Ep. 644 - The French Dispatch

The Filmcast

News, Tv & Film, Entertainment News

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

It’s the new Filmcast theme song! David, Devindra and Jeff reach into the mailbag and discuss reactions to the Eternals review. For the feature film, the Filmcast watches The French Dispatch, the latest Wes Anderson joint.

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Weekly Plugs

David - David interviews a listener who got COVID-19 from watching DUNE

Devindra - Engadget Podcast interview with Ethan Zuckerman on the metaverse

Jeff - twitch.tv/thedungeonrun

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)

What we've been watching (~13:15)

David - Red Notice, Found

Devindra - Star Trek Prodigy, Arcane, Passing

Jeff - Arcane, The Shrink Next Door, Heels episode 1

Feature (~1:12:50)
The French Dispatch
Spoilers (~1:25:25)

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Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the Filmcast, a podcast about movies.
0:22.1	I'm David Chen and it turns out this podcast is actually just a framing device for our review.
0:27.9	Joining me today is David Jardwar. Finally a Wes Anderson movie about NFTs.
0:35.8	And Jeff Kanada. This is the intro to a podcast about a movie, about a magazine.
0:42.6	Hmm, nice. Those are of course all reference to the fact that today we're going to be discussing
0:47.2	Wes Anderson's latest film, The French Dispatch, which is out right now in limited release.
0:51.8	You can find more episodes of this podcast at thefilmcast.com email us at slashfilmcast.gemail.com.
0:58.4	And you can support this podcast by going to patreon.com slash film podcast if you're enjoying
1:05.4	what you're hearing. But speaking of what you're hearing guys, I mean,
1:09.8	eagle-eyed listeners, eagle-eared listeners.
1:12.0	Hmm, to eagles have good ears. I know.
1:14.2	I imagine. Absolutely.
1:16.0	Imagine.
1:16.6	Is it all eagle-eared listeners will have noticed that hey, the theme song is extremely different
1:23.3	this week. It's so cool.
1:24.4	It's so cool.
1:24.4	The every time we do sound different.
1:27.2	Amazing. It's amazing.
1:28.4	So a triumph.
1:29.9	It's a triumph.
1:30.7	So let's talk a little bit about the theme song.
1:32.8	Okay, so the original slash filmcast theme song, beloved for many, many years.
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