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Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Springsteen, Cynthia Erivo, and More Burning Oscar Season Qs

Little Gold Men by Vanity Fair

Conde Nast & Vanity Fair

Tv & Film

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

This week, David, Rebecca, and Richard go through a handful of listener questions looking ahead to this coming Oscar season, from the post-trailer buzz surrounding the Bruce Springsteen biopic Deliver Me From Nowhere to a potential awards play for 28 Years Later. Then, the hosts reflect on the recent rerelease of Brokeback Mountain for its 20th anniversary, before discussing a few other awards films of its era that deserve a similar rerelease treatment.

We'll be discussing The History of Sound on July 10th, so read along and send us your questions to [email protected]!

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to Little Gold Men, Vanity Affairs podcast for film, TV, and awards lovers.

0:09.7

I'm David Canfield.

0:10.8

I'm Richard Lawson.

0:11.8

And I'm Rebecca Ford.

0:19.0

Today on the show, we are discussing the Brokeback Mountain re-release, which took place this past weekend, and the film's legacy 20 years on.

0:26.5

We're also going to talk a little bit about some other films we'd love to see get the re-release treatment among Oscar movies of the aughts.

0:32.9

But first, we have heard you loud and clear listeners.

0:36.1

Many, many emails came in after our last episode related to the upcoming Oscar race. We're excited too. And so we wanted to get into a few listener questions that came in, starting with this one from CJ, who asks, what was your impression of the first trailer for Springsteen, Deliver Me, From Nowhere, the movie.

0:59.4

It has a lot of classic ingredients for an awards contender and has appeared in a lot of people's early tea leaves,

1:05.5

but the trailer left me feeling somewhat uninspired as a non-American, perhaps the impact of Springsteen is a bit lost on me,

1:09.8

but it feels too soon after a complete unknown for another edgy musician biopic.

1:11.2

How much of an appetite will there be for this movie? I have a funny anecdote about my interest in Bruce Springsteen.

1:16.4

Years ago at Sundance, there was a movie there called Blinded by the Light about a kid who was

1:20.7

obsessed with Bruce Springsteen. So I walked out of a screening earlier that day. The movie

1:25.5

was premiering that night and a fellow journalist pulled me aside and said,

1:28.4

Richard, Richard, I have to tell you something.

1:29.9

And I was like, oh, my God, what?

1:30.7

He was like, but you cannot tell anyone else.

1:32.6

And I said, okay, please.

1:33.9

And he said, I heard a rumor that Bruce is going to come and perform after the premiere of

1:38.5

Blinded by the Light.

1:39.2

And I kind of blinked to him and I was like, okay. But he cared so much and I didn't care.

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