2025 Oscars Best Picture Series - ANORA

The Cine-Files

Steve Morris & John Rocha

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 February 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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It's Oscars season! The Cine-Files hosts John Rocha and Steve Morris continue their exploration of the 2024 Best Picture nominees in their Oscars Best Picture Series with this conversation and review of ANORA. This Sean Baker written and directed film was nominated for 6 Oscars and stars Mikey Madison, Mark Eydelshteyn, Yura Borisov, Karren Karagulian, Vache Tovmasyan, and Aleksei Serebryakov. John and Steve discuss the film overall and dive into the acting, direction, writing, production design, score and cinematography. They also discuss its Oscars chances, Don't forget to vote in our First Annual Oscars show by signing up for our Patreon as a free or paying member. Everyone gets to vote and we will announce the winners on our live The Cine-Files Oscars show on March 1st!

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0:44.5	And today, we are tackling Sean Baker's Anora.
0:48.5	I am John Rooka, joined as always by my co-host, Steve Morris.
0:51.5	How are you, Steve?
0:52.6	Well, I've got a lot of drugs in me, and I've been up all night, and I'm just on a private plane to Vegas,
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1:06.0	If I've been in country, long enough, I don't need to. Long enough. Yes, I'm excited to be diving into this movie. This is one of my favorite films
1:14.8	of the, of 2024. What a massive surprise and discovery this film was. And what incredible
1:21.6	performances from Mikey Madison and you're a Borisov for their work throughout the film here, along with a bunch of other actors
1:30.3	that really brought this world to life.
1:33.7	And Sean Baker's very capable direction throughout this whole movie,
1:37.4	and the twists and turns, the surprises, the comedic moments, the moving, emotionally touching moments,
1:45.3	and that finale, which a lot of people are debating at the end of this movie.
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