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Mini-Water Cooler: The Beatles: Get Back, The French Dispatch, West Side Story, and More

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🗓️ 30 November 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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On the November 30, 2021 episode of /Film Daily, /Film senior writer Ben Pearson is joined by senior writer and chief film critic Chris Evangelista to talk about what they’ve been up to at the virtual water cooler.   Opening Banter:  At The Water Cooler: What we’ve been Doing:Ben spent about a month interviewing sound editors, mixers, and designers for a big article about dialogue in movies. What we’ve been Reading:  What we’ve been Watching:Chris watched The Beatles: Get Back, West Side Story, The French Dispatch, Procession.   Ben watched Spencer, Pig, The French Dispatch, Procession, and CODA. What we’ve been Eating:  What we’ve been Playing:    Also mentioned:      All the other stuff you need to know: You can find more about all the stories we mentioned on today’s show at slashfilm.com, and linked inside the show notes. /Film Daily is published every weekday, bringing you the most exciting news from the world of movies and television as well as deeper dives into the great features from slashfilm.com.  You can subscribe to /Film Daily on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify and all the popular podcast apps (RSS).  Send your feedback, questions, comments and concerns to us at peter@slashfilm.com. Please leave your name and general geographic location in case we mention the e-mail on the air. Please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts, tell your friends and spread the word!  Thanks to Sam Hume for our logo. Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0

Hello everyone and welcome to Slash Film Daily for Tuesday, November 30th, 2021.

0:04.0

On today's episode we're going to have a mini water cooler discussion and talk about what we've been up to.

0:08.7

My name is Ben Pearson, I'm a senior writer at slash film.com and I'm joined on today's episode by Slash Film Senior Writer and Chief Film.com, and I'm joined on today's episode by slash film senior writer and chief

0:14.6

film critic Chris Evangelista.

0:16.3

Hello.

0:17.3

Chris, how's it going?

0:18.8

How was your Thanksgiving?

0:20.3

It was fine.

0:21.8

How was yours, Ben? How was your? It was good. It was good. My wife and I had two thanksgiving. We moved back to Florida last year and both of our sets of parents live pretty close to each other so we

0:35.4

did one like lunch with with my family and then dinner with her family so it was nice

0:40.1

we had we didn't really have to do too much cooking on our end, which is something that we've done,

0:44.8

you know, all the years that we were living in LA and all of that.

0:47.6

So we got to just, you know, roll in and, you know, we brought Mac and cheese over, yeah for the most part we got to just eat everybody else's food so it was really nice.

0:58.6

Yeah that sounds good. All right so let's get into today's water cooler episode. There's only one thing that I wanted to mention in the what we've been doing section

1:05.2

because I don't know about you, Chris, but I've been watching a ton of stuff,

1:07.9

like, you know, as we approach the end of the year and screener season and all that kind of stuff.

1:13.0

I know you and I are both in critics groups

1:14.9

and there's probably going to be awards, ceremonies,

1:17.9

and the voting that needs to happen

1:19.6

and all that kind of stuff in the coming days and weeks.

1:21.8

So the movie watching on my end is really ramping up but in between

1:27.1

watching movies I spent basically the past month interviewing a bunch of sound editors

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