The Vast of Night

Wow. One of the best indie films I’ve ever seen. An incredibly convincing 1950s small-town switchboard operator and radio host spend most of this film just talking, to themsleves or others, after a strange signal interrupts the radio broadcast. Also, for film geeks, this happens to contain an incredible 1/2-mile long single tracking shot, moving across town, through a high school basketball game in progress, and out to the radio station, in one uninterrupted take. Orson Welles would be proud. Plus a wonderful minimalist soundtrack. Loved it.

Truthfully, might not be for everybody, I don’t know how many people share my love of seriously well-done pictures but which are mostly just dialogue and little action, and I hesitated for a second to put it on my “Favorite” list only because of that. But, boy did I love it.