Cannes I Kick It

August Announcements continue as the Fall Festival Landscape continues to take shape. A few minor TIFF announcements are followed by a deep dive into the NYFF Main Slate, from the 60th anniversary Armageddon Time addition and the intriguing choice of a lower profile Closing Gala to the snubs and don't-call-them-flubs of the unexpected titles, we discuss it all! And then in our continuing preview o...

The Festival Line Up Announcements just keep coming, and we wouldn't have it any other way. This week, we touch on some early NYFF news before digging deep into the first big announcement from TIFF: Galas and Special Presentations. After clearing out some of the obvious picks, what deeper cuts are worth getting excited about? We endeavor to decide! We then look at a few more NYFF announcements, so...

Fall Festival Announcement Season is upon us, and this week we turn our analysis to the newly announced 2022 Venice line up. What Oscar Buzz is there? Who will win the Golden Lion? What movie has the most Joker Energy? These questions and more are addressed, debated, discussed, and generally chewed over. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the...

This week on the podcast after getting into some brief news stories we bring back friend of the show Jack Read to come up with 20 directors that Allison Williams should work with. What directions do we go? What kind of range do we think she has/Can she be more than a sinister white woman? Tune in to listen to us figure it out! Follow Jack on twitter @jackleftonread Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Ou...

Today we are joined by returning guest Chris Mello to talk about the classic double feature pairing of King Hu's 1967 wuxia classic DRAGON INN and Tsai Ming-liang's 2003 Venice Competition film GOODBYE, DRAGON INN! We get to the bottom of how arrows work on this one! Read Chris' recent writing on King Hu here! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoyi...

Thank you... thankyouverymuch... that's right it's time to discuss two new releases that are fresh off some festival showings, Peter Strickland's latest FLUX GOURMET from Berlin's Encounters section and Baz Luhrmann's glitzy take on ELVIS that was out of competition at Cannes. After Activating Andy and covering the latest news including the Locarno Lineup, we dig into topics such as performance ar...

IN HONOR of our 125th episode we do a draft where we each pick our 10 favorite movies we have covered on the podcast! SO much talk of how great these movies are! A walk down memory lane! Thanks for listening!  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...

IRMA VEP... it's an anagram for Vampire, but what else is there to discover about Olivier Assayas's 1996 film and his recent Cannes approved effort that's currently airing on HBO? We get into the tone, the actors, the satire, and the weird relationship between past and present. All that plus various news items related to MUBI, Sean Durkin, and Telluride! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram...

We are back this week with some classic early Venice predictions, news of release dates for Cannes movies, and Claude Chabrol’s LA CÉRÉMONIE! This is part of our “Listener Picks” where one of our recurring Ko-Fi donors gets the chance to pick a movie for us to discuss! Also we have a chunky special presentations segment where Andy and Jesse go off on THE STAIRCASE! Jesse's festival predictions spr...

In the 2010's George Miller's MAD MAX FURY ROAD reigned supreme. In the 2000's it was Sam Raimi's DRAG ME TO HELL. And the 90s , it was none other than Alex Proyas's DARK CITY. So we come, at last, to the 80s with the earliest possible slate of Blockbusters. What film will take home the Palme? It's time for 80s CANNES BLOCKBUSTERS, and we bring back DAVID SIMS to lead our Jury.   The list of eligi...

The glitz and glamor of Cannes 2022 has ended, and a new set of prize winners have been announced. And, most importantly of all, Emilio is BACK from CANNES! We go over the back half of the festival, all the highs and lows of the awards ceremony, and get first hand reports and reactions as we put the 75th edition of the festival in the rearview. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIP...

As Emilio got settled in his AirBnB at Cannes, Andy, Cullen and Jesse convened to discuss the latest news from the world of festivals, as well as all the competition titles premiered to date (as of Tuesday afternoon) and the critical reception. What kind of Cannes year is it this year? What's the best received film so far? What are the most divisive movies? All this, and BJ Novak! Alissa Wilkinson...

Cannes has officially started its 75th edition, and we are here to break down all the last-minute news and notes as the proceedings get underway! The pomp! The circumstance! The future AMC+ Exclusives! All get a hearing before we turn to Emilio's impending trip to the South of France, talking about his hopes for his Cannes experience and providing a loose live commentary for Agnes Varda's 1958 tou...

This week we're competing against each other once again, but this time it's to see which of us can craft the best jury to take over the honors for this years Cannes competition lineup? Andy, Emilio, and Jesse each pick 9 film connected names (from a pool provided by YOU the listeners! ) to take on Vicent Lindon's late announced compatriots. How many of your favorite legendary screenwriters, cinema...

If life is but a dream, what if you had to draw over every single frame of it in order to make a movie? A nonsensical question to be sure, but on those lines this week we are looking at recent SxSW premiere APOLLO 10 1/2: A SPACE AGE CHILDHOOD, Richard Linklater's newest rotoscoped project, as well as his first effort in that arena WAKING LIFE. Together we talk about philosophy, the striking visua...

We're back! This week we're discussing 1980 co-Palme d'Or winners All That Jazz and Kagemusha. A rollicking discussion on two classics of the cinema opens itself up to a myriad of topics. Plus Cannes NEWS!  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 Ou...

The Cannes Film Festival has announced it's 75th lineup and what better way to probe and ponder it than to welcome back Returning Champion JESSE CATHERINE WEBBER to look at the highlights, the lowlights, and the odds of this year's slate. The official lineup is available for you to read HERE as well as the Director's Fortnight lineup HERE . We'll see you on the croisette! Our twitter is @CannesIKi...

The great Fran Hoepfner returns to chat with us about king baby face Mike Leigh! We get into his Palme d'Or winning film SECRETS & LIES and all of the stress we feel watching Brenda Blethyn as well as his Palme d'Or losing film ANOTHER YEAR and all the stress we feel watching Lesley Manville. Read and Subscribe to Fran Magazine! Follow Fran on twitter @franhoepfner Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Ou...

The Life of the Mind! It’s what John Goodman promises/threatens to show us near the end of the Coen Brothers exceptional Cannes favorite BARTON FINK. We’ve talked in the past about how the volume of wins for FINK was such a sensation that Cannes instituted new rules about how to properly designate multi-award winning films, but what about the movie itself? We get into all of it, the cast, the sett...

We honor the third Palme d'Ollie winner, Leos Carax's ANNETTE, by talking about a bunch of other stuff(ALINE, Gary Trudeau, movies where old guys are trying to rob banks, CYRANO) over it! Don't listen if you haven't seen the movie obviously!  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 t...

South by Southwest has come and gone, so we start off this week looking at the many many many winners from the film side of Austin’s big fest. After a thorough look at those naming rights, we take a look at another capitalistic dystopia, the world of Kathryn Bigelow’s reclaimed classic STRANGE DAYS! This is our first “Listener Pick” made by a recurring Ko-Fi donor to the show! We look at the bruta...

This week we take aim at The Archers! Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, masters of technicolor, had some significant play at early festivals, so we took a look at 2 of their biggest 1948's THE RED SHOES and 1951's TALES OF HOFFMANN. Joined by returning favorite Daniel Foster, we talk technicolor, the enduring power of opera, and Andy makes an incredibly unsettling personal revelation in regar...

Concert Documentaries get the spotlight as we turn to three movies heavily featuring David Byrne. In addition to enduring classic STOP MAKING SENSE and recent pandemic hit AMERICAN UTOPIA we zero in on a lesser-known title: CONTEMPORARY COLOR. Joined by Blank Check Researcher JJ Bersch, we look at Bill Ross IV & Turner Ross’s capturing of a crazy event merging Color Guard team’s routines with new...

Spectacular Spectacular! When 2 visual masters turn to their own takes on jukebox musicals the festival world takes notice, and soon CIKI will be on the case. We’re joined by returning favorite KT JEAN to talk Baz Luhrmann’s Cannes opener MOULIN ROUGE! and Julie Taymor’s TIFF premiere ACROSS THE UNIVERSE. The Beatles! Mash-ups! Obsessive viewing! It’s an all singing all dancing top tapping corker...

With another Berlinale in the rearview we look at the prizes given out at the German Fest this year. Will Hong ever win the big prize? What did M. Night contribute to the jury process? All given speculation. After that we take a look at Golden Bear winner Carla Simón’s first feature SUMMER 1993, touching on the Topic streaming service, child performances, and big endings. Our twitter is @CannesIKi...