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And this is the big picture, a conversation show about our journeys to the fall film festivals.

That's right.

I once again visited Telluride, Colorado for their intimate annual celebration of cinema,

while Amanda returned to Europe for the 82nd Venice International Film Festival. Amanda, how are you? I'm great. I'm still in Europe. You're in Europe. We're going to get to that in one moment. A couple of programming reminders here. We're going to talk about our favorite films from the festivals. We are going to talk about the films that we're looking forward to this fall, the ones that we haven't seen. Now, you've seen a lot. I've seen a lot, but there's still a lot of holes. We're going to talk about probably the best picture race and where it stands for the first time this entire season. And then later in this episode, I have a conversation with Alex Russell. He's the first time writer-director of one of the pleasant surprises of the year, a film called Lurker. It's a music industry thriller. I don't want to spoil anything about it.

It's going more wide this weekend. People should check it out. Russell's been a writer on The Bear and Beef, two of the best shows of the last five years. Super smart guy. Really good conversation. Stick around for that. But first, screw the news.

Let's just talk about Venice.

You're in Europe.

What are you doing right now?

Well, it's 10. Let's just talk about Venice. You're in Europe. What are you doing right now?

Well, it's 10.30 at night, local time.

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