The Secret Agent

Happy Halloween! Charlene and Jackie are not just bewitched but also bothered and bewildered (positive) after seeing YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING, the movie on everyone’s minds (if you live in Brooklyn, New York). What is real? What is fake? Who is guilty? Who is innocent?  Why is Cinema 123 closing??? What could be more spooky? We get to the bottom of these questions and more on this month's episode. Contact us: [email protected] Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTokTime Stamped Show Notes:2:25 RIP to the Cinema 1233:38 RIP to the Kips Bay AMC as well 8:40 Nathan Fielders incredible nonsense rap video from 200813:32 The three main Liz Holmes texts Jackie was obsessed with: Bad Blood, The Dropout Podcast, and The Inventor18:27 Amy Schumer said, “we like to build up women, and then tear them down”23:51 Tressie McMillan Cottom: Charlene’s favorite public intellectual 26:10 The TikTok Charlene mentions about Billy being the evil gay behind a powerful woman37:26 Lance Oppenheim on exploding the documentary form39:30 Nathan Fielder, Dennis Lim, and Lance Oppenheim in conversation at the NY Premiere of YCSE at the NYFF.42:30 Nitehawk Cinemas ‘Adults with Infants’ series, so new parents aren’t left out of the cultural convo. 43:40 Amy Chozicks reaction to YCSE, including her commentary on the deletion of the family nanny.49:52 On Amanda Seyfried's coffee table: Dog Painting 1840-1940: A Social History of the Dog in Art 50:33 Dakota Johnsons Iconic Architectural Digest tour53:00 Good Old Neon: the short story where David Foster Wallace describes work as a “ballet of fraudulence”55:00 Jackie is confidently incorrect here, Amanda Seyfried was nominated for Mank but did not win1:00:27 ‘Drop It’ - Beyone’s iconic Homecoming cut 1:06:32 The two organizations Charlene convinced Netflix to donate money to after filming in a decommissioned prison were: Rehabilitation Through the Arts and Hour Children1:10:10 She Made Me Do It: A prominent dressage trainer shot a belligerent student—and now maintains that he’s the real victim.1:14:15 Bad Art Friend: the last time Charlene enjoyed ‘the discourse’1:16:59 Nathan fully in character on Jimmy Kimmel For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

If you love golf, this episode is for you. If you hate golf, this episode is for you. Charlene and Jackie close out summer by unpacking Filipiñana, a film so powerful it won the Special Jury Prize for Creative Vision at Sundance, spurred deep discussions about post-colonialism and indirect violence in the global south. As well as successfully tranquilized multiple members of a Friday night Film Forum audience.Contact us: [email protected] Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTokTime Stamped Show Notes: 2:18 The Filipinana Short that the feature was based on was Rafael Manuel’s thesis film at London Film School 3:05 “It’s just such an important part of why I wanted to make this film: to make the violence of the Global South relatable to Western audiences as well.”7:00 There are truly so many special jury prizes at Sundance (over 15)10:08 The book Charlene is referencing is Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and the director Jackie is referencing is Apichatpong Weerasethakul16:43 Both the costume design and the production design of Filipiñana were done by Carla Villenueva 21:35 ‘This Timelessnes of Colonialism’ And Interview with Rafael Manuel on Filipinana27:14 The sound design in this scene of The Shining goes crazy!!!34:29 You can buy the ‘Chairs I Have Loved’ Zine at the Old News Newsstand in Manhattan!35:50 Time to Say Goodbye podcast discussion on why Filipinos are great at karaoke36:00 Karen Tongson AKA Tongsonator 42:14 An incredible reflection on the cakes of Marie Antoinette 44:06 There are over 130 languages spoken in the Philippines!47:28 The 1988 Comprehensive Agrarian Reform Program56:07 A guide to the Icy, Confrontational cinema of Michael Haneke 58:50 Sign of the Times is both a Prince song and a Harry Styles song59:31 A little movie called Duets and the many instances of characters expressing themselves and or bonding through Karaoke 1:04:08 “I just want you to know that some people have war in their countries”1:05:08 The documentary about the harlem renaissance is: Once Upon a Time in Harlem1:11:35 Sissy Spacek and Jack Fisks marriage is one for the booksFor complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

It’s an end of summer double header! Charlene and Jackie go in on not one but two festival films, Teenage Sex & Death at Camp Miasma and Late Fame. There are laughs, mind blowing metaphor explanations, an on screen kiss that gave us the ick, and a truly unforeseeable digression (into the race war season of Survivor). Let’s go!Contact us: [email protected] Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTokTime Stamped Show Notes: 1:55 The Sparrow & The Chimney: A film we didn’t understand and don’t care to 5:00 The Film Comment Podcast With Jane Schoenbrun 10:00 There are in fact 12 Friday the 13th Movies, including the ones where Jason goes to Space and to Manhattan 13:12 Charlene’s Zine!!!18:30 The week it came out Camp Miasma averaged more money per screen than The Odyssey and Spiderman!!23:12 We also touch on Jolly Rancher Gummies in our History of Sound episode 24:06 BonBon Swedish Candy Store!29:35 “...A William Shatner Mask…”32:25 Richard Brody’s New Yorker review where he says movies about films are inherently personal to the director 38:00 I Saw The Matrix Glow: Similarities between The Matrix & I Saw The TV Glow48:37 Vulture’s The 100 Most Powerful Directors in Hollywood 51:06 A Brilliant 1895 Novel On the Emptiness of Literary Fame: Arthur Schnitzler’s Late Fame56:30 The Hipster Grifter (who then inspired the character of Homeless Heidi on High Maintenance), just in case you forgot 1:03:08 The trailer for WICKER1:04:52  Survivor Cook Islands: “It’s the one about the race wars”1:09:18  The NY Times Article Inside the Nantucket Home of Elin Hilderbrand For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

Join Charlene and Jackie for a mid summer cry over troubled teens - but also a fun discussion of memory, healing, and IFC Center Popcorn as they cover Sophy Romvari’s festival favorite Blue Heron. Contact us: [email protected] Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTokTime Stamped Show Notes:1:28 The tiny theater at the IFC center holds 32 seats. 8:54 “Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) 13:20 Sophy Romvari discusses Still Processing, screens, film, and memory17:04 Zia Angers ‘My First Film’ (2024)19:30 Charlene and Jackie are both wrong, the children's movie they are discussing is actually called Turning Red 23:40 ‘Everyone knows what love bombing means now’ - The Rise of Therapy Speak33:30 Conduit To The Past: Sophy Romvari discusses the technical decisions of how to depict memory in Blue Heron42:30 “Credits play out over snapshots of a teenager’s hand-drawn maps that reference such locations as “Fantasyville.” Outside of “Blue Heron,” these are maps that one of Romvari’s own brothers created in his youth. 45:03 London Falling and the New Yorker Article it is based on46:02 The book Jackie is talking about is Columbine by Dave Cullen47:00 “Nancy Jo, this is Alexis Neiers calling”49:00 The many folklore / Odyssey references in O Brother, Where Art Thou?55:45  The Unglamorous Financial Realities of 5 Indie Filmmakers 58:15 Severance creator was inspired by The Backrooms, but the similarities don’t stop there1:01:25 The art director from Obsession’s viral post where she discusses being paid $300/dayFor complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

We love I Love Boosters! Charlene and Jackie celebrate all things Boots and Boosters, including but not limited to: jaunty accordion music by a woman from Connecticut, silly jokes, hardcore leftist politics, fun outfits, dunking on Demi Moore, soul sucking demons, and more!Contact us: [email protected] Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTokTime Stamped Show Notes: 2:03 There are in fact no lizard people in Sorry to Bother You, just horse people. 5:30 Demi Moore made news when she got paid $12.5 Million for Striptease in 1996.6:51 Y’all Davos: With Many Changes, Did SXSW 2026 Flourish or Flop?9:02 Boots Riley on Cannes: “They Just Don’t Like My Stuff”11:00 Boots Riley is in the replies 12:46 Emily Nussbaum’s New Yorker profile of Boots Riley14:27 HI HEY HO - The Tune Yards Theme for I Love Boosters 16:48 I Love Boosters Reviewed in The New Yorker, which opens comparing the film to DWP2.25:09 Fustilarian: An obsolete victorian insult meaning ‘a low fellow, a stinkard, a scoundrel’27:00 Boots Riley discussing the relationship between his film and Dialectical Materialism33:28 The building that inspired Demi Moore’s tilted floor is inspired by the Millennium Tower which is not in Oakland but nearby San Francisco 38:55 How Costume Designer Shirley Kurata built a surreal fashion playground for I Love Boosters42:30  “Arts and Crafts designers sought to improve standards of decorative design, believed to have been debased by mechanization, and to create environments in which beautiful and fine workmanship governed”49:30 Marc Jacobs' incendiary Grunge Collection51:30 “Kurata made a point to work with up-and-coming brands, BIPOC designers like Sergio Hudson, Anna Sui, and Leeann Huang, as well as SCAD fashion students for the movie’s finale runway show”58:22 Verity looks fucking nuts 59:35 Am I Ok? And Not Okay: The same movie?1:02:12 Shooting a monster while riding a horse through the woods: Hope (2026)1:06:43 Just in case you too want to brush up on Dialectical Materialism 1:11:40 🎼 Shoplifters of the world 🎼 Unite and take over 🎼1:12:01 Is Shoplifting Ethical? Hassan Piker & Jia Tolentino weigh in For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

Two Women? In Gold? In this economy???Jackie and Charlene are back to discuss Joint Venture’s newest release, the Sundance 2025 film Two Women, directed by Chloe Robichaud. They dive into the snowy landscape of Quebec to discuss sexy movies and feminist reimaginings of iconic films, and the films they’ve enjoyed this spring. Contact us: [email protected] Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTokTIME STAMPED SHOW NOTES:1:00 Joint Venture 1:26 Two Women In Gold (1970)2:00 The Sex Comedy: A dead genre 10:10 The song sung in the bar is ‘Provocante’ by Marjo19:00 Women begin having their own bank accounts in Canada in 1964. 19:50 Audre Lorde: The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Masters House :)20:37 The Feminine Mystique was published in 196321:40 The Female Gaze in Two Women23:15 Fujoshi in the E. Alex Jung Article28:13 Janet Planet: middle aged coming of age film30:45 Director Chloe Robichaud on why she wanted to remake Two Women38:14 HIRE MORE WOMEN GUARDS40:12 Original Two Women In Gold one of the most commercially successful films in Quebec's cinematic history47:09 Croissant making scene in It’s Complicated 51:22 Kristen Stewart on making The Chronology of Water53:16 1980s remakes of French New Wave Films, streaming now54:04 Jonathan Glazer directed this!56:18 The soundtrack of Marc by Sofia rocks 1:01 DVD store scene from This Means War1:06:46 Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma: In Theaters August 2026! 1:08:57 The film that won the Golden Bear that Charlene is describing is Yellow Letters.For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

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