259 – Ammonite (with Christina Tucker!)
This Had Oscar Buzz
Joe and Chris
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 16 October 2023
⏱️ 116 minutes
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Summary
After Francis Lee’s celebrated queer debut God’s Own Country, the director leveled up with another gay romance Ammonite, this time with Oscar-pedigreed stars. Kate Winslet stars as 19th century paleontologist Mary Anning opposite Saoirse Ronan as Charlotte Murchison; the two develop a seaside romance of opposites between the gruff Anning and the unfulfilled Murchison. But Lee’s follow-up, (originally selected for Cannes) had the unlucky fortune to come out in 2020 amidst a climate unfriendly to a romance more reserved and quiet than expected.
This episode, we talk about the film’s unceremonious world premiere at the COVID-impacted Toronto International Film Festival and the film’s theatrical run. We also discuss 2017 comparison’s between God’s Own Country and Call Me By Your Name, Winslet’s performance on Mare of Easttown, and the minor controversy over the real woman’s unknown sexuality.
Topics also include Sam Levinson’s (hypothetical!) dungeon, emotional metaphor animals, and “Harold, they’re lesbians!”
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| 0:00.0 | I'm from Canada, water. |
| 0:28.5 | I've often heard your reputation discussed in the geographical society in London. |
| 0:47.5 | Is there something you wanted, sir? |
| 0:49.5 | A wife. She hasn't been at all well of late. She suffers from melancholia. |
| 0:59.5 | I want her to walk the shoreline with you. Learn from you. |
| 1:05.5 | I'm not looking for an apprentice. |
| 1:07.5 | I would pay a premium for a private audience. |
| 1:11.5 | It's not easy work. |
| 1:14.5 | Hello and welcome to the This Head Oscar Buzz Podcast, the only podcast that gets to use gargantuan in a sentence. |
| 1:19.5 | Every week on This Head Oscar Buzz we'll be talking about a different movie that once upon a time had lofty academy award aspirations. |
| 1:25.5 | But for some reason or another it all went wrong. |
| 1:27.5 | The Oscar hopes died and we're here to perform the autopsy. |
| 1:30.5 | I'm your host Joe Reed. I'm here as always with my precious fossil, Chris Files. |
| 1:35.5 | I am but a fossil preserved in fish shit. |
| 1:40.5 | You are on the beach off the dorset coast waiting to be found by a woman who knows bones, but not the human heart. |
| 1:51.5 | Whatever gets me into the palm of James McCartle. |
| 1:55.5 | Truly whoever will fit you under the stovepipe hat of James McCartle as he's walking down the beach. |
| 2:02.5 | He was keeping Shersha in there. |
| 2:04.5 | That's true tiny little search underneath the stovepipe hat. |
| 2:08.5 | Let's not dilly dally any longer here among the fossils, Chris. |
| 2:13.5 | We have a guest to welcome. |
| 2:15.5 | So I am incredibly excited as I'm sure you one of our favorites. |
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