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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

February 24, 2026 • Tickets Secured Pod • Episode 13

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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.

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