The Best Films of the 2025 Sundance Film Festival

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🗓️ 30 January 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Richard calls in from Park City, Utah, where he's wrapping his time at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, and joins David and Rebecca to break down the best films—and possible Oscar contenders—to premiere in this year's program. Then, the hosts answer some post-Oscar nominations listener questions, from the frontrunner status of Emilia Pérez to the rapid surge of A Complete Unknown.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Affairs podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers.
0:10.5	I'm David Canfield.
0:11.7	I'm Richard Lawson.
0:12.7	And I'm Rebecca Ford.
0:16.3	Today we're going to dig back into our mailbag.
0:18.4	We got a lot of questions ever since the Oscar nominations came out, just sort of trying to assess the state of the race, state of certain contenders,
0:27.5	the existence of Amelia Perez. We will get into all of that. There's a lot of questions about
0:32.1	the existence of Amelia Perez, believe it or not. But first, we do want to start with a dispatch
0:37.4	from Richard, who is still in
0:40.1	Park City for the Sundance Film Festival. Richard, are you hearing echoes of coughs in the
0:45.3	Echoes Theater yet? Oh, yeah. I mean, I think I live here now. It's weird to be a Park City resident.
0:53.2	Yeah, no, I'm leaving tomorrow, so it'll be like a week of Sundance.
0:57.5	And it's been an interesting year.
0:58.8	I mean, in some measure, I've seen some great things, and that's exciting.
1:02.3	But I would say that the mood here has been pretty muted compared to past years.
1:06.8	I suspect that has a lot to do with the LA fires and, you know, some people just not coming or just the mood kind of being a bit more despondent.
1:14.3	There's also, I don't know, something going on with politics I'm not really aware of, but yeah.
1:19.1	So it's been a bit hard to like feel that classic Sundance enthusiasm, except for a few titles I've seen where the audience really felt energized.
1:28.2	Yeah, we'll get into some of those breakouts.
1:30.2	Rebecca and I have also been able to see some films from back here in Los Angeles.
1:35.0	Yeah, they make the critics fly here and see stuff here.
1:38.1	Everyone else can't.
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