This Had Oscar Buzz

Joe and Chris
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This Had Oscar Buzz

A podcast about movies the awards forgot

  1. 2D AGO

    349 – The Deep End (with Bobby Finger!)

    We’re thrilled to welcome back author and Who? Weekly co-host Bobby Finger this week to talk about a fun modest thriller that helped turn one of our favorites into an industry darling. In 2001, director duo Scott McGehee and David Siegel brought thriller adaptation The Deep End to Sundance starring queer art cinema icon Tilda Swinton. As … Continue reading "349 – The Deep End (with Bobby Finger!)"

    2h 20m

  2. JUN 30

    348 – BPM

    We close out Pride Month with one of our favorite queer films from the past decade, 2017’s BPM. From French director Robin Campillo, BPM follow a group of ACT UP activists during the height of the AIDS epidemic. With Campillo’s emotional and intuitive style of observation, the film shows the labors of political organization in all the warts … Continue reading "348 – BPM"

    1h 58m

  3. JUN 23

    347 – Take This Waltz

    After a career as an actress, Sarah Polley made her directorial debut with Away From Her, landing Oscar nominations for both her screenplay and Julie Christie’s performance. Her follow-up would be a slight gear shift: the intimate character study of infidelity, Take This Waltz. The film stars Michelle Williams as a writer who begins to feel … Continue reading "347 – Take This Waltz"

    1h 60m

  4. JUN 16

    346 – Madame Sousatzka (w/ Taylor Cole!)

    Our friend and theme music composer Taylor Cole returns to us this week to talk about one of our most beloved stars on This Had Oscar Buzz, Shirley MacLaine. After finally winning her Oscar for Terms of Endearment, MacLaine took a few well-earned years off. Her return was this tale of a hardened piano teacher … Continue reading "346 – Madame Sousatzka (w/ Taylor Cole!)"

    2h 13m

  5. JUN 9

    345 – Great Expectations

    After his A Little Princess adaptation earned a duo of Oscar nominations, Mexican director Alfonso Cuarón followed that up with another literary adaptation, a modernization of Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations. With hot young stars Ethan Hawke and Gwyneth Paltrow as the central lovers and Oscar winners Anne Bancroft and Robert De Niro in support, the film transplanted Dickens’ … Continue reading "345 – Great Expectations"

    1h 52m

  6. JUN 2

    344 – Things We Lost in the Fire

    At the beginning of the aughts, both Halle Berry and Benicia Del Toro were riding high on Oscar wins. In 2007, they both paired up for Things We Lost in the Fire, a melodrama from Danish director Susanne Bier. From a script by Collateral Beauty scribe Allan Loeb, the film cast Berry as a grieving wife … Continue reading "344 – Things We Lost in the Fire"

  7. MAY 26

    343 – White Noise (Festival Fever!)

    Festival Fever comes to an end this week with a look at the last major film festival of the year, the New York Film Festival. In 2022, Noah Baumbach follow-up up his biggest Oscar success, Marriage Story, by tackling Don DeLillo’s unadaptable novel White Noise. The satire stars Adam Driver as the leading professor in … Continue reading "343 – White Noise (Festival Fever!)"

    2h 23m

  8. MAY 19

    342 – Strictly Ballroom (Festival Fever!)

    This week, Festival Fever gives us our first Baz! Strictly Ballroom gave then-stage director Baz Luhrman his debut film, one of a number of Australian comedies that would achieve cult followings in the US. But this tale of young ballroom dancers who take artistic license and fall in love on the way also became a … Continue reading "342 – Strictly Ballroom (Festival Fever!)"

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A podcast about movies the awards forgot

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  • Creator
    Joe and Chris
  • Years Active
    2018 - 2025
  • Episodes
    300
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