Cannes I Kick It

We love Baby Annette! We’ve been talking about Leos Carax’s musical Cannes prizewinner essentially since our inception, and so now that it’s available for everyone to see, we gave it a real red carpet treatment. Joining us is GRIFFIN NEWMAN of Blank Check with Griffin and David, and we of course discuss many things including the pronunciation of Cotillard, the extraordinary energizing opening numb...

Swords and armor are the name of the game for our main discussion this week. We take a look at 80s Cannes player EXCALIBUR, John Boorman’s telling of, well, the whole Arthur story, as well as new release THE GREEN KNIGHT, David Lowery’s trippy and challenging take on the story of Sir Gawain. Joining us is the host of HEAVY MEDDLE, the great ETHAN BRUNDEEN! We talk muck, Lowery’s festival history,...

Slowly but surely we are getting to the bottom of what exactly happened at Cannes 2006, this week we take a look at what is perhaps the bleakest film of all time, Bruno Dumont’s FLANDERS. We pair it with a very tonally different recent offering of his, SLACK BAY. Joining us to ponder these extremely extreme movies is comedian and improv teacher WILL HINES! How does Dumont’s portrayal of war land w...

We decided to watch a bunch of trailers for movies that are playing/have played festivals and we talk over them for YOU! YOU are welcome! This is a bit of an active listen so the way it works is we count down to the trailer every time and you can softly hear the trailer in the background but if you want to watch along here is the playlist of trailers AND ALSO each trailer is time-coded here with t...

Fall Festival season gets closer and closer and with it comes those sweet sweet lineups baybee! We're talking Venice full line up, more TIFF additions, and the NYFF Centerpiece film that will be at all three fests,  Jane Campions Power of the Dog! ALSO in the second segment we are joined by returning favorite Eric Allen Hatch to discuss Bi Gan and his films Kaili Blues and Long Days Journey Into N...

Festival season is in full flush as we start with a look at the announced line up of two of TIFF’s most high profile sections, Galas and Special Presentations. Our coverage of CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG begins here, but when will it end? Next we share some updates about the NYFF and Venice lineups and and pair it with some speculation about what announcements might be imminent. After a brief sojourn...

Its a plus sized episode this week and we are talking Cannes so far!  How are people reacting to the films? Do we regret our predictions? Which of us is which in the French Dispatch red carpet meme? All this and more all before we are joined by returning guest and Drift King Emma Stefansky for a discussion on the only movie that played at Cannes that we can actually see right now, F9!   Follow Emm...

We've got a week to cool our heels before reacting to full Cannes madness so we have decided to invite the foremost Steven Soderbergh expert, Greta Taylor ( @elsoderbergho ) to talk about a pair of new releases. Zola (directed by Janicza Bravo) and No Sudden Move (directed by Steven Soderbergh). We talk about Zola being an excellent work of adaptation, the most recent period of Soderbegh's facinat...

It's the Fourth of July Weekend, so that means it's time to go back to the intersection of Festival Culture and Summer Movie Season, the out of competition blockbusters that premiere at Cannes! We're going back to the 90s and are joined by writer and director Alex Ross Perry as our jury president! Here is the list of eligible films! Check out Alex's episode of Cinema Toast, "Report on the Canine A...

Nicole Holofcener is a festival favorite, so we brought in superfan Kat to discuss 3 of her films, which all played TIFF. We talk Telluride premiere LOVELY & AMAZING, and TIFF premieres ENOUGH SAID and THE LAND OF STEADY HABITS. Topics include What Is A TIFF Movie?, James Gandolfini, depictions of teens, and how McDonalds sizes work.   Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoyi...

We return to Cannes Competition 2006 to talk about Sofia Coppola's MARIE ANTOINETTE as well as her 2 other Cannes titles we have not yet discussed, her debut THE VIRGIN SUICIDES and later entry THE BLING RING. Joining us are some returning favorites and Sofia Superfans, KT Jean and Simon Sweeney! We talk about needledrops, Sofia's skill with actors, Kirsten Dunst, and so much more. Follow KT on tw...

Extra! Extra! There’s news aplenty this week and so we return to Andy’s Grab Bag of Tidbits to cover it all. The full Cannes lineup (although not the recent additions because we recorded this before they were announced)! Predictions! A Special Surprise and A Little Bit of Advice straight from Jesse herself! Cullen recounting an SNL Sketch! And some announcements about what to expect from CIKI movi...

European Fest Favorite Christian Petzold’s new movie UNDINE is released today in US, so we got one of the biggest Petzold fans around, Jesse’s Best Friend Daniel Foster, to talk the new release as well as his two previous features PHOENIX and TRANSIT. We get into his controlled, clockwork style of filmmaking, the power of his endings, and the future career potential of Big Gunther. Follow Daniel o...

Denis Month meets Grab Bag when Andy and Emilio look at some of the remaining titles in Claire Denis's filmography with returning Mankmas guest David Carter! We go back to the beginning to discuss her debut CHOCOLAT, as well as 2 of her more recent efforts, BASTARDS and 35 SHOTS OF RUM. We talk about the way she films bodies, her relationship to Africa and colonialism, her exercises in genre, and...

Denis month rolls on! Looking at two of her collaborations with higher profile international stars, the Isabelle Huppert starrer WHITE MATERIAL and Robert Pattinson lead HIGH LIFE. Joining us is returning favorite from This Had Oscar Buzz, Chris Feil! Topics include the joys of a quarantine Huppert, the wild choice to make HIGH LIFE a TIFF Gala, and what a hopeful Clarie Denis movie even looks lik...

Its the second week of Denis Month and we are back to skip around her filmography with returning guests Anna Swanson and Meg Shields of Film School Rejects. We talk U.S. GO HOME, L'INTRUS, and LET THE SUNSHINE IN as well as Claire's mastery of the needle-drop, how tense even her lowkey movies can be, and Shrek?  Follow Anna and Meg on Twitter. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our letterboxd is CIKIPo...

All May long we’ll be diving into the uniquely cinematic world of Claire Denis. First up to discuss one of her most well known films and the two that followed it, we have returning favorite Bilge Ebiri of New York Magazine and Vulture to discuss BEAU TRAVAIL, TROUBLE EVERY DAY, and FRIDAY NIGHT. We touch on Denis’ evolving style, the availability of these movies, and the history of the Bravo netwo...

Looking at some recent festival movies with new releases we visit the world of Roy Andersson’s latest ABOUT ENDLESSNESS and Cristi Puiu’s MALMKROG. The former is now available on digital release, the latter streaming on Mubi in the US. Joining us is writer Eva Anderson, and we have a wide ranging conversation touching on the oppressiveness of some movies, the Moscow Film Festival, what it means to...

We reconvened our Jury, to discuss a selection of movies that premiered at Cannes between 2015 and 2019, this time with a returning favorite as our Special Guest President, Fran Hoepfner! Check out the eligible list of movies on our Letterboxd here , and tune in to discover who will take home the Palme! Follow Fran @franhoepfner Listen to The Law School Podcast here Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt O...

What does it take to get a movie made? This is question we explore through our return to Cannes 2006 with Nanni Moretti’s story of a down on his luck Italian film producer, IL CAIMANO. Joining us is producer in his own right, of the George Lucas Talk Show, Patrick Cotnoir! We get into the tonal whiplash, the COMEY RULE of it all, and all admit how little we know about the Italian film industry and...

Its the final birthday episode you all know the drill, 4 movies, enter the contest, happy birthday Jesse!   Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt 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 @jpglickwebber

Jesse predicts the main slate for this years New York Film Festival and Andy coordinates some fun. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt 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 @jpglickwebber

With a shiny new Criterion Box Set getting released and on the heels of the “theatrical” runs of some new restorations, we look at Wong Kar-Wai’s film festival run and his work more generally. We have already talked HAPPY TOGETHER, so we focus in mostly on CHUNGKING EXPRESS, IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE, and 2046, with some brief FALLEN ANGELS talk and some references to his earlier movies as well. Use of...

Berlinale 2021 is in the books, so we talk over the winners and the buzz from this year’s festival. We’ve seen a few of the movies, and go most in-depth on Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s WHEEL OF FORTUNE AND FANTASY, including an interview with the director himself! It’s Berlin Wrap Up, baby! Special thanks to Mihoko Imai for translating Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the sh...

We talk about a couple Assayas movies thanks Josh Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt 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 @jpglickwebber