#450: Ballot Wounds, Pt. 2 — Conclave

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2024

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

Edward Berger’s new CONCLAVE is a low-key, intimate political thriller full of unexpected reveals, but fundamentally about power, purity, belief, compromise, perception, and committee decisions. This week we share our thoughts on CONCLAVE’s insular focus and messaging around religion and politics before considering how its power brokers and kingmakers compare to those found in the 1964 presidential-candidate drama THE BEST MAN, and the two films’ overlapping ideas about whether politics demands hypocrisy. And for Your Next Picture Show, we offer a recommendation for THE DEATH OF STALIN, a radically different movie about the vacuum left when a powerful man dies, and the jockeying and chicanery that follows. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about THE BEST MAN, CONCLAVE, and anything else in the world of film by sending an email or voice memo to [email protected], or leaving a short voicemail at (773) 234-9730. Next Pairing: Sean Baker’s ANORA and Garry Marshall’s PRETTY WOMAN. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.9	Sit in quietly once you've made the house or shiny. Down time can be just fine, plain bangers
0:35.9	from the 19th. Tea break.
0:38.3	Lunt break.
0:39.3	Maybe listen to the outbreak.
0:41.3	Sometimes it's not time for some tombola, right?
0:44.3	It's enjoying lasagna time, chilling with a book time, or time to visit your nan time.
0:50.3	Go on. Play some other time. Put your phone down.
0:53.3	Tombola. Tombollah.
0:54.4	Open for fun.
0:56.1	Terms apply 18 plus gambleaware.org.
1:01.8	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
1:05.7	You believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being.
1:12.4	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
1:19.4	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie that we podcast devoted to a classic film
1:23.8	in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Keith Phipps here again with
1:27.4	Asher Robinson. Scott Tobias. And Genevieve Koski. In our last episode, we discussed the Best Man,
1:33.3	a 1964 adaptation of a Gore-Vidal play set behind the scenes of a political convention.
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