Ep. 707 - Infinity Pool

The Filmcast

News, Tv & Film, Entertainment News

4.6 • 4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 January 2023

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Summary

David, Devindra, and Jeff discuss their thoughts on this year's Oscar nominations, run down some of the films they saw at Sundance, then take a deep dive into Brandon Cronenberg's Infinity Pool.

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Weekly Plugs
David - Decoding Everything: Four Winners and Four Disappointments from the Oscar noms
Devindra - Dune Pod on Crouching Tiger
Jeff - Cameo

Shownotes (All timestamps are approximate only)
What we've been watching (~26:15)
David - Milf Manor, Devotion, Sundance: Run Rabbit Run, The Eternal Memory, Beyond Utopia
Devindra - Shrinking, Sundance: A Thousand and One, Kim’s Video, Fair Play, Eileen
Jeff - Poker Face, You People, Extraordinary

Featured Review (~1:18:20)
Infinity Pool
SPOILERS (~1:32:00)

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0:00.0	Hello everyone and welcome to the film cast, a podcast about movies.
0:23.9	I'm David Chen and that's why when someone tells me they listen to my podcast I don't
0:29.0	spend the day with them. Joining me today is David and your hard work. I've been in
0:34.6	the Infinity Pool and I'll never be clean again. And Jeff Kanada.
0:39.1	Ken and Blah. This is a glass bottom pool Jeff don't you think that?
0:46.1	Those are of course all vague and oblique references to the fact that today on the podcast
0:51.7	we're going to be reviewing Infinity Pool, the newest film by Brandon Kronenberg. You
0:56.6	can find more episodes of this podcast at thefilmcast.com email us at slashfilmcast at gmail.com. Find us
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1:08.7	Guys, I just read a story this morning about how Infinity Pool was rated NC17 initially.
1:16.5	Love it. They had to cut out, they had to remove five seconds of the movie to bring it
1:22.9	down to an R rating. That is the version that most people saw this past weekend. But yeah,
1:29.9	man, most people saw the R version. Most people saw the R version. What the five seconds
1:35.5	did the movie? I saw this thing. You saw the sun. You saw the sun. So I think you probably
1:39.9	saw the original one. I can specifically imagine which five seconds. Yeah, you can vividly
1:46.1	imagine. Dvingor has been vividly imagining that five seconds for.
1:50.9	Have you did you see the NC17 version Dave? No, I saw I went to theater to see. Yeah,
1:55.2	me too. Yeah. But anyway, good for them. Good for them. They got it. They got it down
2:00.7	to an R rating. It's going to be a possessor type thing again because possessor and cut
2:04.1	was also a little wilder than the normal one. Well, no, no, no, no. So this is a, I think
2:08.6	it's a common misconception is possessor uncut is actually the name of the movie. And
2:13.5	that's why they say at the beginning of the movie, this movie has not been modified.
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