#452: Cinde-F***ing-Rella, Pt. 2 — Anora

The Next Picture Show

Telegraph Road Productions

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film History

4.6 • 819 Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2024

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Sean Baker’s ANORA takes the fairy-tale premise of 1990’s PRETTY WOMAN as its starting point, but ends up on a very different route to a very different sort of happy ending. It’s also a best-of-the year contender for most of us, so we spend some time discussing what makes it so before bringing its romcom predecessor back in to consider how these two films about sex workers falling for their wealthy clients are in conversation when it comes to classicism and social hierarchies, conspicuous consumption, and what happens when a transactional relationship evolves into something more. And in Your Next Picture Show, we offer a pair of recommendations that illustrate the cinematic endurance of this particular premise. Please share your comments, thoughts, and questions about PRETTY WOMAN, ANORA, 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: Jon M. Chu’s WICKED and Victor Fleming’s THE WIZARD OF OZ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	129 at McDonald's gets you a mini Oreo McFlurry.
0:04.7	129 on a big night out gets you...
0:07.5	Sorry, no trainers.
0:10.3	McDonald's save a menu.
0:12.1	Actually get your money's worth.
0:15.0	From 11am, price and participation may vary.
0:17.7	Price varies on delivery.
0:19.0	Subjects to availability.
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0:48.0	It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.
0:51.7	Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?
0:58.5	We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.
1:05.8	Welcome back to the next picture show, a movie the week podcast devoted to a classic film
1:10.2	in the way it shaped our thoughts on a recent release. I'm Scott Tobias here again with... Tasha Robinson,
1:15.4	Keith Phipps, and Genevieve Koski. In our last episode, we discussed Pretty Woman,
1:20.0	the Cinderella story about a streetwalker and a rich businessman who fall in love in Beverly Hills.
1:25.6	This week, a similar fairy tale premise takes a few different turns in Anora,
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