Pete and Trevor saw Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist (Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce) in 35mm, and can happily report that it does not feel too long! We provide our immediate thoughts on the movie after leaving the theatre.
This is also our last week on Project Oscar Catchup, where we look at all the movies nominated for Best Picture at the 97th Academy Awards. This week we discuss James’ Mangold’s Bob Dylan biopic A Complete Unknown (Timothée Chalamet, Elle Fanning, Ed Norton, Monica Barbaro), and Walter Salles’ historical drama I’m Still Here (Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello).
As a bonus, we also discuss our top ten favourite films of 2024, and included a few guest voicemails featuring favourite picks of the year.
Finally, we undertook our second annual effort to guess Oscar winners in each category.
Thanks for listening to this project, it was a lot of fun! Next week we return to Aardman with Flushed Away.
Intro (0:00)
Review of A Complete Unknown (4:37)
Review of I’m Still Here (23:05)
Spoiler-free review of The Brutalist in 35mm (31:57)
Spoiler talk (47:00)
Pete and Trevor’s Top Ten of 2024 + voicemails (1:09:06)
Oscar Picks (1:40:28)