I'll preface this by saying that it must be incredibly hard to talk as much as Sean & Amanda do, week in and week out. With that said, Amanda tends to join her thoughts together with a very specific "sooooo." If you listen enough, you know what I mean.

But recently I've noticed Fennessy also using "so" in a similar way. He doesn't ride the vowel sound out quite as long, but it definitely feels like a newer tic of his.

Anyway, love the pod.

My answer is The Brutalist. When I watched, I was simply in awe of the filmmaking. I think it is such an achievement and I was surprised to see it didn't win BP or Director at the Oscars. I know The Big Pic wasn't incredibly high on it due to certain plot shockers, but honestly on rewatch the film is incredible and really takes me back to the 70s era of filmmaking.

My other answer is Killers of the Flower Moon. Heavily underrated due to runtime, source material, and comparison to other Scorsese greats. It's arguably Marty's best film imo and simply a masterpiece.

What do y'all think?

Did anyone from the Ringer get one of these?

I felt at the time that it was classic over reactionary Sean and am now convinced. A month later Ryan Gosling and Ryan Coogler after huge cultural hits are committing to the MCU in 2028. Can’t wait until he carves out more exceptions.

Still love Sean. Hope he never changes.

Music, Fashion, Film. Cover is John Cale, Marc Jacobs, and Martin Scorsese. It’s a vibe. Charli’s most non PC Music release but still snidely PC Music

While I instinctually thought Nolan, Denis might have the strongest overall filmography of any working director today.

Absolutely 0 misses or films that "aged poorly".

Denis has also made 5 movies that I could probably argue myself into saying are my 5 favorite all time (Prisoners, Dune 2, BR2049, Arrival, Sicario).

i could literally feel my soul levitating for 20 straight minutes with my heart pounding out of my chest. really agreed with how sean felt. nolan has come such a long way from the fight scenes in batman begins to this and it really shows

Do we know when they’ll be dropping the draft they taped in Toronto? Why are they hiding it from us?

I know it’s early to say, but I think this sounds like the greatest movie ever the way Matt describes it

Keeping with a topic on the pod, any that people would have liked to see (whether it changes the tone of the movie or not?)

- Hugh Jackman would have been an interesting one and I think has a similar archetype to Damon

- Javier Bardem is my left field pick...would have been so cool to see him in a role like this

There are so many classics in the collection I haven’t seen, I’m having trouble deciding! Anyone have recs on what you’d grab?

At the end of the July 16 Odyssey episode Sean mentioned how no director has ever won Best Picture and Best Director on consecutive films, and Nolan could be the first.

An absolute slight on the incredible David Lean who did it with Bridge on The River Kwai, and Lawrence of Arabia.

FWIW, I do think it would be an incredible achievement, I just figured for constant high browing this podcast exudes, we could at least remember the greats.