Millennium Actress with Hoai-Tran Bui

Blank Check with Griffin & David

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Tv & Film, Society & Culture, Comedy, Film Reviews

4.6 • 6.1K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2024

⏱️ 145 minutes

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Summary

Our Satoshi Kon series continues with his 2003 film Millennium Actress, a moving exploration of memory, history, and the magic of da moviesh. Writer Hoai-Tran Bui returns to the pod as we discuss the strange history of Dreamworks’ arthouse animation arm (Go Fish pictures), the luminous screen presence of Setsuko Hara, and the added poignancy this film takes on in light of Kon’s untimely passing. Plus, Griffin publicly addresses the Penny Marshall debacle, and the gang contemplates a version of “Millennium Actor” with Clint Eastwood.

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0:00.0	Like Jack with Griffin and David.
0:05.0	Black Jack with Griffin and David
0:09.0	Don't know what to say or to expect.
0:12.0	All you need to know is that... to say what to expect.
0:13.0	All you need to know is that the name of the show is
0:17.0	Blank Check.
0:21.0	The part I really loved was podcasting him.
0:25.0	Wow, the end of the movie.
0:27.0	The end, the end, the end, the profound line.
0:29.0	Very profound.
0:31.0	At the end of the day isn't life about the podcast you chase after you never get to record?
0:37.1	What's that one for you then? For me, Tom Shadyak series.
0:40.5	Right, that'll always be one year ahead.
0:43.3	That's the key around my neck.
0:44.8	It says, Evan Almighty.
0:46.1	Yeah.
0:46.9	And someday I imagine I'll get to that episode, 10 years from now.
0:49.8	Yes.
0:50.4	Yeah.
0:52.0	I'm chasing. I don't know what I'm chasing I'm chasing I don't know what I'm chasing
0:54.9	Penny Marshall confirmed next ministers. I'm bringing this back I think so I think it's a good bit
1:02.2	I'm sorry that we have to address this up top yeah
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