The Five Most Anticipated Movies of the Fall Festivals. Plus: 'The Irishman' Is Almost Here ... and It's Three and a Half Hours Long | The Big Picture

The Big Picture

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🗓️ 29 August 2019

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Awards season is nearly upon us, and Netflix has landed on a rollout strategy for its big movies, among them the Eddie Murphy vehicle 'Dolemite Is My Name,' Noah Baumbach's 'Marriage Story,' and Martin Scorsese's hugely anticipated (and also quite long) 'The Irishman' (0:45). Then, with the esteemed Venice, Telluride, and the Toronto film festivals approaching, Sean and Amanda share the movies they're most looking forward to and what their festival showings will mean for the coming Oscar race (33:53). Hosts: Sean Fennessey and Amanda Dobbins Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Ringer Podcast Network, I'm Liz Kelly.
0:04.2	With the NFL season a week away and the Ringer's Fantasy Football coverage gearing up, we have
0:08.1	released our first ever Fantasy Football Hall of Fame.
0:11.6	We assembled a panel of voters including Bill Simmons, Cousin Sal, Robert Mays, Mallory
0:16.0	Rupin and more to induct the 25 best fantasy football players of all time.
0:21.2	You can find the rankings by going directly to fantasyfaball.theringer.com.
0:26.0	And for more fantasy football coverage check out the fantasy football podcast on Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:40.5	I'm Sean Fennese and I'm Amanda Daven.
0:42.5	And this is the big picture a conversation show about unlocking the confusing world of the
0:47.1	Fall Film Festival.
0:49.1	Amanda, I wanted to have a conversation with you as we approach award season, we're not
0:53.7	quite in award season but we are approaching it about all the things that are coming.
0:58.4	Now I think if you were like me 10 years ago, some schmuck beggin for change on the street.
1:05.4	And you were like the Toronto International Film Festival sounds so interesting but I don't
1:09.5	know how it works and don't know how movies get in there.
1:12.2	I don't know how it affects the award season.
1:14.6	I'm just some guy looking at the newspaper and trying to figure out what movies are appearing
1:20.1	there.
1:21.1	And if you're inside this industry or at least on the outer rim of this industry as we are, you
1:27.0	tend to look at it a bit of scantz.
1:29.8	You tend to look at it a bit cynically and you see how these are chess pieces that are
1:33.4	being moved around.
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