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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. Contact us: [email protected] Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTokTIME STAMPED NOTES:1:22 The Secret Agent won both the Best Director and Best Actor at Cannes 20253:00 The iconic Udo Kier 7:00 The SDSA, of which Charlene is a member 10:00 Kokuho: massive Japanese box office returns 14:42 Pausing on images of dictators: How The Secret Agent Appeals to the Brazilian Collective Memory15:35 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 Leg30:21 The official diagnosis for the Two Faced Cat is ‘diprosopus’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 history50:00 It Was Just An Accident winner of 2025 Cannes Palme D’Or58:50 2026 the first year with an Oscar for Casting59:00 The 78th Oscars where Brokeback Mountain famously lost to CRASH 59:30 Marty Supreme use of non-actors1:01:45 The english song in question is ‘If You Leave Me Now’ by Chicago1:02:00 Two Women and By Design - two movies we’d like to see1:06:10 One of the many ‘Jaws on the Water’ screenings For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

Charlene and Jackie kick off 2026 with No Other Choice, perennial festival darling Park Chan-wook’s latest meditation on capitalism, violence, paper, and snakes. Listen in for crazy theater mice stories, best movies about getting fired, what it means to be on an actor’s ‘team’, and more!Contact us: [email protected] Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTokTime Stamped Show Notes: 5:55 Incredible Stoker hair to grass transition 7:05 The Alamo transitioning into QR Code ordering12:00 The Landfill History of The Battery17:00 “No Other Choice” and Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” comparisons21:00 Alison Stewart interviews Park Chan-wook 23:23 Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism25:53 How to Make a Killing26:17 Best Offer Wins27:10 Jenny Odell on what No Other Choice reveals about the humiliation of work 38:49 China’s Dark Factories: So Automated, They Don’t Need Lights39:15 The house and greenhouse in No Other Choice42:22 Ryan Coogler on why the vampires in Sinners are Irish44:18 The Ax by Donald Westlake: written in 1997!49:18 EFT Tapping Affirmations52:48 No Other Choice: Snakes, Shoes, Wood details55:30 Elizabethtown’s Opening Scene1:03:38 They Will Kill You trailer1:05:35 Ronald Bronstein’s ‘Cinema of Anxiety’1:09:07 The Soundtrack of Aftersun  1:10:54 Vine of girl dancing with a live chicken to Two of Hearts’1:14:05 The Tilda Swinton genie movie: Three Thousand Years of Longing1:16:45 The cardboard chaise for Wuthering Heights promosFor complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

It’s a very festive holiday episode of Tickets Secured! To celebrate this time of year we've got:Games! (FMK - 2025 movie edition)Holiday movie watching recommendations (best movies to watch during holiday plane travel and best new releases to take your teenage cousins to, to name a few) Lots of fun reflections on Charlene & Jackie's inaugural year of cinema podcasting.Contact us: [email protected] Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTokTIME STAMPED NOTES:14:40 “Art by committee is a really bad idea” - Kelly Reichardt on why no one is allowed in the edit room with her19:51 “Baby, baby, baby, baby baby” - Reese Witherspoon goes OFF in Walk The Line21:55 The scene from The Shining (in Spanish!) that Jackie mentions seeing on Telemundo as a child27:56 Vogue: Greta Lee Makes 6 Movie Inspired Cocktails39:50 Christmas Will Break Your Heart (which is actually by LCD Soundsystem)41:18 The Connecticut Movie Hall of Fame 45:43 George Blanchine’s The Nutcracker featuring Macaulay Culkin, which was released theatrically!47:01 The Making of Eyes Wide Shut - Lisa Leone discusses taking hundreds of photos and conducting research for Kubricks Ext NYC Set49:52 The Plaza’s Home Alone Special Offer, which includes limo ride, cheese pizza, and a ‘decadent sundae’1:00:13 Aunt Cinema and Bad Dad Cinema if you have additions, email us!1:01:33 Crabs with Top Hats: One of Emerald Fennell’s many crimesThank you everyone for listening and for a first great year together!For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

Charlene and Jackie discuss Sentimental Value, the Cannes Grand Prix winning film from Therapized Norwegian King Joachim Trier. Is it as good as The Worst Person in the World? What does it take to repair inherited generational trauma? And have you seen SKÅM??? All this and more in this week's episode of Tickets Secured. Contact us: [email protected] Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTokTime Stamped Show Notes: 2:06 Richard Brody agrees with Jackie about The Worst Person in The World.3:10 “Those people dancing on the freeway”6:54 Paul Mescal’s Iconic Rugby Shorts 8:36 Bad Dads - Justin Chang reviews Sentimental Value 8:36 Bad Dads an art exhibition inspired by Wes Anderson's work10:50 The Trauma Plot strikes again 13:20 Joaquim Trier profile in the New Yorker 17:45 Station Eleven’s Hamlet Scene19:50 The production of Hamlet that we did not get to see 31:00 “I’m an old guy now” monologue from The Worst Person in the World34:10 The House in ‘Sentimental Value’ 36:10 The SKÅM GOOGLE DRIVE!38:50 The Taipei Film House was former US Ambassador residence39:03 The “horror film” THELMA42:35 Documentary about marathon running pediatric neurologist 46:16 Catherine Martin on her creative partnership with Baz 57:40 In The Hall of The Mountain King: Certified Norwegian Banger 1:01:41 Ira Glass expounding on ‘The Gap’1:04:38 Character transitions in Clouds of Sils Maria 1:15:00 BAM’s remake of We Come to This Place for Magic For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

A very special episode in which Charlene & Jackie fully commit to incorporating the themes of impermanence and incompetence in Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, which premiered at Cannes, into their own podcast practice.Follow us @ticketssecuredpod on IG, Ticketssecured on Letterboxd, @tickets.secured.p on TikTokEmail us at [email protected] In lieu of proper time stamped notes, please enjoy the sources of some ruminations on The Heist Genre and Kelly Reichardt that we arrived at in our (non recorded) conversation: The Quiet Menace of Kelly Reichardt’s Feminist Westerns - touches on KR’s ability to maintain an outsiders point of view and ‘normal persons sense of money’.A piece on Showing Up that discusses the common thread of precarity among Reichardt's protagonists and also mentions her iconic early work on America’s Next Top ModelJosh O’Connor and Kelly Reichardt discuss making The MastermindAustralian perspective on Kelly Reichardt’s movies and interview regarding The MastermindPhotographers that Kelly Reichardt mentioned inspired her and which informed the gorgeous production design and set decoration: William Eggelston and  Steven Shore’s parking lots The worst heist movie: The Goldfinch - Strictly for The BirdsThe best heist movie: The Great Muppet Caper - ‘they really toss em around like wet rags in this one’The Mastermind included sounds (and images) from the radio, TV, and outside the windows of the historical political context of the time setting even though the main character JB did not engage directly with the social movements unfolding around him. This reminded Charlene a lot about the main characters studied personal absorption tuning out the historical political context around them despite a very clever use of sound to intrude in the main character’s story like in The Zone of Interest. The art featured in the film is by Arthur Dove, and his work, in turn both jazz influenced and influential to much of the art featured on 60’s jazz album covers, neatly dovetails (pun intended) into the films jazz score Kelly Reichardt discusses the pleasure she takes in documenting processes and the small details that are often left out of filmsFor complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

Autumn has fallen in New York and Charlene and Jackie celebrate by tumbling down the stairs of the Angelika straight into Oliver Hermanus’s Palme D’Or nominated The History of Sound.A WWI (?), gay, heart wrenching movie starring mischievous scamp Josh O’Connor and former Phantom of the Opera Paul Mescal. Listen in as they discuss period filmmaking on a budget, the possible litigious wrath of Hanya Yanagihara, and what all this had to do with the Stomp Clap Hey music of Barack Obama’s first term. Follow us @ticketssecuredpod on IG, Ticketssecured on Letterboxd, @tickets.secured.p on TikTokEmail us at [email protected] Time Stamped Notes:0:47 Autumn in New York ….rated the #1 creepiest age gap film3:00 Oliver Hermanus has had multiple films at Cannes6:22 The jacket scene in Brokeback Mountain12:52 The History Of Sound: a short story by Ben Shattuck 18:22 Fat City: Both a film and a production company with a great logo 20:00 The cover of the collection of stories is the same as the poster is the same as the cover of A Little Life23:53 Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor Rationed Jolly Ranchers 26:00 Paul Mescal can sing!!!36:54 Malaga island conflict in movie actually happened in 191238:35 "Bury Your Gays" literary trope 43:02 The film began pre production in 202044:36 Indiewires Top 100 Movies of the 2020s So Far48:22 The Tragedy of Stomp Clap Hey 48:45 Every song in The History of Sound sounds like this 49:50 Trader Joe’s newsletter and Victorian art 52:30 Chris Cooper on playing the older version of Paul Mescal58:22 One of the many tv shows starring Julianne Moore1:01 Daniel Day-Lewis ends 7-year retirement1:05:12 The Baby Carriage in the Battleship Potemkin For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

Charlene and Jackie see The Sparrow in The Chimney at BAM and there’s a lot to talk about: so many animals, so many kids, so many scenes where we had to cover our eyes.Plus: Experiences with wild west Q&A Culture, why the English Patient actually rocks, and a harsh referendum on the New Yorker’s fall movie preview. Follow us @ticketssecuredpod on IG, Ticketssecured on Letterboxd, @tickets.secured.p on TikTok Email us at [email protected] TIME STAMPED NOTES: 3:30 We love BAM3:45 “I saw both George Michael and Maebe…” 4:20 New Directors/New Films 5:00 Ramon Zurcher and His Identical Twin Brother Silvan Zurcher  6:00 There’s Drama By The Pool 10:30 Mark Wahlberg’s red headed sisters in The Fighter  15:56 “It’s a film about destruction and rebirth” 19:43 Like a Nicholas Winding Refn film or Run Lola Run  23:40 Kaput 26:22 The rat in The Departed 34:30 Metaphoric settings in The Glass Menagerie and The House of Yes 38:00 The famous words of Leo Tolstoy  349:34 Amy Adam’s is Night Bitch  44:09 The Duplass brothers talk peacetime vs wartime  47:00 Michelle Williams on child acting49:00 A Typical Morning as the Horse Assistant Director on The Gilded Age 51:27 Sophie Fiennes and the film she directed in 2002 52:34 Marc Maron and Lynn Shelton on improv in Sword of Trust  56:43 Elaine Hates the English Patient  59:30 Walter Murch won a best Editing Oscar for The English Patient  1:02:28 The New Yorkers Fall Culture Preview  1:05:20 Bruce Springsteen and Phish play Glory Days For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

Charlene and Jackie go in and go off on Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor’s Cannes playing, Sundance Award winning debut. 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. Follow us @ticketssecuredpod on IG, Ticketssecured on Letterboxd, @tickets.secured.p on TikTokEmail us at [email protected] Time Stamped Notes: 1:07 Sundance: A24 Takes ‘Sorry, Baby’ For $8M 2:22 Obvious Child, a comedy about abortion3:45 Me and Earl and The Dying Girl: Fox Searchlight bought it for $12 million 5:20  Eva Victor discusses ‘film grad school’ and Barry Jenkins producing6:30 Jane Schoenbrun on making a film about how something felt, not how it happened12:04 Temporal discontinuities and nonlinear structure in the work of Toni Morrison – Charlene meant Beloved, not The Bluest Eye.13:54 End of the End of the Line: Temporality in Infinite Jest Is a Broken Circle15:38 Tennis Balls, Heads, Annular Defloration Cycles in Infinite Jest25:00 Promising Young Woman: The College Dean Scene27:00 Authenticity is Dangerous and Expensive27:30 John Proctor is the Villain34:50 Jeopardy! Bar League at BOTH Alamo’s in NYC37:57 1/3 of New Bedfords Population Claims Portuguese Ancestry 40:01 Mike Leigh discusses his improvisational process 47:48 The Case Against the Trauma Plot by Parul Sehgal51:06 IT IS THE TITULAR ROLE53:03 Paradoxes of American Individualism55:55 “I Don’t Watch Ted Lasso”1:03:20 Splitsville: Dakota Johnson in a fancy house1:04:00 Oh, Hi!: A gender flipped Gerald’s Game? For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

Charlene and Jackie dive into the JACU (Jane Austen Cinematic Universe) to discuss Laura Piani’s debut feature Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, which premiered at TIFF last fall.Topics covered include writers writing about writing, the cinematic equivalent of click bait, best book stores in NYC, and what happens when a rom com lacks com.Follow us @ticketssecuredpod on IG, Ticketssecured on Letterboxd @tickets.secured.p on TikTokEmail us at [email protected]:15 The fine Italian cashmere merchant Loro Piana1:20 The Jacob Burns Film Center6:10 The Jane Austen Cinematic Universe7:40 The Lake Scene, if you need to watch it at this moment9:45 Shakespeare and Company Shouting Out Jane Austen Wrecked My Life13:00 The Ginger Man–it’s a real book!15:50 As You Do A Gavotte18:20 Prime Example of a Jonesian fall20:00 Materialists: Kind of a Rom, not really a Com22:43 “It’s not girl gets boy, girl gets book”–Greta Gerwig on Little Women30:30 The Personal is Political by Carol Hanisch37:00 “If I have one wish, is that people go out from the film and they feel a bit happy and they want to read more poetry.”40:00 The Dish and the Spoon: Greta Gerwig Raging in Pajamas44:27 “Breadcrumbing”49:15 Set with great wallpaper and matching lampshade and matching bedding and wallpaper55:16 Two of our favorite NYC book stores: Kitchen Arts and Letters and Unnameable Books58:53 A history of Book Row, NYC’s historic haven for bibliophiles. The store Jackie references is Alabaster Bookshop.1:01:28 ‘The Chronology of Water’ Review: Kristen Stewart’s Directorial Debut.For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

Charlene and Jackie discuss Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet, a 2025 update of Ang Lee’s celebrated 1993 film starring Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang. Topics discussed include our favorite book to movie adaptations, how to retell a 1990s gay love story in 2025, Ang Lee being a repressed king, fake movie jobs, and how well placed plants can make a film more believable. Follow us @ticketssecuredpod on IG, Ticketssecured on Letterboxd, @tickets.secured.p on TikTokEmail us at [email protected] Time Stamped Notes: 1:30 Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet (1993) 2:30 “I have a lot of repression. So repression is what I make movies about” - Ang Lee, maestro of unrequited desire 5:45 Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx, published in the New Yorker in 1997 10:00 James Schamus, co writer of both versions of The Wedding Banquet 12:00 Lily Gladstone in Kelly Reichardt’s Certain Women 19:00 Andrew Ahn’s authentic, intimate directing style and redefining the romcom 25:40 The twists and turns of Park Chan-Wook’s The Handmaiden 27:15 Chaebol: a large industrial South Korean conglomerate run and controlled by an individual or family36:06 Robin Williams teaches Nathan Lane to ‘Act Like a Man’ in The Birdcage 38:33 The obligatory Romantic Comedy Grand Gesture 43:17 Emma Thompson losing it in Sense and Sensibility 50:34 Materialists Trailer featuring Pedro Pascals 12 Million Dollar Apartment 51:25 Do I Look Like I Belong Here? Working Girl and the Secrets of Class Politics 53:17 Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, Non Fiction, french people getting in the literary zone 54:05 Romeo and Juliet, or Juliet and Romeo????54:54 You Can’t Out Baz Baz58:29 The Historical Realism of Ryan Coogler’s Sinners1:00:23 Tony McNamara on The Great - ‘‘Historians have to know we’re making mistakes on purpose’For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

Charlene and Jackie debrief on Opus, the A24 pop star multi murder thriller/comedy (?) starring Ayo Adebiri and John Malkovich, a movie that shot straight from Sundance 2025 to the common multiplex in a mere two months. Topics discussed include tracing the trope of cults in 21st century indie film, unhinged behavior at Williamsburg Cinemas, celebrity profiles where the journalist gets lost in the sauce, would Lady Gaga ever commit serial murder?, and how a film can suffer from use of the wrong dining chairs. Follow us @ticketssecuredpod on IG, @Ticketssecured on Letterboxd, @tickets.secured.p on TikTokEmail us at [email protected] Time Stamped Show Notes:2:01 Community and Family: The Cult Indoctrination Techniques of ‘Midsommar’4:53 “She will never stop huffing paint” scene from Bottoms5:38 The Hustlers At Scores: the article Hustlers was based off of12:00 BFI: 10 Great Films About Cults 12:14 Oneida: The Peculiar Truth About The Sex Cult that Made Silverware 25:00 The Unconvincing Music of Vox Lux 34:00 Chris Evans: American Marvel 38:00 A Brief History of Rihanna’s Party Plane 40:45 Ayo Edebiri in Theater Camp as a counselor that lied on her resume42:40 Would you expect to find these chairs in a New Mexican cult compound? 47:40 Sick of Myself: When Main Character Syndrome Runs Amok54:22 Sound of My Voice: A Movie About Cults and Journalists That Is Good 59:50 Lady Gaga at Coachella: She Would Never Act In This Way 1:02:12 The Celebrity Profiles of Taffy Brodesser-Akner1:02:57 Molly Lambert and her interview with/profile of Charli XCXFor complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

We discuss On Becoming a Guinea Fowl by Rungano Nyoni, a film that premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival. Time Stamped Notes: 1:22 I Am Not A Witch (Rungano Nyoni’s first film, premiered at Cannes 2017)3:24 AMC Class Action Lawsuit of which Charlene was a benefitee 5:30 Eileen (2023, dir. by William Oldroyd)5:40 Mean Girls The Musical (2024, dir. by Samantha Jayne & Arturo Perez Jr.)9:57 Joy Ride (2023, dir. by Adele Lim)10:06 Brigsby Bear (2017, dir. by Dave McCary)15:02 Shula dressed as Missy Elliot 19:10 Jason Bateman's expressions of disbelief in Arrested Development19:53 Sandra Oh and Awkwafina’s dynamic in Quiz Lady  44:05 Zadie Smith: “​​ Can’t go home, can’t leave home: a subject close to my heart”52:50 The Farewell (2019, dir. by Lulu Wang)53:00 Minari (2020, dir. by Lee Isaac Chung)54:35 The Joy Luck Club (1993, dir. by Wayne Wang)58:48 A Discussion About Black Welsh Film 1:06:20 The Bechdel Test 1:07:24 Glengarry Glen Ross (1992, dir. by James Foley)1:08:28 She Said and the Canon of #MeToo films 1:13:13 Bob Trevino Likes It1:13:22 Sister Midnight 1:13:48 All We Imagine as Light (2024, dir. by Payal Kapadia)1:14:12 Superhero movie where Florence Pugh (?) has a russian accent (??)1:14:38 We Come to This Place for Magic 1:15:44 La Chimera (2023, directed by Alice Rohrwacher)1:16:00 The Florida Project (2017, directed by Sean Baker)1:16:53 Girls Will Be Girls (2024, directed by Shuchi Talati)For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

The pod's maiden voyage discussing Universal Language by Matthew Rankin, Ila Firouzabadi, and Pirouz Nemati.Follow us @ticketssecuredpod on instagram, @TicketsSecured on Letterboxd, @tickets.secured.p on TikTokEmail us [email protected] Stamped Notes: 3:22 - The Twentieth Century5:13 - High Maintenance7:00 - The Grand Budapest Hotel8:00 - Asteroid City, The Royal Tenenbaums and the precocious children and signage of Wes Anderson10:23 - Brechtian Theater and drawing attention to artifice13:30 - Agnes Varda, Sean Baker and ‘Film at the Margins’24:00 - Winnipeg's Iranian Community26:00 - Taste of Cherry 27:00 - Iranian coming of age films that influenced Universal Language 28:40 - The 180 Degree Rule that Matthew Rankin intentionally breaks30:43 - The connections of all the characters in Paul Thomas Anderson’s Magnolia31:25 - Macguffin38:34 - Tim Horton’s Donut Shop 44:53 - Iranian tradition of directors appearing in their own films and blurring the lines between fiction and reality47:08 - (Some Of) Matthew Rankins Short Films (1) (2) 50:50 - Public Sector Office52:39 - David Cronenberg’s The Shrouds and Crimes of The Future 53:06 - Rungano Nyoni’s On Becoming a Guinea Fowl1:09:05 Don’t Worry He Won’t Get Far on Foot (2018) Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again (Also 2018)Matthew Rankin Interviews: Q With Tom Power & For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com