Cannes I Kick It

There's no greater honor a movie can aspire to than to be talked over by the gang at Cannes I Kick It. So Pedro Almodóvar? You're WELCOME! This is our commentary on THE ROOM NEXT DOOR, which is currently available on Netflix and other fine rental and purchase platforms. We chat about the movie and many other things! Golden Li-what? You won the Palme D'Ollie! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm <@122997500243083266> @imlaughalone

It's a good year to hold fast to traditions that bring us joy and what is more joyful than the giving of shorts? Nothing! Shortgiving Five is here and we have another wide ranging conversation of various short films to share with each other. This year's shorts are: Lover, Lovers, Loving Love (dir. Jodie Mack)-Not available to the public, Balloonfest (dir. Nathan Truesdell)-available on Vimeo, In Order To Not Be Here (dir. Deborah Stratman)-available on YouTube, and Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life (dir. Peter Capaldi)- available on YouTube. Shorts to you all! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone

There are so many movies this fall! We talk a few Chicago Film Festival titles like DRY LEAF and more on IS THIS THING ON? and get into discussions of all sorts of other movies like MIROIRS NO. 3, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT, DIE MY LOVE, BUGONIA, IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU, BLUE MOON and much much more! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm <@122997500243083266> @imlaughalone

The fall regional festivals have been doing their thing and that includes the city of Chicago. Emilio has been on the ground and offers up his report on seeing FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER, THE MASTERMIND, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, THE SECRET AGENT, IF I HAD LEGS I'D KICK YOU, and, of course, IS THIS THING ON? Andy is mostly here to get all your questions about Balls answered. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone

As a new People's Choice Winner has been crowned and all the stars have left Toronto, so too has Andy returned from his pilgrimage to the festival. He and Emilio got on the line to break down everything he saw, from new films from Park Chan-Wook, Richard Linklater, and Claire Denis, to the people's choice winner HAMNET. Documentaries, undistributed musicals, Cannes prize winners, we've got a little bit of everything! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone

Fall Festival Season is in FULL SWING. Andy is ACTIVELY AT TIFF. So you KNOW what that means. IT IS TIME FOR THE 2024 CIKI AWARDS JURY. That's right, the shared list of movies we all have seen from 2024 is on the table, and we are giving a festival-style awards slate. Who will take home the coveted Palme D'Ollie? There's only ONE way to find out. NOTE: This episode confers NO LEGITIMACY on Francis Ford Coppola's Megalopolis. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone

With a full TIFF Schedule announced and most of the NYFF lineup in place, we take a look at the full picture. J Catherine and Andy talk about Andy's upcoming visit to TIFF, using the wonderful resource of tiffr to see what should be on Andy's shortlist and what his ideal schedule might look like. Up top, some thoughts on the latest Spike Lee Joint, HIGHEST 2 LOWEST. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone and J. Catherine Traverse who is not on social media

As we move ever closer to a full fall festival lineup, the gang comes together to discuss a bunch more TIFF titles and the NYFF Main Slate, before moving into a game designed to test their knowledge of TIFF movies from Actors Turned Directors. And some discussion of Alex Ross Perry's Pavements up top now that everyone on the pod has seen it! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcathtraverse

Announcement after announcement after announcement is upon us. There were like 3 or 4 major festival announcements between when we recorded this episode and when it's coming out so we will get to those NEXT TIME. Please enjoy our brief look at LOCARNO, and a deeper look at VENICE and TIFF and some assorted speculation about other stuff happening this fall. Some EDDINGTON talk up top between J. Catherine and Andy that is not particularly spoilery. We're back! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm <@122997500243083266> @imlaughalone @jcathtraverse

Wes Anderson is punctual! Always happy to have a festival premiere and then be in wide release within mere weeks, his latest THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME is now in theaters and ALL FOUR HOSTS had an opportunity to see, so we naturally come together to discuss. We talk about Anderson's structural choices, his ideas on faith and religion, and his use of violence and many more things ON TOPIC and RELATED TO THE FILM before we kind of DIGRESS to offer a preview of a Venice preview and just kind of shoot the shit about movies since it hasn't been all four of us for a while. Fun stuff! Can we steal "Do it up!" now that Maron is retiring? Let's find out! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcathtraverse

The 2025 Cannes Festival has ended! Who got buzz? Who's been bought? Who won the Palme? Emilio, Cullen and Andy look at all the competition films, how the critics reacted and what won the big prizes, and talk about distribution plans for many of the buzziest festival titles. We say "Mubi" "Neon" or "Neon and Mubi" several times each on this episode! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcathtraverse

The Cannes Lineup is complete and the schedule is out, and we have a jury, so J. Catherine and Andy cover all the things of note there before the stars start arriving on the croisette next week. And then J. Catherine has been seeing a handful of things at the Chicago Critics Festival, including SORRY, BABY, FANTASY LIFE, OBEX, and FAMILIAR TOUCH. And a lengthy Special Presentations digression on The Four Seasons, The Rehearsal, and experimental film in Chicago. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcathtraverse

Cannes continues to take shape with a Director's Fortnight line up with a few titles to note. And there's an exciting new movie that's a big hit in theaters from a filmmaker with a festival background. We talk about Ryan Coogler's SINNERS, how it functions as a horror or action movie, how the thematic material is sitting with us, and the fascinating structural choices made in it. Please note that there were some Cannes additions made after we recorded, we will be sure to discuss those next time around! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcathtraverse

The 2025 Cannes Lineup is here! Who's in? Who's out? Who will win the Palme? Emilio and Andy look into all the competition films, take a peak at the other lineups including the coveted Cannes Premieres slate, and talk about what's still out there that might still get added and what's not done yet. Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcathtraverse

It is the time of year where we all go a little mad, what with it being the month of March. We are celebrating by going far up our own butts and determining the greatest of the CIKI in-jokes and obsessions. Play along won't you? And let us know where we go wrong! View the bracket HERE Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcathtraverse

We gather to discuss the new Bong Joon-Ho film Mickey 17 as well as Holes, Lost, and Adam McKay. Do it up! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcathtraverse

It's post-OSCARS WEEKEND. To celebrate, we play the second half of the game Andy put together last week, a little Festival Oscars Guessing Game for Emilio and Cullen to duke it out over and decide the ultimate champion. Please don't pay TOO close attention to the scores, but we have some fun puzzling over how big a festival imprint some of this year's nominees have, and where those imprints fall! Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcathtraverse

It's OSCARS WEEKEND and to celebrate, Andy has put together a little Festival Oscars Guessing Game for Emilio and Cullen to duke it out over. Please don't pay TOO close attention to the scores, but we have some fun puzzling over how big a festival imprint some of this year's nominees have, and where those imprints fall! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcathtraverse

J. Kim Murphy from Variety joins us, to pitch Richard Linklater movies based on names and ideas pulled from hats. Plus our first taste of Cannes 2025 news! Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcath

In honor of the SNL 50th anniversary we decide to pair Cannes Best Director Winners with SNL cast members to make the movies of our dreams. Happy Valentines Day lovebirds! Our twitter is @CannesIKickIt Our bluesky is @CannesIKickIt Our instagram is @CIKIPod Our letterboxd is CIKIPod Enjoying the show? Feel free to send a few bucks our way on Ko-fi. Thanks to Tree Related for our theme song Our hosts are @andytgerm @clatchley @imlaughalone @jcathtraverse