Hey everyone, I have some news for listeners of the show.

I am starting a newsletter.

It's called Projections.

It's on Substack.

You can find it and subscribe at shanfenasy.substack.com.

I'll be writing on a weekly basis to start, essays about new movies and

happenings in film culture, recommendations for new releases that fall through the cracks of

this show, dedicated physical media coverage on an ongoing basis, stray reactions to casting,

box office, and all other kinds of news. This isn't changing anything about what we are doing

on the big picture. This is a relative,

not a sibling exactly, but definitely a cousin. If you only know me as a podcaster, I spent roughly

15 years as a writer and editor in my career, first as a blogger, then as a music critic,

then a features writer and story editor at magazines. And since I formally stopped writing a movie

column for The Ringer in 2019, give or take the occasional extended letterbox review, I've really been missing writing

a lot. So I'm going back to it. And this will be a place where I'll host chats with subscribers,

post quick reactions to the news, and maybe the occasional Mets panic note. Again, you can find

projections at shanfenasy.substack.com. Thanks as always for following

along with what we've been doing here over the years. I hope you'll check this out.

I'm Sean Fennacy. I'm Amanda Davin.

And this is the Big Picture 8 Conversation Show about 900 and Going Strong. Today on the show,

we are celebrating our 900th episode with your thoughts, prayers, well wishes, and demented questions,

as we are doing another voicemail bag. Later in this episode, I will be joined by Sophia Romvari, the writer-director of Blue Heron, a finely textured personal feature debut. It's my favorite movie of 2026 so far. Sophie has been making fascinating short films for the past decade. Blue Heron is the announcement of a major new voice in movies. This is a special film blurs the modes of narrative filmmaking, making, liked getting the chance to chat with Sophie about it, go see the movie, listen to our conversation.

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