If you listen to this week’s episode of FilmCouch, you’ll hear me tell a sad story about why I no longer have my most beloved cable channels like Turner Classic Movies and IFC, and what happens to a girl when she’s hungover from her birthday party and is forced to lie on the couch all day without her premium channels (hint: it involves both Michael Ian Black and Kathy Bates. Be afraid.) But thankfully, I *do* still have the ability to pay Time Warner extra money for movies, so the next time I’m curled up in a fetal position on a Saturday afternoon, I’ll be able to watch David Zellner’s Goliath, which just debuted on IFC’s VOD-only Festival Direct service. Back at Sundance, Kevin Buist interviewed David and brother Nathan, and Joe Swanberg went shopping with them.
Above: 41 seconds of psychedelic casino nightmare by the Zellner Brothers, masquerading as a promo for the CineVegas Film Festival. The Zellners’ latest feature, Goliath, will be screening at the fest in June. Several other filmmakers have made promos for the fest, including Cam Archer and Kevin Everson; see them all here.
Shopping With Filmmakers: The Zellner Bros.
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In another installment of his series of Sundance interviews, Joe Swanberg goes shopping for, um, “fine art” with David and Nathan Zellner, stars and co-directors of Goliath. The Zellners talk about working together as brothers, navigating the insanity of Sundance, and why they qualify as “total sluts.”
The festival is over, but we’ve still got a back-log of content to deliver. In this installment, I talk to Nathan and David Zellner. At last year’s festival their short about the mysteries of circumcision, Aftermath on Meadowlark Lane, got a lot of people talking. This year they return with Goliath, a feature about divorce, demotion, and a missing cat. For my money it has the best trailer of any film in the festival, check it out along with Chris’ thoughts here.
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