334 – The French Dispatch

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 152 minutes

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Summary

We’ve got a new Wes Anderson movie on the horizon, so why not revisit one of his more divisive films: 2021’s The French Dispatch. The film features a bursting murderer’s row of cast members to fill out Anderson’s ode to journalism, a triptych of stories all set within the world of a fictional magazine. Originally promised for 2020’s Cannes Film Festival and delayed more than a year by COVID, the film arrived to American audiences and a growing faction of those growing restless with Anderson’s whole deal.

This episode, we talk about our growing appreciation for the film since release and Anderson’s “nesting doll” approach to storytelling. We also discuss Jeffrey Wright’s celebrated performance, Christoph Waltz’s cameo that lands him in our Six Timers Club, and Anderson’s Oscar history.

Topics also include the 2021 Production Design nominees, Anderson’s win for Live Action short, and the weird 2021 official Globes tweets.

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0:00.0	Oh, wrong house.
0:12.8	No, the right house.
0:13.6	I didn't get that.
0:14.7	We want to talk to Mel and Hack.
0:15.8	Melan Hack and Trent. I'm from Canada water.
0:31.3	Dick, Dick Pooh.
0:40.4	It began as a holiday.
0:43.1	Eager to escape a bright future on the Great Plains,
0:46.2	Arthur Howitzer Jr.
0:48.0	transformed the series of travelogue columns into the French dispatch,
0:52.7	a factual weekly report on the subjects of world politics,
0:57.4	the arts high and low, and diverse stories of human interest.
1:01.7	You don't think it's almost too seedy this time?
1:03.9	No, I don't. Decent people.
1:05.3	It's supposed to be charming.
1:06.9	He assembled a team of the best expatriate journalists of his time, Berenson, Sazarek, Kremence, Roebuck Wright.
1:15.4	These were his people.
1:16.8	Just try to make it sound like you wrote it that way on purpose.
1:20.5	Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast that got invited to Catherine Heigel's birthday party.
1:26.3	Every week on This Had Oscar Buzz, we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had lofty Academy Award aspirations, but for some reason or another, it all went wrong. The Oscar hopes died and we are here to perform the autopsy. I'm your host, Joe Reed. I'm here as always with my cycling reporter, Chris File. Hello, Chris. You know, I can't ride a bike. That's, this is, you brought up
1:46.6	right. Wait, really? Oh my God. I'm already releasing trauma. You cannot be shocked that I never
1:51.2	learned how to ride a bike. I am shocked. That's surprising. You, do you think I was an outdoor kid?
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