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Join Charlene and Jackie, two NYC film crew workers with an absolute love of art house films …and an absolute lack of press passes to see those films at the major festivals where they premiere. Each month your two hosts will venture through the wilds of NYC public transportation and psychotic post screening Q&A’s to discuss a festival film that has finally been released to the general public. https://www.ticketssecuredpodcast.com/

  1. 3D AGO

    The Secret Agent

    Take a jet to Brazil with Charlene and Jackie as they go undercover to talk about The Secret Agent, Kleber Mendonca Filho’s Cannes crushing, Oscar nominations reaping, 1970’s vibe emitting neo noir.  Contact us: ticketssecuredpodcast@gmail.com  Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTok TIME STAMPED NOTES: 1:22 The Secret Agent won both the Best Director and Best Actor at Cannes 2025 3:00 The iconic Udo Kier  7:00 The SDSA, of which Charlene is a member  10:00 Kokuho: massive Japanese box office returns  14:42 Pausing on images of dictators: How The Secret Agent Appeals to the Brazilian Collective Memory 15:35 The Year in Movies About Resistance by Alison Willmore  24:15 Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura On Brazil’s Urban Legend Of The Hairy Leg 30:21 The official diagnosis for the Two Faced Cat is ‘diprosopus’ 33:04 What is a normal amount of dead people for Carnival?  35:00 The cinema turned blood bank was something Filho pulled from real life.  45:00 Wagner Moura on interrogating history 50:00 It Was Just An Accident winner of 2025 Cannes Palme D’Or 58:50 2026 the first year with an Oscar for Casting 59:00 The 78th Oscars where Brokeback Mountain famously lost to CRASH  59:30 Marty Supreme use of non-actors 1:01:45 The english song in question is ‘If You Leave Me Now’ by Chicago 1:02:00 Two Women and By Design - two movies we’d like to see 1:06:10 One of the many ‘Jaws on the Water’ screenings  For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

    1h 8m

  2. JAN 27

    No Other Choice

    Charlene and Jackie kick off 2026 with No Other Choice, perennial festival darling Park Chan-wook’s latest meditation on capitalism, violence, paper, and snakes.  Listen in for crazy theater mice stories, best movies about getting fired, what it means to be on an actor’s ‘team’, and more! Contact us: ticketssecuredpodcast@gmail.com  Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTok Time Stamped Show Notes:  5:55 Incredible Stoker hair to grass transition  7:05 The Alamo transitioning into QR Code ordering 12:00 The Landfill History of The Battery 17:00 “No Other Choice” and Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” comparisons 21:00 Alison Stewart interviews Park Chan-wook  23:23 Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism 25:53 How to Make a Killing 26:17 Best Offer Wins 27:10 Jenny Odell on what No Other Choice reveals about the humiliation of work  38:49 China’s Dark Factories: So Automated, They Don’t Need Lights 39:15 The house and greenhouse in No Other Choice 42:22 Ryan Coogler on why the vampires in Sinners are Irish 44:18 The Ax by Donald Westlake: written in 1997! 49:18 EFT Tapping Affirmations 52:48 No Other Choice: Snakes, Shoes, Wood details 55:30 Elizabethtown’s Opening Scene 1:03:38 They Will Kill You trailer 1:05:35 Ronald Bronstein’s ‘Cinema of Anxiety’ 1:09:07 The Soundtrack of Aftersun   1:10:54 Vine of girl dancing with a live chicken to Two of Hearts’ 1:14:05 The Tilda Swinton genie movie: Three Thousand Years of Longing 1:16:45 The cardboard chaise for Wuthering Heights promos For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

    1h 22m

  3. 12/16/2025

    2025 Holiday Special

    It’s a very festive holiday episode of Tickets Secured!  To celebrate this time of year we've got: Games! (FMK - 2025 movie edition)Holiday movie watching recommendations (best movies to watch during holiday plane travel and best new releases to take your teenage cousins to, to name a few) Lots of fun reflections on Charlene & Jackie's inaugural year of cinema podcasting.Contact us: ticketssecuredpodcast@gmail.com  Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTok TIME STAMPED NOTES: 14:40 “Art by committee is a really bad idea” - Kelly Reichardt on why no one is allowed in the edit room with her 19:51 “Baby, baby, baby, baby baby” - Reese Witherspoon goes OFF in Walk The Line 21:55 The scene from The Shining (in Spanish!) that Jackie mentions seeing on Telemundo as a child 27:56 Vogue: Greta Lee Makes 6 Movie Inspired Cocktails 39:50 Christmas Will Break Your Heart (which is actually by LCD Soundsystem) 41:18 The Connecticut Movie Hall of Fame  45:43 George Blanchine’s The Nutcracker featuring Macaulay Culkin, which was released theatrically! 47:01 The Making of Eyes Wide Shut - Lisa Leone discusses taking hundreds of photos and conducting research for Kubricks Ext NYC Set 49:52 The Plaza’s Home Alone Special Offer, which includes limo ride, cheese pizza, and a ‘decadent sundae’ 1:00:13 Aunt Cinema and Bad Dad Cinema if you have additions, email us! 1:01:33 Crabs with Top Hats: One of Emerald Fennell’s many crimes Thank you everyone for listening and for a first great year together! For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

    1h 6m

  4. 11/24/2025

    Sentimental Value

    Charlene and Jackie discuss Sentimental Value, the Cannes Grand Prix winning film from Therapized Norwegian King Joachim Trier.  Is it as good as The Worst Person in the World? What does it take to repair inherited generational trauma? And have you seen SKÅM??? All this and more in this week's episode of Tickets Secured.  Contact us: ticketssecuredpodcast@gmail.com  Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTok Time Stamped Show Notes:  2:06 Richard Brody agrees with Jackie about The Worst Person in The World. 3:10 “Those people dancing on the freeway” 6:54 Paul Mescal’s Iconic Rugby Shorts  8:36 Bad Dads - Justin Chang reviews Sentimental Value  8:36 Bad Dads an art exhibition inspired by Wes Anderson's work 10:50 The Trauma Plot strikes again  13:20 Joaquim Trier profile in the New Yorker  17:45 Station Eleven’s Hamlet Scene 19:50 The production of Hamlet that we did not get to see  31:00 “I’m an old guy now” monologue from The Worst Person in the World 34:10 The House in ‘Sentimental Value’  36:10 The SKÅM GOOGLE DRIVE! 38:50 The Taipei Film House was former US Ambassador residence 39:03 The “horror film” THELMA 42:35 Documentary about marathon running pediatric neurologist  46:16 Catherine Martin on her creative partnership with Baz  57:40 In The Hall of The Mountain King: Certified Norwegian Banger  1:01:41 Ira Glass expounding on ‘The Gap’ 1:04:38 Character transitions in Clouds of Sils Maria  1:15:00 BAM’s remake of We Come to This Place for Magic  For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

    1h 16m

  5. 10/29/2025

    The Mastermind (?)

    A very special episode in which Charlene & Jackie fully commit to incorporating the themes of impermanence and incompetence in Kelly Reichardt’s The Mastermind, which premiered at Cannes, into their own podcast practice. Follow us @ticketssecuredpod on IG, Ticketssecured on Letterboxd, @tickets.secured.p on TikTokEmail us at ticketssecuredpodcast@gmail.com In lieu of proper time stamped notes, please enjoy the sources of some ruminations on The Heist Genre and Kelly Reichardt that we arrived at in our (non recorded) conversation:  The Quiet Menace of Kelly Reichardt’s Feminist Westerns - touches on KR’s ability to maintain an outsiders point of view and ‘normal persons sense of money’.A piece on Showing Up that discusses the common thread of precarity among Reichardt's protagonists and also mentions her iconic early work on America’s Next Top ModelJosh O’Connor and Kelly Reichardt discuss making The MastermindAustralian perspective on Kelly Reichardt’s movies and interview regarding The MastermindPhotographers that Kelly Reichardt mentioned inspired her and which informed the gorgeous production design and set decoration: William Eggelston and  Steven Shore’s parking lots The worst heist movie: The Goldfinch - Strictly for The BirdsThe best heist movie: The Great Muppet Caper - ‘they really toss em around like wet rags in this one’The Mastermind included sounds (and images) from the radio, TV, and outside the windows of the historical political context of the time setting even though the main character JB did not engage directly with the social movements unfolding around him. This reminded Charlene a lot about the main characters studied personal absorption tuning out the historical political context around them despite a very clever use of sound to intrude in the main character’s story like in The Zone of Interest. The art featured in the film is by Arthur Dove, and his work, in turn both jazz influenced and influential to much of the art featured on 60’s jazz album covers, neatly dovetails (pun intended) into the films jazz score Kelly Reichardt discusses the pleasure she takes in documenting processes and the small details that are often left out of filmsFor complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

    5 min

  6. 09/24/2025

    The History of Sound

    Autumn has fallen in New York and Charlene and Jackie celebrate by tumbling down the stairs of the Angelika straight into Oliver Hermanus’s Palme D’Or nominated The History of Sound. A WWI (?), gay, heart wrenching movie starring mischievous scamp Josh O’Connor and former Phantom of the Opera Paul Mescal. Listen in as they discuss period filmmaking on a budget, the possible litigious wrath of Hanya Yanagihara, and what all this had to do with the Stomp Clap Hey music of Barack Obama’s first term.  Follow us @ticketssecuredpod on IG, Ticketssecured on Letterboxd, @tickets.secured.p on TikTokEmail us at ticketssecuredpodcast@gmail.com Time Stamped Notes: 0:47 Autumn in New York ….rated the #1 creepiest age gap film 3:00 Oliver Hermanus has had multiple films at Cannes 6:22 The jacket scene in Brokeback Mountain 12:52 The History Of Sound: a short story by Ben Shattuck  18:22 Fat City: Both a film and a production company with a great logo  20:00 The cover of the collection of stories is the same as the poster is the same as the cover of A Little Life 23:53 Paul Mescal and Josh O'Connor Rationed Jolly Ranchers  26:00 Paul Mescal can sing!!! 36:54 Malaga island conflict in movie actually happened in 1912 38:35 "Bury Your Gays" literary trope  43:02 The film began pre production in 2020 44:36 Indiewires Top 100 Movies of the 2020s So Far 48:22 The Tragedy of Stomp Clap Hey  48:45 Every song in The History of Sound sounds like this  49:50 Trader Joe’s newsletter and Victorian art  52:30 Chris Cooper on playing the older version of Paul Mescal 58:22 One of the many tv shows starring Julianne Moore 1:01 Daniel Day-Lewis ends 7-year retirement 1:05:12 The Baby Carriage in the Battleship Potemkin  For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

    1h 10m

  7. 08/30/2025

    The Sparrow in the Chimney

    Charlene and Jackie see The Sparrow in The Chimney at BAM and there’s a lot to talk about: so many animals, so many kids, so many scenes where we had to cover our eyes. Plus: Experiences with wild west Q&A Culture, why the English Patient actually rocks, and a harsh referendum on the New Yorker’s fall movie preview.  Follow us @ticketssecuredpod on IG, Ticketssecured on Letterboxd, @tickets.secured.p on TikTok Email us at ticketssecuredpodcast@gmail.com TIME STAMPED NOTES:  3:30 We love BAM 3:45 “I saw both George Michael and Maebe…”  4:20 New Directors/New Films  5:00 Ramon Zurcher and His Identical Twin Brother Silvan Zurcher   6:00 There’s Drama By The Pool  10:30 Mark Wahlberg’s red headed sisters in The Fighter   15:56 “It’s a film about destruction and rebirth”  19:43 Like a Nicholas Winding Refn film or Run Lola Run   23:40 Kaput  26:22 The rat in The Departed  34:30 Metaphoric settings in The Glass Menagerie and The House of Yes  38:00 The famous words of Leo Tolstoy   349:34 Amy Adam’s is Night Bitch   44:09 The Duplass brothers talk peacetime vs wartime   47:00 Michelle Williams on child acting 49:00 A Typical Morning as the Horse Assistant Director on The Gilded Age  51:27 Sophie Fiennes and the film she directed in 2002  52:34 Marc Maron and Lynn Shelton on improv in Sword of Trust   56:43 Elaine Hates the English Patient   59:30 Walter Murch won a best Editing Oscar for The English Patient   1:02:28 The New Yorkers Fall Culture Preview   1:05:20 Bruce Springsteen and Phish play Glory Days  For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

    1h 18m

  8. 07/29/2025

    Sorry, Baby

    Charlene and Jackie go in and go off on Sorry, Baby, Eva Victor’s Cannes playing, Sundance Award winning debut.  This episode has everything: wild speculation about A24’s business decision making process, Emerald Fennell haterade, thoughtful reflections on the use of time and trauma in storytelling, and of course, strong opinions about the Alamo Drafthouse’s popcorn.  Follow us @ticketssecuredpod on IG, Ticketssecured on Letterboxd, @tickets.secured.p on TikTokEmail us at ticketssecuredpodcast@gmail.com Time Stamped Notes:  1:07 Sundance: A24 Takes ‘Sorry, Baby’ For $8M  2:22 Obvious Child, a comedy about abortion 3:45 Me and Earl and The Dying Girl: Fox Searchlight bought it for $12 million  5:20  Eva Victor discusses ‘film grad school’ and Barry Jenkins producing 6:30 Jane Schoenbrun on making a film about how something felt, not how it happened 12:04 Temporal discontinuities and nonlinear structure in the work of Toni Morrison – Charlene meant Beloved, not The Bluest Eye. 13:54 End of the End of the Line: Temporality in Infinite Jest Is a Broken Circle 15:38 Tennis Balls, Heads, Annular Defloration Cycles in Infinite Jest 25:00 Promising Young Woman: The College Dean Scene 27:00 Authenticity is Dangerous and Expensive 27:30 John Proctor is the Villain 34:50 Jeopardy! Bar League at BOTH Alamo’s in NYC 37:57 1/3 of New Bedfords Population Claims Portuguese Ancestry  40:01 Mike Leigh discusses his improvisational process  47:48 The Case Against the Trauma Plot by Parul Sehgal 51:06 IT IS THE TITULAR ROLE 53:03 Paradoxes of American Individualism 55:55 “I Don’t Watch Ted Lasso” 1:03:20 Splitsville: Dakota Johnson in a fancy house 1:04:00 Oh, Hi!: A gender flipped Gerald’s Game?  For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

    1h 12m
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Join Charlene and Jackie, two NYC film crew workers with an absolute love of art house films …and an absolute lack of press passes to see those films at the major festivals where they premiere. Each month your two hosts will venture through the wilds of NYC public transportation and psychotic post screening Q&A’s to discuss a festival film that has finally been released to the general public. https://www.ticketssecuredpodcast.com/

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    Tickets Secured Pod
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    2025 - 2026
  • Episodes
    13
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