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Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Les Misérables, Honeyland, Kobe Bryant Tribute, Best Foreign Films

Cinephile with Adnan Virk

Adnan Virk, Le Batard & Friends

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Film Interviews

4.92K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

It's a special edition of Cinephile as Adnan reviews the Oscar nominated films Les Misérables, Corpus Christi, and Honey Boy. All three are competing for the Best International Feature Film and Adnan will tell you which one he thinks is going to win! Plus, Bong Joon Ho has announced he is turning his film Parasite into a limited series with HBO. To honor the passing of Kobe Bryant, Adnan plays a story of when he met the NBA superstar at the Oscars in 2018. Finally, Adnan and Joe give their picks of the greatest foreign films ever made for this week's Mt. Rushmore. All that and more! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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It's merely pot-driven depictions of its residents converges with Lee's merely functional

0:27.6

direction to flat-lay Ms. Arabe into the undistinguished style of conventionally apolitical and socially

0:34.1

indifferent conventional crime dramas. That's Richard Brody of The New Yorker, but a mouthful there,

0:40.0

about Lay Ms. Arabe, one of the films we're reviewing this week, as we are nearing. That's right,

0:44.6

we just 10 days away from the Academy Awards. It's time to really ramp up our awards coverage. So,

0:49.2

of course, we get you covered here on Senafile. It is the Ford Film Podcast. Yes, woohoo, let's get

0:54.3

fired up. I'm reviewing three films, Jar Academy Award nominated, four best foreign film,

0:59.7

or Mel Rushmore is going to be the best foreign films of all time. We've got for total recall,

1:03.7

looking back at a really good year in cinema in 1996, where's the Oscars? So, 1995 movies, and,

1:09.4

of course, all of us still affected by the news about Kobe Bryant. For new listeners to the podcast,

1:14.6

I'm going to replay a couple years ago my story of meeting Kobe Bryant right after he won the Oscar,

1:20.8

along with my dear friend and producer Dan Stansikko. Actually, asked Kobe a question. He was number

1:25.8

24. How about that of all those to ask Kobe a question. So, we're going to, in honor of Kobe Bryant's

1:30.6

tragic death, replay a previous portion of Senafile after Kobe won that Academy Award. As always,

1:37.6

we appreciate you checking us out. Please do give us some love on Apple Podcasts, subscribe,

1:41.9

rate, and review. You never know who's going to be listening. We've got the standard ol guard out

1:45.8

of a mean alpha, hell-won, Claire Atkins, Dan Stansik, my brother's Eshan. Now, they're locked in. But

1:50.2

how about the fact my eldest and use of his basketball coach Brett Kerk is now listening. I

1:54.6

appreciate that. We got Mitch Gareen and Will Folger, my MLB network people. So, I'm glad that the

1:59.5

word is spreading. Please do help us out and coach. Sorry about use of slack a days ago jump shot.

2:04.8

As far as the movies themselves, before we get into all of that, I feel like a marathon runner

2:09.4

here, except rather than actually running a marathon, I'm just sitting on my couch and just dive

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