A very special episode in which Charlene & Jackie fully commit to incorporating the themes of impermanence and incompetence in Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind into their own podcast practice. 

Autumn has fallen in New York and Charlene and Jackie celebrate by tumbling down the stairs of the Angelika straight into Oliver Hermanus’s Palme D’Or nominated The History of Sound which premiered at Cannes.

Charlene and Jackie discuss all the kids, all the animals, and all the scenes we had to cover our eyes in the The Sparrow in The Chimney, Roman Zucher’s movie which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival.

Charlene and Jackie go in and go off on Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor’s Cannes playing, Sundance Award winning debut. 

Charlene and Jackie dive into the JACU (Jane Austen Cinematic Universe) to discuss Laura Piani’s debut feature Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, which premiered at TIFF last fall.

We discuss Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet, a 2025 update of Ang Lee’s celebrated 1993 film starring Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang, premiered at Sundance Film Festival 2025.

Charlene and Jackie debrief on Opus, the A24 pop star multi murder thriller/comedy (?) starring Ayo Adebiri and John Malkovich, a movie that shot straight from Sundance 2025 to the common multiplex in a mere two months. 

We discuss On Becoming a Guinea Fowl by Rungano Nyoni, a film that premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. 

For the podcast’s maiden voyage we discuss Universal Language, by Matthew Rankin, Ila Firouzabadi, and Pirouz Nemati, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival 2024