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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. 5h ago

    Blue Heron

    Join Charlene and Jackie for a mid summer cry over troubled teens - but also a fun discussion of memory, healing, and IFC Center Popcorn as they cover Sophy Romvari’s festival favorite Blue Heron.  Contact us: ticketssecuredpodcast@gmail.com  Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTok Time Stamped Show Notes: 1:28 The tiny theater at the IFC center holds 32 seats.  8:54 “Oppositional defiant disorder (ODD)  13:20 Sophy Romvari discusses Still Processing, screens, film, and memory 17:04 Zia Angers ‘My First Film’ (2024) 19:30 Charlene and Jackie are both wrong, the children's movie they are discussing is actually called Turning Red  23:40 ‘Everyone knows what love bombing means now’ - The Rise of Therapy Speak 33:30 Conduit To The Past: Sophy Romvari discusses the technical decisions of how to depict memory in Blue Heron 42:30 “Credits play out over snapshots of a teenager’s hand-drawn maps that reference such locations as “Fantasyville.” Outside of “Blue Heron,” these are maps that one of Romvari’s own brothers created in his youth.  45:03 London Falling and the New Yorker Article it is based on 46:02 The book Jackie is talking about is Columbine by Dave Cullen 47:00 “Nancy Jo, this is Alexis Neiers calling” 49:00 The many folklore / Odyssey references in O Brother, Where Art Thou? 55:45  The Unglamorous Financial Realities of 5 Indie Filmmakers  58:15 Severance creator was inspired by The Backrooms, but the similarities don’t stop there 1:01:25 The art director from Obsession’s viral post where she discusses being paid $300/day For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

  2. Jun 4

    I Love Boosters

    We love I Love Boosters! Charlene and Jackie celebrate all things Boots and Boosters, including but not limited to: jaunty accordion music by a woman from Connecticut, silly jokes, hardcore leftist politics, fun outfits, dunking on Demi Moore, soul sucking demons, and more! Contact us: ticketssecuredpodcast@gmail.com  Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTok Time Stamped Show Notes:  2:03 There are in fact no lizard people in Sorry to Bother You, just horse people.  5:30 Demi Moore made news when she got paid $12.5 Million for Striptease in 1996. 6:51 Y’all Davos: With Many Changes, Did SXSW 2026 Flourish or Flop? 9:02 Boots Riley on Cannes: “They Just Don’t Like My Stuff” 11:00 Boots Riley is in the replies  12:46 Emily Nussbaum’s New Yorker profile of Boots Riley 14:27 HI HEY HO - The Tune Yards Theme for I Love Boosters  16:48 I Love Boosters Reviewed in The New Yorker, which opens comparing the film to DWP2. 25:09 Fustilarian: An obsolete victorian insult meaning ‘a low fellow, a stinkard, a scoundrel’ 27:00 Boots Riley discussing the relationship between his film and Dialectical Materialism 33:28 The building that inspired Demi Moore’s tilted floor is inspired by the Millennium Tower which is not in Oakland but nearby San Francisco  38:55 How Costume Designer Shirley Kurata built a surreal fashion playground for I Love Boosters 42:30  “Arts and Crafts designers sought to improve standards of decorative design, believed to have been debased by mechanization, and to create environments in which beautiful and fine workmanship governed” 49:30 Marc Jacobs' incendiary Grunge Collection 51:30 “Kurata made a point to work with up-and-coming brands, BIPOC designers like Sergio Hudson, Anna Sui, and Leeann Huang, as well as SCAD fashion students for the movie’s finale runway show” 58:22 Verity looks f*****g nuts  59:35 Am I Ok? And Not Okay: The same movie? 1:02:12 Shooting a monster while riding a horse through the woods: Hope (2026) 1:06:43 Just in case you too want to brush up on Dialectical Materialism  1:11:40 🎼 Shoplifters of the world 🎼 Unite and take over 🎼 1:12:01 Is Shoplifting Ethical? Hassan Piker & Jia Tolentino weigh in  For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

  3. May 8

    Two Women

    Two Women? In Gold? In this economy??? Jackie and Charlene are back to discuss Joint Venture’s newest release, the Sundance 2025 film Two Women, directed by Chloe Robichaud. They dive into the snowy landscape of Quebec to discuss sexy movies and feminist reimaginings of iconic films, and the films they’ve enjoyed this spring.  Contact us: ticketssecuredpodcast@gmail.com  Follow us: Letterboxd, Instagram, TikTok TIME STAMPED SHOW NOTES: 1:00 Joint Venture  1:26 Two Women In Gold (1970) 2:00 The Sex Comedy: A dead genre  10:10 The song sung in the bar is ‘Provocante’ by Marjo 19:00 Women begin having their own bank accounts in Canada in 1964.  19:50 Audre Lorde: The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Masters House :) 20:37 The Feminine Mystique was published in 1963 21:40 The Female Gaze in Two Women 23:15 Fujoshi in the E. Alex Jung Article 28:13 Janet Planet: middle aged coming of age film 30:45 Director Chloe Robichaud on why she wanted to remake Two Women 38:14 HIRE MORE WOMEN GUARDS 40:12 Original Two Women In Gold one of the most commercially successful films in Quebec's cinematic history 47:09 Croissant making scene in It’s Complicated  51:22 Kristen Stewart on making The Chronology of Water 53:16 1980s remakes of French New Wave Films, streaming now 54:04 Jonathan Glazer directed this! 56:18 The soundtrack of Marc by Sofia rocks  1:01 DVD store scene from This Means War 1:06:46 Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma: In Theaters August 2026!  1:08:57 The film that won the Golden Bear that Charlene is describing is Yellow Letters. For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com

  4. Feb 25

    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

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. 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

  8. 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

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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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    2025 - 2026
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