‘The Perfect Movie for Our Time’ | Episode 18

Cannonball with Wesley Morris

The New York Times

News, News Commentary, Arts, Society & Culture

4.7 • 9.4K Ratings

🗓️ 5 January 2017

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

We’re kicking off 2017 with a movie speed round to prepare for this weekend’s Golden Globes. We talk through our feelings about “La La Land,” “Fences” and a couple of the other films we saw over the holidays that made us laugh, cry — and sometimes cringe. Plus: Wesley serenades Mariah Carey after her New Year’s Eve debacle and we offer some cultural intentions for 2017.

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0:00.0	I'm Wesley Morris.
0:01.1	I'm Jenna Wortham, and this is still processing.
0:05.6	Happy New Year!
0:10.0	Happy New Year!
0:11.5	You're looking good.
0:12.5	You're looking fresh, ready for 2017.
0:14.0	How fresh I'm looking.
0:15.1	By the way, I need to tell you something.
0:16.7	Yes.
0:17.9	Thanks to you, people are now coming up to me and saying things like,
0:21.9	uh, you look a little bit like a substitute teacher today.
0:25.0	Oh, wow.
0:26.3	Yeah.
0:27.0	Look at the shoe fits.
0:28.4	I was wearing a turtleneck and a denim jacket.
0:30.7	If the turtleneck fits.
0:32.9	What substitute teacher wears that?
0:35.2	That's exactly what a substitute teacher wears.
0:37.0	It's like in the substitute tab in the J. Croucacalog.
0:39.4	It's like teachers.
0:40.6	Anyway, we're going to talk this week about all the movies
0:43.2	we watched over the holidays.
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