What follows is a remarkably funny little film, in which we watch these characters grow and change as they’re trapped together in these circumstances, the horror and resulting nihilism of their predicament becoming more bearable - and a lot more fun - now that they’re stuck with another person. She wakes up in her bed on the day of her sister’s wedding and freaks out: Nyles was caught in a bizarre time loop, and now she’s trapped it in too. Nyles walks towards the light and yells at Sarah to stay away, but being both curious and concerned, Sarah steps towards it. Simmons), who shoots Nyles with a few arrows before wandering into a weird, glowing cave. They leave the party to go have sex out in the desert, but they’re interrupted by a hunter (J.K. He makes his way to her, seemingly knowing every move of every person in the room, and the two hit it off. But that night, she meets Nyles (Andy Samberg), a perpetually drunk slacker who, clad in Hawaiian shirt and swim trunks, mangers to deliver one of the best wedding speeches the assembled crowd has ever heard. She drinks too much, she fucks around, and she most definitely doesn’t want to be there. ![]() ![]() Sarah (Cristin Miloti) is the black sheep of her nearly perfect little family, which has gathered at a resort in order to celebrate her younger sister’s impending marriage. It’s one of the smartest romcoms to emerge from the indie scene in the past couple of years, though who knows if it’ll be a hit when it comes out, given how big Sundance bets rarely seem to pay off financially these days. Produced by The Lonely Island (their production company logo, which riffs on the stark and blue Sony Pictures Classics logo, earned a huge laugh at my screening) and starring the triumvirate’s most public face, Andy Samberg, Palm Springs takes the Groundhog Day formula, which has nearly been done to death in all forms of media over the last twenty years - action cinema, literary fiction, Adam Sandler - and applies it in a lovely new way to a very modern depiction of a growing and blossoming relationship. You know what’s better than a terrible Jeep ad riffing on your nostalgia for Groundhog Day and for an era in which charming and witty films executed original concepts smartly and with lots of feeling? Max Barbakow’s Palm Springs, that’s what, which made headline after headline in Park City last week after it became the largest purchase in festival history, selling to Neon and Hulu for a whole $0.69 more than Nate Parker’s The Birth of a Nation did a few years ago. Patrons and employees will be social-distancing.Editor’s Note: Vanyaland’s Nick Johnston is out in Park City, Utah for the 2020 Sundance Film Festival click here for our continued coverage from the fest and also check out our official Sundance 2020 preview. There will be a drive-in at the Palm Springs Cultural Center this Friday at 7:30 p.m. ![]() You can see the movie "Palm Springs" in Palm Springs! I did a tennis thing for HBO that we replicated Wimbledon, and there's that one hotel there that has the grass courts, so we converted that into a Wimbledon court, I'm really selling how much I like Palm Springs," Samberg told Peter Daut. "I've been to Palm Springs a bunch for vacations, and I shot there before. Samberg has actually been out here quite a few times. "Melvin's is this wonderful old steakhouse mixed with a bar, and there's an older couple that plays live music, and there's a lot of older folks dancing and having a wonderful time," Samberg said. "I'm a Melvyn's guy, Melvin's all day," Samberg said. While Samberg revealed himself to be quite a fan of Melvyn's in downtown Palm Springs.
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