A new festival year approaches, and so with the first lineup of Festival Director Eugene Hernandez announced we look at the highlights of the 2024 Sundance Film Festival. We touch on all sections, discuss the accessibility of the festival, and take a small peak at Slamdance as well. 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...

If we had unlimited resources, we could truly put on a hell of a film festival. It's time for us to prove it once again, all four hosts sit down and put together a weekend lineup for a 2023 festival. Thrill as we debate settings, sponsors, and just how many live podcast recordings we can bank at this year's edition. 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...

As the holidays begin we turn to our Thanksgiving Time Tradition-Shortsgiving! Donning sunglasses to protect our eyes from the brightness of our generosity, we discuss a new crop of shorts, one picked by each co-host. This year's crop: THE GAG (2023, Dir. Larry Owens), (tourism studies) (2019, Dir. Joshua Gen Solondz), LAST DAYS IN A LONELY PLACE (2007, Dir. Philip S. Solomon), and THE CRITIC (1963, Dir. Ernest Pintoff). As always, we are grateful to YOU, the LISTENER! Our twitter is...

We’re playing some old and new festival related games this week. A few rounds of Ratings Guessing, a new Festivordle and a new Immaculate Grid. Also, we begin to scratch the surface of unpacking the various online Broadway discussion forums of the late aughts. 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...

With the major fall fests in the rearview and awards season coming down the pike, we're getting a lot of interesting movies in theaters right now, so we thought it was time to look at 3 of the more high profile ones. Martin Scorsese's Cannes premiere KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, Justine Triet's Palme D'Or winner ANATOMY OF A FALL, and Sofia Coppola's Venice Best Actress winner PRISCILLA are all discussed. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is...

We talk about the new leadership in Venice and draft festival films without distribution. See you at the movies! 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 @jcpglickwebber

Leonard Bernstein is one of the most important musical figures of the 20th century. He is also the Maestro, as explored in the upcoming film MAESTRO, directed by noted weird guy Bradley Cooper. We wanted some more context before MAESTRO makes its way across America, so we turned to America's preeminent MAESTRO authority, FRAN HOEPFNER! Together we do some light previewing of the film, and dig into a range of Bernstein's composing works: ON THE TOWN, SYMPHONY NO. 2: AGE OF ANXIETY, ON THE...

This week Jesse tells us about her trip to the Big Apple for the last weekend of the New York Film Festival. Then Andy and Cullen catch up with a title from this year's Sundance, Cory Finley's Landscape with Invisible Hand. 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 @jcpglickwebber

NYFF is close to wrapping up, so we've gotten a good idea of how New York has reacted to all sorts of things. We discuss that, the rest of the fall festival landscape, some AFI odds and ends, and then turn to look at an earlier work from JANET PLANET director ANNIE BAKER, her 2017 play THE ANTIPODES. We discuss the world Baker creates in the play, where it departs from her earlier work, and what we find so compelling about her as an artist. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is...

Wes Anderson has been busy and we are ON IT. Back with 4 shorts based on Roald Dahl short stories, all streaming now on Netflix, we look at THE WONDERFUL STORY OF HENRY SUGAR, THE SWAN, THE RAT CATCHER, and POISON, and discuss what unites them, what we responded to, and how the release and platform suits or does not suit the work Anderson is doing here. 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...

Special guest Jon Gabrus joins us to talk about going to Sundance, who owns the most unread books, and the NYFF 2014 Centerpiece INHERENT VICE! Follow Gabrus on twitter @Gabrus 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 @jcpglickwebber

We're not done yet, Jesse is finally back from Vermont and has wrapped up a few of her loose ends from TIFF, along with critic and programmer C.J. Prince. Discussions on the Wavelengths shorts, Mambar Pierrette, Close Your Eyes, Hit Man, The Royal Hotel, Aggro Dr1ft, and more! Follow C.J. on twitter @cj_prin 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...

TIFF concluded, Venice has long ago handed out it's Lions and Cups, and most of the CIKI crew is back at home. We get together to go over the big winners of the 2 awardsy Fall Fests (congrats to POOR THINGS and AMERICAN FICTION), break down the balance of our TIFF slates, and generally gas on about the state of theatrical distribution and managing online inventory for ticketed events in a fair way. Our Twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our Instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterbox is CIKIPod Enjoying the...

Everyone is in different locations but we still managed to get some TIFF thoughts out there. Special guest appearance by J. Kim Murphy.  Follow Jackson on twitter @jkimmurphy 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 @jcpglickwebber

Cullen calls Jesse at TIFF to see what everyone has watched so far!  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 @jcpglickwebber

It's TIFF traveling time! As this episode is released we are in or making our way to Toronto, so of course it is the natural time for a loose episode of different things. Definitely not a grabbag and if you suggest otherwise we'll see you in court. First up, news on Currents and more, then our annual look at some of the big trailers of the year available for you to watch along with, and finally, one more festival grid, this time designed by Jesse. Join us! It's a fun time! Follow along with...

While Jesse's away, the boys play. See the CIKI Immaculate Grid here! 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 @jcpglickwebber

Cannes Blockbusters are not the only unjuried film festival slate in the world. So having exhausted this avenue, we turn to New York Film Festival, famously uncompetitive, to inject a little competition and conflict into their whole affair. The slate? Films that played in the opening slot of NYFF in the new millennium so far. Returning to join us as President of our Jury? The great DAVID SIMS of BLANK CHECK with Griffin and David. Together we figure out what it is About Schmidt, how to split...

We talk about our plans for TIFF, other recent and upcoming festivals, and sabermetrics. That list is backwards chronologically but descending in terms of time devoted. We recorded this about an hour ago and were pretty loopy then, so imagine how loopy I am now. Description 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...

We have never been more in the thick of fall festival announcement season! After we discuss the NYFF Main Slate and some TIFF announcements, our Jesse speaks to the Associate Programmer of Wavelengths at TIFF, Jesse Cumming, about the JUST ANNOUNCED TIFF Wavelengths program for this year (34:10). And as if that is not enough, we reconvene to discuss Steven Soderbergh's typically productive year, particularly his two recently released episodic works, Full Circle and Command Z. Which of them...

Once again, we have turned to our listeners. This time we have asked you to be the namers of COOL. What is COOL? What does it get us? How would it apply in a film festival jury situation? Really only the last question is addressed in this attempt to think about this year's Venice Jury. Also, more TIFF announcements! The list we are pulling from is is HERE Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way...

What we have here is a news segment that went so long it ended up being its own episode. TIFF Special Presentations & Galas! The entire Venice line-up! 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 @jcpglickwebber

The trendiest film weekend in recent history deserves some context, and Cannes I Kick It is here to provide it. Upon the simultaneous release of Greta Gerwig's BARBIE and Christopher Nolan's OPPENHEIMER, we look back to their earlier festival days, taking a peak at INSOMNIA and MISTRESS AMERICA. Joining us is writer and filmmaker CASSIDY OLSEN! We talk Barbenheimer, Will Dormer, Tweeting on Twitter and so much more! Plus, a look at lack of news out of TIFF and our first Venice points...

We are well known for our famous segment "Predictions" here on Cannes I Kick It, so we thought it was well past time to expand that beyond a single prediction per film festival and blow it up into a whole dang draft. That's right, we're drafting the Venice Lineup! We met before (almost) any major fall announcements, and we're going to keep tabs on things with a scoring system! Hear us preview what might or could be at Venice like never before! Also, an extensive news segment featuring all...

Following up the first competition title from Cannes 2023 to be released with one of the last competition titles to be released from Cannes 2022, we welcome back FRAN HOEPFNER to discuss Kelly Reichardt's latest, SHOWING UP, now available to rent on VOD. Reichardt reteams with Michelle Williams to paint a portrait of pacific northwest artistic and academic life. We talk birds, Hong Chau, and what it means to live without hot water. Plus, a few more TIFF tidbits, an early Venice announcement,...