Episode 13: The Secret Agent
Take a jet to Brazil with Charlene and Jackie as they go undercover to talk about The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonca Filho’s Cannes crushing, Oscar nominations reaping, 1970’s vibe emitting neo noir.
COMPLETE SHOW NOTES:
3:00 The iconic Udo Kier
5:50 A Q&A for Bacarau was the last event the IFC Center held before shutting down for Covid
7:00 The SDSA, of which Charlene is a member
10:00 Kokuho: Beautiful set pieces of Kabuki Drama, massive Japanese box office returns
14:42 Pausing on images of dictators: How The Secret Agent Appeals to the Brazilian Collective Memory
15:35 The Secret Agent and The Year in Movies About Resistance by Alison Willmore
24:15 Kleber Mendonça Filho And Wagner Moura On Brazil’s Urban Legend Of The Hairy Leg
33:04 What is a normal amount of dead people for Carnival?
35:00 The cinema turned blood bank was something Filho pulled from real life.
45:00 Wagner Moura on interrogating history - “how can you not know it?”
58:50 2026 Is the first year in which the Academy will honor an achievement in Casting
59:00 The 78th Oscars was the ceremony where Brokeback Mountain famously lost to CRASH
59:30 The cast of Marty Supreme employed a, “sprawling lineup of musicians, comedians and other nonactors”
1:01:45 The english song in question is ‘If You Leave Me Now’ by Chicago
1:02:00 Two Women and By Design - two movies we’d like to see
1:06:10 One of the many ‘Jaws on the Water’ screenings
Full List of Movies, TV Shows, and Plays Referenced in this episode:
Bacarau
The Bride!
After The Hunt
Kokuho
The Phoenician Scheme
Universal Language
One Battle After Another
Law & Order
On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
Jaws
The Pitt
Sentimental Value
No Other Choice
It Was Just An Accident
Brokeback Mountain
Crash
Sinners
Marty Supreme
Two Women
By Design
Hamnet
Late Fame
The Chronology of Water
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