Critical Darlings: The Secret Agent And The Increasingly International Academy

Critical Darlings: The Secret Agent And The Increasingly International Academy

Viva Brazil! Today we discuss Best Picture nominee The Secret Agent, the simmering, colorful Brazilian thriller about a man on the run, starring the dreamy Wagner Moura and directed by Kleber Mendonça Filho. The story, about retaining personal and political memory under authoritarianism, has proven resonant with an international audience and awards bodies, garnering three additional Oscar nominations for Best International Feature, Best Casting, and Best Actor for Moura. On this episode, we discuss The Secret Agent itself, how it fits into and subverts the tropes of international films at the Oscars, the Eurovision-like process for international nominations, check in on the Berlin Film Festival, and do a very special Il Postino corner. Sign up for Check Book, the Blank Check newsletter featuring even more “real nerdy shit” to feed your pop culture obsession. Dossier excerpts, film biz AND burger reports, and even more exclusive content you won’t want to miss out on. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Twitter, Instagram, Threads and Facebook! Buy some real nerdy merch Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Die My Love with Alison Willmore

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You Were Never Really Here with Sean Clements

In 2018, Lynne Ramsay released You Were Never Really Here, a film about a completely implausible scenario...a townhouse on the East side of Manhattan houses a sex trafficking operation that implicates...

15 Feb 2h 43min

Critical Darlings: Frankenstein And The Craft Category Juggernauts with Bilge Ebiri

Critical Darlings: Frankenstein And The Craft Category Juggernauts with Bilge Ebiri

This week we’re brooding, Victorian style, with Vulture’s Bilge Ebiri! Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein is a Best Picture nominee and is well represented in the craft categories, but it has only one ...

12 Feb 1h 28min

We Need To Talk About Kevin with Jia Tolentino

We Need To Talk About Kevin with Jia Tolentino

The time has come for us to talk about Kevin. The New Yorker's Jia Tolentino joins us to talk about Lynne Ramsay's depiction of every parent's worst nightmare - 2011's We Need To Talk About Kevin. We ...

8 Feb 2h 48min

Critical Darlings: Bugonia And The (Oscar) Favourites with Marie Bardi-Salinas

Critical Darlings: Bugonia And The (Oscar) Favourites with Marie Bardi-Salinas

Honey, we’re buzzing about Bugonia with Marie Bardi-Salinas! The movie surprised us with its appeal to Oscar voters, but maybe it shouldn’t have: Director Yorgos Lanthimos and star, frequent collabora...

5 Feb 1h 27min

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Almost four years ago, Producer Ben Hosley watched Sam Raimi's "A Simple Plan" and proclaimed that if he'd been in that scenario, everything would have worked out perfectly. With the gleefully satisfy...

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Critical Darlings: Train Dreams, And Netflix’s Quest For Best Picture

Critical Darlings: Train Dreams, And Netflix’s Quest For Best Picture

On today’s show, Richard and Alison hop on a boxcar and stare wistfully as the 20th century passes them by with Best Picture nominee Train Dreams. They discuss director Clint Bentley’s lush, if somewh...

29 Jan 1h 3min

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