Ira Sachs, Passages, Antoine Fuqua, The Equalizer 3 & Sound of Freedom

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

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Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews, Film Interviews

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🗓️ 1 September 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

With Mark and Simon still having the time of their lives at sea, Anna Bogutskaya and Rhianna Dhillon are back to warm their seats with some sizzling, cinematic takes. Say a prayer to the cinematic powers that be because this week is a bumper week for interviews. Rhianna sits down with not one but two - yes two! - brilliant directors, Antoine Fuqua and Ira Sachs, to talk about their respective new films, ‘The Equalizer 3’, the final outing for Denzel Washington’s violent vigilante Robert McCall, and ‘Passages’, which sees a gay couple’s marriage thrown into crisis when one of them impulsively begins a passionate affair with a young woman. While we don’t have time to include the interviews in their entirety in Take 1, you can listen to the rest of them in Take 2. Anna jumps in to offer her thoughts on both, as well as reviewing ’Sound of Freedom’, the controversial, Q-Anon and Donald Trump-endorsed, Jim Caviezel-starring action film about a former US government agent who embarks on a mission to rescue children from sex traffickers in Colombia. Time Codes (relevant only for the Vanguard - who are ad-free!): 00:04:14 Ira Sachs Interview 00:17:01 Passages Review 00:24:49 Box Office Top 10 00:38:04 Antoine Fuqua Interview 00:48:23 The Equalizer 3 Review 00:57:37 Laughter Lift 00:59:24 Sound of Freedom Review 01:13:18 What’s On You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the take. I'm Rihanna Dillon, BBC Film Critic, and I am joined by
0:14.8	Anna Bagutskaya, who is always a pleasure to talk to you.
0:19.0	Oh, that pleasure. Never a choice. How are you doing, Anna? I'm good. You know what, this
0:23.5	already feels weird. For listeners, this does not make sense, but for people who are
0:27.7	watching this on YouTube, you'll see, I've introduced chaos into this equation right
0:32.8	from the start. We're sitting in different seats. Yeah, this is a real, there's a real
0:36.5	power play from Anna, right, right out of the bat, right off the bat, right out of the
0:40.8	gate. I'm all confusion. You know, I like to paraphrase. You absolutely do. We've got
0:46.8	a lot to get through. This is like a bumper episode today. So very grateful for Simon
0:52.6	and Mark still being on their holidays, because it means that I got to interview two amazing
0:56.8	directors, and of course, get to spend time with you, and we get to talk about some really
1:01.6	interesting, sometimes quite terrifying films. So let's get into it. Well, we got on
1:06.6	the line up. So we've got a lineup of quite a controversial lineup for very different
1:11.6	reasons. So we'll be reviewing passages, the new Irish sax film, equalizer three, starring
1:18.7	Denzel Washington, and sound of freedom. Yes, the sound of freedom one, we have a lot
1:25.0	to say about, and we will get to apparently you guys have been asking for this for a really
1:29.5	long time. And hey, that day has arrived. You can hear my chat with Irish sax, who directed
1:36.6	passages and Antoine Fuqua, who directed the equalizer three later in the podcast. And
1:42.1	in our extra takes, we have at least 90 more minutes of this ridiculousness. We have
1:46.4	the weekend watch list slash weekend, not list. We've got five films, which are great
1:50.8	and three that you'll hate. I'm already disagreeing with this list. Oh, I had a little
1:55.6	look. I had a little look too. And I need to have words with the production. Me too. Because
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