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 

10:00 Kokuho: 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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