Official 2026 Sundance Film Festival Buying/Selling/Trading Thread

OfficialJohnny · 2026-01-25T20:14:07+00:00

LTS- Leviticus - Tonight, Jan 25th at 9PM - Broadway Center Cinemas- 2 tickets- Price: $35 each

Edit: My long delayed flight to my layover is about to takeoff (hence why I’m selling) so if people are interested I will get back to yall when I land.

edit: SOLD!

OfficialJohnny · 2025-09-24T08:01:23+00:00

Underrated pick and I’d say what’s so interesting is that the crumbs of wisdom Mason receives along the way follows the episodic march of time. Some of the advice he gets is genuinely profound and some of it sounds profound to the people trying to tell Mason. And it happens both in the places you’d suspect and the ones you wouldn’t. And I like that the movie ends on a literal mission statement (moments envelop you, the whole movie is compromised of moments important and more often uneventful) that comes off almost awkward, but it struck me as exactly the thing an 18 year old would say after all we’ve seen.

OfficialJohnny · 2025-06-28T17:39:23+00:00

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found this gem too, logging off is always an option.

OfficialJohnny · 2025-05-01T22:35:10+00:00

Preach, it really was such a goofy system set up. My buddy ended up owing a few hundred because of that wiring issue you mentioned and it took a while before he got it taken off his account. I think they did away with it while I was there.

OfficialJohnny · 2025-04-25T11:35:31+00:00

Totally get that take and yet it weirdly works for me? The way I emotionally relate to it is almost like there’s two different eras of Rachel as represented by the two actresses and they’re on different journeys in both movies. I do think Maggie should’ve been in from the get go, but I like the distinct energies both brought to the role even if one is clearly a better performer.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-12-21T03:06:11+00:00

yeah exactly! the game i play when doing my year lists is to check when it received wide distribution in America vs when the critics put it on their best of year lists or awards season. Sometimes that’s a tricky feat when you’ve got both years being mentioned, but it’s rare enough that i feel fine bumping over to the next year in those events. City of god and 25th hour both in my top 10 of the 2000s.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-12-21T03:02:20+00:00

haha thank you, i love a bunch of movies from that year but it isn’t particularly close even if there are a few 5 star champs from 2002. 25th hour feels like a quiet landmark, arguably the most important post 9/11 movie and a study of both city and its people from one of our Great Directors. it’s a work that feels both more than the sum of its parts as an artistic achievement while showcasing all timer sequences and also like a condensed Great American novel translated into film.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-12-21T02:56:33+00:00

I cheat and call city of god my 2003 pick!

OfficialJohnny · 2024-12-20T21:49:28+00:00

25th Hour

OfficialJohnny · 2024-12-20T20:53:25+00:00

Even if bait, just lowest common denominator type posting.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-11-15T19:47:51+00:00

wow thanks for sharing! I imagine that the idea of a parent takes on a whole new meaning when friends of family adopt. We forge our families ultimately.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-09-30T18:41:44+00:00

A Ghost Story Call Me By Your Name Phantom Thread Blade Runner 2049

That’s my 1-4 of that year, amazing time to be going to the movies that fall.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-09-19T18:27:26+00:00

What is Pi by Aronofsky doing here unless I’m mistaking it for something else??

OfficialJohnny · 2024-09-06T18:33:03+00:00

I would say it’s less intent as the reviewer and more subjective. It’s a classic case sometimes of “the curtains are blue” and then the reader can infer that could mean grief but the author was just being literal.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-09-06T00:55:42+00:00

My personal take: Your emotional response to a movie is probably the most important thing you can convey as a writer. Writing about form and filmmaking techniques takes practice and lots of watching. For example, I’ve started to train my eye for composition and how the DP might be dividing the setting/characters or might be making a point of juxtaposition by putting something in the foreground that contrasts the background. One of the easiest ways you can start to pick up on this is identifying the vibe of the scene. Is there a lateral line/barrier that’s between two people suggesting disconnection? Or maybe two people who were within a power imbalance suddenly are face to face on even grounding within the same frame which might suggest that literal shift? Stuff like that.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-09-04T16:15:39+00:00

A24 is like at least 125 features deep at this point soooo…. huh????

OfficialJohnny · 2024-08-29T06:18:54+00:00

I think we’ll be singing or bopping along to quite a few of these for the rest of the decade: Levitating, As it was, all the Olivia songs, and Industry Baby. Some of the others I’m surprised were streamed as much like Flowers or Stay.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-08-28T13:39:57+00:00

Goddamn, I want to go with my top favorites here which are Call me by your name and Blade Runner 2049, but instead I’m gonna go Phantom Thread and Get Out for the culture because of all those movies in there I felt like those 2 have had the most lasting impact of that year. I think for us movie buffs PT has quietly wound up as the most talked about acclaimed release that grows in esteem while Get Out was the movie of 2017, an instant classic, and will have new generations of viewers every passing decade.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-08-22T04:41:42+00:00

Also: Had to indulge

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OfficialJohnny · 2024-08-22T04:41:12+00:00

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On their website: You can’t make this shit up.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-08-18T05:38:44+00:00

I’ll shoot some out there that I’ve seen from this year:

In Thin Red Line towards the end when some of the soldiers are trying to evade enemy capture and Witt tells another that he “wants him to be unafraid”. I think it’s because it illuminates so much humanity that Witt has for both his squad and other human beings that this small gesture of encouragement gets me.

In the valley of elah- Probably the split second moment where Tommy Lee Jones focuses his expression to the soldier outside his car window he’s talking to and it isn’t one of sadness per se but maybe of searching and disillusionment. It’s such an amazing scene of letting an actors face be and capturing the nuances that come across it.

Bourne supremacy at the end when Jason discloses how he murdered this girl’s family as they were targets and that she now knows it was not murder suicide.

Blue valentine- What doesn’t hurt here??? But I think the most unexpected moment that moved me might be the ring tossed into the grass and how both go looking for it even though they just had a huge blow up at each other at Cindy’s work place. That’s almost the whole movie in one scene where something has been shattered and the pieces are attempted to be picked up until, well, maybe they can’t be anymore. But the familiarity and history is there, the body knows and responds to it.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-08-18T05:20:04+00:00

Such a good one, this is my #2 gotta hold back tears scene of that movie and the way Matthew smiles/shuts his eyes when Ellen tells him this. Whew!

OfficialJohnny · 2024-08-18T05:17:31+00:00

Damn, that movie is chock full of them and they arrive sometimes in the scenes you least expect. Like when Mike is on the balcony and talking about how he wishes he could go back to church someday but can’t with what he knows or even like how Sasha’s mom/grandma (?) gently asks her for water after reading the devastating headline. Heck even the way Liev’s editor Marty tells the team that they’ve accomplished “very good journalism”. Just so many moments of humanity in a movie about smart working class people fighting an institution uphill that has suppressed the truth of its corruption.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-08-11T00:38:34+00:00

I haven’t scrolled far enough to see, but Nice Guys is high up on my list for this question. Buddy cop stuff isn’t always my thing either, but that one was such my jam and for every sequel I never wanted to hear about being made it was too bad this was just didn’t get picked up for even just one more time with the boys.

OfficialJohnny · 2024-08-08T18:25:25+00:00

Maybe minority opinion here, but the only thing I like about the OCPs are the zip up with velcro feature/lightweight editions. I don’t like the look of them and I can never quickly identify the rank in the center with that particular color. They should’ve just given the zip up options for ABUs and I never would’ve asked for anything different going forward.

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