TWWTT: Sundance Day 1 & 2

The 2018 Sundance Film Festival just wrapped up, and the Critic and the Referee are back to give you their inside scoop on what went down while in those snowy mountains. This was the Critic and the Referee's 2nd year attending the film festival and it didn't disappoint. 

Enjoy our coverage of day 1 and day 2 of Sundance Film Festival 2018!

Day1

Hearts Beat Loud

Release: January 26, 2018 (Sundance)

A father and daughter form an unlikely songwriting duo in the summer before she leaves for college.

Starring:  Nick Offerman, Kiersey Clemons, Toni Collette, Sasha Lane, Ted Danson, Blythe Danner

Directed by:  Brett Haley

Produced by:  Sam Bisbee, Houston King, Sam Slater

Written by:Brett Haley, Marc Basch

Cinematography by: Eric Lin

Distributed by:Gunpowder & Sky

Runtime: 97 minutes

Blind Spotting

Release: January 18, 2018 (Sundance)

A raucous, rap-filled and often revealing story of male friendship on the rapidly gentrifying streets of Oakland, California.

Starring: Janina Gavankar

Directed by:  Carlos López Estrada

Produced by:  Jess Calder, Keith Calder, Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs

Written by:Rafael Casal, Daveed Diggs

Cinematography by: Robby Baumgartner

Distributed by:Lionsgate

Runtime: 97 minutes

The Catcher Was a Spy

Release: January 19, 2018 (Sundance)

In the midst of World War II, major league catcher Moe Berg (Paul Rudd) is drafted to join a new team: the Office of Security Services (the precursor to the CIA). No ordinary ballplayer, the erudite, Jewish Ivy League graduate speaks nine languages and is a regular guest on a popular TV quiz show. Despite his celebrity, Berg is an enigma - a closeted gay man with a knack for keeping secrets. The novice spy is quickly trained and sent into the field to stop German scientist Werner Heisenberg before he can build an atomic bomb for the Nazis.

Starring: Paul Rudd, Guy Pearce, Jeff Daniels, Paul Giamatti, Sienna Miller

Directed by:  Ben Lewin

Produced by:  Kevin Scott Frakes, Tatiana Kelly, Buddy Patrick, Jim Young

Cinematography by: Andrij Parekh

Runtime: 138 minutes

Day2

Don't Worry, He Won't Get Far on Foot

Release: January 19, 2018 (Sundance) - May 11, 2018 (United States)

After nearly dying in a car accident, the last thing Oregon slacker John Callahan intends to do is give up alcohol. Encouraged by his girlfriend and a charismatic sponsor, Callahan reluctantly enters a treatment program and discovers that he has a knack for drawing. The budding artist soon finds himself with a new lease on life when his edgy and irreverent newspaper cartoons gain a national and devoted following.

Starring: Joaquin Phoenix, Jonah Hill, Rooney Mara, Jack Black, Udo Kier, Carrie Brownstein, Steve Zissis, Mark Webber

Directed by:  Gus Van Sant

Produced by:  Charles-Marie Anthonioz, Mourad Belkeddar, Steve Golin, Nicholas Lhermitte

Cinematography by: Christopher Blauvelt

Distributed by: Amazon Studios

Runtime: 113 minutes

Wild Life

Release: January 20, 2018 (Sundance)

In 1960, a boy watches his parents' marriage fall apart after they move to Montana, and his mother falls in love with another man.

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould, Zoe Margaret Colletti

Directed by:  Paul Dano

Produced by:  Jake Gyllenhaal, Oren Moverman, Riva Marker, Ann Ruark, Alex Saks

Cinematography by: Diego García

Runtime: 144 minutes

Colette

Release: January 20, 2018 (Sundance)

The story of a marriage, Colette shows the lengths one woman must go to escape her husband's control and claim her voice as an artist.

Starring: Keira Knightley, Dominic West

Directed by:  Wash Westmoreland

Produced by:  Elizabeth Karlsen, Pamela Koffler, Michel Litvak, Christine Vachon

Written by: Wash Westmoreland, Richard Glatzer

Runtime: 151 minutes

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