Cannes I Kick It

It's our second year as a predominantly Chicago based podcast, and the Chicago International Film Festival has rolled around again. This year, J. Catherine Traverse is joined by interlocutor Andy Germuga to discuss films including Gold Hugo winner The Dreamed Adventure, Gold Q-Hugo winner and North American Premiere Summer Drift, U.S. Premieres The Life and Deaths of Wilson Shedd and Trash Mountain, Everytime, and Behemoth! Again, every movie is about death. And yet, we have fun. Details on Cannes I Kick It? Presents There There (2022) at Eyewash Microcinema 11/25 forthcoming Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcathtraverse

The People have chosen and The Market has ended, so that means Andy has returned from Toronto and has so many thoughts about so many movies. Listen for thoughts on TIFF Award Winners LA BOLA NEGRA, ELSINORE, and POSSIBLE LOVE, as well as THE DIARY OF A CHAMBERMAID, ALL OF A SUDDEN, TENDER LOVING CARE, THE DEBUT, THE MAN I LOVE, BITTER CHRISTMAS, THE LIBERATION, and LOVE OF YOUR LIFE. And that's not even all of it, J Catherine's got thoughts on shorts like Forever...Forever, Prospettiva (1653), and Fevers. A smorgasbord of thoughts and also a brief survey of The Market floor and thoughts on seeing a movie at a convention center theater. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone and J. Catherine Traverse

Surprise! Fall Festival season is here and we couldn't pass that up! Andy is going to TIFF again because he is old and cannot break the habit. He and Emilio got together to talk about the landscape of Venice, NYFF, TIFF (focusing there on what Andy may be prioritizing) and more, as well as check ins about television, Ridley Scott, the state of Robin Hood Cinema and so much more. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone and J. Catherine Traverse

Another Cannes is in the books, so naturally we start off with a game about movies featured in the upcoming Tribeca lineup. Can we pinpoint the exact level of fame it takes to headline a Tribeca film? Eventually we talk about the shape of the festival from afar, some of the prize winners, and the overall narrative on this year's festival. We also have an in-depth discussion related to the festival world on the new rules from the Academy of Motion PIctures Arts and Sciences regarding the International Feature qualification for the Oscars. What are the implications for the awards, the festivals, and the overall distribution landscape? Then, J Catherine has been attending the Tone Glow Film Festival, and shares her thoughts on films like Levers, The Rib of the Greater Bay Area, Chronovisor. All this and Special Presentations! Send us money for journalism! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone and J. Catherine Traverse

J. Catherine has been to a film festival! The Chicago Critics Film Festival to be specific! Returning guest Greta Taylor joins us to talk BLUE HERON, THE INVITE, I WANT YOUR SEX, MADDIE'S SECRET and more! We also touch on the beginning of Cannes, the retrospective screenings of AI: ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE and THE FLY, as well as the difference between MGM+ and Prime Video, what's going on with Row K, and mankind's relationship to the animal kingdom. If you haven't seen Blue Heron and want to skip over our discussion it ends around 36:06. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone and J. Catherine Traverse

There are a few Cannes additions we give a brief rundown on and then it is time to use what YOU, our LISTENERS provided us to once again draft potential Cannes Juries. Using the list of POWERFUL NAMES we each select a 9 person jury and then select a President for that jury. We get into all sorts of questions about what a mononym can mean, how time works in this hypothetical scenario, and why our listeners skewed so heavily towards male coded names when the prompt was "Powerful." MAKES YOU THINK, DOESN'T IT? Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt See the possible names here Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone

Back on schedule, there's a Cannes Lineup to analyze, and all four of us are here to offer the kind of insight only we can provide. What wikipedia rabbit holes will be fall down? How many French directors can J Catherine work her way into recognizing? What do Kiyoshi Kurosawa and John Travolta have in common? Answers and more within! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt PLEASE SEND US POWERFUL NAMES! Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone

We decided, decisively and with a great amount of thought, to sit out Sundance and Berlin and South by Southwest this year. But Cannes's a callin', and we cannot resist the idea of at least one more festival season to chat about. So J Catherine and Andy got together to look ahead at what might play on the croisette- from the Neon lineup to the French obligations, we get into it all. We'll be back in 2 weeks to discuss how the lineup all settled out! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone

Rewatchability has been a key topic of conversation in the movie world lately. And we know we have to put our special Cannes I Kick It? spin on the conversation. So we turned to friend of the pod Jackson Kim Murphy to help us identify the 50 LEAST rewatchable movies of the current century. You'll never guest what subject dominates the top 2. Send us your own least rewatchables! Jackson's twitter is @cheaperby12film Jackson's bluesky is @jacksoncity.bsky.social Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone

There's no greater honor a movie can aspire to than to be talked over by the gang at Cannes I Kick It. So Pedro Almodóvar? You're WELCOME! This is our commentary on THE ROOM NEXT DOOR, which is currently available on Netflix and other fine rental and purchase platforms. We chat about the movie and many other things! Golden Li-what? You won the Palme D'Ollie! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm <@122997500243083266> @imlaughalone