Episodes
Friday Aug 11, 2023
Friday Aug 11, 2023
We have never been more in the thick of fall festival announcement season! After we discuss the NYFF Main Slate and some TIFF announcements, our Jesse speaks to the Associate Programmer of Wavelengths at TIFF, Jesse Cumming, about the JUST ANNOUNCED TIFF Wavelengths program for this year (34:10). And as if that is not enough, we reconvene to discuss Steven Soderbergh's typically productive year, particularly his two recently released episodic works, Full Circle and Command Z. Which of them reminded Andy of the Laundromat? The answer may surprise you!
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Friday Aug 04, 2023
Drafting a Cool Venice Jury
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Friday Aug 04, 2023
Once again, we have turned to our listeners. This time we have asked you to be the namers of COOL. What is COOL? What does it get us? How would it apply in a film festival jury situation? Really only the last question is addressed in this attempt to think about this year's Venice Jury. Also, more TIFF announcements!
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Friday Jul 28, 2023
The 2023 TIFF & Venice News Bonanza
Friday Jul 28, 2023
Friday Jul 28, 2023
What we have here is a news segment that went so long it ended up being its own episode. TIFF Special Presentations & Galas! The entire Venice line-up!
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Friday Jul 21, 2023
Barbie and Oppenheimer’s Festival Origins with Cassidy Olsen
Friday Jul 21, 2023
Friday Jul 21, 2023
The trendiest film weekend in recent history deserves some context, and Cannes I Kick It is here to provide it. Upon the simultaneous release of Greta Gerwig's BARBIE and Christopher Nolan's OPPENHEIMER, we look back to their earlier festival days, taking a peak at INSOMNIA and MISTRESS AMERICA. Joining us is writer and filmmaker CASSIDY OLSEN! We talk Barbenheimer, Will Dormer, Tweeting on Twitter and so much more! Plus, a look at lack of news out of TIFF and our first Venice points tally!
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Friday Jul 14, 2023
Venice Predictions Draft
Friday Jul 14, 2023
Friday Jul 14, 2023
We are well known for our famous segment "Predictions" here on Cannes I Kick It, so we thought it was well past time to expand that beyond a single prediction per film festival and blow it up into a whole dang draft. That's right, we're drafting the Venice Lineup! We met before (almost) any major fall announcements, and we're going to keep tabs on things with a scoring system! Hear us preview what might or could be at Venice like never before! Also, an extensive news segment featuring all sorts of stuff from Berlin, Sundance, NYFF and more, including our first discussion of the impact of the now official SAG Strike.
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Friday Jul 07, 2023
Showing Up with Fran Hoepfner
Friday Jul 07, 2023
Friday Jul 07, 2023
Following up the first competition title from Cannes 2023 to be released with one of the last competition titles to be released from Cannes 2022, we welcome back FRAN HOEPFNER to discuss Kelly Reichardt's latest, SHOWING UP, now available to rent on VOD. Reichardt reteams with Michelle Williams to paint a portrait of pacific northwest artistic and academic life. We talk birds, Hong Chau, and what it means to live without hot water. Plus, a few more TIFF tidbits, an early Venice announcement, and the Locarno lineup!
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Friday Jun 30, 2023
Asteroid City with Jack Read
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Friday Jun 30, 2023
Our first wide release out of Cannes Competition is here and it's got everyone going out to the theater over and over again. Our good friend JACK READ joins us to unpack the many layers of Wes Andersons's latest ASTEROID CITY! We get into all the ins and outs of the performances, the storytelling devices, and so much more. All this, plus our first news out of TIFF!
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Friday Jun 23, 2023
WGA On Strike and Norma Rae with Emily Kaczmarek
Friday Jun 23, 2023
Friday Jun 23, 2023
The most important out of Hollywood right now is the growing fight on behalf of the makers to get a fair deal so they can keep their lives as working artists and craftspeople. To help us examine this phenomenon through our specialty lens we welcome writer and card-carrying (and currently striking) member of the WGA EMILY KACZMAREK (Monsterland, The Staircase) to talk us through the current moment on the ground and the many wide-ranging implications in the fight for the shape of the industry. And we also took this as a great excuse to look at 1979 Cannes Competition title and Best Actress winner NORMA RAE, starring the great Sally Field. The midbudget movie, the depiction of small town life, the quality of Sally Field's hair, we get into it all together.
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Friday Jun 16, 2023
We Messed Up... (An Episode About the 2014 Film Frank)
Friday Jun 16, 2023
Friday Jun 16, 2023
We are making amends. Last month we released a great episode on Frankie (2019) with guest Chris Feil, which you should listen to if you have not, but a rogue social media post led many of our listeners to believe we would be releasing an episode about Frank (2014). Here, finally is that episode. We talk about the ins and outs of Frank, leaving no stone unturned. We apologize for the inconvenience.
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Friday Jun 09, 2023
Cannes (and Tribeca?) Odds, Ends, Sidebars and Sibyls
Friday Jun 09, 2023
Friday Jun 09, 2023
The biggest announcement of the year so far is here, that's right, we finally know who will be on the Tribeca Jur(ies?)! After thoroughly analyzing how this will impact the year ahead, we wrap up some odds and ends from Cannes Sidebars and then discuss new Palme Winner Justine Triet's previous feature, SIBYL! Starring Virginie Efira, Adèle Exarchopoulos, and Sandra Hüller, we gab about the fun feature examining an unethical therapist, a frustrating artistic process, and a whole lot of messed up relationships.
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