Untitled Pizza Movie

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Untitled Pizza Movie
Directed byDavid Shapiro
Written byDavid Shapiro
Produced by
  • Michael Tubbs
  • Brendan Doyle
  • Peter Sillen
  • David Shapiro
CinematographyJonathan Kovel
Edited byDavid Shapiro
Music by
  • Michael Tubbs
  • T. Griffin
Release date
  • January 2019 (2019-01) (Sundance)
CountryUnited States

Untitled Pizza Movie is a 2019 seven-part documentary series written and directed by David Shapiro. It premiered at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, where it received the “Best DocuSeries” award.[1][2] The docuseries had an exclusive online run at Metrograph[3][2] between February 26 and March 14.[1][4][5]

Synopsis[edit]

In Untitled Pizza Movie, Shapiro narrativizes his own past, the life of his late friend Leeds Atkinson, and a once-criminal pizza man named Andrew Belluci, repiecing footage he had shot alongside Atkinson in the 1990s while on a mission to find New York's best pizza.[6][4][3]

Parts[edit]

  • Part One: Ice Cube Trays
  • Part Two: Eat To Win In The Elevator
  • Part Three: Pizza Purgatory
  • Part Four: Zig Zag
  • Part Five: The Natufian Culture Of 9,000 BC
  • Part Six: Clams
  • Part Seven: Mars Bar

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b "untitled-pizza-movie". www.sundance.org. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  2. ^ a b Institute, NYS Writers (2021-03-08). "David Shapiro discussing his "Untitled Pizza Movie"". NYSWritersInstitute. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  3. ^ a b "Untitled Pizza Movie". Metrograph. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  4. ^ a b GrisarFebruary 24, P. J.; of ©HoFu, 2021Courtesy (24 February 2021). "Why a slice of pizza holds the key to '90s New York". The Forward. Retrieved 2021-07-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "'Untitled Pizza Movie' | All Of It". WNYC. Retrieved 2021-07-05.
  6. ^ "A Conversation with David Shapiro (UNTITLED PIZZA MOVIE)". Hammer to Nail. 2021-02-26. Retrieved 2021-07-05.

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