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Join Charlene and Jackie, two NYC film crew workers with an absolute love of art house films …and an absolute lack of press passes to see those films at the major festivals where they premiere.
Each month your two hosts will venture through the wilds of NYC public transportation and psychotic post screening Q&A’s to discuss a festival film that has finally been released to the general public.
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The Secret Agent
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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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