Episode 16: Blue Heron
Join Charlene and Jackie for a mid summer cry over troubled teens - but also a fun discussion of memory, healing, and IFC Center Popcorn as they cover Sophy Romvari’s festival favorite Blue Heron.
COMPLETE SHOW NOTES:
1:28 The tiny theater at the IFC center holds 32 seats.
8:54 “Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) includes a frequent and ongoing pattern of anger, irritability, arguing and defiance toward parents and other authority figures.”
13:20 Sophy Romvari discusses Still Processing, screens, film, and memory
17:04 Zia Angers ‘My First Film’ (2024)
19:30 Charlene and Jackie are both wrong, the children's movie they are discussing is actually called Turning Red
23:40 ‘Everyone knows what love bombing means now’ - The Rise of Therapy Speak
33:30 Conduit To The Past: Sophy Romvari discusses the technical decisions of how to depict memory in Blue Heron
42:30 “Credits play out over snapshots of a teenager’s hand-drawn maps that reference such locations as “Fantasyville.” Outside of “Blue Heron,” these are maps that one of Romvari’s own brothers created in his youth. Within the film, they are the work of Jeremy (Edik Beddoes), the teenage sibling of eight-year-old Sasha (Eylul Guven)”
45:03 London Falling and the New Yorker Article it is based on
46:02 The book Jackie is talking about is Columbine by Dave Cullen
47:00 “Nancy Jo, this is Alexis Neiers calling”
49:00 The many folklore / Odyssey references in O Brother, Where Art Thou?
55:45 “I do still have a job at a movie theater that I work at whenever I am home. The preview screenings for Blue Heron in Toronto were at that movie theater, so I got to introduce the film there. But leading up to that, I was literally selling tickets to my own movie” - The Unglamorous Financial Realities of 5 Indie Filmmakers
58:15 Severance creator was inspired by The Backrooms, but the similarities don’t stop there
1:01:25 The art director from Obsession’s viral post where she discusses being paid $300/day
Full List of Movies, TV Shows, and Plays Referenced in this episode:
Janet Planet
Still Processing
Aftersun
The Souvenir
The Souvenir Part II
The Secret Agent
My First Film
Petite Maman
Turning Red
The Flight Attendant
Mid ‘90s
We Need to Talk About Kevin
Rebel Without a Cause
The Bad Seed
Sentimental Value
Adolescence
The Bling Ring
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
The Wrong Girls
The Chronology of Water
The Odyssey
O Brother, Where Are Thou?
Father Mother Sister Brother
Permanent Vacation
Night On Earth
Mystery Train
Coffee & Cigarettes
Only Lovers Left Alive
The Dead Don’t Die
Project Hail Mary
Cabin in the Woods
Lost
Buffy The Vampire Slayer
Toy Story 5
Romeo + Juliet
How To Make a Killing
Backrooms
Obsession
Severance
Unreal
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