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This episode we start out fourth miniseries on 2010s awards winners! This time, we begin to cover the Best International Feature Oscar winners and In a Better World (Denmark) from Susanne Bier to start us off. Alex Kittle joins us as we touch on the politics of each country having a film to represent them, the gripping performances and how much the film feels like awards bait in hindsight
Leslye Headland's directorial debut still remains polarizing ten years later. A mix of the trappings found in many early 2010s studio comedies along with an adaptation from Headland's play of the same name, Kevin Tudor, Bryden Doyle and Charlie Nash (Almost Major podcast) brings us the film. Together we discuss Kirsten Dunst in the 2010s, comparisons to The Hangover and Bridesmaids and unconventional 90s music needledrops
We welcome Jim Laczkowski (Director's Club podcast) for 2011's Take Shelter! Together we discuss the ending, Jeff Nichols' thoughtful portrayal of mental illness and dream sequences in film
Cassidy Olsen returns for Joe Wright's overlooked coming-of-age thriller in Hanna. Together we examine Saoirse Ronan's 2010s once more, the score by The Chemical Brothers and that tv adaptation that doesn't exist
Scout Tafoya (author of Cinemaphagy: On the Psychedelic Classical Form of Tobe Hooper) and Tucker Johnson return for Steven Spielberg's quiet historical drama in 2012's Lincoln. Together we'll go over the sprawling ensemble (aside from JGL), Tony Kushner's winning screenplay and overlooked aspects of Spilberg
We're podding with Kambole Campbell (Empire, Little White Lies) through multiple universes as we talk Spiderman: Into The Spiderverse from 2018! Discussion includes this being the best superhero film of the 2010s, if this will be a foundational film for this generation filmmakers and the involvement the Sony leaks had in the production
Valerie Ettenhofer (Slash film, Film School Rejects) joins us for Agnes Varda and JR's ode to art and memory in 2017's Faces Places. We get into the moments that made us cry, the legacy of Varda in the 2010s, and that one time Madonna wanted to remake Cleo From 5 to 7
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