Episode 6: Sorry, Baby

We discuss Sorry, Baby by Eva Victor, a film that premiered at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival and also played at Cannes. 

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This episode has everything: wild speculation about A24’s business decision making process, Emerald Fennell haterade, thoughtful reflections on the use of time and trauma in storytelling, and of course, strong opinions about the Alamo Drafthouse’s popcorn. 

COMPLETE SHOW NOTES:

1:07 Sundance: A24 Takes ‘Sorry, Baby’ For $8M After U.S. Dramatic Competition Pic’s Bow

2:22 “Not everything in Obvious Child is played for laughs” – Gillian Robespierre’s comedy about abortion

3:45 Me and Earl and The Dying Girl: Fox Searchlight paid $12 million dollars for this

5:20 Indiewire Podcast: Eva Victor discusses ‘film grad school’, Barry Jenkins producing, shadowing Jane Schoenbrun

6:30 Indiewire Podcast: Jane Schoenbrun discusses making a film that recalls how something felt, not how it happened

8:22 I guess it’s technically Can-CHALL-Me

12:04 Temporal discontinuities and nonlinear structure in the work of Toni Morrison and it’s relation to trauma and Freuds Theory of Deferred Action: “Memory is reprinted in accordance with later experience”. – Charlene meant Beloved, not The Bluest Eye.

13:54 End of the End of the Line: Temporality in Infinite Jest Is a Broken Circle

15:38 Tennis Balls, Heads, Annular Defloration Cycles…there are a lot of circles and cycles in Infinite Jest

22:00 Naomi Ackie on playing “unhinged” in Mickey 17

25:00 Promising Young Woman: The College Dean Scene

27:00 Authenticity is Dangerous and Expensive

27:30 John Proctor is the Villain Allows Female Rage to Thrive 

34:50 Jeopardy! Bar League at BOTH Alamo’s in NYC

37:00 IPic Fulton Market: The Ultimate Moviegoing Experience 

37:40 Lizzie Starring Chloe Sevigny as the Titular Ax Murderer

37:57 1/3 of New Bedfords Population Claims Portuguese Ancestry 

38:12 There Actually is an Opera about Lizzie Borden that premiered in 1965

40:01 Mike Leigh discusses his improvisational process and how he aspires to the condition of ‘documentary filmmaker’

47:48 The Case Against the Trauma Plot by Parul Sehgal

51:06 IT IS THE TITULAR ROLE

53:03 Paradoxes of American Individualism: “An individualistic culture attributes what happens in the world to individual interests and will—not to fate, God, circumstances, or social pressure”

55:55 “I Don’t Watch Ted Lasso”

1:02:14 Emma Stone in Eddington

1:03:03 Bugonia Trailer 

1:03:20 Splitsville: Dakota Johnson in a fancy house

1:04:00 Oh, Hi!: A gender flipped Gerald’s Game? 

1:05:28 Honey Don’t 

1:07:07 Margaret Qualley in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

1:07:25 Margaret Qualley in Kinds of Kindness

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

• Obvious Child

• Me and Earl and the Dying Girl 

• Didi

• I Saw the TV Glow

• Killers of the Flower Moon

• The Looming Tower

• Mickey 17

• Promising Young Woman 

• Saltburn

• John Proctor is the Villain

• Lizzie

• High Maintenance

• Scream

• Scary Movie

• SNL

• Jessica Jones

• Batman

• Lady Bird

• Trap

• Ted Lasso

• The White Lotus

• Parks & Recreation

• Eddington

• Midsommar

• Bugonia

• Splitsville

• Oh, Hi!

• Gerald’s Game

• Misery

• Search Party

• Theater Camp

• Honey Don’t!

• Hail, Caesar!

• Inside Llewyn Davis 

• Drive-Away Dolls

• Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood

• Poor Things

• Kinds of Kindness

• Raising Arizona

• Fargo