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Greetings programs! This week, we're diving into the world of the Hunger Games with the new prequel The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and then taking a look at Span's entry for the Best International Feature award at this year's Oscars, The Society of the Snow. 

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In de Texaanse woestijn van de jaren vijftig ligt een stadje, wat één keer per jaar opleeft met de komst van een grote sterrenkijkersconventie. Het is typisch zo'n sluimerend plaatsje waar atoombommen worden getest en waar ufo's landen. En hier stranden Augie Steenbeck en zijn kinderen, als ze met de auto op weg zijn naar de vader van zijn overleden vrouw. Dit is Asteroid City. Althans, dat is het op een podium. Want Asteroid City is niet echt, het is de setting van een toneelstuk.

Voor filmdocent Rudi de Boer is dit – na The French Dispatch – de film waar regisseur Wes Anderon hem misschien voorlopig wel echt verloren heeft. De bonte cast aan filmsterren en de prachtige visuele stijl kunnen hem deze keer echt niet meer bekoren. Want alle lagen die Anderson over elkaar heen legt, maken de inhoud van de film deze keer te ondoordringbaar.

De Boer is een regelrechte veelkijker, en geeft in het hele land lezingen over films. Eventueel zelfs in sluimerende woestijnstadjes. En ook wordt hij geregeld te geïnterviewd op tv om zijn licht te schijnen op nieuwe ontwikkelingen in de filmwereld, als die weer de aandacht trekken van de redacties van o.a. RTL Nieuws et cetera.

Met host Ruud heeft hij het ook over hoe grote filmmakers altijd dezelfde film opnieuw maken, dat het nu Jason Schwartzman is die de gemankeerde vader speelt, en naturlijk over de AI-trailers van fictieve Wes Anderson-films.

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• Rudi over Sorry We Missed You: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCvQ6O422XM 
• Rudi praat in het RTL Nieuws over de hype rond Don't Look Up: https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/editienl/artikel/5277776/filmhype-twitter-hashtags-dont-look-hoe-ontstaat-een-hype 
• Cursus Filmgeschiedenis van Rudi in zijn woonplaats Utrecht: https://www.hartlooper.nl/filmgeschiedenis-door-rudi-de-boer/ 

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• The missing Bill Murray part from Asteroid City: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oBYU7JMqp3o 
• 'The Perfect Asteroid City Double Feature, According to the Cast of Asteroid City' op Letterboxd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_UUrKvF9P8 

Greetings programs!  This week, we're taking on two films new to Disney+: Kenneth Branagh's latest Poirot mystery, A Haunting in Venice, and the new Awkwafina & Sandra Oh starring comedy Quiz Lady.   

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Greetings programs!  This week, we dive head first into the world of Wes Anderson with Asteroid City, and then we jump off a cliff with Tom Cruise in Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part 1.  Join us!

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Brennan & Mama K return for Wes Anderson's latest; it's Asteroid City

Wes Anderson's latest movie features a large ensemble in a small desert town during the mid-1950s. Ashley & Matt review Asteroid City in this episode.

Erik Childress and Steve Prokopy look at seven new movies this week. They include a documentary on an artist from the 1980s (Make Me Famous) and Ike Barinholtz takes on political muckrucking in a faux documentary (Maximum Truth). The director of The Notebook takes to cults, revenge and extreme violence (God is a Bullet) while Shudder offers a film that can best be described as Straw Goblins (Unwelcome). Wes Anderson adds a little science-fiction into his pastels (Asteroid City). Jennifer Lawrence signs up to “date” the hell out of a college-bound kid (No Hard Feelings) and Steve gets to way in with his thoughts on the end of an era in adventure (Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny).

0:00 - Intro

1:45 - Make Me Famous 

7:56 - Maximum Truth

17:50 - God is a Bullet

33:15 - Unwelcome

43:44 - Asteroid City

59:36 - No Hard Feelings

1:15:31 - Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny

1:32:54 – Outro

Greetings programs!  This week on the show, we're talking about two super fun movies: Fast X, the 11th Fast & Furious movie and Spider-Man: Across The Spider-Verse, the sequel to the best movies of 2018.  Join us!

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Muffs! Christmas is upon us! We decided to do 2019's Klaus! a really fun, super heart felt Christmas story cartoon feature! We love this movie and if you havent seen it, go check it out on netflix right now! Love ya muffs! Thnaks for the support!

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Jesper is a spoiled young man whose father sends him to Smeerensburg, a village near the Arctic Circle. There he is to be the postman for a year. He ends up dealing with a hodge podge of locals, and meets an old, reclusive toymaker with a bushy white beard...

We talk about Klaus today with Rosa, as our 12 Days of Christmas continues.

Pour vous accompagner tout au long de l’été, on s’est fait aider pour vous proposer un petit conseil ciné. 

Une nouvelle collection qui s’appelle Pitch d’une nuit d’été autour du dépaysement.

Le dépaysement ne signifie pas forcément que nous allons nous déplacer et encore moins garantir un moment agréable.

Alors que vous soyez sur une île déserte (avec un peu wifi), en trek à la montage ou tout simplement au bureau, nous allons vous donner une dose d’évasion avec la destination du jour.

Fermez les yeux, nous allons bientôt décoller.

Aujourd’hui Steph, après une bonne course, nous fait monter À BORD DU DARJEELING LIMITED de Wes Anderson.

Le Pitch
Trois frères qui ne se sont pas parlé depuis la mort de leur père décident de faire ensemble un grand voyage en train à travers l'Inde afin de renouer les liens d'autrefois. Pourtant, la "quête spirituelle" de Francis, Peter et Jack va vite dérailler, et ils se retrouvent seuls, perdus au milieu du désert avec onze valises, une imprimante, une machine à plastifier et beaucoup de comptes à régler avec la vie... Dans ce pays magique dont ils ignorent tout, c'est alors un autre voyage qui commence, riche en imprévus, une odyssée qu'aucun d'eux ne pouvait imaginer, une véritable aventure d'amitié et de fraternité...

Le casting

Owen Wilson : Francis Whitman

Adrien Brody : Peter Whitman

Jason Schwartzman : Jack Whitman

Amara Karan : Rita

Wallace Wolodarsky : Brendan

Waris Ahluwalia : le chef steward et contrôleur 

Irfan Khan : le père du garçon mort

Barbet Schroeder : le mécano

Camilla Rutherford : Alice

Bill Murray : l’homme d’affaires

Anjelica Huston : Patricia Whitman, la mère

Natalie Portman : l’ex-compagne de Jack