115 – The Death and Life of John F. Donovan

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2020

⏱️ 115 minutes

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For his first English language film The Death and Life of John F. Donovan, Cannes darling Xavier Dolan assembled a stunning prestige cast that promised a major leveling up from the filmmaker. And then disaster struck. Filming began shortly after his critically reviled It’s Only the End of the World debuted and at Cannes and Dolan’s response cemented … Continue reading

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0:00.0	Oh, wrong house. No, the right house. I didn't get nominated.
0:05.0	I'm going to talk to Mill and heck.
0:07.0	I'm from Canada Water. I wrote a letter to John and Donovan about five years ago.
0:23.0	It was rather foolish for me to think he would have. I would let her to John and Donovan about five years ago.
0:33.0	It was rather foolishly to think he would answer, but he did.
0:36.0	Now I'm only 11 years old, but later I'll be like him,
0:40.0	and we're acting movies together.
0:42.0	Rupert, you made up that story.
0:44.0	I didn't!
0:45.0	You lied and you lied for years.
0:47.0	I just didn't say anything.
0:49.0	Did you or did you not write letters to that kid?
0:52.0	Do you have a letters to that kid?
0:52.5	Do you have a pen pal?
0:54.0	Child pen pal, do your job.
0:57.0	Next.
0:58.0	You are never to write to that man again.
1:02.0	Do you understand?
1:04.0	Hello and welcome to the This Had Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast
1:08.0	Confrontationally spreading our legs for Richard Dreyfus.
1:10.0	Every week on this Had Oscar Buzz will be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had lofty Academy award aspirations,
1:16.0	but for some reason or another it all went wrong. The Oscar hopes died and we are here to perform the autopsy.
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