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🗓️ 6 June 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Tom McCarthy’s 2003 indie gem The Station Agent is our Hannah’s pick for this episode of Flicking. What will Mick and Jen make of this darkly funny tale of Fin (Peter Dinklage) a man who just wants to be left the fuck alone? And what will it tell them about Hannah?
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0:35.0 | Welcome back to another episode of Flicking. |
0:39.0 | It's our very special film podcast. |
0:42.0 | I don't know if I need to keep telling you that you've |
0:45.3 | listened to a few now as you know because cinemas are a thing of well |
0:50.0 | currently a thing of the past but hopefully a thing of the future as well. |
0:54.7 | We are taking it in turns to watch each other's favorite films and have a little chat about that. |
1:00.9 | And this week I'm delighted to tell you that it's |
1:03.0 | Hannah Dunleavy's turn and she is picked do you want to tell us what you've |
1:07.8 | picked Anna I picked the station agent I could have picked one of probably three |
1:12.4 | films for this I don't understand when people say they have a favorite something because mine always change. |
1:17.0 | But the other two films that I would say are buying for my spot of favorite film, I've actually talked about quite a lot on this |
1:23.6 | podcast already. I love Conair as well you know because it's what all action |
1:29.0 | films want to be, genuinely funny. I'm also got a lot of love for Brokeback Mountain because it's beautiful and it's sad and they are the best qualities in any film. |
1:38.2 | And you love Cowboys. And I love Cowboys. I do love Westerns. But the film I totally love and haven't talked |
1:43.5 | about the station agent and as you say I love Westerns but I think my other favorite |
1:47.5 | genre is indie black comedies and the early part of the 21st century is really liberally scattered with |
1:55.6 | absolute gems which I think the station agent is the absolute best one of them and |
2:00.6 | actually oddly it's kind of a Western if you look at it in the way |
2:04.0 | it's about a stranger who wanders into town and completely affects the dynamic of that |
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