278 – Annette

This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2024

⏱️ 127 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Coming out of the COVID-led doldrums of 2020, the Cannes Film Festival loomed large as a “movies are back!!” starting gate for global cinema. Its opening film, Annette, was a long-in-development rock opera with music by cult fave Sparks and directed by visionary auteur Leos Carax, returning to the Croisette with his first film in nearly a decade. With Adam Driver at the helm as a batboy shock jock comedian who falls in love with opera star Marion Cotillard to disastrous results, the film is a bizarre fantasia about destructive creative ego and features a puppet as the titular baby singer. Though the film drew raves and buzz around Driver and Sparks’ score, Annette was alas too freaky for the Academy.

This week, we talk about Driver’s career and how his unique physicality makes him a worthy successor to Carax’s usual collaborator Denis Lavant. We also talk about the other famous castings while the film sat in development, the 2021 Original Song contenders, and Simon Helberg’s supporting performance.

Topics also include Baby Annette in the gay stan wars, Carax’s filmography, and the 2021 Cannes Film Festival.

Follow Us on Twitter!@Had_Oscar_BuzzJoe: @joereidChris: @chrisvfeil

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	The right house.
0:03.0	I didn't get nominated.
0:15.0	Mill and Hack.
0:17.0	And we talked to Mill and Hack and print. I'm from Canada water.
0:25.0	I'm from Canada water. Dick Poopop. One two three four. So may we start we start. There we start.
0:53.0	Maybe we start.
0:54.0	Maybe we start.
0:55.0	So maybe we start.
0:56.0	May we start.
0:58.0	May we start. May we start.
1:00.0	There she is.
1:02.0	Haini. There she is. I know it.
1:05.0	This is my baby.
1:07.0	Hello and welcome to the This Hot Oscar Buzz podcast, the only podcast that is what happens when you're busy making other plans.
1:13.2	Every week on this head Oscar Buzz will be talking about a different movie that
1:16.2	once upon the time had lofty Academy Award aspirations, but for some reason or another
1:20.3	it all went wrong. The Oscar hopes died and we are here to perform the autopsy.
1:24.4	I'm your host Joe Reed. I'm here as always with my composer friend Chris File.
1:30.3	I'm a conductor. Conductor friend. That's what he says conductor friend. Thank you. I'm a conductor.
1:38.0	Simon Helberg on my best supporting actor list for 2021. Not a bad call. He's so good in this. He's, all right, we're
1:48.5	going to talk about this probably many times, but like I think just baseline for Annette.
1:54.4	The fact that none of the principal characters are played by people who can sing all that well.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Joe and Chris, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Joe and Chris and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.