00:00You come to Sundance and the films can vary, but you're going to find new actors that you haven't seen before, maybe one or two, and then it's a great place to kind of keep up on who's coming up in the industry.
00:14By far the best film I've seen in the competition this year is a film called The Last Black Man in San Francisco by a new director named Joe Talbot.
00:22And I think what's wonderful about it is the film really about San Francisco and how it's changed.
00:28It's one of those unique films that doesn't fit into any category at all.
00:32And it's a very unpredictable film, doesn't follow any kind of formula.
00:35That's the most special film that I've seen so far.
00:38Another film that was very good over the first weekend was Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile, which is a film about the serial killer Ted Bundy back in the 1970s starring Zac Efron, who does a really, really good job in the part.
00:52I think it certainly is the best performance I've seen him give.
00:54The media has convicted Ted before he's had his day in court.
01:00I'm gagged and you're not.
01:01A very good job by Joe Berlinger, who's a documentary filmmaker.
01:05It's a film that's going to be heard from later in the year, I'm sure.
01:07Late Night is a film starring Emma Thompson as a late night talk show host, very popular, who's getting into her late 50s.
01:15And she's maybe considered, you know, maybe it's time to go in the meantime, they've got to have a woman and a minority in those who Mindy Kaling characters brought in to be the first woman on her writing team.
01:27It's pretty conventional, just the way it's written and the way it all plays out.
01:31It's not there's no real big surprises in it, but it's amusing and fun.
01:35Emma Thompson is really good, kind of the first big starring role I've seen her in in a while, so it's great to see her at the top of her game.
01:43And Mindy Kaling wrote it, so for those reasons, it'll be of some interest to the public later in the year.
01:49The four-hour documentary about Michael Jackson, it's an absolutely devastating film and very, very credible, with these now grown-ups who talk about their youths when they were taken in by Michael Jackson into Neverland and were there for a year or so and then taken away and then new boys came in after that.
02:11Everyone who saw it said it was just shocking.
02:13Where's My Roy Cohn, a film about the notorious and very prominent lawyer, was very instrumental in Donald Trump's rise in New York and a number of other nefarious characters that he's been involved with, but none more nefarious than him.
02:26And that's a fascinating documentary that I think a lot of people have taken interest in and rather timely at this moment, too.
02:31There's always things to discover, but just the one film, Last Black Man in San Francisco, really did it for me so far.
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