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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/
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.
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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...
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!
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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...
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.
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TIME STAMPED SHOW NOTES:
1:00 Joint Venture
1:26 Two Women In Gold (1970)
2:00 The Sex Com...
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.
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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...
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!
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Time Stamped Show Notes:
5:55 Incredible Stoker hair to grass transition
7:05 The Alamo transitioning into QR Code ordering
12:00 The Landfi...
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
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TIME STAMPED NOTES:
14:40 “Ar...
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.
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Time Stamped Show Notes:
2:06 Richard Brody agrees with Jackie about The Worst Perso...
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.comIn 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 K...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 Letter...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.
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3:30 We love BAM
3:45 “I saw both George Michael and Maebe…...
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.
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1:07 Sundance: A24 Takes ‘Sorry, Baby’ For $8M
2:22 Obvious Child, a comedy...
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life
Charlene and Jackie dive into the JACU (Jane Austen Cinematic Universe) to discuss Laura Piani’s debut feature Jane Austen Wrecked My Life, which premiered at TIFF last fall.
Topics covered include writers writing about writing, the cinematic equivalent of click bait, best book stores in NYC, and what happens when a rom com lacks com.
Follow us @ticketssecuredpod on IG, Ticketssecured on Letterboxd @tickets.secured.p on TikTokEmail us at ticketssecuredpodcast@gmail.com1:15 The fine Italian cashmere merchant Loro Piana
1:20 The Jacob Burns Film Center
6:10...
The Wedding Banquet (2025)
Charlene and Jackie discuss Andrew Ahn’s The Wedding Banquet, a 2025 update of Ang Lee’s celebrated 1993 film starring Lily Gladstone and Bowen Yang.
Topics discussed include our favorite book to movie adaptations, how to retell a 1990s gay love story in 2025, Ang Lee being a repressed king, fake movie jobs, and how well placed plants can make a film more believable.
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1:30 Ang Lee’s The Wedding Banquet (1993)
2:3...
Opus
Charlene and Jackie debrief on Opus, the A24 pop star multi murder thriller/comedy (?) starring Ayo Adebiri and John Malkovich, a movie that shot straight from Sundance 2025 to the common multiplex in a mere two months.
Topics discussed include tracing the trope of cults in 21st century indie film, unhinged behavior at Williamsburg Cinemas, celebrity profiles where the journalist gets lost in the sauce, would Lady Gaga ever commit serial murder?, and how a film can suffer from use of the wrong dining chairs.
Follow us @ticketssecuredpod on IG, @Ticketssecured on Letterboxd, @tickets.secured.p on Ti...On Becoming a Guinea Fowl
We discuss On Becoming a Guinea Fowl by Rungano Nyoni, a film that premiered at the 2024 Cannes Film Festival.
Time Stamped Notes:
1:22 I Am Not A Witch (Rungano Nyoni’s first film, premiered at Cannes 2017)
3:24 AMC Class Action Lawsuit of which Charlene was a benefitee
5:30 Eileen (2023, dir. by William Oldroyd)
5:40 Mean Girls The Musical (2024, dir. by Samantha Jayne & Arturo Perez Jr.)
9:57 Joy Ride (2023, dir. by Adele Lim)
10...
Universal Language
The pod's maiden voyage discussing Universal Language by Matthew Rankin, Ila Firouzabadi, and Pirouz Nemati.
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3:22 - The Twentieth Century
5:13 - High Maintenance
7:00 - The Grand Budapest Hotel
8:00 - Asteroid City, The Royal Tenenbaums and the precocious children and signage of Wes Anderson
10:23 - Brechtian Theater and drawing attention to artifice
13:30 - A...
