On a very special episode of the Wages of Cinema, we have a special guest - only this isn't a 'Local Vocal', at least officially. This is a look at this year's Cannes Film Festival - the 68th to be exact - at the winners, the best of the lot and the worst... All by someone who was there!

Kent Turner, founder-editor of the independent/art-house/foreign film site-cornucopia Film-Forward and is a writer/editor for School Library Journal. Kent's been now to Cannes three times, knows the different categories of competition (there are many!) and saw 34 films at the fest. What'd he think? Jack and Kent talk about what's good, what to expect this year, and things distribution, audiences, and the French.

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It's 2015. Let that sink in. We're living IN THE FUTURE! And it's the year where if you go back 100 years you get the first milestone(s) in cinema history. So with that in mind we at the Wages of Cinema take a look at a movie that made a year in history stand out ending in 0 or 5 (i.e. 1975, 1950, 2000, etc). What did we pick? You'll have to listen and take a trip in our goofy-looking car of a podcast!

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And now for that image of the Sad face and the smiley face that one often sees as the cliche in theater - Italian Neo-Realism at its most striped down and masterful, and Hollywood escapism as its most ebullient. Isn't this what cinema can do, folks? Andrew goes back for more Vittorio De Sica, while Jack finally sees one of Andrew's favorite films (previously talked about in episode 1 of this show).

Vittorio De Sica's UMBERTO D

Michael Curtiz and William Keighley's THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD

Episode 17 will be in part about what is fun, funny and exciting, and what is dark and depressing. All about the human condition as usual on the Wages of Cinema podcast!

On the Two-Minute Movie Mile, where Jack and Andrew each get two minutes to talk about their recent movie-viewing experiences, we got all-time classics, another look at an experimental short, and that one movie The Departed was based on:

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS - TOP SECRET - THE PEOPLE VS PAUL CRUMP - MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN - IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER - 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA - SECRETS & LIES - MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (again) - INFERNAL AFFAIRS - GREAT EXPECTATIONS

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Episode 17 will be in part about what is fun, funny and exciting, and what is dark and depressing. All about the human condition as usual on the Wages of Cinema podcast!

On the Two-Minute Movie Mile, where Jack and Andrew each get two minutes to talk about their recent movie-viewing experiences, we got all-time classics, another look at an experimental short, and that one movie The Departed was based on:

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS - TOP SECRET - THE PEOPLE VS PAUL CRUMP - MONTY PYTHON'S LIFE OF BRIAN - IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER - 20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA - SECRETS & LIES - MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (again) - INFERNAL AFFAIRS - GREAT EXPECTATIONS

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I could copy and paste from her IMDb biography, but then why even bother with talking with the super lovely and talented Adele Dazeem? Wait, wrong teleprompter damnit! Seriously, this is the one and only SARAH SEEDS, an actress, producer and writer originally from Baltimore - and other points South, which we talk about - and how she fell in love with acting at the age of 3(!) and has gone on to become a rising figure in comedy and dramas, from shorts, webseries, improv, and indie features, including the upcoming HEAVEN IS NOW. And, while we're at it, what's up with Gluten?

You can see her in Riding the D with Dr Seeds (Teaser - CLICK ON LINK AND SUBSCRIBE TO WHOLE SERIES): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwCQQQpFNLI

Currently in WILDCATS (this is the episode we reference/include a clip of, but watch all of them on Vimeo): https://vimeo.com/124109906

And her reel: https://vimeo.com/102294056

Follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahseedsofficial and on Twitter @SarahSeeds plus of course www.sarahseeds.com for all the things going on with her!

Visit us on iTunes and SUBSCRIBE!

(Also featuring music from the short film BICYCLES)

I could copy and paste from her IMDb biography, but then why even bother with talking with the super lovely and talented Adele Dazeem? Wait, wrong teleprompter damnit! Seriously, this is the one and only SARAH SEEDS, an actress, producer and writer originally from Baltimore - and other points South, which we talk about - and how she fell in love with acting at the age of 3(!) and has gone on to become a rising figure in comedy and dramas, from shorts, webseries, improv, and indie features, including the upcoming HEAVEN IS NOW. And, while we're at it, what's up with Gluten?

You can see her in Riding the D with Dr Seeds (Teaser - CLICK ON LINK AND SUBSCRIBE TO WHOLE SERIES): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwCQQQpFNLI

Currently in WILDCATS (this is the episode we reference/include a clip of, but watch all of them on Vimeo): https://vimeo.com/124109906

And her reel: https://vimeo.com/102294056

Follow her on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sarahseedsofficial and on Twitter @SarahSeeds plus of course www.sarahseeds.com for all the things going on with her!

Visit us on iTunes and SUBSCRIBE!

(Also featuring music from the short film BICYCLES)

Because Mad Max Fury Road won't leave our heads - and because of how much Charlize Theron kicked our asses up and down the wastelands - we'd like to take a look at some of the major action heroes (or is it heroines, will that be something that can be clarified) including the likes of Pam Grier's characters, Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, Beatrix Kiddo and many more. Also, the question comes up for Jack: what IS an action hero for women? Does Catwoman count?

Subscribe to us on iTunes and visit us on facebook at the page THE WAGES OF CINEMA PODCAST. Jack is on twitter @JackGattanella, and visit us on Tumblr!

Because Mad Max Fury Road won't leave our heads - and because of how much Charlize Theron kicked our asses up and down the wastelands - we'd like to take a look at some of the major action heroes (or is it heroines, will that be something that can be clarified) including the likes of Pam Grier's characters, Ellen Ripley, Sarah Connor, Beatrix Kiddo and many more. Also, the question comes up for Jack: what IS an action hero for women? Does Catwoman count?

Subscribe to us on iTunes and visit us on facebook at the page THE WAGES OF CINEMA PODCAST. Jack is on twitter @JackGattanella, and visit us on Tumblr!

We return to Ray Harryhausen this week for 1973's THE GOLDEN VOYAGE OF SINBAD, which Jack watches (did he like it as much as 'Argonauts'? We'll see). Meanwhile, Andrew checks out Kurosawa-san's 1952 existential masterpiece IKIRU.

So for those of you who have been pestering us to do a team-up with Tom Baker and Takashi Shimura, HERE YOU GO!

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