Episode 442 - The 2025 Cannes Film Festival (So Far), "Die, My Love," "Nouvelle Vague," "Eddington," "The Secret Agent" & "The Chronology Of Water"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

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4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 19 May 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Bonjour NBP Community! For Episode 442, I am joined by Dan Bayer on the Croisette in France for the 2025 Cannes Film Festival. In this week's episode, we take a break from the film festival at the midway point to discuss the various films we've been watching, including "Die, My Love," "Eddington," "Sirat," "Sound Of Falling," "The Chronology Of Water," "Nouvelle Vague," "The Secret Agent," "The Phoenician Scheme" and more! We also go over the polls for the release of "Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning," asking, "Which Is Your Favorite "Mission: Impossible" Film?" We also reveal the winner of last week's poll asking," "Which Films From The 2025 Cannes Film Festival Are You Most Excited To See?"There are no trailers or answers to your fan-submitted questions, but we hope you enjoy hearing about what movies you have to look forward to with another recap to come for the second week of the festival next week! Thank you all for listening, supporting, and subscribing. We hope you enjoy this episode. Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	And the Oscar goes to... Oh, thank you so much. This might be the one time I'm speaking. This is not a joke. Moonlight has won best picture. Could you double check the envelope? And I can't deny the fact that you like me. Thank you life. Thank you love. Where did we fall in the movie? And Maria is see Altenheim. At the movie theater. This is nice. It's a a top I'm the king of the world! And the Oscar goes to... And the Oscar goes to it. Gentlemen, my only object in here is to try and get out of the truth. Watch like a watch like this. He's looking at you, kid. Rightly right here, I don't give it. Could have been a contender. Passing you. I could have been somebody. They could only kill me with a golden bull. What have I done? On me, Mr. Tiv's. I'm gonna make him an awful, again. The census taker once tried to test me. I ate his lover with some father-wit. For Frodo. With a can't laugh. Can't stop what's coming. This ain't reality TV. I'm all not falling to despair. You hate bloggers. You mock Twitter. It's time. He's fast. I'm going to come down. The destroyer of world. And the Oscar goes to Oh, Nora.
1:14.5	Hello, everyone, and welcome to the next best picture podcast.
1:21.5	This is episode 442 on May 19th at 144 a.m.
1:29.4	Coming to you live from the 78th annual Cannes Film Festival in our hotel room.
1:33.4	I am your host, the owner-editor, and chief of next bestpicture.com, Matt Neglia,
1:35.8	and I'm being joined right now by Dan Baer.
1:37.9	Bonsoir, all the monde.
1:39.4	I don't speak French still.
1:40.8	Dan is trying... Good evening, everybody.
1:42.0	Yeah, Dan is trying to get me to say French things and...
1:47.1	I've corrected your pronunciation of Vumiere.
1:49.1	I think you finally got that down.
1:50.9	Yeah.
1:51.9	I'm improving.
1:54.6	So, Dan's first time over in Cannes, my third time over here, and we wanted to check
2:00.4	in with you all at the halfway point to
2:02.1	discuss the movies that we've been watching that have premiered and give you all a little bit
2:07.4	of a taste of what to expect, not just with the films themselves, but then also too, maybe some
2:12.7	awards potential that might come of it. We're going to be doing obviously a different format of show here.
2:18.3	We're not going to be taking any fan questions.
2:21.3	I am going to go over the polls, but I am not going to be asking what Dan is watching, because
2:27.3	what Dan is watching is what I've been watching and vice versa.
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