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Vick's Flicks, Ep. 193: Recapping the 2026 Nashville Film Festival · Nashville Movie Dispatch

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  Speaker 1: Reviews, news, deep dives into filmographies, and really, whatever the
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  Speaker 1: hell we want to talk about from the movie world.
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  Speaker 1: This is the VixFlix Podcast on Nashville Movie Dispatch. Welcome
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  Speaker 1: in for another episode of the Vix Flix podcast right
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  Speaker 1: here on Nashville Movie Dispatch. I'll be your host for
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  Speaker 1: the show, the EIC at Sobros Network, Big Natural Stoney Keeley.
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  Speaker 1: You can follow me on social media at Stoney Keeley
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  Speaker 1: or at StoneyKeeley615, wherever you take in your social media.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be recapping the 2026 Nashville Film Festival today.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, I couldn't do this program alone. So
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  Speaker 1: I've got my co-host for the Vicks Flicks podcast. He
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  Speaker 1: is the man whose namesake this show bears. He is
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  Speaker 1: a board member of the Music City Film Critics Association.
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  Speaker 1: He's a member of the Southeastern Film Critics Association. He's
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  Speaker 1: our resident film critic at Nashville Movie Dispatch, Mr. Big
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  Speaker 1: Shot himself, Brandon Vick. Brandon, how you doing today?
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  Speaker 2: Howdy ho, neighbor.
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  Speaker 1: Is that a little Wilson from Home Improvement? Was that
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  Speaker 1: his name?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, sort of. Or Mr. Hankey. Howdy ho.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. All right. I'm glad the moment we start recording,
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  Speaker 1: these cats start wanting to act up.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah. Is one in here?
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  Speaker 1: Bucky? Yeah, he's scratching at the door. He thinks we've
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  Speaker 1: been cleaning the house and we have a miniature like
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  Speaker 1: three foot Christmas tree that that cat loves to chew on. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's looking. And we took it out of the guest
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  Speaker 1: room closet because we're going to have company here in
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  Speaker 1: a couple of days. And so I just had it
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  Speaker 1: in the guest bathroom so that he couldn't get to it.
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  Speaker 1: But one day I opened the door to use the
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  Speaker 1: bathroom and he saw the tree in there. And ever
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  Speaker 1: since then, he's been clawing at that door to try
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  Speaker 1: and get in there, but it's not in there anymore.
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  Speaker 2: His head's stuck in a world championship right now. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know what he's doing, but I just see
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  Speaker 1: his tail swishing. So he's, he's like, I hear, I
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  Speaker 1: hear my dad and uncle Brandon talking. So now's the
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  Speaker 1: time to, to be.
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  Speaker 2: Let me sneak in here. Yeah. They won't notice.
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  Speaker 1: So. We have a film festival to talk about today.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, yeah. I don't know about you. It
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  Speaker 2: didn't all go to plan.
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  Speaker 1: It certainly did not for me.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, as we thought. For myself, birthdays, a work trip
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  Speaker 2: got all up in there. But I was able to
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  Speaker 2: go to three days in person. Wow. and mainly saw
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  Speaker 2: a couple. For those that don't know, we did a
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  Speaker 2: preview podcast, so I was able to see three, I think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, you talked about three movies from that show. So
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  Speaker 1: reviews for those are a couple episodes back.
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  Speaker 2: And so that helped because the week of... It was
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more chaotic than I was hoping, but
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  Speaker 2: I still saw some good ones. I think I saw 14.
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  Speaker 2: I really wanted 15, but I got worn down. But
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to say, one of the better Nashville Film
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  Speaker 2: Festivals in a while.
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  Speaker 1: I will say... Just selection-wise. From the selection, it did
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  Speaker 1: kind of feel, and kind of keeping up, I was
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  Speaker 1: able to go in person one day, saw a couple
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  Speaker 1: of films, and I watched one virtually before I was
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  Speaker 1: in and out of the hospital for a week, which
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if you realize this. A year ago,
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  Speaker 1: almost to the day, I was in the hospital for
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  Speaker 1: a swollen testicle for three days.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That turned out to be sepsis.
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  Speaker 2: This Nashville film festival.
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  Speaker 1: And then a year, a year later, my mother's in
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  Speaker 1: the hospital, not for a swollen testicle, but right.
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  Speaker 2: Well, I hope not. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: She had a nasty fall. So I was taking care
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  Speaker 1: of her for four days and eight into the time
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  Speaker 1: that I was, I could watch movies, but like just
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  Speaker 1: from talking to people, hearing people chat, you know, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of filmmakers around the festival. When I went,
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  Speaker 1: it was the world premiere of Flint that Friday night.
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  Speaker 1: my wife and I went to see a film by
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  Speaker 1: Mickey Keating called crooks. And then we saw your mother,
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  Speaker 1: your mother, your mother. And you just kind of hear
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  Speaker 1: the chatter. You hear people like, yeah, I worked on this.
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  Speaker 1: I worked on that. Or we were here earlier for this.
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  Speaker 1: And I just, I kept hearing people saying like, man,
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  Speaker 1: it's really good vibes here this year. Like really good selection.
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  Speaker 1: Like I've got tickets for a lot of stuff. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I saw this today. It was, it was really good.
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  Speaker 1: And you know, you should check it out. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: saw this. You should check this out.
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  Speaker 2: And that happened to me on a couple of things
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  Speaker 2: that made me end up, um, seeing stuff like Jack
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  Speaker 2: rabbit was one.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. That was on the virtual cinema. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I caught, uh, a colleague coming out and it,
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  Speaker 2: that's what he had just seen. And he really, he
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  Speaker 2: really liked it. Uh, and thought it was pretty cool. So,
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  Speaker 2: but that's the beauty of film festivals, you know, it's
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  Speaker 2: that one mouth. And then the jury, uh, And then
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  Speaker 2: they kind of do a best of the fest, which
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  Speaker 2: I think that's the jury winners. Then they do kind
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  Speaker 2: of the audience award winners and backed by popular demand,
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  Speaker 2: that type stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. And so I hated that my experience got cut
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  Speaker 1: short because that Sunday was loaded, man. I mean, there
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  Speaker 1: was a lot of stuff.
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  Speaker 2: It was too loaded where you could really only see
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  Speaker 2: one of like probably the four films you would have liked.
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  Speaker 1: To have seen. Well, I mean, I was on the
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  Speaker 1: radio talking about the shitty Tennessee Titans, but... Who? The
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  Speaker 1: Tennessee Titans.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, never heard of them.
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  Speaker 1: They are allegedly in the NFL.
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  Speaker 2: Never heard of them. I'm a big Cardinals fan.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, good for you. They're having a great season.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly. Exactly. Kurt Warner.
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  Speaker 1: So I didn't get to see I Play Rocky, which
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  Speaker 1: actually isn't getting really good reviews. Here's the thing.
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  Speaker 2: It got great word of mouth coming out of TIFF,
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  Speaker 2: I think.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: But... The reviews have it at like 60-something percent, so
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  Speaker 2: I'm confused as to where that disconnect is. I think
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  Speaker 2: it's a feel-good crowd pleaser, and I don't think it's
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  Speaker 2: very challenging. I don't think the storytelling itself is challenging
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  Speaker 2: the audience. It's an underdog story about the ultimate underdog film.
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  Speaker 1: An underdog story about an underdog story.
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  Speaker 2: Correct. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: But I wanted to see it, didn't get a chance to.
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  Speaker 1: I know that was one of the big special presentations.
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  Speaker 2: Your mother, your mother, your mother that you did get
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  Speaker 2: to see, I really wanted to see, but I could
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  Speaker 2: not make it on Friday night. That's the one I
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  Speaker 2: think I'm most jealous about. That Sunday, I saw the leader.
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  Speaker 2: There was the liberation that had Carrie Coon in it.
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  Speaker 2: I Play Rocky, the leader.
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  Speaker 1: I think A Talent for Murder was Sunday, wasn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I saw that too. I went from A Talent
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  Speaker 2: for Murder straight into the leader, but I Play Rocky
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  Speaker 2: was also... in the mix.
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  Speaker 1: I hate, I hate how they do that. That's my
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  Speaker 1: one critique. And, and that's another thing I heard people, but.
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  Speaker 2: Almost all of those were like in the same announcement.
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  Speaker 2: And then all of them were put on Sunday night
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  Speaker 2: and it's like, Oh, okay. So that kind of stinks.
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  Speaker 1: That's my, my one critique of the festival is like, man,
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  Speaker 1: give us some breathing room on some of that stuff. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And I'll be honest. There are some other movies there
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  Speaker 2: where I'm like, I don't know why, but then I,
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  Speaker 2: so before every movie at the festival, They play the
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  Speaker 2: same video thing. I realized why some of those are
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  Speaker 2: in there because they are, they were from a specific
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  Speaker 2: production company and I feel like, Oh, this must be
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  Speaker 2: part of the deal.
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  Speaker 1: Part of the deal. Yeah, for sure. So I, I
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  Speaker 1: didn't get to see Flint. I wanted to see Flint
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  Speaker 1: because I like Louis L'Amour's books and I, I love
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  Speaker 1: the Western genre. Um, And old boy.
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  Speaker 2: What's his name? What is it?
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  Speaker 1: Is it Charles or James? Charles Esten.
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  Speaker 2: Charles Esten in Nashville?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's in it. Isn't there another guy in it?
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  Speaker 1: I didn't know who the main guy was, but they
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  Speaker 1: had that world premiere there. And this is another thing.
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  Speaker 1: This is not like a critique. It's just it made
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  Speaker 1: for a funny scene because my wife and I, like
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  Speaker 1: I'm in a hoodie and flip-flops.
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  Speaker 2: And just shorts with.
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  Speaker 1: My long hair and a baseball cap on top. Like
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  Speaker 1: I look like Joe Dirt and we ride the escalator
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  Speaker 1: down and I realized like, oh shit, they're doing all
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  Speaker 1: the red carpet stuff.
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  Speaker 2: You needed that blue or black button up shirt, whichever
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  Speaker 2: one you just purchased.
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  Speaker 1: All these people in suits and dresses and nice clothes.
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  Speaker 1: And then I get off the escalator and I'm just like,
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, excuse me, coming through, coming through. And of
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  Speaker 1: course I'm for people that don't know what I look like.
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  Speaker 1: I'm six to almost 300 pounds and like four feet wide.
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  Speaker 1: So like, I'm just trying to knife through these people.
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  Speaker 2: You're, you're like Rhino on spy.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, I got a couple of, I got a couple
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  Speaker 1: of dirty looks from people in fancy clothes and I
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  Speaker 1: just wanted to be like, I didn't do this, buddy.
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  Speaker 2: What I like.
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  Speaker 1: I got to go see Crooks. Get the fuck out
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  Speaker 1: of my way.
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  Speaker 2: Charles Esten. What I like is seeing some of these
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  Speaker 2: people that are like girlfriends or wives or husbands of the...
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  Speaker 2: But it's... And I'm not trying to sound mean, but
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  Speaker 2: you would think they're in LA.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. No, it is.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: You're not. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And there's like arcade games just right there. Like we're not...
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  Speaker 2: You know, we're not... This isn't like a.
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  Speaker 1: If you take this partition down, it's the concession stand.
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  Speaker 2: That's never fucking open. So let's not get crazy here. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, that's funny.
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  Speaker 2: I do.
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  Speaker 1: Man, I do love the Green Hills venue. Did you
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  Speaker 1: get to see any of the films? at hooky?
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  Speaker 2: No, I've been wanting to go to hooky.
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  Speaker 1: We should go. We should go sometime.
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  Speaker 2: But no, I was Green Hills and Belcourt. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I love Green Hills.
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  Speaker 2: And here's the thing. Hooky is it, is it locally?
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  Speaker 2: It's part of the national yards. That's basically downtown. When
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  Speaker 2: you talk about downtown, you talk about traffic. And you
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  Speaker 2: talk about parking. I know Green Hills. I know where
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  Speaker 2: to park. I know how to get there at a
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  Speaker 2: good time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And it makes a difference. It's the same thing, which
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  Speaker 2: they didn't do it this year, but out in downtown
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  Speaker 2: Franklin and Franklin Theater. You kind of know when to
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  Speaker 2: get there, how to do it. But basically, any of
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  Speaker 2: these locations, now we'll say Green Hills and Belcourt Theater
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  Speaker 2: are not crazy places. like distance. Sure. That's manageable, but
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  Speaker 2: anything else, forget it by the time. And there's, and
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  Speaker 2: don't even think about leaving one and going to the
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  Speaker 2: other and going back. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Which kind of goes back to the conflicting screenings. It's like,
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  Speaker 1: there's no time anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Basically where you park is where is where you stay.
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  Speaker 1: That is, that is how I line up. My festival
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  Speaker 1: experience is that I will look like, okay, what's at
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  Speaker 1: green Hills and which day.
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  Speaker 2: And now I will say for bell court, it's mostly,
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  Speaker 2: I'm pretty sure they always seem to have, the last
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  Speaker 2: day is at Belcourt.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: And which, which is nice. Yeah. Um, I like that.
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  Speaker 2: And I saw a couple of, and I saw a
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  Speaker 2: couple of films, uh, there on its last day, but
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  Speaker 2: I did like, um, I like green Hills. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Me too. Uh, my wife and I parlayed work with
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  Speaker 1: date night, which I know I hate to call it work,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, we do have to write, we do
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  Speaker 1: have to do this podcast. I mean, it's technically work,
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  Speaker 1: but we do enjoy it quite a bit. Uh, But
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  Speaker 1: we went to my wife. I met up with my wife.
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  Speaker 1: I lifted downtown from my home in Mount Juliet to
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  Speaker 1: her office downtown, hopped in her car. We went out
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  Speaker 1: to Green Hills, got out there about 530-ish and had
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  Speaker 1: tickets for Your Mother, Your Mother at nine o'clock. We
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  Speaker 1: were thinking about trying to go see Flint, but it
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  Speaker 1: was sold out. We tried to go see, there's another one.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a film called Crooks. that was playing
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  Speaker 1: at 7 PM. And so I realized, Oh, this is
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  Speaker 1: next to Flint. So like in my head, I'm thinking
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  Speaker 1: everybody's going to be at this world premiere. Maybe we
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  Speaker 1: can get in for crooks. We go to Emmy squared.
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  Speaker 1: We have a delicious pizza, delicious Caesar salad. I have
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  Speaker 1: a glass of Chardonnay, of course. And then it's like
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  Speaker 1: six 50. And I'm like, babe, I think we can
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  Speaker 1: make it if we push. And so we did, we
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  Speaker 1: paid our tab and we went over and down the escalator,
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  Speaker 1: fought through all the fancy people, and got to our
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  Speaker 1: screening of Crooks, which Mickey Keating, the filmmaker, was there for.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, nice.
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  Speaker 1: So he got to say a few words, and then
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  Speaker 1: we watched the film. And when I was on my
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  Speaker 1: way out to get in line for Your Mother, Your Mother,
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  Speaker 1: Your Mother, I actually had the chance. I told him.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, hey, man, that was a fun movie.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, nice.
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  Speaker 1: And I thought, you know, you can't beat it. That's
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  Speaker 1: one of the good things about the festival is the
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  Speaker 1: people you meet.
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  Speaker 2: It is.
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  Speaker 1: The chance to see someone's art and the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: tell them to their face. To actually face-to-face. Say, hey,
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  Speaker 1: keep it up there, slugger.
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  Speaker 2: I'm the prick that as soon as that film's over,
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  Speaker 2: I grab my shit and I leave.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah. No, that was us, too.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 1: When I say I saw him and told him to
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  Speaker 1: his face.
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  Speaker 2: It was.
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  Speaker 1: Because he was standing in the aisle way while everybody
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  Speaker 1: was watching the credits and I was walking by like,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not staying for your Q & A, but fun movie.
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  Speaker 2: Well, hey, listen, I think they appreciate it.
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  Speaker 1: And then we got into the screen for Your Mother,
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  Speaker 1: Your Mother, Your Mother.
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  Speaker 2: Was that sold out?
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  Speaker 1: It was sold out.
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  Speaker 2: It had to be pretty full.
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  Speaker 1: It was sold out, but the theater was not as
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  Speaker 1: full as I thought it was going to be. I
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  Speaker 1: was kind of surprised at how many. We sat maybe
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  Speaker 1: like fifth row up, and I was surprised. I looked back,
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  Speaker 1: and a lot of the seats were full behind us.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of the seats in front of us were open, though.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know. That was, um, maybe people get
• 14:04
  Speaker 1: too tired, kind of curious, but yeah, that was nine
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  Speaker 1: o'clock on a Friday. That was my day at the
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  Speaker 1: Nashville film festival, but I just, I love the vibe.
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  Speaker 1: I love the feeling, um, two fun films, which we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about over the course of the show, but just,
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  Speaker 1: you know, you, you can't beat it. And that's why
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  Speaker 1: I always encourage people. If you love the cinema, even
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  Speaker 1: if you can't go for the entire duration of this festival, um,
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  Speaker 1: Pick a day and just go see a couple movies
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  Speaker 1: and just kind of be around people that love the industry,
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  Speaker 1: that love the art form. It's just such a... Especially
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  Speaker 1: there in Green Hills. I don't mean to... I've got
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  Speaker 1: something in my throat. I don't mean to sound like
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  Speaker 1: I'm getting choked up. Oh, my God. Teary-eyed, emotional.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, my God. You're crying.
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  Speaker 1: Talking about it. But Green Hills, it's a fantastic theater,
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  Speaker 1: fantastic venue. I went to the bar and got a
• 14:51
  Speaker 1: hot honey old-fashioned.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, you got one of those?
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  Speaker 1: I got one.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, is it good? It is.
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  Speaker 1: Literally just... hot bourbon and hot honey poured into it. Okay.
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  Speaker 2: Well, that doesn't sound as it. Nice.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I would have opted to just go with
• 15:05
  Speaker 1: straight bourbon. Yeah. I know.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Um, but I can't complain. It's good bar, uh, good
• 15:11
  Speaker 1: restaurants around there like Emmy square and some of the
• 15:13
  Speaker 1: other places.
• 15:14
  Speaker 2: Have you ever been to that Italian joint?
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  Speaker 1: No, not yet. My wife really wants to try it,
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  Speaker 1: but it's always packed when we go.
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  Speaker 2: I've, I've always, I've only gone a couple of times,
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  Speaker 2: but it's really good. So, uh, Carrabba's I forget is there.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I do, too.
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  Speaker 2: But, yeah, and then now, you probably didn't even know,
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  Speaker 2: but at the end of the Green Hills Mall, there's some, like,
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  Speaker 2: huge sports bar thing now.
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah, I haven't been, but I know what you're
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: talking about.
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: I went once, and too loud for my taste.
• 15:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's what I hope.
• 15:44
  Speaker 2: But people get rowdy.
• 15:45
  Speaker 1: Yeah, they do.
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: I'm one of those where they're watching football, and.
• 15:48
  Speaker 1: I'm like, shh, shh. Trying to listen.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: That's like telling people to be quiet at a concert, shh.
• 15:54
  Speaker 2: I just want to hear it.
• 15:56
  Speaker 1: So yes. All right. So go, go to the Nashville
• 15:59
  Speaker 1: film festival.
• 15:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 16:00
  Speaker 1: If you didn't get to Joe, if you didn't get
• 16:02
  Speaker 1: to go this year, make plans to go next year.
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: Which what next year is 58.
• 16:05
  Speaker 1: I just wish they would go back to me.
• 16:09
  Speaker 2: I know it has changed it up with getting in
• 16:14
  Speaker 2: with like New York film festival, Venice film festival, TIFF. Yeah.
• 16:20
  Speaker 2: There's a lot of, It's just a lot of heavy competition,
• 16:23
  Speaker 2: and I just don't think, even though I think Nashville
• 16:26
  Speaker 2: could be, it's tough.
• 16:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it is.
• 16:30
  Speaker 2: It's hard out on the streets, I guess. Yeah.
• 16:32
  Speaker 1: So where do you want to talk? Where do you
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: want to start the discussion of the movies we saw?
• 16:37
  Speaker 2: Well, I want to start with a film called Where
• 16:41
  Speaker 2: the Hell is Anna?
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: Our buddy Kevin, who writes for Nashville Movie Dispatch, went
• 16:47
  Speaker 1: to see that one. I ran into him Friday, and
• 16:49
  Speaker 1: he was coming out of the screening of that as well.
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: So there are... I wasn't able to attend this in person,
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: but it was... It won Best... What was it? Best
• 17:05
  Speaker 2: Tennessee Feature Film. And Taylor Dupius, I hope I'm saying
• 17:11
  Speaker 2: that right, she stars in it, produces it, and directs it.
• 17:14
  Speaker 2: It is directorial feature debut. I will say the... The
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: performances are good. It's very much of a kind of
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: a horror comedy thriller. There's a little bit of mystery
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: to it. I was telling somebody, and I want to
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: think this was in maybe even the notes as far
• 17:42
  Speaker 2: as relating to the film, but I'm not comparing the two.
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: But it has some similarities to like Midsommar where this
• 17:51
  Speaker 2: is basically involving a cult. It's kind of funny how
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: this seems like there's a few films involving a cult.
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: The Leader with Farrah Farmiga and Tim Blake Nelson was
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: done with, well, a real cult, the Heaven's Gate cult.
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: But this one, it's like out in the woods. Everybody's
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: dressed a certain way. But you know there's something not right.
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: There's just something not right with it. And I feel
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: like that's where you can sort of relate to maybe
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: Ari Aster's Midsommar. Is it as good as Midsommar?
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: No.
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: I think it's... Where the Hell is Anna? I feel
• 18:28
  Speaker 2: like is sort of a... I like the themes that
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: kind of center around friendship and kind of who they
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: are and then who kind of what leads them to. Mm-hmm.
• 18:44
  Speaker 2: this path. And even, uh, her name's Derek. That is
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: Taylor Dupious's character. Who's gone in there to look for,
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: to look for Anna. Who's also called a harmony in
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: this cult. Uh, that's played by Alison Shrum. It like,
• 19:00
  Speaker 2: even she starts to kind of fall for it in
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: a sense, because there are things that might ring true to,
• 19:09
  Speaker 2: to who you are, what you're going through at that time. the,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: you know, the answers you seek. And, you know, so
• 19:18
  Speaker 2: I did like that you could, you could sort of
• 19:22
  Speaker 2: relate to like, okay, if you're at this stage in
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: your life and it is kind of the more vulnerable,
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: how you could kind of accept this when on the
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: outside looking in, it's like, this is batshit crazy. Same
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: thing with the leader. I do think it is... Um,
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: it is a bit predictable because I feel like the,
• 19:44
  Speaker 2: it's not that you quite know, like, oh, who's really
• 19:47
  Speaker 2: doing it. Sort of goes off the rails at the end.
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: end as far as the reason why and why it's happening.
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: I also just feel like you can really feel the time.
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: Like it's two hours and I just think that's it's
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: too long. I think there are things where you could
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: kind of cut some stuff out, make it a little tighter.
• 20:10
  Speaker 2: I think it'd be a little more thrilling. It'd be
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: a little more kind of enthralling as far as the stare,
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: as far as the story and especially dealing with Derek and,
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: and Anna, as far as where they come from, the
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: friends that they were, why they've been separated, why she's
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: come to look for her.
• 20:27
  Speaker 1: Um, it's good.
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: But again, there is a lot of similarities in other
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: stories that have been told before. But I feel like
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: there's definitely a great effort in this. And also being
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: a directorial debut, and she also wrote it. I mean,
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: there is a lot that I think is very admirable
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: about it.
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: Impressive.
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: Impressive about it. And again, it's indie film. I mean,
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: it is what it is. But this was, I mean,
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: obviously filmed in Tennessee. So there's a lot to like.
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: But there are some other things where you kind of
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: wish maybe if kind of the resources were directed in
• 21:13
  Speaker 2: other areas, I think it could have been overall more effective.
• 21:18
  Speaker 1: Gotcha.
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: But not bad. And it's a nice little surprise. And
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: I was happy for them that they won. I'm sure
• 21:25
  Speaker 2: that was a treat.
• 21:27
  Speaker 1: So you said you didn't get to that screening in person.
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: I didn't. No. Thursday, Friday, and Saturday were a watch.
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: Virtual.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: So I watched it. I watched it at home. But
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: I did. I don't know if I said this, but
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: I had Kevin whisper things in my ear as I
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: was watching it at home.
• 21:42
  Speaker 1: Oh, is that right?
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Because apparently he knew people that were doing that. Oh, yeah.
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: That were part of the film. Yeah. So I got
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: a really cool... You know how you used to watch
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: DVD extras and there was commentary? I had Kevin do that.
• 21:54
  Speaker 1: That was like Kevin doing that. Very well. I would
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: love that.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah. For any movie.
• 22:00
  Speaker 1: Who cares? For any movie. Kevin's commentary. Just rolling over the.
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: Do it for Secret Life of Pets. See how that goes.
• 22:11
  Speaker 1: Is there another film you want to talk about?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Or....
• 22:15
  Speaker 1: How do we want to do this? Do we just
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: want to go back and forth talking about movies until
• 22:19
  Speaker 1: we're done? Or what?
• 22:21
  Speaker 2: Well, why don't you, and if I'm not mistaken, I
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: think you're going to have like a more of a
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: discussion or a full review for this one. But I'm
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: interested in at least hearing kind of your first initial thoughts,
• 22:35
  Speaker 2: reactions after seeing Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother.
• 22:38
  Speaker 1: I really enjoyed Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother.
• 22:41
  Speaker 2: I've heard great stuff about it. I.
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: There are times in the film that it kind of
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: gives me drive vibes.
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: And it's, it's really cool. Like stylistic. It's a very gritty,
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: tense movie. One that it's one of those, you're kind
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: of dropped right into the conflict and it doesn't really stop.
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: It's very, very anxiety inducing and tense. And it also
• 23:07
  Speaker 1: has that sort of, like character with the complicated moral
• 23:12
  Speaker 1: code kind of like revenge a little bit, but a
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: little more like dumped into some crazy circumstances that wasn't
• 23:23
  Speaker 1: really planning on.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 23:25
  Speaker 1: You see those parallels. And that's, that's why like going
• 23:28
  Speaker 1: towards the end of this film, I was like, man,
• 23:30
  Speaker 1: this is kind of like drive. And as I'm watching it,
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: I'm thinking this is at least four and a half.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: I might sleep on it and think this is a five.
• 23:40
  Speaker 1: But the ending is one, by the time we get there,
• 23:44
  Speaker 1: I think you have to, I have no problem suspending disbelief, but.
• 23:51
  Speaker 2: I don't think you can be so gritty and grounded
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: and real for like 95% of the film.
• 23:54
  Speaker 1: And then for the final 5%, just all bets are off.
• 24:06
  Speaker 1: like let's establish some, some ground rules for anything can
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: happen here. And then it kind of, you know, I'm
• 24:13
  Speaker 1: not going to lie. It kind of took me out
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: of it a little bit. And the more I sat
• 24:16
  Speaker 1: and thought about it, I was just kind of like, man, I,
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: they had something there, but it's still good. I think
• 24:23
  Speaker 1: I still landed on like a three and a half,
• 24:25
  Speaker 1: maybe a four. I don't remember, but it's, it's still
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: definitely good. I would say, now I haven't seen the
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: volume of films that you guys have this year, but
• 24:37
  Speaker 1: I think Mahershala Ali should be in the discussion for
• 24:40
  Speaker 1: Best Actor because of this performance.
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: Oh, really?
• 24:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's fantastic. And then John Cho, one of the
• 24:47
  Speaker 1: biggest surprises, plays the villain. He's a villain, isn't he?
• 24:53
  Speaker 1: And he is just very... I don't know what the, he's,
• 24:59
  Speaker 1: he's very credible in the role and very convincing. And it's, um,
• 25:05
  Speaker 1: he kind of steals the scene every time that he's
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: in it, which caught me by surprise. So yeah, the
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: performances were really good. It has a really good cast.
• 25:14
  Speaker 1: And I think it's a very sweaty movie. I think
• 25:17
  Speaker 1: you're like, you're going to be, you're going to be
• 25:19
  Speaker 1: on edge.
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: Black snake bone.
• 25:21
  Speaker 1: Is that different? Different kind of sweaty. I still, I
• 25:24
  Speaker 1: still kind of like the drive comparison. But I just
• 25:28
  Speaker 1: don't think they stuck the landing for me. But yeah,
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: you're right. I do have a full review of the film.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: That'll be up at nashvillemoviedispatch.substack.com October 14th.
• 25:42
  Speaker 2: Well, and I want to say, because I think it's
• 25:45
  Speaker 2: in New York and LA now, and it's kind of
• 25:47
  Speaker 2: doing a slow rollout. But from my understanding, the star
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: is Did we say who the star was of Your Mother,
• 25:57
  Speaker 2: Your Mother, Your Mother? Who? Mahershala Ali.
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I just said he should be in the best
• 26:03
  Speaker 1: actor conversation.
• 26:04
  Speaker 2: Okay, cool, cool. No, I'm here. And the director, they
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: were supposed to do Blade.
• 26:08
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and I will say if.
• 26:11
  Speaker 2: Some people say Marvel, you effed up because now they
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: took that and made Your Mother, Your Mother, Your Mother.
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: If it took sacrificing Blade to get this movie, I'll
• 26:20
  Speaker 1: say worth it. Okay.
• 26:22
  Speaker 2: All right.
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: It was, I'm very curious to see because my wife
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: had no complaints about the ending whatsoever. We came out
• 26:30
  Speaker 1: of the theater and she was just like, I was
• 26:32
  Speaker 1: not expecting that. That's one of the best movies I've
• 26:34
  Speaker 1: watched this year.
• 26:36
  Speaker 2: Well, your wife doesn't really watch that many.
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: Well, she doesn't. And her taste is Netflix. Yeah. Her
• 26:41
  Speaker 1: taste is not the same as mine, but I, I
• 26:45
  Speaker 1: was watching the film thinking I'm like, Oh, she's going
• 26:48
  Speaker 1: to hate this because it's very violent. Um, it's not,
• 26:52
  Speaker 1: it's not a very cheerful movie. It is, um, very
• 26:57
  Speaker 1: much tenuous throughout from, from start to finish in more
• 27:01
  Speaker 1: ways than one, which, Hey, I love the layers thematically.
• 27:04
  Speaker 1: I think it's a very rich movie that has a
• 27:06
  Speaker 1: lot to say. Um, kind of the total package of just, man,
• 27:11
  Speaker 1: I think it really, it was heading towards five out
• 27:13
  Speaker 1: of five territory for me until the end.
• 27:16
  Speaker 2: And we've all been there where we've watched films and
• 27:18
  Speaker 2: it's like, Hmm. Yeah. And, but then it works the
• 27:21
  Speaker 2: opposite way where the ending feels so right that you,
• 27:26
  Speaker 2: that you kind of ignore the other shit that maybe
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: you had your doubts about. Yeah. Well, I want to
• 27:34
  Speaker 2: give a shout out to one because I literally bought
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: a ticket like the day or two before and it
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: was just added out of nowhere, but it did, but
• 27:42
  Speaker 2: it was at TIFF and it's the Mumford and Sons
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: documentary called The House Band. Oh, cool. And they did a,
• 27:50
  Speaker 2: Oh man, where did it start? It was somewhere in
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: the south all the way up to basically Vermont, but
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: it was a week long and they went by train.
• 27:57
  Speaker 1: Oh dang.
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: And every kind of guest person, they learned their songs
• 28:03
  Speaker 2: along the way. Like literally learning them for the first time.
• 28:07
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: So Kelsey Ballerini is on there. No, is it Kelsey Ballerini?
• 28:13
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: Darius Rucker and some other people are in there and
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: It was very entertaining to watch these musically gifted people.
• 28:28
  Speaker 2: And it's like the lead guy from Old Crow Medicine Show.
• 28:31
  Speaker 1: Oh, yeah.
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: Nathaniel Rateliff is in there. Maggie Rogers is in there,
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: along with Mumford and Sons. It was really good. And
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: the director was there. This was added on right before Tender,
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Loving Care, the Mike Lee movie. It was at noon
• 28:48
  Speaker 2: at the Belcourt. But I really enjoyed it. Just to
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: watch them learn this stuff, do their version of it,
• 28:58
  Speaker 2: piece it together, all on a train together. The train
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: looked awesome, by the way. I don't know. I guess
• 29:02
  Speaker 2: they rented it. Yeah. I'm not sure. But I love Mumford.
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: He's great. There's a part at the end where him
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: and Carey Mulligan hug, and I wish I was him.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: Don't tell my wife, but I wish I was him.
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: But it was really cool. And I didn't really know
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: much about it at all. And actually, when they first
• 29:24
  Speaker 2: posted it, it said the house band. I didn't even
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: realize it was a Mumford & Sons thing.
• 29:27
  Speaker 1: I didn't either. And it's on their special presentations as well.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
• 29:32
  Speaker 1: I just didn't even register. So that one was cool.
• 29:35
  Speaker 2: There's one called Lady. This is.
• 29:41
  Speaker 2: Per IMDb. Lady Isabella aspires to be in the spotlight
• 29:45
  Speaker 2: and local talent shows Stately Stars provides her a break. However,
• 29:48
  Speaker 2: high pressures and a loss of self lead to a
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: surreal situation on her grand estate. So... Samuel Abrams directed it,
• 29:57
  Speaker 2: also co-wrote it. C.N. Clifford plays Lady Isabella. She was
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: the older sister to the main character of Fleabag.
• 30:05
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: This was interesting because it's kind of an absurdist comedy,
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: but it's presented in a mockumentary style.
• 30:16
  Speaker 1: I dig that.
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: I think the main thing with Clifford's performance is it
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: does seem... quite outlandish at times it's it's purposefully done
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: that way uh and she's hired this crew and she
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: presents herself as a big deal things start to be
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: uncovered that maybe that's not the case i think where
• 30:46
  Speaker 2: lady really succeeds is within her performance and kind of
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: going kind of going digging below the surface of a
• 30:58
  Speaker 2: layered of kind of feeling ignored. There is a, there
• 31:02
  Speaker 2: is some grief or some loss that's, that's in there
• 31:06
  Speaker 2: for it. Um, because there's all this kind of, um,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: like I said, outlandish flamboyancy to it, but that's not
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: really the truth of it all. And there is, there's
• 31:22
  Speaker 2: a literal, like, something literally is starting to happen that
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: is very much of a, like in the most basic
• 31:36
  Speaker 2: and direct way of feeling ignored, not seen like you
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: don't exist. And that's really what the story, uh, becomes.
• 31:47
  Speaker 2: Now I will say there are things where like, you
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: don't really know what's, true and what's not. I don't
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: really think that affects your overall, overall experience, but it's there.
• 31:59
  Speaker 2: And the whole, I mean, the whole style of it is,
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: is fine. The mockumentary part, I do think the longer
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: it goes, the more it kind of, it gets a
• 32:13
  Speaker 2: little old.
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 32:16
  Speaker 2: It's tough to kind of keep that momentum. Like once
• 32:18
  Speaker 2: you kind of get it, there's really nowhere else to
• 32:23
  Speaker 2: go with it besides, like I said, Clifford's performance, which
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: can only do so much. The whole stately stars thing
• 32:32
  Speaker 2: that's involved isn't that, I didn't really think was that interesting.
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: There's other things I think that could have been explored
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: where we still could have added some substance to the
• 32:42
  Speaker 2: story that they're trying to tell without having to go
• 32:45
  Speaker 2: around this talent show. I understand why that's a part
• 32:50
  Speaker 2: of it. I just don't think we needed to truly
• 32:53
  Speaker 2: like focus on it as, as much as the, as
• 32:56
  Speaker 2: much as the film does. But again, it was an,
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: it was an interesting movie. I saw where, I think
• 33:03
  Speaker 2: in one of the things they talked about how it
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: was like salt burn. I don't, I don't, I think
• 33:09
  Speaker 2: we should back off of that. There's nothing quite like
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: for better or for worse. There's nothing quite like salt burn,
• 33:16
  Speaker 2: but there is kind of this, person who kind of
• 33:19
  Speaker 2: holds himself in high regard and it's in this big
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: mansion and she's by herself and like i i get
• 33:25
  Speaker 2: it i get why maybe you want to maybe kind
• 33:29
  Speaker 2: of grab onto that but that they're that's that's um
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: that's they're not in the same fair enough Yeah, not
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: even in the ballpark to me of each other. But
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: it was interesting enough because I didn't really know what
• 33:46
  Speaker 2: to expect. And I think as of right now, it has,
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: I think it's on digital platforms, had a limited release
• 33:52
  Speaker 2: on October 2nd. So, but it's called Lady, if you
• 33:56
  Speaker 2: want to check that out. So yeah, I mean, everything else,
• 34:02
  Speaker 2: I think the main thing was there's, the closing night
• 34:05
  Speaker 2: film was Being Human. For people that don't know, it
• 34:09
  Speaker 2: had its world premiere at TIFF.
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: Okay.
• 34:16
  Speaker 2: This is co-written and directed by Scion Hedder, who did CODA,
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: Academy Award winning CODA. She's kind of going back into
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: doing a story of disability. This is PrimeDB. In 1977,
• 34:34
  Speaker 2: disability rights activist Judy Heumann leads a historic 28-day occupation
• 34:39
  Speaker 2: of San Francisco's federal building, uniting protesters in a fight
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: for accessibility laws and equal rights. It also co-stars Mark Ruffalo,
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: Dylan O'Brien, Rob Delaney. So, great cast. It was good.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: I don't think it really kind of hit the highs
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: of what we know as CODA, and it is pretty
• 35:04
  Speaker 2: conventional in its telling, but I will say I had
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: never heard of Judy. I didn't know the importance that
• 35:12
  Speaker 2: she did, and we actually had a guest speaker that
• 35:15
  Speaker 2: was on the Board of Disability in Tennessee and how
• 35:18
  Speaker 2: she actually met her. and influenced her. And so that
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: stuff is really great to hear it again. It's a
• 35:24
  Speaker 2: conventional film, but for anybody that doesn't know anything about it,
• 35:27
  Speaker 2: like I didn't, I think it's still interesting enough. Um,
• 35:32
  Speaker 2: and I think it's, and it's, it's again, it's very hopeful.
• 35:36
  Speaker 2: It's very inspiring. So I think there's, um, there's an
• 35:39
  Speaker 2: audience there. Um, one of the ones I didn't really
• 35:43
  Speaker 2: know about, but also at one, um, I think it
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: was best narrative feature, uh, was called hot water.
• 35:50
  Speaker 1: Oh, I didn't even, yeah, I didn't catch that one.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: That was good. That was very surprising. It was one
• 35:55
  Speaker 2: of my favorites. This is on Letterboxd. A Lebanese-American teenager
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: gets expelled from school and is forced to drive cross-country
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: with his neurotic mother, but begins his punishment, becomes the longest, funniest,
• 36:07
  Speaker 2: most unexpectedly meaningful trip of his life. It's really good.
• 36:10
  Speaker 2: I don't want to get into, it's basically a road
• 36:13
  Speaker 2: trip movie. It's very heartwarming. It has some nice doses
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: of humor. It really caught me by surprise. I also
• 36:24
  Speaker 2: like Tender Love and Care. This is supposed to be
• 36:26
  Speaker 2: Mike Lee's last film. He's in Happy Go Lucky, Mr. Turner.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: The ladies in this movie are sensational. It's a lot
• 36:36
  Speaker 2: of talking, but I think it resonates. I think there's
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: a lot of significance in what they're doing. The only thing...
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: Two friends were playing social workers together. And they kind
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: of dabble into that balance of having such a tough,
• 36:55
  Speaker 2: difficult job into trying to live normal life. I wish
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: they would have leaned heavier into that. There is an
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: element to the story that deals with dementia that sort
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: of takes over. I wish it didn't as much as
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: it does. But I still enjoyed it. And again, the performance,
• 37:15
  Speaker 2: especially from the three... leading ladings, which one of them
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: is Cato Flynn, who is in Widow's Bay. They're sensational.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: And then The Perfect Murder, Helen Miriam, about the author
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: of Ripley, the talented Mr. Ripley. She did a few.
• 37:32
  Speaker 2: It's a very fictionalized version of sort of getting her
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: to write this last book. And I always mess up
• 37:39
  Speaker 2: his name, but is it Alden? He was so low.
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: Do you mean a talent for murder?
• 37:45
  Speaker 2: What did I say?
• 37:46
  Speaker 1: A perfect murder.
• 37:47
  Speaker 2: Oh, man. Michael Douglas. Thanks for bringing it up.
• 37:50
  Speaker 1: I love it. I was about to say, you saw
• 37:52
  Speaker 1: that at the film festival?
• 37:54
  Speaker 2: Yeah. It was weird because it said movie review rewind.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: I'm like, what?
• 37:58
  Speaker 1: That's us.
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: That's me. Yes. A Talent for Murder, which comes out
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: here in a couple weeks.
• 38:04
  Speaker 1: Theatrical release.
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: Has Olivia Cooke in it as well and Alden Eichenreich?
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: Ehrenreich?
• 38:12
  Speaker 2: Ehrenreich. Yeah, that's it. He was Han Solo.
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay.
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: Very, very briefly. It was kind of underwhelming just because
• 38:23
  Speaker 2: they were trying to do... It's basically a story within
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: a story within a movie. And they also were trying to...
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: I mean, listen, I've only watched a talented Mr. Ripley.
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: But there's really like... I think they try to surprise
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: you with some twists and stuff. I don't think it's
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: really there. I also thought... Helen Marion and Aaron Wright
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: should have had more scenes together. I feel like that
• 38:49
  Speaker 2: was kind of the most intriguing element of it, but
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: it's all right. It's okay. Anything else for yours?
• 39:01
  Speaker 1: I would mention, there's only two others that I saw.
• 39:06
  Speaker 1: I thought Crooks, and I have to specify Crooks, the
• 39:11
  Speaker 1: film made by Mickey Keating, because there's a couple of shows,
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: there's other movies that are called crooks. Um, it is
• 39:16
  Speaker 1: the Mickey Keating version. He's the filmmaker screenwriter for this
• 39:20
  Speaker 1: as well.
• 39:20
  Speaker 2: Person you talked.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: To the person I talked to, I didn't really talk
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: to him. I talked at him and walked away. yeah
• 39:26
  Speaker 1: so i i did i did think it was a
• 39:29
  Speaker 1: pretty fun it's like an old chicago crime noir like
• 39:35
  Speaker 1: you know bandits rob a poker room take the money
• 39:40
  Speaker 1: and run and then there's betrayal and they're chasing and
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: it is kind of like formulaic i would say it's
• 39:47
  Speaker 1: it's not that wild or unpredictable. Um, and the ending
• 39:52
  Speaker 1: is kind of, you can kind of see it coming
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: from a mile away once, once we get there, but
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: it's still like, it felt like a sort of tribute
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: to movies of a bygone era. You know, it kind
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: of felt like old Hollywood.
• 40:05
  Speaker 2: Was the journey worth it. I, I, even though if
• 40:08
  Speaker 2: you saw it from a mile away, you know what
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: I mean?
• 40:10
  Speaker 1: I would say so.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Okay.
• 40:12
  Speaker 1: I caught myself thinking like, I think I know where
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: he's going with this and that's pretty cool.
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: Yeah. As long as it's done well, it's okay. Everybody's
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: copied something.
• 40:22
  Speaker 1: Yeah, and so you go to movies like that and
• 40:26
  Speaker 1: it's like, that's fun. Which is what I told him.
• 40:29
  Speaker 1: I was like, hey man, fun movie. My wife really
• 40:32
  Speaker 1: enjoyed it, which we've actually established doesn't mean much, but
• 40:36
  Speaker 1: for what it's worth, she enjoyed it. And that was
• 40:40
  Speaker 1: kind of one of those films that remind you of
• 40:42
  Speaker 1: the fun of a festival. Because it was one that
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: we went to because we're like, Oh, we've got time
• 40:47
  Speaker 1: to see something before the nine o'clock. This has some
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: seats available. Why don't we go check it out? And
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: I hadn't looked at it on the film guide or anything. Um,
• 40:56
  Speaker 1: and we just kind of stumbled in just because we
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: wanted to watch a movie and it was pretty entertaining.
• 41:01
  Speaker 1: And it's kind of like, man, this is what the
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: festival is all about. Yeah. So I enjoyed that one.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: The other one I saw a part of the virtual
• 41:07
  Speaker 1: cinema was steadfast and true. The Cersei story, which actually
• 41:11
  Speaker 1: screened on some Sunday, the 27th, at the National Museum
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: of African American Music in downtown Nashville. So that would
• 41:18
  Speaker 1: have been a fun screening to go to, but, uh,
• 41:21
  Speaker 1: didn't get to on Sunday. I caught it on the
• 41:23
  Speaker 1: virtual cinema anyway. Uh, really, uh, interesting, profound look at
• 41:28
  Speaker 1: a couple, uh, Joyce and Walter Searcy from here in Nashville, um,
• 41:34
  Speaker 1: kind of, kind of pioneers of the civil rights movement
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: here in Nashville that, probably don't get a lot of
• 41:41
  Speaker 1: the notoriety outside of their community that they should. So
• 41:45
  Speaker 1: it is kind of an expose, kind of an introduction
• 41:47
  Speaker 1: to the work that they did, who they are, the
• 41:50
  Speaker 1: lives that they've touched. And it is quite profound. It's
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: a pretty short flick. I want to say it's only,
• 41:56
  Speaker 1: it has a 48-minute runtime.
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: Okay, wow.
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: So a lot of Fisk University, very steeped in Nashville history.
• 42:06
  Speaker 1: Freddie O'Connell's in it. Phil Bredesen's in it. I found
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: it to be quite captivating and a, um, a very
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: profound documentary. So I don't know where that one caught
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: that one. That one will be, but that if you,
• 42:19
  Speaker 1: if you get the opportunity to, to catch that, uh,
• 42:22
  Speaker 1: I would recommend it. I don't know why this thing
• 42:24
  Speaker 1: isn't getting some sort of like run at the bell
• 42:26
  Speaker 1: cord or something like that. Uh, just a couple screenings.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: God showed at Franklin theater.
• 42:31
  Speaker 1: Showed at Franklin theater, show it at hooky, show it
• 42:33
  Speaker 1: wherever you got to. It was a stardust drive-in, but
• 42:37
  Speaker 1: it was, uh, it was a good documentary.
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Good.
• 42:40
  Speaker 1: That's all I saw.
• 42:41
  Speaker 2: Well, I'm going to end by talking about my favorite
• 42:46
  Speaker 2: one of the festival, which actually I knew nothing about.
• 42:50
  Speaker 2: It won Best Music Documentary. It was a jury award
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: winner called Jail Time Records, which I think you and
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: your wife actually wanted to try and see.
• 42:59
  Speaker 1: We wanted to see it.
• 43:01
  Speaker 2: I had never even heard of it, but it is
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: directed by Dion Roach and Steve Happy.
• 43:07
  Speaker 1: It is.
• 43:09
  Speaker 2: This is on Letterboxd. It says, Dang. It was a
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: big hit. I tell you what, the cinematography is so
• 43:12
  Speaker 2: beautiful and how they're able to get in and show
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: all of these different characters in this prison. but also
• 43:39
  Speaker 2: make it look so beautiful and one of the most
• 43:42
  Speaker 2: hellish landscapes is beyond me. They are in it. They
• 43:47
  Speaker 2: are in the thick of it. This recording studio is
• 43:53
  Speaker 2: a gift that it exists in this thing. They also
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: do the music videos within this prison. And some of
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: the songs are quite catchy. I mean, they're posting them out.
• 44:07
  Speaker 2: where the world can see it. And, and you do
• 44:10
  Speaker 2: get to kind of know these guys and it is,
• 44:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, it's, it's, it's horrifying and it's sad, but
• 44:17
  Speaker 2: there's also this gift of what music can do, even
• 44:21
  Speaker 2: in the most dire circumstances is what music can. And
• 44:24
  Speaker 2: a lot of it is what they live for, especially
• 44:27
  Speaker 2: for some of them that may never see freedom. I
• 44:33
  Speaker 2: was really impressed with, with this one, this prison, One
• 44:38
  Speaker 2: of the things they say is it's fit for, I
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: think it's, I may have it back, but I think
• 44:44
  Speaker 2: it's fit for 800 people. And there are currently over 6,000.
• 44:49
  Speaker 2: Holy shit. And I mean, there are some sleeping on
• 44:54
  Speaker 2: the outside of, I mean, but there is this just
• 45:00
  Speaker 2: brutal reality of kind of what they've done. the regrets
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: that have faced some of them that, you know, have
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: not seen their kids since they were born things of that.
• 45:10
  Speaker 2: But then also the way music is, there's this talent
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: show that they have and the way that they're working
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: towards this and being able to apply themselves to something
• 45:19
  Speaker 2: instead of the alternative, which could end up, you know,
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: getting them, you know, killed and dead. Um, I really
• 45:29
  Speaker 2: didn't know what to expect, but it was, it's not only, um,
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: It's one of the best documentaries I've seen this year, man,
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: but definitely, um, definitely my favorite of, of the festival.
• 45:41
  Speaker 2: And it was very last minute. It won. I was like,
• 45:44
  Speaker 2: let's go do it. And so I'm happy I did,
• 45:47
  Speaker 2: which like you said, that's the discovery at the film festival.
• 45:51
  Speaker 1: Well, that's, uh, that's the end of my list. Any,
• 45:53
  Speaker 1: any parting thoughts before we get out of here today?
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: No. Like I said, it was a good run.
• 46:00
  Speaker 1: It was, yeah.
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: You can never see enough. Schedule is always the pain
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: in the ass.
• 46:05
  Speaker 1: Why they should go back to May. The NFL draft
• 46:08
  Speaker 1: is over. It's not football season yet. I got all
• 46:12
  Speaker 1: the time in the world in May to go to
• 46:13
  Speaker 1: the festival. Yeah.
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: Again, it was very, it's tough, but we know what,
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: we did what we could. We've got Kevin who's going
• 46:22
  Speaker 2: to have a thing. He got to see quite a few. Yeah.
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: Like you said, there's a preview show you can listen
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: to wherever you get your podcasts. So it was fun.
• 46:32
  Speaker 2: I was happy with the 14 that I did get
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: to see. And, you know, here's to next year and
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: hopefully I see more. Yeah. Yeah.
• 46:41
  Speaker 1: Well said. That's going to do it for our recap
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: of the 2026 Nashville Film Festival. For Brandon, I'm Stoney.
• 46:49
  Speaker 1: And until next time, you stay classy, moviegoers.