Cannes I Kick It

Winter Festival season is in full swing and we bring you talk of some of the earliest Sundance buzz and the announced lineups of the Competition and Encounters section of the 2024 Berlinale! A classic "we talk about a press conference only Jesse has seen" episode. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our...

New year new yearly preview format! That's right, we're back for 2024 and it's time for us to look ahead, this time by borrowing from the podcast Effectively Wild and making UNLIKELY PREDICTIONS! That's right, we are predicting things with a very low possibility of happening and we're depending on YOU the listener to help us be accountable to each other. Visit the link below to vote in the poll ab...

A Tacular comes but once a year, and what a year it has been. We've Taculared non festival films (Mank once or twice) and Cannes premieres (France and The French Dispatch), but never before has a trailer so solidified the need for a Tacular. And this Tacular comes to us all the way from the opening night of Berlin. Rebecca Miller's She Came to Me is the subject. Our many thought and some thoughts...

Palme D'Ollie Recipient Todd Haynes is back! MAY DECEMBER is taking the world by storm, and we are here to get into this tonally complicated, big performance Cannes premiere! Also, we have some BIG news from Berlin and Cannes, and Jesse has seen a lot of things at the AFI EU SHOWCASE including ZONE OF INTEREST, FALLEN LEAVES, LA CHIMERA, and more! Joining us for this is our friend JACKSON KIM MURP...

A new festival year approaches, and so with the first lineup of Festival Director Eugene Hernandez announced we look at the highlights of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. We touch on all sections, discuss the accessibility of the festival, and take a small peak at Slamdance as well. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to se...

If we had unlimited resources, we could truly put on a hell of a film festival. It's time for us to prove it once again, all four hosts sit down and put together a weekend lineup for a 2023 festival. Thrill as we debate settings, sponsors, and just how many live podcast recordings we can bank at this year's edition. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod...

As the holidays begin we turn to our Thanksgiving Time Tradition-Shortsgiving! Donning sunglasses to protect our eyes from the brightness of our generosity, we discuss a new crop of shorts, one picked by each co-host. This year's crop: THE GAG (2023, Dir. Larry Owens), (tourism studies) (2019, Dir. Joshua Gen Solondz), LAST DAYS IN A LONELY PLACE (2007, Dir. Philip S. Solomon), and THE CRITIC (196...

We’re playing some old and new festival related games this week. A few rounds of Ratings Guessing, a new Festivordle and a new Immaculate Grid. Also, we begin to scratch the surface of unpacking the various online Broadway discussion forums of the late aughts. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way...

With the major fall fests in the rearview and awards season coming down the pike, we're getting a lot of interesting movies in theaters right now, so we thought it was time to look at 3 of the more high profile ones. Martin Scorsese's Cannes premiere KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, Justine Triet's Palme D'Or winner ANATOMY OF A FALL, and Sofia Coppola's Venice Best Actress winner PRISCILLA are all dis...

We talk about the new leadership in Venice and draft festival films without distribution. See you at the movies! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcpglickwebber

Leonard Bernstein is one of the most important musical figures of the 20th century. He is also the Maestro, as explored in the upcoming film MAESTRO, directed by noted weird guy Bradley Cooper. We wanted some more context before MAESTRO makes its way across America, so we turned to America's preeminent MAESTRO authority, FRAN HOEPFNER! Together we do some light previewing of the film, and dig into...

This week Jesse tells us about her trip to the Big Apple for the last weekend of the New York Film Festival. Then Andy and Cullen catch up with a title from this year's Sundance, Cory Finley's Landscape with Invisible Hand. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for...

NYFF is close to wrapping up, so we've gotten a good idea of how New York has reacted to all sorts of things. We discuss that, the rest of the fall festival landscape, some AFI odds and ends, and then turn to look at an earlier work from JANET PLANET director ANNIE BAKER, her 2017 play THE ANTIPODES. We discuss the world Baker creates in the play, where it departs from her earlier work, and what w...

Wes Anderson has been busy and we are ON IT. Back with 4 shorts based on Roald Dahl short stories, all streaming now on Netflix, we look at THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR, THE SWAN, THE RAT CATCHER, and POISON, and discuss what unites them, what we responded to, and how the release and platform suits or does not suit the work Anderson is doing here. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram...

Special guest Jon Gabrus joins us to talk about going to Sundance, who owns the most unread books, and the NYFF 2014 Centerpiece INHERENT VICE! Follow Gabrus on twitter @Gabrus Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatch...

We're not done yet, Jesse is finally back from Vermont and has wrapped up a few of her loose ends from TIFF, along with critic and programmer C.J. Prince. Discussions on the Wavelengths shorts, Mambar Pierrette, Close Your Eyes, Hit Man, The Royal Hotel, Aggro Dr1ft, and more! Follow C.J. on twitter @cj_prin Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying...

TIFF concluded, Venice has long ago handed out it's Lions and Cups, and most of the CIKI crew is back at home. We get together to go over the big winners of the 2 awardsy Fall Fests (congrats to POOR THINGS and AMERICAN FICTION), break down the balance of our TIFF slates, and generally gas on about the state of theatrical distribution and managing online inventory for ticketed events in a fair way...

Everyone is in different locations but we still managed to get some TIFF thoughts out there. Special guest appearance by J. Kim Murphy.  Follow Jackson on twitter @jkimmurphy Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchle...

Cullen calls Jesse at TIFF to see what everyone has watched so far!  Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcpglickwebber

It's TIFF traveling time! As this episode is released we are in or making our way to Toronto, so of course it is the natural time for a loose episode of different things. Definitely not a grabbag and if you suggest otherwise we'll see you in court. First up, news on Currents and more, then our annual look at some of the big trailers of the year available for you to watch along with, and finally, o...

While Jesse's away, the boys play. See the CIKI Immaculate Grid here! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcpglickwebber

Cannes Blockbusters are not the only unjuried film festival slate in the world. So having exhausted this avenue, we turn to New York Film Festival, famously uncompetitive, to inject a little competition and conflict into their whole affair. The slate? Films that played in the opening slot of NYFF in the new millennium so far. Returning to join us as President of our Jury? The great DAVID SIMS of B...

We talk about our plans for TIFF, other recent and upcoming festivals, and sabermetrics. That list is backwards chronologically but descending in terms of time devoted. We recorded this about an hour ago and were pretty loopy then, so imagine how loopy I am now. Description Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few...

We have never been more in the thick of fall festival announcement season! After we discuss the NYFF Main Slate and some TIFF announcements, our Jesse speaks to the Associate Programmer of Wavelengths at TIFF, Jesse Cumming, about the JUST ANNOUNCED TIFF Wavelengths program for this year (34:10). And as if that is not enough, we reconvene to discuss Steven Soderbergh's typically productive year, p...

Once again, we have turned to our listeners. This time we have asked you to be the namers of COOL. What is COOL? What does it get us? How would it apply in a film festival jury situation? Really only the last question is addressed in this attempt to think about this year's Venice Jury. Also, more TIFF announcements! The list we are pulling from is is HERE Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagra...