Weekend Watchlist: Emily the Criminal, Inu-Oh and Day Shift
[Izon by Trent Walton fades in, plays alone, fades out]
MITCHELL Hello, and welcome to Weekend Watchlist, a look at what’s screening and streaming brought to you by Slim...
SLIM Hello!
MITCHELL And together we’ll dig through what’s dropping this weekend, last weekend, recent trends on Letterboxd, and we’ll also take a peek at our own watchlists—all under 30 minutes or Lee Pace will no longer be 6′5″. [Slim laughs]
SLIM Mitchell, this could be the biggest episode we’ve ever done. Aubrey Plaza in Emily the Criminal, feudal rock music with Inu-Oh and streaming on Netflix, Day Shift with Jamie Foxx, a few limited releases and a giant one on Netflix. But, first, this episode is sponsored by our friends at MUBI, a curated streaming service showing exceptional films from around the globe. Every day MUBI premieres a new film from iconic directors to emerging auteurs. And I know you’re a big fan. There’s always something to discover on MUBI.
MITCHELL Yes, Slim you know I love Mubi, but did you know that MUBI also has a podcast?
SLIM I did.
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SLIM The most recent app is focused on the George Eastman Museum’s Dryden Theatre in Rochester, New York with the Nitrate Picture Show, maybe one of the coolest names ever, but you can start watching movies on MUBI free for 90 days at mubi.com/letterboxd (that’s mubi.com/letterboxd) for three months of great cinema for free!
MITCHELL Absolutely worth it. Speaking of great cinema, let’s dive right into this week’s releases, starting with Aubrey Plaza doing some crime in Emily the Criminal directed by John Patton Ford, releasing in limited theaters. It’s on 22,000 watchlists. “Emily who is saddled with student debt and locked out of the job market due to a minor criminal record gets involved in a credit card scam that pulls her into the criminal underworld of Los Angeles, ultimately leading to deadly consequences.” Slim, what’s your vibes? What do you feel about Emily the Criminal?
SLIM Who among us haven’t gotten pulled into a credit card scam, either doing the scamming or getting scammed? [Slim laughs]
MITCHELL Listen, it happens. It happens to everybody! We can all relate to the movie.
SLIM You’re just trying to get by. Okay? I’m not judging anyone who does these scams.
MITCHELL I’m off the grid. I’m off the grid at this point. I don’t trust it.
SLIM I sent you a Facebook link today and there were some strange characters that appeared and you refused to click it because you thought you were gonna get phished.
MITCHELL I’m not clicking it. I’m not clicking links! [Slim laughs]
SLIM I love Aubrey Plaza. I love this movie. This was tense as all get out. What did you think?
MITCHELL I’m a huge fan of the movie. It was my favorite movie from Sundance this year. Aubrey Plaza, always down to represent, Delaware’s own. I’ve been living in Delaware for decades now. So Aubrey Plaza is our queen. We worship at the altar of Aubrey. I think this is her best performance, so far. I think it’s her most fully realized performance. It kind of feels like the thing that she was made to do. She feels so at home in this kind of story, it’s super reminiscent to me of those seventies and eighties working class thrillers, like Straight Time and Blue Collar that I really love. And I feel taking crippling student loan debt as a motivation for someone breaking bad is such a smart and interesting move into that underworld crime scene that we get into with the movie.
SLIM I love Aubrey, but I think I’m guilty as many people are of just as just ing Parks and Rec, “Oh yeah, Aubrey Plaza, Parks and Rec.” But this movie, I’m late to the general theatrical Aubrey game and I’m, ‘Oh hell yeah, she is amazing in this movie. I want to see more Aubrey in movies just like this.’ And it goes in directions that I wasn’t expecting, really positively. I really love the twists and turns in this movie. And Tyler left a Letterboxd review: “If Aubrey Plaza tased me, I’d honestly be okay with it.” Me too.
MITCHELL Yeah. I think we all can agree. We got a review from Paul Yama as well, “I love movies like this about someone who sort of stumbles into criminal activity and can’t turn back. The movie does this clever thing of making it all seem a little scary, but mostly interesting. And like Emily, you feel compelled to dig deeper into it.” Which is a thing that I really loved about it too. There’s a lot of tension, but she also very quickly adapts to this world and becomes at one with it. And she starts finding that she’s pretty skilled at being a criminal. She is in over her head, but she’s also finding her footing there and thriving in it too, which is a really interesting kind of narrative to take with it.
SLIM Speaking of thriving, you were thriving talking with Aubrey last week. Maybe Aubrey will leave us a voicemail next week. Who knows?
MITCHELL Very true. This is very true. Aubrey Plaza and I, very good friends. We’re going to hang out at Brew HaHa! in Delaware. It’s all arranged. We’re just hanging out now.
SLIM Just think of me when you’re hanging out with Aubrey. [Mitchell laughs] Think about how I would’ve loved to have been there too.
MITCHELL We’re just going to talk. It’s just going to be talking about you the whole time. [Slim laughs] She’s a big fan. She told me she’s a big fan. She said, “Where’s Slim?”
SLIM I knew it. I frickin’ knew it, Mitchell. Our next movie this week coming in limited theaters from Masaaki Yuasa, Inu-Oh. 12,000 watchlists. “Born to an esteemed family, Inu-Oh is afflicted with an ancient curse that has left him on the margins of society. When he meets the blind musician Tomona, a young biwa priest haunted by his past, Inu-Oh discovers a captivating ability to dance. The pair quickly become business partners and inseparable friends as crowds flock to their electric larger than life concerts.” I have not seen this yet, but I watched the trailer. The trailer looks nuts. It’s feudal Japan, rock-music, heavy-metal, dancing. And you have seen this, is that the whole movie? It looks insane.
MITCHELL Yeah, I watched it this morning before we started recording. And it starts off with you thinking that it’s going to be one thing and then it develops into a totally different thing and just really keeps you on your feet. And this is a movie that people have been talking about—I’ve been seeing people talking about it for such a long time. People have been so hyped for it. Our own Letterboxd animation correspondent Kambole Campbell has been really hyping it up, including it in several of his animation preview stories of the animated movies to look out for. And people have been super, super stoked about it. The music is unbelievable. It definitely keeps you rocking. And I think that’s my biggest takeaway from it was just this appreciation of the timeless power of storytelling through music and how music has really that universal quality to it. And a lot of people on Letterboxd have been really hyping it up too. Esther Rosenfield’s review says: “Absolutely spectacular. I think my favorite Yuasa is still Devil Man Crybaby, but this is his most stylistically sophisticated work today. Certain visual touches, specifically the way the film depicts the perspective of blind characters, are just ingenious and the performance sequences only get more and more breathtaking as the film goes on.”
SLIM Geez, who’s the most famous musician to come out of Delaware?
MITCHELL Yeah, that’s a good question... [Slim & Mitchell laugh]
SLIM We’ll let you simmer on that one. Alicia Haddick also left her review—
MITCHELL Joe Biden...
SLIM Joe Biden. [Slim & Mitchell laughs] What, does he play the harmonica? My god. Alicia Haddick left her review: “There’s a psychedelic beauty to how Yuasa has transformed his unique creative style into a condensed form of how music and performance can transform and condense the art of storytelling.” So very positive vibes through this animation. And to be honest, we really have yet to spotlight an animated movie in the Weekend Watchlist. I don’t think. So, hopefully people can find this in the limited release that it has and check it out.
MITCHELL Steven Marley, son of Bob Marley was born in Wilmington, Delaware. That’s when you google ‘Most famous musician from Delaware’ that’s the first thing that comes up.
SLIM Thank you, Google.
MITCHELL Our next film takes us back to LA, not with Emily The Criminal, but with Jamie Foxx, the vampire hunter in Day Shift coming out on Netflix, on 4,000 watchlists, from director JJ Perry. The synopsis: “An LA vampire hunter has a week to come up with the cash to pay for his kids’ tuition and braces, trying to make a living these days just might kill him.” Slim, if your son needed tuition and braces, how many vampires would you kill?
SLIM I mean, I’d probably also start credit card scamming vampires, just like maybe combine both.
MITCHELL Maybe easier route. [Slim & Mitchell laugh]
SLIM So full disclosure, I didn’t even know this movie was coming out until this week on Netflix. It’s just bonkers. This looks like a super expensive Netflix movie, Jamie Foxx vampire movie. Why aren’t we talking about this more? I had fun watching this. I was surprised. I’m a huge Dave Franco fan from his Madden commercial days. He plays kind of the nerdy assistant of Jamie Foxx in this. So there’s a vampire hunting union that Jamie Foxx gets kicked out of. He’s begging to come back to pay for the bills for his daughter. The stunts are wild. This is directed by a seasoned stunt man, stunt coordinator. I think this is his first theatrical directorial movie. And there’s one stunt in this movie that is so absurd. And then there’s also a scene where a character lights their finger on fire to light a cigarette. One of the most bonkers scenes of the year that I think I’ve seen. What did you think?
MITCHELL Yeah, I really enjoyed it. I’m a big Jamie Foxx fan in general. I think he’s a super charismatic actor. He has a presence that I think is super unique and I enjoy watching and I, like you, feel Netflix has been slacking a little bit on the promotion for this one. I don’t know. They’re putting all the chips in that [The] Gray Man basket, but I think this is a lot of fun. The opening scene—so I had very little expectations going into it, and the opening scene is this bonkers action sequence with Jamie Foxx shotgun blasting the heck out of this old lady who turns out to be a vampire, which then becomes this nuts fight sequence between the two of them, that’s using ragdoll kind of techniques. He’s just slamming her all throughout this house. Her body is just becoming completely twisted and gnarled. It’s just, immediately I was this movie is very different from what I was expecting it to be. And yeah, I think it’s just a really fun ride to go on.
SLIM Great weekend movie. That’s what this show’s all about.
MITCHELL Great weekend movie! Great summer movie! I wish that I could have seen this in a theater in the middle of the day on a Saturday or something.
SLIM FakeRobHunter left a review: ”It’s a blast. Comedy works more often than not. I’m in for this franchise.” Rob using the fabled F-word, on a Netflix movie ‘franchise’.
MITCHELL We’ll see what happens.
SLIM We’ll see. [Slim laughs]
MITCHELL Honestly though, I would watch a sequel for this one.
SLIM I would, the way that this ends, I’m pretty in for this. Lightning round spotlight, Girl Picture is also out in limited theaters this week. Alli Haapasalo, 9,000 watchlists. “Mimmi, Emma and Rönkkö are girls at the cusp of womanhood trying to draw their own contours. In three consecutive Fridays, two of them experience the earth moving effects of falling in love. While the third goes on a quest to find something they’ve never experienced before: pleasure.” This is just another release that we wanted a spotlight. It’s not the kind of Netflix fare, but we want to try to change it up a little bit. Show different genres, ones that maybe aren’t on your watchlist. And this is definitely one of those.
MITCHELL Yeah. I just want to shout out a quick review from Mariah, who saw this film at Sundance called it her favorite film at Sundance. Mariah said: “Set over three weekends, this jubilant Finnish coming of age film is unabashedly, girly, horny, romantic and fun. What else do you need?”
SLIM Checks all the boxes right there. Last week. Let’s just get right into it. The Heat 4K. Can we just talk about the Heat 4K that you probably bought and have?
MITCHELL Big Heat week. Heat, finally on 4K. I got mine in the mail a couple days ago. It’s beautiful. I got the Best Buy exclusive steel book. It is just--I look at it every day. Heat 2, the novel also out. It’s just Heat week here! [Slim laughs]
SLIM How about Michael Mann teasing Heat 2 every other day on Twitter? How far off is this movie, is he that deep into it?
MITCHELL Is he using that Twitter himself? Does he have somebody doing it? Does he know? Does know how to use the tweets?
SLIM You know Michael Mann how to do the tweets, he’s on there. He’s liking tweets, probably he’s quote tweeting. He’s doing everything he can.
MITCHELL He checks, he looks at the Letterboxd Instagram. We know this. He follows us.
SLIM We have confirmed.
MITCHELL He follows us.
SLIM We have confirmed. [Slim laughs]
MITCHELL Michael Mann, come on the show buddy.
SLIM One thing I want to call out is Prey, hit Hulu last week. We set the tone last week, we told folks, you got to get on this Prey, and we appreciate everyone tagging their reviews ‘Weekend Watchlist’. There were seven pages of Letterboxd reviews with Prey talk. Everyone loved Prey. I think it’s sitting at a three point... let’s see, 3.7 average on Letterboxd. So one quick review I’ll spotlight, “Prey should be a star making feature for Amber. She’s incredible in this. The fact that Disney chose to only release this on Hulu is infuriating but expected. The film making is perfection. I’m so glad they got permission to film on First Nation lands and utilize the natural lighting and landscape so beautifully. Imagine getting to see that on the big screen.” I agree. We’d love to see this in theaters.
MITCHELL Yeah, I think the last week we’ve been seeing tweets from Bill Duke, original Predator star, from Jesse ‘the Body’ Ventura, original Predator star, are just giving big praise for Prey and for Amber. And I think probably they listen to the show and that’s the reason that Bill and Jesse checked it out. They’re big fans, are always talking about Weekend Watchlist. So we’re just getting the Prey army started.
SLIM Bill, come on the show. We know that’s you on those tweets, you’re doing the quote tweets.
MITCHELL He’s tweeting them out.
SLIM What else did you want to spotlight?
MITCHELL One film we haven’t gotten the chance to talk about on the show yet is Thirteen Lives, the new film from Ron Howard. It’s out on Amazon Prime Video right now and it kind of rules. I was worried the film would be a little dull releasing so soon after the documentary of the rescue, which tells the same story of twelve boys and the coach of a Thai soccer team, getting trapped in a cave back a few years ago, which was a story that was all over the news and this international rescue mission that was put together to try and pull them out. And there is a little bit of, yeah, I just saw a movie about this story, but interestingly, despite this being a narrative feature, rather than a documentary, I found this film far more restrained and more effective as a result. I recently rewatched Apollo 13 where I was thinking just about how much that movie rules and how I wish Ron Howard would do more movies like that are just him focusing on people, just kind getting in there, doing a job and doing it well and not pouring on the saccharin and the emotionality, and the emotional manipulation of movie making with the big score and stuff. And you would think Ron Howard directing a movie about this story would be that. But yeah, it’s more in that Apollo 13 vein where it really is just nose to the grindstone, people just having a mission that’s really irable and just getting it done. Have you checked out Thirteen Lives yet?
SLIM No, I was of the same mind. When this trailer came out, I kind of maybe pushed it aside, ‘Oh Ron Howard doing a whatever.’ But then when you were mentioning, this could be his best film since Apollo 13 or A Beautiful Mind. I was, ‘Mitchell, what is going on here? You credit card scamming me right now?’ [Mitchell laughs] And then, so I’ll add this to my watch list for sure. Because otherwise it wasn’t really there, but it has a great cast.
MITCHELL Great cast.
SLIM Great cast. And maybe that could just be because Amazon Prime, maybe it’s a movie debuting there and I’m, ‘I don’t know. Maybe I’ll check it out at some point,’ but definitely further up my list now.
MITCHELL Gemma checked it out where she says: “If you have seen The Rescue, and you should, you’ll understand why old Colin Farrell and pals play it so understated here. It takes a certain personality to wetsuit up and wiggle along narrow, wet, dark, bumpy ageways for hours on end for fun, let alone for life saving reasons, and takes a certain kind of director to helm an anti-action action movie, a solid Ron Howard t.”
SLIM God he’s back. Ron Howard’s back.
MITCHELL He’s back. We’re doing it, Ron. No more Hillbilly Elegies here! [Slim laughs]
SLIM I forgot about that movie. I already blocked it out. Bodies Bodies Bodies is released wide this week, Halina Reijn. So if you heard some buzz last week, we talked about Lee Pace potentially leaving a voicemail on this show, quote unquote “voicemail”, and Mia asked him about some horror movies he might have watched and the cast as well. So you’ll hear from Chase Sui Wonders, but what movies did they see early on that maybe they shouldn’t have? So let’s hear from Lee and friends.
[interview with Lee Pace plays]
LEE PACE See, I was a kid around the time of [A] Nightmare on Elm Street, the Freddy Krueger movies, that whole age of cheap, super-violent, evil horror movies. So I those were very popular when I was a kid and nightmare causing.
CHASE SUI WONDERS I saw The Fifth Element, which is not a traditional horror movie, but the blue lady, in The Fifth Element, everyone re her, stayed in my mind for five years straight, very traumatizing.
LEE PACE Isn’t her name Plavalaguna?
CHASE SUI WONDERS I don’t know, I imagine that...
LEE PACE I love that you just mentioned that movie. It’s one of my favorite movies.
CHASE SUI WONDERS It’s a great film. I was so scared of her.
SLIM Not that—this was a real voicemail, so I didn’t see the video, but I watched the video of Lee talking about The Fifth Element. Lee was in love with that movie. I’ve never seen such love on a man’s face. So thanks for the VM Lee, what do you think?
MITCHELL Yeah, I’m with Lee that I saw [A] Nightmare on Elm Street too young and Freddy Krueger gave me very severe nightmares, but also the movie Dennis The Menace starring Walter Matthau, I saw that when I was really young and that also gave me nightmares. So I was a troubled child. [Slim & Mitchell laugh]
SLIM Bianca left a review for Bodies Bodies Bodies. So I’ll read: “Haven’t laughed this much in a long time, a loving, searing satire of youth culture that has tons of fun and kept me guessing throughout. The whole cast works so well together.” So people are loving Bodies Bodies Bodies.
MITCHELL Everybody loving Rachel Sennott in there too. Our Shiva Baby queen getting the spotlight she deserves. Get out and see Bodies Bodies Bodies in theaters now, wide. Do it!
SLIM Do we have time to spotlight Bullet Train? Look, 3.6 average, which I was not expecting based on some of my friend’s reviews. That’s pretty high.
MITCHELL That is pretty high.
SLIM Robert left a review: “A cartoonish cross between Tarantino and Guy Ritchie goofy and nothing new, but still fun times.”
MITCHELL And also, I have to shout out, my mother works for this luggage company Tumi, who made the briefcase that is in Bullet Train, their 19 Degree aluminum attaché case, they are Tumi, very hyped about it. My mom let me know that they sent all of the employees $25 Fandango gift cards so that everybody could go see Bullet Train in theaters. So that 3.6 Letterboxd average, that’s that Tumi tick-up happening there. [Slim laughs]
SLIM The Tumi tick-up, trademark. Oh my God, ‘attaché’ might be in my top three favorite words in the English language. I love that word.
MITCHELL Unfortunately, no real updates this week on the Letterboxd Top 50 of 2022 list. Prey did not make the cut...
SLIM I’m going to throw up.
MITCHELL We’ve got to, let’s get more Prey ratings in there. Let’s get more Prey hype in there.
SLIM Please!
MITCHELL Brutal.
SLIM Let’s head to our watchlist. This is the final segment of the episode. We shuffle our watch list together, so that kind of helps us guide what we’re going to watch this week. So last time we were on this show, I shuffled and got The Perfume of the Lady in Black. And this was on my watchlist, my buddies on Bat & Spider did this. They focused on this movie. Giallo. You ever heard of these giallo movies, giallo type Italian movies, where it’s a mystery, maybe supernatural stuff involved? There’s usually a detective kind of deal. But in this movie, the lead actor is having hallucinations of her past. Her mother committed suicide and she starts having these memories of walking in on her mother having an affair, a lot of gyrations in this sex scene by the way, felt very NC-17. But at the same time, her friends, her quote unquote “friends” are acting very strange. Maybe they’re involved with some of these hallucinations. It had a shocking ending, that at the time was probably really shocking, but having watched a bunch of filth in the years since this movie came out, wasn’t as shocking to me. It was two hours of her going through hell and wondering if she was insane, which was a bit of a drain, but I liked it. I gave it three stars.
MITCHELL Honestly, two hours of going through hell and wondering if you’re insane, kind of relatable. [Slim laughs] A little relatable there...
SLIM The Perfume of the Mitchell in Black, that’ll be your movie.
MITCHELL That’s the new movie. My movie that I got last time I did the watchlist shuffle was Wake in Fright. A movie I was very excited about, lived up to all of its hype as Ausploitation After Hours. The film’s about a bonded teacher in Australia who plans a trip to Sydney to see his girlfriend over Christmas holidays. But he’s got an overnight stop in Bundanyabba and that night stretches into the morning and the next night and the next day and so on and so on. It is two hours in hell. This movie is absolutely merciless. It’s like a fever nightmare you can’t wake up from. Occasionally offering you some fruit of temptation only to pull it away and drop you into literally a puddle of your own vomit. There’s sex, violence, gore, debauchery, and none of it feels good. It’s just soul-rotting for two hours that makes you want to take a shower after it’s over. I loved it. Five stars. [Slim & Mitchell laugh]
SLIM We need a logo of the Mitchell thumbs up on the corner box of a box art and that’s the quote, oh my god, unreal. Let’s spotlight some friends that left reviews this week tagged at ‘Weekend Watchlist’. We appreciate everyone doing that, there’s so many this week. So apologies if we couldn’t get to yours. Mason left an review: “Pretty convincing argument for never having kids.”
MITCHELL Yeah, true. review of The Vanishing Lion, where Sally Jane says: “A blend of history and fate, past and present as symbolism and foreshadowing, Agnès Varda melts genres easily. But the strength of this is more than artistry. It is charm. For someone who made fiery political documentaries and riveting tragedies, she could do charming better than anyone. Or maybe I am biased because of how many cats are in her films.” [Slim laughs]
SLIM Boy, let’s see, review: “Age may change how we look on the outside, but it does very little on the human soul. We get wiser, perhaps a bit more jaded, but within every one of us is a youthful spirit searching for love, longing and peace. Neo westerns are fast becoming some of the most visually striking films to emerge from the US, depicting these grand rolling landscapes with a certain solitude to its understated beauty. It may not be the final frontier, but it’s perhaps the final escape.”
MITCHELL Definitely.
SLIM What a review.
MITCHELL That’s a great review. Definitely check out A Love Song. One last one we’ll shout out. Liam’s review of The Seventh Seal: “Feels like a movie I should love, but just don’t. That doesn’t mean I don’t like it, far from that. It’s just that it is not what I expected something like this to be. I’ll definitely be watching this again one day, but for now it’s just not for me all that much. Do really enjoy it. But if I need to pick between this and Persona, I’m choosing Persona every time.” Slim, Persona or [The] Seventh Seal?
SLIM I haven’t seen either, believe it or not. [Slim & Mitchell laugh] Both on my watchlist though. Persona has been chilling there for quite some time. Maybe I’m going to roll it right now?
MITCHELL That was about a perfect segue.
SLIM Maybe I’m going to roll it. Alright so let’s head to your watchlist. I’m going to filter my service by Stream-only, make it easy for me. And then I’m going to head to Sort, and then I’m going to hit Shuffle. And that’s the movie I have to watch before I’m next on this episode. [shuffle sound plays] Oh boy. Oh boy. Chan Is Missing, 1982, Wayne Wang. “Two cabbies search San Francisco’s Chinatown for a mysterious character who has disappeared with their four grand. Their quest leads them on a humorous if mundane journey, which illuminates the many problems experienced by Chinese Americans trying to assimilate into contemporary American society.” I see a four and a half star review from Mitchell on this movie.
MITCHELL Hell yeah. Yeah. I watched that for the first time earlier this year, knowing that it was getting a Criterion release on Blu-ray this year, which is really rad. It’s a phenomenal movie. I didn’t really know much going into it other than Wayne Wang, I know from Smoke and The Joy Luck Club, but I didn’t know that much about the movie and yeah, it’s really just gorgeous. It’s really, really funny. It’s really interesting. Super stoked to see what you think about that one.
SLIM It’s on Criterion Channel. If everyone wants to watch along with me, tag your review ‘Weekend Watchlist’.
MITCHELL See what I’ve got. [shuffle sounds plays] Okay, here we go. Hard Times, 1975, directed by Walter Hill, the man. Tagline, “New Orleans, 1933. In those days, words didn’t say much.” The synopsis, “In the depression, Chaney a strong silent street fighter s with Speed, a promoter of no holds barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to set up fights for Chaney but Speed gambles away any winnings.” Love, oh James Coburn is playing Speed? Come on, love a character named Speed.
SLIM Charles Bronson looks incredible on this poster. This is a poster and a half.
MITCHELL Walter Hill’s first movie. Fantastic poster. I’m very excited to check this out. It is streaming on Tubi for anybody who maybe wants to check this out.
SLIM Tubi army. I’m actually seeing a Sean Baker review, back when Sean left some notes on their watches: “Found it more engaging than I . James Coburn steals the show.” Sean Baker. Okay.
MITCHELL There you go.
SLIM You know, Sean Baker probably has this amazing poster somewhere framed in his house, poster nut.
MITCHELL Oh, give me that poster, Sean. [Slim laughs]
[Izon by Trent Walton fades in, plays alone, fades out]
SLIM Thank you so much for listening to Weekend Watchlist brought to you by The Letterboxd Show. You can follow Mitchell, Slim, that’s me, and our HQ page on Letterboxd using the links in our episode notes. Don’t forget to take advantage of that Mubi free code. If you had the time, maybe consider rating the podcast on Spotify or leaving a rating and review on Apple Podcast, it helps spread the word about the show. And by the way, we’ll have the Mubi discount code linked in the episode notes.
MITCHELL Thanks to our crew and thanks to Letterboxd member Trent Walton for the theme music ‘Izon’, thanks to Jack for the facts and Sophie Shin for the episode transcript. And most of all to you for listening. Weekend Watchlist is a Tapedeck production.
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