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A Bill Murray/Sundance short you can already watch

By choice, Bill Murray doesn't make that many films a year – he averages about 1.5 films per 12 months. In case you might be wondering what the .5 is … here is a prime example. About a million people before me have already seen the film (I'm not sure where I was all this time) but just recently, Spout's Karina Longworth pointed out a factoid that I had just discussed (read here) once the Sundance's short film selection was announced: is it really worth showcasing a film that has already been downloaded in the 7 figures?  

While we are on the subject of Bill – here is the list of films he'll be appearing in shortly commencing with a role in Warner Bros.' Get Smart
– he plays Agent 13…he is currently filming (as the lead role) the book to film adaptation of City of Ember about a futuristic society that might sound like what we'll make of this planet in 100 years or less and will join Wes Anderson for a different role in The Fantastic Mr. Fox. Directed by Dan Beers' – here is the short film entitled: FCU: FACT CHECKERS UNIT.

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Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).

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