The Secret Agent

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 [https://boxd.it/ecYQd], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/ticketssecuredpod/#], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@tickets.secured.p] TIME STAMPED SHOW NOTES: 1:00 Joint Venture [https://www.ajointventure.com/about]  1:26 Two Women In Gold (1970) [https://tv.apple.com/ch/movie/two-women-in-gold/umc.cmc.ymlf3bxldk9sbso5jzaku7bn?l=en] 2:00 The Sex Comedy: A dead genre  [https://medium.com/mel-magazine/the-internet-killed-the-teen-sex-comedy-c67fd771678f] 10:10 The song sung in the bar is ‘Provocante’ by Marjo [https://open.spotify.com/track/5LdCzn92GXvMOJ2wHMHKJh?si=a5241e861a2a4c13] 19:00 Women begin having their own bank accounts in Canada in 1964. [https://www.redcross.ca/blog/2021/3/over-100-years-of-victories-large-and-small-of-women-in-canada]  19:50 Audre Lorde: The Masters Tools Will Never Dismantle the Masters House :) [https://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/audre-lorde-the-master-s-tools-will-never-dismantle-the-master-s-house] 20:37 The Feminine Mystique was published in 1963 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feminine_Mystique] 21:40 The Female Gaze in Two Women [https://lwlies.com/reviews/two-women] 23:15 Fujoshi in the E. Alex Jung Article [https://nymag.com/magazine/toc/2026-02-23.html] 28:13 Janet Planet: middle aged coming of age film [https://www.npr.org/2024/06/27/nx-s1-5019399/sharply-funny-janet-planet-perfectly-captures-the-feel-of-a-long-hot-summer] 30:45 Director Chloe Robichaud on why she wanted to remake Two Women [https://www.reddit.com/r/movies/comments/1sdx87v/hi_reddit_im_chlo%C3%A9_robichaud_ive_written_and/] 38:14 HIRE MORE WOMEN GUARDS [https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/hire-more-women-guards] 40:12 Original [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Women_in_Gold] Two Women In Gold one of the most commercially successful films in Quebec's cinematic history [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Women_in_Gold] 47:09 Croissant making scene in It’s Complicated  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sg6dTbicGtk] 51:22 Kristen Stewart on making The Chronology of Water [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEbRoJlCbXo] 53:16 1980s remakes of French New Wave Films, streaming now [https://www.criterionchannel.com/80s-remakes-and-their-originals] 54:04 Jonathan Glazer directed this! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4JkIs37a2JE&list=RD4JkIs37a2JE&start_radio=1] 56:18 The soundtrack of Marc by Sofia rocks  [https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1zS6QxoCzK4DB7TFxgcnJu?si=v15pO1g7SF6RUCYifgNWRg] 1:01 DVD store scene from This Means War [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EujH2J2kNLE] 1:06:46 Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma: In Theaters August 2026! [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA5NqUMEdbI]  1:08:57 The film that won the Golden Bear that Charlene is describing is Yellow Letters [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yellow_Letters]. For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com [https://www.ticketssecuredpodcast.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.  Contact us: ticketssecuredpodcast@gmail.com  Follow us: Letterboxd [https://boxd.it/ecYQd], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/ticketssecuredpod/#], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@tickets.secured.p] TIME STAMPED NOTES: 1:22 The Secret Agent won both the Best Director and Best Actor at Cannes 2025 [https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/press/press-releases/the-78th-festival-de-cannes-winners-list/] 3:00 The iconic Udo Kier  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=td4qv7EDOIk] 7:00 The SDSA, of which Charlene is a member  [https://www.setdecorators.org/] 10:00 Kokuho: massive Japanese box office returns  [https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/box-office-kokuho-japan-top-grossing-live-action-film-ever-1236435973/] 14:42 Pausing on images of dictators: How The Secret Agent Appeals to the Brazilian Collective Memory [https://time.com/7336528/the-secret-agent-brazilian-history-interview/] 15:35 The Year in Movies About Resistance by Alison Willmore  [https://www.vulture.com/article/the-secret-agent-and-the-year-in-movies-about-resistance.html] 24:15 Kleber Mendonça Filho and Wagner Moura On Brazil’s Urban Legend Of The Hairy Leg [https://deadline.com/video/the-secret-agent-interview-kleber-mendonca-filho-wagner-moura/] 30:21 The official diagnosis for the Two Faced Cat is ‘diprosopus’ [https://filmmakermagazine.com/132652-interview-kleber-mendonca-filho-the-secret-agent/] 33:04 What is a normal amount of dead people for Carnival?  [https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/02/28/164-dead-in-most-peaceful-Carnival-in-decade/7909636181200/] 35:00 The cinema turned blood bank was something Filho pulled from real life.  [https://www.slantmagazine.com/features/wagner-moura-kleber-mendonca-filho-interview-the-secret-agent/] 45:00 Wagner Moura on interrogating history [https://theplaylist.net/wagner-moura-cant-believe-the-history-behind-the-secret-agent-is-already-being-forgotten-20251127/] 50:00 It Was Just An Accident winner of 2025 Cannes Palme D’Or [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/15/movies/it-was-just-an-accident-review.html] 58:50 2026 the first year with an Oscar for Casting [https://press.oscars.org/news/academy-establishes-casting-award-98th-oscarsr] 59:00 The 78th Oscars where Brokeback Mountain famously lost to CRASH [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/78th_Academy_Awards]  59:30 Marty Supreme use of non-actors [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/movies/marty-supreme-cameos.html] 1:01:45 The english song in question is ‘If You Leave Me Now’ by Chicago [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27847051/soundtrack/] 1:02:00 Two Women [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Wk9AJXVTEs] and By Design [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UihiJkDmukc] - two movies we’d like to see 1:06:10 One of the many ‘Jaws on the Water’ screenings  [https://drafthouse.com/news/summer-jaws-celebration?srsltid=AfmBOorqmLzUmSepFmHryzmVHMFOgHhCZ3V4J80FcfL0lotRt25Hz9cx] For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com [https://www.ticketssecuredpodcast.com/]

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 [https://boxd.it/ecYQd], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/ticketssecuredpod/#], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@tickets.secured.p] Time Stamped Show Notes:  5:55 Incredible Stoker hair to grass transition  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQHJ1pHOsHo] 7:05 The Alamo transitioning into QR Code ordering [https://drafthouse.com/news/our-shift-to-qr-ordering?srsltid=AfmBOorqz6L5IDevWbF05VGoes-8hYG948DbrZOz98bQYEPtkRm_44yw] 12:00 The Landfill History of The Battery [https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/battery-park/history] 17:00 “No Other Choice” and Bong Joon Ho’s “Parasite” c [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-current-cinema/no-other-choice-eliminates-the-competition-with-style]omparisons 21:00 Alison Stewart interviews Park Chan-wook  [https://www.wnyc.org/story/director-park-chanwook-on-no-other-choice/] 23:23 Mark Fisher’s Capitalist Realism [https://files.libcom.org/files/Capitalist%20Realism_%20Is%20There%20No%20Alternat%20-%20Mark%20Fisher.pdf] 25:53 How to Make a Killing [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxBof_p3_es&t=4s] 26:17 Best Offer Wins [https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/marisa-kashino/best-offer-wins/] 27:10 Jenny Odell on what No Other Choice reveals about the humiliation of work  [https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/27/opinion/no-other-choice-work-unemployment.html] 38:49 China’s Dark Factories: So Automated, They Don’t Need Lights [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCBdcNA_FsI] 39:15 The house and greenhouse in No Other Choice [https://www.domusweb.it/en/news/2026/01/12/no-other-choice-film-architecture-house.html] 42:22 Ryan Coogler on why the vampires in Sinners are Irish [https://www.facebook.com/reel/542216258639083] 44:18 The Ax by Donald Westlake: written in 1997! [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ax_(novel)] 49:18 EFT Tapping Affirmations [https://www.bewellholisticmassage.com/2019/09/27/eft-tapping-affirmation/] 52:48 No Other Choice: Snakes, Shoes, Wood [https://www.reddit.com/r/Koreanfilm/comments/1qio6x5/geek_out_with_me_about_no_other_choice/] details 55:30 Elizabethtown’s Opening Scene [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifs28stBZaY] 1:03:38 They Will Kill You trailer [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DfD6-Gf9AeE] 1:05:35 Ronald Bronstein’s ‘Cinema of Anxiety’ [https://birthmoviesdeath.com/2019/12/23/wild-ass-cinema-week-ronald-bronsteins-frownland.html] 1:09:07 The Soundtrack of Aftersun   [https://screenrant.com/aftersun-soundtrack-songs-guide/] 1:10:54 Vine of girl dancing with a live chicken to Two of Hearts’ [https://www.youtube.com/shorts/HiQCPP5Dhbo] 1:14:05 The Tilda Swinton genie movie: Three Thousand Years of Longing [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Thousand_Years_of_Longing] 1:16:45 The cardboard chaise for Wuthering Heights  [https://pbs.twimg.com/media/G-MD9PhaAAAFjyO?format=jpg&name=large]promos For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com [https://www.ticketssecuredpodcast.com/]

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 [https://boxd.it/ecYQd], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/ticketssecuredpod/#], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@tickets.secured.p] TIME STAMPED NOTES: 14:40 “Art by committee is a really bad idea” [https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/16/magazine/the-quiet-menace-of-kelly-reichardts-feminist-westerns.html] - Kelly Reichardt on why no one is allowed in the edit room with her 19:51 “Baby, baby, baby, baby baby [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t9iZS1dOsz4]” - Reese Witherspoon goes OFF in Walk The Line 21:55 The scene from The Shining [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrZlTrWUT34] (in Spanish!) that Jackie mentions seeing on Telemundo as a child 27:56 Vogue: Greta Lee Makes 6 Movie Inspired Cocktails [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LapPV7BRils] 39:50 Christmas Will Break Your Heart [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NjFhaJKI8gM] (which is actually by LCD Soundsystem) 41:18 The Connecticut Movie Hall of Fame  [https://letterboxd.com/jackiegoncalves/list/connecticut-hall-of-fame/] 45:43 George Blanchine’s The Nutcracker [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nutcracker_(1993_film)] featuring Macaulay Culkin, which was released theatrically! 47:01 The Making of Eyes Wide Shut [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSrQK6bSHko] - Lisa Leone discusses taking hundreds of photos and conducting research for Kubricks Ext NYC Set 49:52 The Plaza’s Home Alone Special Offer [https://www.theplazany.com/special-offers/home-alone-fun-in-new-york/], which includes limo ride, cheese pizza, and a ‘decadent sundae’ 1:00:13 Aunt Cinema and Bad Dad Cinema [https://letterboxd.com/ticketssecured/lists/] if you have additions, email us! 1:01:33 Crabs with Top Hats [https://dev.muddystilettos.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/wuthering-heights-Screenshot-2025-09-05-at-11.03.40.png]: 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 [https://www.ticketssecuredpodcast.com/]

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 [ticketssecuredpod@gmail.com]  Follow us: Letterboxd [https://boxd.it/ecYQd], Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/ticketssecuredpod/#], TikTok [https://www.tiktok.com/@tickets.secured.p] Time Stamped Show Notes:  2:06 Richard Brody agrees with Jackie about The Worst Person in The World [https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/the-worst-person-in-the-world-is-a-sham-except-for-its-lead-performance]. 3:10 “Those people dancing on the freeway” [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CVfTd-_qbc] 6:54 Paul Mescal’s Iconic Rugby Shorts  [https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/paul-mescal-shorts-cropped-hoodies-street-style-hot] 8:36 Bad Dads - Justin Chang reviews Sentimental Value  [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/17/sentimental-value-movie-review-jay-kelly] 8:36 Bad Dads an art exhibition inspired by Wes Anderson [https://spoke-art.com/products/bad-dads?srsltid=AfmBOorYhwXX3VWodEIGY-rbFHUSCXsBOrd8n6Arp-yc-G5wpX5MWqh6]'s work 10:50 The Trauma Plot [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/01/03/the-case-against-the-trauma-plot] strikes again  13:20 Joaquim Trier profile in the New Yorker  [https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/10/joachim-trier-profile] 17:45 Station Eleven’s Hamlet Scene [https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/station-eleven/station-eleven-finale-hamlet-scene] 19:50 The production of Hamlet that we did not get to see  [https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/28/theater/review-this-hamlet-under-the-stars-is-no-walk-in-the-park.html] 31:00 “I’m an old guy now” monologue from The Worst Person in the World [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJ1wrGmDJ1Y] 34:10 The House in ‘Sentimental Value’  [https://www.indiewire.com/awards/consider-this/sentimental-value-house-1235159646/] 36:10 The SKÅM GOOGLE DRIVE! [https://sites.google.com/view/alllofskam/skam] 38:50 The Taipei Film House [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taipei_Film_House]was former US Ambassador residence 39:03 The “horror film” THELMA [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thelma_(2017_film)] 42:35 Documentary about marathon running pediatric neurologist  [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TdR2zvnrLdg] 46:16 Catherine Martin on her creative partnership with Baz  [https://variety.com/2023/film/global/catherine-martin-baz-luhrmann-1235829483/] 57:40 In The Hall of The Mountain King: Certified Norwegian Banger  [https://open.spotify.com/track/5zhuWncJsBKrQ1HhmAKNAg?si=30334fef5aa9428f] 1:01:41 Ira Glass expounding on ‘The Gap’ [https://vimeo.com/85040589] 1:04:38 Character transitions in Clouds of Sils Maria  [https://www.filmcomment.com/blog/olivier-assayas-clouds-of-sils-maria-kristen-stewart-juliette-binoche/] 1:15:00 BAM’s remake of We Come to This Place for Magic  [https://www.instagram.com/reel/DQwwlLlCqIj/?hl=en] For complete episode notes and more: ticketssecuredpodcast.com [https://www.ticketssecuredpodcast.com/]