01:04:06 PICKS FOR THE WEEK 01:04:31 Marona's Fantastic Tale 01:05:05 The Last Blockbuster 01:05:50 She Dies Tomorrow 01:07:10 Promising Young Woman 01:07:32 Beasts Clawing at Straws 01:08:23 Nina Wu If you like this podcast share it and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! Facebook - Facebook.com/IntercutPod Instagram - Instagram.com/IntercutPod Twitter - Twitter.com/IntercutPod YouTube - YouTube.com/IntercutPod

Sound of Metal (2020, dir. Darius Marder) tells the story of Ruben (Riz Ahmed), a heavy metal drummer who begins experiencing drastic hearing loss. Also starring Olivia Cooke, Paul Raci and Mathieu Amalric. Check out Amanda the Jedi on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheHybridPhoenix If you like this podcast share it and leave us a 5-star review on Apple Podcasts! Facebook - Facebook.com/IntercutPod Instagram - Instagram.com/IntercutPod Twitter - Twitter.com/IntercutPod YouTube - YouTube.com/IntercutPod