311 – The Lady in the Van
This Had Oscar Buzz
Joe and Chris
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 October 2024
⏱️ 143 minutes
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Summary
We wanted to take this week’s episode to tribute the recently departed Dame Maggie Smith and finally take a look at one of her final awards contenders, 2015’s The Lady in the Van. Reprising the role she played on the stage, Smith stars as the titular lady, who lives in a van that just so happens to take up residence near the home of playwright Alan Bennett. Alex Jennings stars as Bennett, and the film examines both his evolving relationship with his neighbor and, in metatextual ways, Bennett’s conflicted feelings about telling her story.
This episode, we talk about Dame Maggie Smith’s late career resurgence and she joins our Six Timers Club! We also talk about the film’s cameo lineup from the cast of The History Boys, tributes posted after Smith’s passing, and our first Halloween watches of this season.
Topics also include director Nicholas Hytner, 2015 Best Actress, and Philo-mania.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello listeners and what's that sound Joe did you hear that sound I think it's the starting gun |
| 0:06.2 | Bang bank that my baby shot me down because bang into the room. It's the vulture movies fantasy |
| 0:16.0 | It's the starting gun of the vulture movie's fantasy league. It's the starting gun of the vulture movie fantasy league at least. And we're much like Seabiscuit we're off to the races. |
| 0:20.0 | Right. |
| 0:21.0 | Since this is the first week of the game, listeners, breaking in we don't want to get too in depth with where the points are just yet because |
| 0:27.5 | Guess what as you might predict joker folly a poo |
| 0:31.4 | Was number one, but if you drafted it you might be getting walks off as |
| 0:35.5 | points but drafting it might turn into your own Follipu. We'll see how long that movie |
| 0:41.0 | sticks around probably won't be getting awards points. |
| 0:45.0 | Joe, what do you have to say about Joker Follio Poopoo? |
| 0:49.0 | I mean, worse, I still haven't seen it, but the reception is worse than I could have imagined. |
| 0:57.8 | And certainly we priced this thing well before the Venice reception and even like bumping it down a little bit. |
| 1:05.8 | I think we didn't really have any kind of sense of how poorly it would go with audiences and you know critics this is getting a D |
| 1:15.9 | Cinema Score the the box office receipts are very very small |
| 1:20.5 | It's being compared unfavorably to Megalopolis which is not where you want to be in the |
| 1:27.5 | current discourse. Well I think the thing there is that Megalopolis at least has its fans. |
| 1:33.5 | Nobody likes this thing. |
| 1:34.8 | Though I kind of am like, well, |
| 1:36.9 | and you can tell me if you disagree. |
| 1:38.7 | Do we think the clock's a tick in on the fanboys |
| 1:41.4 | who are going to be like, no, it's great's great it's great because it's a middle finger. |
| 1:45.3 | I was talking I was DMing with our friend Dave Gonzales |
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