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Happy Halloween! Charlene and Jackie are not just bewitched but also bothered and bewildered (positive) after seeing YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, the movie on everyone’s minds (if you live in Brooklyn, New York).

What is real? What is fake? Who is guilty? Who is innocent? Why is Cinema 123 closing??? What could be more spooky? We get to the bottom of these questions and more on this month's episode.

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

2:25 RIP to the Cinema 123

3:38 RIP to the Kips Bay AMC as well

8:40 Nathan Fielders incredible nonsense rap video from 2008

13:32 The three main Liz Holmes texts Jackie was obsessed with: Bad Blood, The Dropout Podcast, and The Inventor

18:27 Amy Schumer said, “we like to build up women, and then tear them down”

23:51 Tressie McMillan Cottom: Charlene’s favorite public intellectual

26:10 The TikTok Charlene mentions about Billy being the evil gay behind a powerful woman

37:26 Lance Oppenheim on exploding the documentary form

39:30 Nathan Fielder, Dennis Lim, and Lance Oppenheim in conversation at the NY Premiere of YCSE at the NYFF.

42:30Nitehawk Cinemas ‘Adults with Infants’ series,so new parents aren’t left out of the cultural convo.

43:40 Amy Chozicks reaction to YCSE, including her commentary on the deletion of the family nanny.

49:52 On Amanda Seyfried's coffee table: Dog Painting 1840-1940: A Social History of the Dog in Art

50:33 Dakota Johnsons Iconic Architectural Digest tour

53:00 Good Old Neon: the short story where David Foster Wallace describes work as a “ballet of fraudulence”

55:00 Jackie is confidently incorrect here, Amanda Seyfried was nominated for Mank but did not win

1:00:27 ‘Drop It’ - Beyone’s iconic Homecoming cut

1:06:32 The two organizations Charlene convinced Netflix to donate money to after filming in a decommissioned prison were: Rehabilitation Through the Artsand Hour Children

1:10:10She Made Me Do It: A prominent dressage trainer shot a belligerent student—and now maintains that he’s the real victim.

1:14:15 Bad Art Friend: the last time Charlene enjoyed ‘the discourse’

1:16:59 Nathan fully in character on Jimmy Kimmel

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If you love golf, this episode is for you. If you hate golf, this episode is for you.

Charlene and Jackie close out summer by unpacking Filipiñana, a film so powerful it won the Special Jury Prize for Creative Vision at Sundance, spurred deep discussions about post-colonialism and indirect violence in the global south. As well as successfully tranquilized multiple members of a Friday night Film Forum audience.

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

2:18 The Filipinana Short that the feature was based on was Rafael Manuel’s thesis film at London Film School

3:05 “It’s just such an important part of why I wanted to make this film: to make the violence of the Global South relatable to Western audiences as well.”

7:00 There are truly so many special jury prizes at Sundance (over 15)

10:08 The book Charlene is referencing is Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the director Jackie is referencing is Apichatpong Weerasethakul

16:43 Both the costume design and the production design of Filipiñana were done by Carla Villenueva

21:35 ‘This Timelessnes of Colonialism’ And Interview with Rafael Manuel on Filipinana

27:14 The sound design in this scene of The Shining goes crazy!!!

34:29 You can buy the ‘Chairs I Have Loved’ Zine at the Old News Newsstand in Manhattan!

35:50 Time to Say Goodbye podcast discussion on why Filipinos are great at karaoke

36:00 Karen Tongson AKA Tongsonator

42:14 An incredible reflection on the cakes of Marie Antoinette

44:06 There are over 130 languages spoken in the Philippines!

47:28 The 1988 Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program

56:07 A guide to the Icy, Confrontational cinema of Michael Haneke

58:50 Sign of the Times is both a Prince song and a Harry Styles song

59:31 A little movie called Duetsand the many instances of characters expressing themselves and or bonding through Karaoke

1:04:08 “I just want you to know that some people have war in their countries”

1:05:08 The documentary about the harlem renaissance is: Once Upon a Time in Harlem

1:11:35 Sissy Spacek and Jack Fisks marriage is one for the books

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It’s an end of summer double header! Charlene and Jackie go in on not one but two festival films, Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma and Late Fame.

There are laughs, mind blowing metaphor explanations, an on screen kiss that gave us the ick, and a truly unforeseeable digression (into the race war season of Survivor). Let’s go!

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

1:55 The Sparrow & The Chimney: A film we didn’t understand and don’t care to

5:00 The Film Comment Podcast With Jane Schoenbrun

10:00 There are in fact 12 Friday the 13th Movies, including the ones where Jason goes to Space and to Manhattan

13:12 Charlene’s Zine!!!

18:30 The week it came out Camp Miasma averaged more money per screen than The Odyssey and Spiderman!!

23:12 We also touch on Jolly Rancher Gummies in our History of Sound episode

24:06 BonBon Swedish Candy Store!

29:35 “...A William Shatner Mask…”

32:25 Richard Brody’s New Yorker review where he says movies about films are inherently personal to the director

38:00 I Saw The Matrix Glow: Similarities between The Matrix & I Saw The TV Glow

48:37 Vulture’s The 100 Most Powerful Directors in Hollywood

51:06 A Brilliant 1895 Novel On the Emptiness of Literary Fame: Arthur Schnitzler’s Late Fame

56:30 The Hipster Grifter (who then inspired the character of Homeless Heidi on High Maintenance), just in case you forgot

1:03:08 The trailer for WICKER

1:04:52 Survivor Cook Islands: “It’s the one about the race wars”

1:09:18 The NY Times Article Inside the Nantucket Home of Elin Hilderbrand

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Join Charlene and Jackie for a mid summer cry over troubled teens - but also a fun discussion of memory, healing, and IFC Center Popcorn as they cover Sophy Romvari’s festival favorite Blue Heron.

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

1:28 The tiny theater at the IFC center holds 32 seats.

8:54 “Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)

13:20 Sophy Romvari discusses Still Processing, screens, film, and memory

17:04 Zia Angers ‘My First Film’ (2024)

19:30 Charlene and Jackie are both wrong, the children's movie they are discussing is actually called Turning Red

23:40 ‘Everyone knows what love bombing means now’ - The Rise of Therapy Speak

33:30 Conduit To The Past: Sophy Romvari discusses the technical decisions of how to depict memory in Blue Heron

42:30 “Credits play out over snapshots of a teenager’s hand-drawn maps that reference such locations as “Fantasyville.” Outside of “Blue Heron,” these are maps that one of Romvari’s own brothers created in his youth.

45:03 London Falling and the New Yorker Article it is based on

46:02 The book Jackie is talking about is Columbine by Dave Cullen

47:00 “Nancy Jo, this is Alexis Neiers calling”

49:00 The many folklore / Odyssey references in O Brother, Where Art Thou?

55:45 The Unglamorous Financial Realities of 5 Indie Filmmakers

58:15 Severance creator was inspired by The Backrooms, but the similarities don’t stop there

1:01:25 The art director from Obsession’s viral post where she discusses being paid $300/day

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We love I Love Boosters! Charlene and Jackie celebrate all things Boots and Boosters, including but not limited to: jaunty accordion music by a woman from Connecticut, silly jokes, hardcore leftist politics, fun outfits, dunking on Demi Moore, soul sucking demons, and more!

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

2:03 There are in fact no lizard people in Sorry to Bother You, just horse people.

5:30 Demi Moore made news when she got paid $12.5 Million for Striptease in 1996.

6:51 Y’all Davos: With Many Changes, Did SXSW 2026 Flourish or Flop?

9:02 Boots Riley on Cannes: “They Just Don’t Like My Stuff”

11:00 Boots Riley is in the replies

12:46 Emily Nussbaum’s New Yorker profile of Boots Riley

14:27 HI HEY HO - The Tune Yards Theme for I Love Boosters

16:48 I Love Boosters Reviewed in The New Yorker, which opens comparing the film to DWP2.

25:09 Fustilarian: An obsolete victorian insult meaning ‘a low fellow, a stinkard, a scoundrel’

27:00 Boots Riley discussing the relationship between his film and Dialectical Materialism

33:28 The building that inspired Demi Moore’s tilted floor is inspired by the Millennium Tower which is not in Oakland but nearby San Francisco

38:55 How Costume Designer Shirley Kurata built a surreal fashion playground for I Love Boosters

42:30 “Arts and Crafts designers sought to improve standards of decorative design, believed to have been debased by mechanization, and to create environments in which beautiful and fine workmanship governed”

49:30 Marc Jacobs' incendiary Grunge Collection

51:30 “Kurata made a point to work with up-and-coming brands, BIPOC designers like Sergio Hudson, Anna Sui, and Leeann Huang, as well as SCAD fashion students for the movie’s finale runway show”

58:22 Verity looks fucking nuts

59:35 Am I Ok? And Not Okay: The same movie?

1:02:12 Shooting a monster while riding a horse through the woods: Hope (2026)

1:06:43 Just in case you too want to brush up on Dialectical Materialism

1:11:40🎼 Shoplifters of the world 🎼 Unite and take over 🎼

1:12:01 Is Shoplifting Ethical? Hassan Piker & Jia Tolentino weigh in

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Two Women? In Gold? In this economy???

Jackie and Charlene are back to discuss Joint Venture’s newest release, the Sundance 2025 film Two Women, directed by Chloe Robichaud. They dive into the snowy landscape of Quebec to discuss sexy movies and feminist reimaginings of iconic films, and the films they’ve enjoyed this spring.

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TIME STAMPED SHOW NOTES:

1:00 Joint Venture

1:26 Two Women In Gold (1970)

2:00 The Sex Comedy: A dead genre

10:10 The song sung in the bar is ‘Provocante’ by Marjo

19:00 Women begin having their own bank accounts in Canada in 1964.

19:50 Audre Lorde: The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Masters House :)

20:37 The Feminine Mystique was published in 1963

21:40 The Female Gaze in Two Women

23:15 Fujoshi in the E. Alex Jung Article

28:13 Janet Planet: middle aged coming of age film

30:45 Director Chloe Robichaud on why she wanted to remake Two Women

38:14 HIRE MORE WOMEN GUARDS

40:12 Original Two Women In Gold one of the most commercially successful films in Quebec's cinematic history

47:09 Croissant making scene in It’s Complicated

51:22 Kristen Stewart on making The Chronology of Water

53:16 1980s remakes of French New Wave Films, streaming now

54:04 Jonathan Glazer directed this!

56:18 The soundtrack of Marc by Sofia rocks

1:01 DVD store scene from This Means War

1:06:46 Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma: In Theaters August 2026!

1:08:57 The film that won the Golden Bear that Charlene is describing is Yellow Letters.

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Take a jet to Brazil with Charlene and Jackie as they go undercover to talk about The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonca Filho’s Cannes crushing, Oscar nominations reaping, 1970’s vibe emitting neo noir.

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TIME STAMPED NOTES:

1:22 The Secret Agent won both the Best Director and Best Actor at Cannes 2025

3:00 The iconic Udo Kier

7:00 The SDSA, of which Charlene is a member

10:00Kokuho: massive Japanese box office returns

14:42 Pausing on images of dictators: How The Secret Agent Appeals to the Brazilian Collective Memory

15:35 The Year in Movies About Resistance by Alison Willmore

24:15 Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura On Brazil’s Urban Legend Of The Hairy Leg

30:21 The official diagnosis for the Two Faced Cat is ‘diprosopus’

33:04 What is a normal amount of dead people for Carnival?

35:00 The cinema turned blood bank was something Filho pulled from real life.

45:00 Wagner Moura on interrogating history

50:00 It Was Just An Accident winner of 2025 Cannes Palme D’Or

58:50 2026 the first year with an Oscar for Casting

59:00 The 78th Oscars where Brokeback Mountain famously lost to CRASH

59:30 Marty Supreme use of non-actors

1:01:45 The english song in question is ‘If You Leave Me Now’ by Chicago

1:02:00 Two Women and By Design - two movies we’d like to see

1:06:10 One of the many ‘Jaws on the Water’ screenings

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Charlene and Jackie kick off 2026 with No Other Choice, perennial festival darling Park Chan-wook’s latest meditation on capitalism, violence, paper, and snakes.

Listen in for crazy theater mice stories, best movies about getting fired, what it means to be on an actor’s ‘team’, and more!

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

5:55 Incredible Stoker hair to grass transition

7:05 The Alamo transitioning into QR Code ordering

12:00 The Landfill History of The Battery

17:00 “No Other Choice” and Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” comparisons

21:00 Alison Stewart interviews Park Chan-wook

23:23 Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism

25:53 How to Make a Killing

26:17 Best Offer Wins

27:10 Jenny Odell on what No Other Choice reveals about the humiliation of work

38:49 China’s Dark Factories: So Automated, They Don’t Need Lights

39:15 The house and greenhouse in No Other Choice

42:22 Ryan Coogler on why the vampires in Sinners are Irish

44:18 The Ax by Donald Westlake: written in 1997!

49:18 EFT Tapping Affirmations

52:48 No Other Choice: Snakes, Shoes, Wood details

55:30 Elizabethtown’s Opening Scene

1:03:38 They Will Kill You trailer

1:05:35 Ronald Bronstein’s ‘Cinema of Anxiety’

1:09:07 The Soundtrack of Aftersun

1:10:54 Vine of girl dancing with a live chicken to Two of Hearts’

1:14:05 The Tilda Swinton genie movie: Three Thousand Years of Longing

1:16:45 The cardboard chaise for Wuthering Heightspromos

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It’s a very festive holiday episode of Tickets Secured!

To celebrate this time of year we've got:

• Games! (FMK - 2025 movie edition)
• Holiday movie watching recommendations (best movies to watch during holiday plane travel and best new releases to take your teenage cousins to, to name a few)
• Lots of fun reflections on Charlene & Jackie's inaugural year of cinema podcasting.

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TIME STAMPED NOTES:

14:40 “Art by committee is a really bad idea” - Kelly Reichardt on why no one is allowed in the edit room with her

19:51 “Baby, baby, baby, baby baby” - Reese Witherspoon goes OFF in Walk The Line

21:55 The scene from The Shining (in Spanish!) that Jackie mentions seeing on Telemundo as a child

27:56 Vogue: Greta Lee Makes 6 Movie Inspired Cocktails

39:50 Christmas Will Break Your Heart (which is actually by LCD Soundsystem)

41:18 The Connecticut Movie Hall of Fame

45:43 George Blanchine’s The Nutcracker featuring Macaulay Culkin, which was released theatrically!

47:01 The Making of Eyes Wide Shut - Lisa Leone discusses taking hundreds of photos and conducting research for Kubricks Ext NYC Set

49:52 The Plaza’s Home Alone Special Offer, which includes limo ride, cheese pizza, and a ‘decadent sundae’

1:00:13 Aunt Cinema and Bad Dad Cinema if you have additions, email us!

1:01:33 Crabs with Top Hats: One of Emerald Fennell’s many crimes

Thank you everyone for listening and for a first great year together!

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Charlene and Jackie discuss Sentimental Value, the Cannes Grand Prix winning film from Therapized Norwegian King Joachim Trier.

Is it as good as The Worst Person in the World? What does it take to repair inherited generational trauma? And have you seen SKÅM??? All this and more in this week's episode of Tickets Secured.

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

2:06 Richard Brody agrees with Jackie about The Worst Person in The World.

3:10 “Those people dancing on the freeway”

6:54 Paul Mescal’s Iconic Rugby Shorts

8:36 Bad Dads - Justin Chang reviews Sentimental Value

8:36 Bad Dads an art exhibition inspired by Wes Anderson's work

10:50 The Trauma Plot strikes again

13:20 Joaquim Trier profile in the New Yorker

17:45 Station Eleven’s Hamlet Scene

19:50 The production of Hamlet that we did not get to see

31:00 “I’m an old guy now” monologue from The Worst Person in the World

34:10 The House in ‘Sentimental Value’

36:10 The SKÅM GOOGLE DRIVE!

38:50 The Taipei Film Housewas former US Ambassador residence

39:03 The “horror film” THELMA

42:35 Documentary about marathon running pediatric neurologist

46:16 Catherine Martin on her creative partnership with Baz

57:40 In The Hall of The Mountain King: Certified Norwegian Banger

1:01:41 Ira Glass expounding on ‘The Gap’

1:04:38 Character transitions in Clouds of Sils Maria

1:15:00 BAM’s remake of We Come to This Place for Magic

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A very special episode in which Charlene & Jackie fully commit to incorporating the themes of impermanence and incompetence in Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, which premiered at Cannes, into their own podcast practice.

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In lieu of proper time stamped notes, please enjoy the sources of some ruminations on The Heist Genre and Kelly Reichardt that we arrived at in our (non recorded) conversation:

• The Quiet Menace of Kelly Reichardt’s Feminist Westerns - touches on KR’s ability to maintain an outsiders point of view and ‘normal persons sense of money’.
• A piece on Showing Up that discusses the common thread of precarity among Reichardt's protagonists and also mentions her iconic early work on America’s Next Top Model
• Josh O’Connor and Kelly Reichardt discuss making The Mastermind
• Australian perspective on Kelly Reichardt’s movies and interview regarding The Mastermind
• Photographers that Kelly Reichardt mentioned inspired her and which informed the gorgeous production design and set decoration: William Eggelston and Steven Shore’s parking lots
• The worst heist movie: The Goldfinch - Strictly for The Birds
• The best heist movie: The Great Muppet Caper - ‘they really toss em around like wet rags in this one’
• The Mastermind included sounds (and images) from the radio, TV, and outside the windows of the historical political context of the time setting even though the main character JB did not engage directly with the social movements unfolding around him.
• This reminded Charlene a lot about the main characters studied personal absorption tuning out the historical political context around them despite a very clever use of sound to intrude in the main character’s story like in The Zone of Interest.
• The art featured in the film is by Arthur Dove, and his work, in turn both jazz influenced and influential to much of the art featured on 60’s jazz album covers, neatly dovetails (pun intended) into the films jazz score
• Kelly Reichardt discusses the pleasure she takes in documenting processes and the small details that are often left out of films

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Autumn has fallen in New York and Charlene and Jackie celebrate by tumbling down the stairs of the Angelika straight into Oliver Hermanus’s Palme D’Or nominated The History of Sound.

A WWI (?), gay, heart wrenching movie starring mischievous scamp Josh O’Connor and former Phantom of the Opera Paul Mescal. Listen in as they discuss period filmmaking on a budget, the possible litigious wrath of Hanya Yanagihara, and what all this had to do with the Stomp Clap Hey music of Barack Obama’s first term.

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Time Stamped Notes:

0:47 Autumn in New York ….rated the #1 creepiest age gap film

3:00 Oliver Hermanus has had multiple films at Cannes

6:22 The jacket scene in Brokeback Mountain

12:52The History Of Sound: a short story by Ben Shattuck

18:22 Fat City: Both a film and a production company with a great logo

20:00 The cover of the collection of stories is the same as the poster is the same as the cover of A Little Life

23:53 Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor Rationed Jolly Ranchers

26:00 Paul Mescal can sing!!!

36:54 Malaga island conflict in movie actually happened in 1912

38:35 "Bury Your Gays" literary trope

43:02 The film began pre production in 2020

44:36 Indiewires Top 100 Movies of the 2020s So Far

48:22 The Tragedy of Stomp Clap Hey

48:45 Every song in The History of Sound sounds like this

49:50 Trader Joe’s newsletter and Victorian art

52:30 Chris Cooper on playing the older version of Paul Mescal

58:22 One of the many tv shows starring Julianne Moore

1:01 Daniel Day-Lewis ends 7-year retirement

1:05:12 The Baby Carriage in the Battleship Potemkin

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Charlene and Jackie see The Sparrow in The Chimney at BAM and there’s a lot to talk about: so many animals, so many kids, so many scenes where we had to cover our eyes.

Plus: Experiences with wild west Q&A Culture, why the English Patient actually rocks, and a harsh referendum on the New Yorker’s fall movie preview.

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TIME STAMPED NOTES:

3:30 We love BAM

3:45 “I saw both George Michael and Maebe…”

4:20 New Directors/New Films

5:00 Ramon Zurcher and His Identical Twin Brother Silvan Zurcher

6:00 There’s Drama By The Pool

10:30 Mark Wahlberg’s red headed sisters in The Fighter

15:56 “It’s a film about destruction and rebirth”

19:43 Like a Nicholas Winding Refn film or Run Lola Run

23:40 Kaput

26:22 The rat in The Departed

34:30 Metaphoric settings in The Glass Menagerie and The House of Yes

38:00 The famous words of Leo Tolstoy

349:34 Amy Adam’s is Night Bitch

44:09 The Duplass brothers talk peacetime vs wartime

47:00 Michelle Williams on child acting

49:00 A Typical Morning as the Horse Assistant Director on The Gilded Age

51:27 Sophie Fiennes and the film she directed in 2002

52:34 Marc Maron and Lynn Shelton on improv in Sword of Trust

56:43 Elaine Hates the English Patient

59:30 Walter Murch won a best Editing Oscar for The English Patient

1:02:28 The New Yorkers Fall Culture Preview

1:05:20 Bruce Springsteen and Phish play Glory Days

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Charlene and Jackie go in and go off on Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor’s Cannes playing, Sundance Award winning debut.

This episode has everything: wild speculation about A24’s business decision making process, Emerald Fennell haterade, thoughtful reflections on the use of time and trauma in storytelling, and of course, strong opinions about the Alamo Drafthouse’s popcorn.

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Time Stamped Notes:

1:07 Sundance: A24 Takes ‘Sorry, Baby’ For $8M

2:22 Obvious Child, a comedy about abortion

3:45 Me and Earl and The Dying Girl: Fox Searchlight bought it for $12 million

5:20 Eva Victor discusses ‘film grad school’ and Barry Jenkins producing

6:30 Jane Schoenbrun on making a film about how something felt, not how it happened

12:04 Temporal discontinuities and nonlinear structure in the work of Toni Morrison – Charlene meant Beloved, not The Bluest Eye.

13:54 End of the End of the Line: Temporality in Infinite Jest Is a Broken Circle

15:38 Tennis Balls, Heads, Annular Defloration Cycles in Infinite Jest

25:00 Promising Young Woman: The College Dean Scene

27:00 Authenticity is Dangerous and Expensive

27:30 John Proctor is the Villain

34:50 Jeopardy! Bar League at BOTH Alamo’s in NYC

37:57 1/3 of New Bedfords Population Claims Portuguese Ancestry

40:01 Mike Leigh discusses his improvisational process

47:48 The Case Against the Trauma Plot by Parul Sehgal

51:06 IT IS THE TITULAR ROLE

53:03 Paradoxes of American Individualism

55:55 “I Don’t Watch Ted Lasso”

1:03:20 Splitsville: Dakota Johnson in a fancy house

1:04:00 Oh, Hi!: A gender flipped Gerald’s Game?

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Charlene and Jackie dive into the JACU (Jane Austen Cinematic Universe) to discuss Laura Piani’s debut feature Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, which premiered at TIFF last fall.

Topics covered include writers writing about writing, the cinematic equivalent of click bait, best book stores in NYC, and what happens when a rom com lacks com.

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1:15 The fine Italian cashmere merchant Loro Piana

1:20 The Jacob Burns Film Center

6:10 The Jane Austen Cinematic Universe

7:40 The Lake Scene, if you need to watch it at this moment

9:45 Shakespeare and Company Shouting Out Jane Austen Wrecked My Life

13:00 The Ginger Man–it’s a real book!

15:50 As You Do A Gavotte

18:20 Prime Example of a Jonesian fall

20:00 Materialists: Kind of a Rom, not really a Com

22:43 “It’s not girl gets boy, girl gets book”–Greta Gerwig on Little Women

30:30 The Personal is Political by Carol Hanisch

37:00 “If I have one wish, is that people go out from the film and they feel a bit happy and they want to read more poetry.”

40:00 The Dish and the Spoon: Greta Gerwig Raging in Pajamas

44:27 “Breadcrumbing”

49:15 Set withgreat wallpaper and matching lampshade and matching bedding and wallpaper

55:16 Two of our favorite NYC book stores: Kitchen Arts and Letters and Unnameable Books

58:53 A history of Book Row, NYC’s historic haven for bibliophiles. The store Jackie references is Alabaster Bookshop.

1:01:28 ‘The Chronology of Water’ Review: Kristen Stewart’s Directorial Debut.

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Charlene and Jackie discuss Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet, a 2025 update of Ang Lee’s celebrated 1993 film starring Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang.

Topics discussed include our favorite book to movie adaptations, how to retell a 1990s gay love story in 2025, Ang Lee being a repressed king, fake movie jobs, and how well placed plants can make a film more believable.

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Time Stamped Notes:

1:30 Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet (1993)

2:30 “I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about” - Ang Lee, maestro of unrequited desire

5:45 Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx, published in the New Yorker in 1997

10:00 James Schamus, co writer of both versions of The Wedding Banquet

12:00 Lily Gladstone in Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women

19:00 Andrew Ahn’s authentic, intimate directing style and redefining the romcom

25:40 The twists and turns of Park Chan-Wook’s The Handmaiden

27:15 Chaebol: a large industrial South Korean conglomerate run and controlled by an individual or family

36:06 Robin Williams teaches Nathan Lane to ‘Act Like a Man’ in The Birdcage

38:33 The obligatory Romantic Comedy Grand Gesture

43:17 Emma Thompson losing it in Sense and Sensibility

50:34 Materialists Trailer featuring Pedro Pascals 12 Million Dollar Apartment

51:25 Do I Look Like I Belong Here? Working Girl and the Secrets of Class Politics

53:17 Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Non Fiction, french people getting in the literary zone

54:05 Romeo and Juliet, or Juliet and Romeo????

54:54 You Can’t Out Baz Baz

58:29 The Historical Realism of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners

1:00:23 Tony McNamara on The Great - ‘‘Historians have to know we’re making mistakes on purpose’

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Charlene and Jackie debrief on Opus, the A24 pop star multi murder thriller/comedy (?) starring Ayo Adebiri and John Malkovich, a movie that shot straight from Sundance 2025 to the common multiplex in a mere two months.

Topics discussed include tracing the trope of cults in 21st century indie film, unhinged behavior at Williamsburg Cinemas, celebrity profiles where the journalist gets lost in the sauce, would Lady Gaga ever commit serial murder?, and how a film can suffer from use of the wrong dining chairs.

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

2:01 Community and Family: The Cult Indoctrination Techniques of ‘Midsommar’

4:53“She will never stop huffing paint” scene from Bottoms

5:38 The Hustlers At Scores: the article Hustlers was based offof

12:00 BFI: 10 Great Films About Cults

12:14 Oneida: The Peculiar Truth About The Sex Cult that Made Silverware

25:00 The Unconvincing Music of Vox Lux

34:00 Chris Evans: American Marvel

38:00 A Brief History of Rihanna’s Party Plane

40:45 Ayo Edebiri in Theater Camp as a counselor that lied on her resume

42:40 Would you expect to find these chairs in a New Mexican cult compound?

47:40 Sick of Myself: When Main Character Syndrome Runs Amok

54:22 Sound of My Voice: A Movie About Cults and Journalists That Is Good

59:50 Lady Gaga at Coachella: She Would Never Act In This Way

1:02:12 The Celebrity Profiles of Taffy Brodesser-Akner

1:02:57 Molly Lambert and her interview with/profile of Charli XCX

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We discuss On Becoming a Guinea Fowlby Rungano Nyoni, a film that premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.

Time Stamped Notes:

1:22 I Am Not A Witch (Rungano Nyoni’s first film, premiered at Cannes 2017)

3:24 AMC Class Action Lawsuit of which Charlene was a benefitee

5:30 Eileen (2023, dir. by William Oldroyd)

5:40 Mean Girls The Musical (2024, dir. by Samantha Jayne & Arturo Perez Jr.)

9:57 Joy Ride (2023, dir. by Adele Lim)

10:06 Brigsby Bear (2017, dir. by Dave McCary)

15:02 Shula dressed as Missy Elliot

19:10 Jason Bateman's expressions of disbelief in Arrested Development

19:53 Sandra Oh and Awkwafina’s dynamic in Quiz Lady

44:05 Zadie Smith: “​​ Can’t go home, can’t leave home: a subject close to my heart”

52:50 The Farewell (2019, dir. by Lulu Wang)

53:00 Minari (2020, dir. by Lee Isaac Chung)

54:35 The Joy Luck Club (1993, dir. by Wayne Wang)

58:48 A Discussion About Black Welsh Film

1:06:20 The Bechdel Test

1:07:24 Glengarry Glen Ross (1992, dir. by James Foley)

1:08:28 She Said and the Canon of #MeToo films

1:13:13 Bob Trevino Likes It

1:13:22 Sister Midnight

1:13:48 All We Imagine as Light (2024, dir. by Payal Kapadia)

1:14:12 Superhero movie where Florence Pugh (?) has a russian accent (??)

1:14:38 We Come to This Place for Magic

1:15:44 La Chimera (2023, directed by Alice Rohrwacher)

1:16:00 The Florida Project (2017, directed by Sean Baker)

1:16:53 Girls Will Be Girls (2024, directed by Shuchi Talati)

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The pod's maiden voyage discussing Universal Languageby Matthew Rankin, Ila Firouzabadi, and Pirouz Nemati.

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Time Stamped Notes:

3:22 - The Twentieth Century

5:13 - High Maintenance

7:00 - The Grand Budapest Hotel

8:00 - Asteroid City, The Royal Tenenbaums and the precocious children and signage of Wes Anderson

10:23 - Brechtian Theater and drawing attention to artifice

13:30 - Agnes Varda, Sean Baker and ‘Film at the Margins’

24:00 - Winnipeg's Iranian Community

26:00 - Taste of Cherry

27:00 - Iranian coming of age films that influenced Universal Language

28:40 - The 180 Degree Rule that Matthew Rankin intentionally breaks

30:43 - The connections of all the characters in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia

31:25 - Macguffin

38:34 - Tim Horton’s Donut Shop

44:53 - Iranian tradition of directors appearing in their own films and blurring the lines between fiction and reality

47:08 - (Some Of) Matthew Rankins Short Films (1) (2)

50:50 - Public Sector Office

52:39 - David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds and Crimes of The Future

53:06 - Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl

1:09:05 Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot(2018) Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (Also 2018)

Matthew Rankin Interviews: Q With Tom Power & Next Best Picture Podcast

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