315 – French Exit

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 November 2024

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

Michelle Pfeiffer is a screen legend whose return always feels like an occasion–even if we’re all stuck at home. In 2020, Azazel Jacobs’ French Exit debuted at the New York Film Festival with Pfeiffer starring as a wealthy New York eccentric who loses her fortune and absconds to France, all while perhaps haunted by her dead husband in the form of her cat. Pfeiffer earned strong reviews for her performance, but the film itself proved grating to a number of critics and couldn’t sustain its presence as its release shifted.

This episode, we talk about Pfeiffer’s previous three nominations and the chaos of the covid year’s Golden Globe comedy nominations. We also talk about Valerie Mahaffey’s terrific supporting performance, the career of Imogen Poots, and Jacobs’ current contender His Three Daughters.

Topics also include our first thoughts on the current Survivor season, the 2020 NYFF lineup, and BAFTA’s changing rules.

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0:00.0	The Vulture Movie Fantasy League is finally for real starting off, even though it's had weeks of starting off.
0:07.6	But now we have awards points in addition to box office points.
0:11.6	This is true. This is true.
0:13.9	Here we are.
0:15.0	We have Gotham's. The Gotham's have landed.
0:18.5	We talked about the Gotham's, actually. If you are a Patreon subscriber, you heard us go off for 50 whole minutes about the Gotham's this week.
0:26.4	So if that's not enough of a reason for you to go sign up for this had Oscar Buzz turbulent brilliance, truly what is.
0:34.4	You'll certainly get more in-depth conversation than we're going to be able to provide in this
0:38.9	brief little interlude.
0:41.2	But suffice it to say.
0:42.3	And because Venom 3, whatever the subtitle is, is not really like setting the box office
0:48.6	ablaze.
0:49.8	Right.
0:50.4	What was our top point owner this week?
0:52.6	It's not really laying an egg as much as something like Joker.
0:56.2	Like, I think the fact that Joker is such a failure is really sort of like running interference for some of these sort of smaller failures.
1:04.3	Then I'm at the bottom.
1:05.2	So we're recording this on Sunday morning.
1:06.9	So the box office totals are very estimating at this point that we haven't gotten the Sunday update, but it was tracking for Venom to pull in $22 million over the weekend, which puts it up to 86, just a little north of 86 total.
1:25.3	So we still haven't hit the $100 million mark in the second weekend,
1:29.1	which for a big sort of CGI superheroy blockbuster movie isn't great. But if you drafted Venom,
1:40.4	you're getting some, you're getting some points. It's probably some points it's probably not was probably not the
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