One Week Only - Podcast

Episode 96 of One Week Only! Our key film this week is "In Between"

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We also review the Oscar-shortlist Lebanese courtroom drama "The Insult" directed by Ziad Doueiri (6:00); the environmental documentary "What Lies Upstream" directed by Cullen Hoback (17:15); the Brazilian colonial slavery drama "Vazante" directed by Daniela Thomas (23:15); and the coming-of-age LGBTQ musical "Saturday Church" directed by Damon Cardasis (34:35).

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

On this Episode of "Awards Bound" we take a look at the 10 short films on the Oscars shortlist for Best Live Action Short Film!

DeKalb Elementary (4:50), The Eleven O’Clock (8:55), Facing Mecca (12:40), Icebox (18:30), Lost Face (25:45), My Nephew Emmett (30:10), Rise of a Star (36:25), The Silent Child (41:10), Watu Wote/All of Us (45:25), Witnesses (49:00).

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

South Africa's "The Wound" has made it to the 9-film shortlist for the Academy Awards! We interviewed director John Trengove at the Palm Springs International Film Festival about the film's journey from Sundance to the shortlist, making a film entirely in the traditional Xhosa language, and dealing with both praise & condemnation from South African audiences.

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

Episode 95 of One Week Only, our first new episode of 2018! Our key film is "On Body and Soul" from Hungary.

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We also review the haunting thriller "The Strange Ones" directed by Christopher Radcliff & Lauren Wolkstein(8:10); and the Egyptian character drama "Sheikh Jackson" directed by Amr Salama (19:25).

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

It's almost the end of 2017! While the year itself has had a lot of ups & downs, it's been a great year for cinema. It was very hard for both of us to make our Top 10 list of our favorite films of 2017; in fact, we both have a Top 25 list, but we'll keep it to 10 on this podcast.

Carlos: Foxtrot, A Fantastic Woman, A Ghost Story, Loveless, Personal Shopper, The Woman Who Left, Call Me By Your Name, God's Own Country, Birdboy: The Forgotten Children, Faces Places.

Conor: A Ghost Story, The Lure, My Entire High School Sinking Into The Sea, Faces Places, The Breadwinner, Metamorphoses, The Florida Project, Personal Shopper, Foxtrot, A Quiet Passion.

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

Episode 94 of One Week Only! Our key film this week is Michael Haneke's "Happy End"

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We also review the Oscar-shortlisted terrorism drama "In The Fade" starring Diane Kruger, directed by Fatih Akin (8:30); and the Period romance "Film Stars Don't Die In Liverpool" starring Annette Bening and Jamie Bell, directed by Paul McGuigan (22:00).

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

Another episode of our "Awards Bound" series! This time, we take a look at the Best Animated Feature Film category. 26 films have been submitted to the Academy.

Episode 93 of One Week Only! This week's key film is the nightmarish animated masterwork "Birdboy: The Forgotten Children" (40:25)

We also review the lovely British animated drama "Ethel & Ernest" directed by Roger Mainwood (4:40); the adorable stop-motion animated film "Moomins and the Winter Wonderland" directed by Jakub Wronski & Ira Carpelan (16:15); and the entertaining Western "The Ballad of Lefty Brown" directed by Jared Moshe (27:55).

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

The shortlist has been announced for the Foreign Language Film category of the Academy Awards! Suprisingly, all 9 films on the shortlist are fantastic choices: A Fantastic Woman (Chile), In The Fade (Germany), On Body and Soul (Hungary), Foxtrot (Israel), The Insult (Lebanon), Loveless (Russia), Félicité (Senegal), The Wound (South Africa), and The Square (Sweden)! It's also an incredibly diverse list, with 2 films from Africa, 1 film from Latin America, 2 films with LGBT stories, and 1 film with a female director! We react to this overwhelming list, discuss the so-called "snubs" of BPM and First They Killed My Father, and predict which of these films will end up getting nominated.

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com

Another segment in our "Awards Bound" series! A few weeks ago, we took a look at 30 contenders for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards. Now, with the shortlist due to be announced this week, we choose our personal favorites to make the 9-film shortlist, and try to predict which films will actually make it. Fingers crossed for Foxtrot, A Fantastic Woman & Loveless!

Hosted by Carlos Aguilar & Conor Holt. Music by Kevin MacLeod at www.incompetech.com