Episode 7: The Sparrow in the Chimney

Written By Charlene Wang de Chen

We discuss The Sparrow and the Chimney by Ramon Zurcher which premiered at the Locarno Film Festival.

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Charlene and Jackie see The Sparrow in The Chimney at BAM and there’s a lot to talk about: so many animals, so many kids, so many scenes where we had to cover our eyes!

Plus: Experiences with wild west Q&A Culture, why the English Patient actually rocks, and a harsh referendum on the New Yorker’s fall movie preview.

COMPLETE SHOW NOTES:

3:30 We love Bam 

3:45 “I saw both George Michael and Maebe…” 

4:20 New Directors/New Films 

5:00 Get To Know Ramon Zurcher and His Identical Twin Brother Silvan Zurcher  

6:00 There’s Drama By The Pool 

10:30 Mark Wahlberg’s extremely non passive aggressive red headed sisters in The Fighter  

15:56 “It’s a film about destruction and rebirth” 

19:43 Like a Nicholas Winding Refn film or Run Lola Run  

23:40 Kaput – German – Finished, Worn Out, Dead  

26:22 Many people felt the rat in the departed was “a painfully on-the-nose metaphor” that sullies an otherwise great movie” 

34:30 Metaphoric settings in The Glass Menagerie and The House of Yes 

38:00 The famous words of Leo Tolstoy  

38:39 Glowing Variety Review of The Sparrow In the Chimney 

39:00 Glowing Cineuropa Review of The Sparrow In the Chimney  

39:34 Amy Adam’s is Night Bitch  

44:09 The Duplass brothers talk peacetime vs wartime  

47:00 Michelle Williams on child acting: “ I do find myself feeling frustrated with the limitations of my own mind. 

49:00 A Typical Morning as the Horse Assistant Director on The Gilded Age 

49:40 Apparently Jackie WAS slandering the people who made the TV show Luck  

51:27 Sophie Fiennes, Ralph Fiennes articulate documentarian sister and the film she directed in 2003 

52:34 Marc Maron and Lynn Shelton on improv in Sword of Trust  

55:02 The New Yorker Review of Highest 2 Lowest 

56:43 Elaine Hates the English Patient  

59:30 Walter Murch did indeed win a best Editing Oscar for The English Patient  

1:01:23 It is actually The Fanatic, directed by Fred Durst  

1:02:15 The NYFF Slate, featuring If I had Legs I’d Kick You, Late Fame, and a House of Dynamite  

1:02:28 The New Yorkers Fall Culture Preview  

1:05:20 Bruce Springsteen and Phish play Glory Days with College Aged Jackie in the Crowd: An Absolute Disaster 

1:08:05 New Bugonia trailer!!!! 

1:15:11 Long Day’s Journey Into Night: Bi Gan’s 2018 Movie that made Charlene wonder what she just went through  

1:15:40 Jodie Foster Speaking French  

Full List of Movies,TV Shows, and Plays Referenced in this Episode:

  • Arrested Development 

  • Another Year 

  • The Fighter 

  • Run Lola Run 

  • The Departed 

  • Little Giants 

  • The Glass Menagerie 

  • The House of Yes  

  • The Strange Little Cat 

  • The Girl and the Spider 

  • The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo  

  • The Girl Who Kicked The Hornets Nest  

  • The Royal Tenenbaums 

  • Nightbitch  

  • Wiener-Dog 

  • The Gilded Age 

  • Luck 

  • Dawsons Creek 

  • Hoover Street Revival 

  • Sword of Trust 

  • Queen of Earth 

  • Humpday 

  • Bamboozled 

  • Highest 2 Lowest 

  • The English Patient 

  • Shakespeare in Love 

  • Under The Tuscan Sun 

  • Seinfeld 

  • The Ice Storm 

  • Yi Yi 

  • Lurker 

  • The Talented Mr. Ripley 

  • Ingrid Goes West 

  • The Fanatic 

  • Preparation For The Next Life  

  • Minding The Gap 

  • A House of Dynamite 

  • Late Fame 

  • Die My Love 

  • Splitsville 

  • A Big Bold Beautiful Journey 

  • The Baltimorons 

  • The History of Sound 

  • The Smashing Machine 

  • The Curse 

  • Nouvelle Vogue 

  • Blue Moon 

  • Roofman  

  • Magic Mike 

  • Magic Mike XXL 

  • Magic Mike’s Last Dance 

  • Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere 

  • A Complete Unknown 

  • Peter Hujar’s Day 

  • Little Men 

  • Caught Stealing 

  • One Battle After Another 

  • Phantom Thread  

  • Licorice Pizza 

  • Inherent Vice 

  • It Was Just an Accident 

  • Bugonia 

  • The Mastermind 

  • If I Had Legs I’d Kick You 

  • Frownland 

  • Yeast 

  • Hedda 

  • The Worst Person In The World 

  • Sentimental Value 

  • Jay Kelly 

  • White Noise  

  • Father Mother Sister Brother  

  • After The Hunt 

  • Is This Thing On 

  • The Fence 

  • No Other Choice 

  • Resurrection 

  • Private Life 

  • Hotel Artemis 

  • Nyad 

Charlene Wang de Chen
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