Episode 10: Sentimental Value

The podcast has hit double digits and Charlene and Jackie celebrate by discussing Sentimental Value, the Cannes Grand Prix winning film from Therapized Norwegian King Joachim Trier. 

Is it as good as The Worst Person in the World? What does it take to repair inherited generational trauma? And have you seen SKÅM??? All this and more in this weeks episode.

COMPLETE SHOW NOTES:

2:06 Richard Brody agrees with Jackie that the main character in The Worst Person in The World

3:10 “Those people dancing on the freeway” in La La Land (Jackie hates, Charlene loves!)

6:54 Paul Mescal’s Iconic Rugby Shorts 

8:36 Bad Dads - Justin Chang reviews Sentimental Value 

8:36 Bad Dads was also a 2011 art exhibition inspired by the work of Wes Anderson

10:50 The Trauma Plot strikes again 

13:20 ‘Joachim Trier Has Put Oslo On The Cinematic Map’ in the New Yorker 

17:45 The Unlikely Brilliance of Station Eleven’s Hamlet Scene

19:50 The production of Hamlet that we did not get to see 

31:00 “I’m an old guy now” Monologue from The Worst Person in the World

34:10 The House in ‘Sentimental Value’ Is a Character All Its Own

36:10 The SKÅM GOOGLE DRIVE!!!

38:50 The Taipei Film House is an art house theater that used to be the official residency of the US Embassador 

39:03 The “horror film” Jackie mentions is THELMA (2017)

40:42 Gonzalez Y Gonzalez, the salsa club next door to the Angelika whose employees are frequently subjected to crying Angelika patrons 

42:35 Documentary Jackie mentions about Pediatric Neurologist who is also a marathon runner

46:16 Catherine Martin on her Creative Partnership With Baz Luhrman

50:00 The American version of Skam was called Skam Austin 

50:54 ‘The most personal is the most creative’ - Bong Joon Ho quotes Scorsese when accepting his Oscar

51:27 No Other Choice looks amazing

55:41 A further exploration of the on set vibe of High Maintenance 

57:40 In The Hall of The Mountain King: Certified Norwegian Banger 

1:01:41 Ira Glass expounding on ‘The Gap’

1:04:38 Going Deep on character transitions in Clouds of Sils Maria 

1:08:15 It’s a red flag

1:13:20 The 53rd Street Library has an amazing foreign film section!!

1:15:00 BAM’s remake of We Come to This Place for Magic 

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

• The Worst Person In The World

• La La Land

• Oslo, August 31st

• Frankenstein (2025)

• Hamnet 

• The Phoenician Scheme 

• On The Rocks 

• Somewhere 

• Priscilla 

• Jane Austen Wrecked My Life 

• Station Eleven 

• Oceans Eleven

• Oceans 8

• Irreversible 

• The Piano Teacher 

• Clouds of Sils Maria 

• Mountainhead 

• Inglorious Basterds 

• A Real Pain

• The White Lotus 

• Good Will Hunting

• Skåm 

• My So-Called Life

• Euphoria 

• Jeopardy!

• Reprise 

• August: Osage County 

• 20th Century Women 

• The Great Gatsby

• Romeo + Juliet 

• Skins 

• No Other Choice 

• Kokuho 

• Farewell My Concubine 

• Wicked

• Marty Supreme

• One Battle After Another

• Bugonia 

• In The Heights

• High Maintenance 

• Hedda 

• Roseanne 

• Jay Kelly 

• Frances Ha 

• Mistress America

• White Noise 

• While We’re Young 

• Robot & Frank 

• There Will Be Blood

• Dr. Strangelove 

• Licorice Pizza 

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