Anne Reid – This Had Oscar Buzz

We who loved his debut Martha Marcy May Marlene (see previous episode!) waited eagerly for director Sean Durkin’s follow-up feature while he worked in television and produced other films. That sophomore feature came almost a decade later with The Nest. Starring Carrie Coon and Jude Law, the film follows a married couple who move to England to follow the husband’s finance career, only to quickly get consumed by financial woes. The film also returned Durkin to the Sundance Film Festival… and then the pandemic happened.

This episode, we talk about Durkin’s upcoming The Iron Claw and Carrie Coon’s work in theatre and on The Leftovers. We also discuss how the film dabbles delicately in psychological horror, Jude Law’s playing pathetic men to perfection, and the 2020 Sundance Film Festival lineup.

Topics also include the National Board of Review’s Top 10 Independent Films of 2020, Durkin’s work on Dead Ringers, and IFC Films.

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We’re taking flight this week with the “women don’t belong in balloons!” heard round the world. In 2019, The Aeronauts’ awards hopes took flight by reuniting The Theory of Everything’s Oscar winning-and-nominated duo of Eddie Redmayne and Felicity Jones in the quasi-true story of a hot air balloon expedition that launched modern day weather forecasting. The film was originally intended for IMAX and early press promised a stunning visual display and a thrilling adventure for the ages. But when Amazon eventually canceled those IMAX plans and the film’s festival run resulted in lukewarm responses, The Aeronauts was left as a punchline for its unintend silly punchline from its trailer.

This episode, we look back at the Jones/Redmayne pairing as an unexpected one to stir a quick prestige reunion and the acting lineups during the year of Theory. We also discuss the cinematic output of Amazon Prime and their waning awards success since minimizing their theatrical strategy, the film’s divisive visual effects, and hint at what we have coming for our May miniseries.

Topics also include 1990s hottie Vincent Perez, our love of Himesh Patel in Station Eleven, and who these really good aeronauts might have bumped into in the sky.

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266 – The Nest

185 – The Aeronauts