Presence is an Unconventional Ghost Story + Interview with Screenwriter David Koepp
/Film Daily
SlashFilm.com
4.6 • 930 Ratings
🗓️ 28 January 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
On the January 28, 2025 episode of /Film Daily, /Film editor Ben Pearson is joined by /Film editor and chief film critic Chris Evangelista to talk about Steven Soderbergh’s Presence, and present an interview with the film’s screenwriter, David Koepp.
In Our Feature Presentation: Presence Review: Steven Soderbergh Takes POV Cinema To New Heights With A Suspenseful, Terrific Ghost Story [Sundance]
- Thoughts on the movie
- David Koepp interview
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| 0:54.4 | everything secure. Hello, everyone. Welcome to Slashfilm Daily. Today is Tuesday, January 28th, |
| 1:00.1 | 2025. On today's episode of the show, we're going to be talking about Steven Soderberg's |
| 1:03.8 | newest movie Presence, and we'll present an interview with the film's screenwriter, David Kep. |
| 1:08.5 | My name is Ben Pearson. I'm an editor at Slashfilm.com, and I'm joined on today's |
| 1:12.1 | episode by Slash Film Editor and Chief Film Critic, Chris Vanjelista. Hello. All right, Chris, so I wanted |
| 1:18.0 | to talk to you about Steven Soderberg's presence, which is in a lot of theaters right now. I think |
| 1:22.0 | it's slowly still expanding. I think it's going to be in wider release this coming Friday. But this is Soderberg's |
| 1:29.2 | ghost story. It turns the typical ghost story on its head in this really interesting way. I'm sure |
| 1:33.3 | people know the premise of this movie is that the whole film is shot from the ghost's perspective. |
| 1:39.6 | So before we even get into what we thought about the movie itself, like the sort of quality of the |
| 1:44.5 | story, do you think that this experiment worked? Did this gimmick, if you want to call it, |
| 1:50.9 | that work for you? Yeah, I think it worked really well. It's interesting. This comes on the heels |
| 1:56.5 | of Nickel Boys, which is sort of doing a similar thing where it's a point of view movie. |
| 2:01.5 | But I thought this was a really fascinating idea where it makes the audience the ghost in a way. |
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