Episode 227: Pete Docter & Tessa Thompson

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Edith Bowman

Music, Tv & Film, Arts

4.6 • 754 Ratings

🗓️ 1 January 2021

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Merry New Year, everybody! To see it in, it's another double-header for you.

First up, a true legend of recent cinema. Pete Docter is the Chief Creative Officer at Pixar. As well as winning Oscars as the director of Inside Out and Up, he was one of the main reasons we have Toy Story and has played some sort of hand in pretty much every movie to have come out of the studio.

His latest project is the hugely ambitious Soul, which he both wrote and directed. Streaming now on Disney +, the story follows a music teacher voiced by Jamie Foxx, who seeks to reunite his soul and his body after they are accidentally separated, just before his big break as a jazz musician.

Then we have Tessa Thompson talking about Sylvie's Love, another film to have jazz at its very core. Set in 50s Harlem, it's a classic romance between Tess's character, with ambitions of her own, and a saxophonist that beautifully evokes the spirit of the age. It's available to watch now on Amazon Prime.

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0:00.0	Hello, this is Simon Mayo.
0:01.4	And this is Mark Kermote.
0:02.6	He's the UK's best and most trusted film critic.
0:05.4	He's a best-selling writer, broadcaster and national treasure.
0:08.7	Far too kind.
0:09.6	Kermode and Mayo's take has all the reviews you need.
0:12.7	And star guests, such as Sir Ian McKellen.
0:15.7	Nice to be with you.
0:16.7	Emma Stone.
0:17.5	That sounds like something I would love to be a part of.
0:19.8	Ewan McGregor.
0:20.8	I'm very good.
0:21.4	How are you doing?
0:21.9	Kate Planchette.
0:22.8	What was that word you used?
0:24.0	Kettipomper's.
0:25.0	Kermitomeo's Take All the film you need.
0:27.5	Available wherever you get your podcasts.
0:29.9	Hi, folks.
0:30.9	I hope this finds you safe and well.
0:34.8	And, well, here we are at the first day of a new year. And I hope you are stepping into that with a kind of optimistic outlook. I hope I'm always the person or I hope I strive to be a person who looks at situations with the attitude of the glass is half full as
0:56.1	opposed to glass half empty. And I hope that you have found some kind of, I guess, escape
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