Hey, next picture show listeners. Just a reminder that our live show at the Chicago Podcast Festival is coming up on Saturday, November 19th at the Steppenwolf 1700 theater.

We've got a script and a format worked out, which we think is going to make the former dissolve podcast listeners out there very happy.

For one thing, it's going to feature the return of some of your favorite obnoxious noise makers.

So come to the show and you'll get a chance to see the barnyard buzzers in person

and to help judge a competition to determine a future podcast movie pairing.

We'll be double up with the folks from the Booth One podcast, so we're expecting the unexpected,

but we're also expecting this to be a pretty lively, fast-moving exchange of ideas.

Tickets are available at chicago podcastfestable.org.

Come join us, meet other next picture show fans, and tell us what you want to see next up on the podcast.

It's very difficult to keep the line between the past and the present.

Do you believe that someone out of the past can enter and take possession of a living being?

We may be true with the past, but the past is not through with us.

Hey guys, this is Genevieve Koski, and I'm here with Tosh Robinson.

As you may have guests from the title and runtime on this

podcast, this is not the episode that was originally slated to run today, which was the first

part of our discussion comparing and contrasting Wonkar-Wise in the mood for love and Barry Jenkins's

new moonlight. We've decided to postpone those episodes a week in the wake of what's been a pretty

tough week for our country. To be frank, in the days after the presidential election, we weren't really feeling that up to talking about movies. Yeah, it's been a pretty intense week politically and socially speaking. So all of us here at the next picture show have been trying to figure out how to care and talk about movies again when there's kind of a lot of other things to care about and talk about right now. So Genevieve and I decided to get together to record a little minisode to tide you guys over until our regular episodes drop next week. Yeah, we're just going to talk a little about how we're feeling about watching movies right now and offer some kind of recommendations for you guys in terms of how to do that if you are also struggling. But before we get into that, a reminder about where you can find the movies we'll be discussing in next week's episodes. Moonlight is still in limited release and expanding to more theaters every week. So check your local art house or indie-friendly Cineplex. In The Mood for Love is on Criterion, DVD, and Blu-ray, and it's also now available via Filmstruck, a new subscription streaming service for Cinefiles that is now also the online home to the Criterion collection. It's a pretty cool service with a lot of past Next Picture Show titles available, so we'd recommend checking Filmstruck out if you haven't already. Okay, so let's get into this discussion, Genevieve. There's definitely a feeling out there.

I think a lot of people are really wanting to talk politics right now,

and other people are very adamantly not wanting to talk politics.

And for a lot of people, entertainment has kind of become a big question mark.

Is it about escapism?

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