October 1, 2025 • 51 mins
Another Nashville Film Festival is in the books! Brandon and Stoney catch up on what they saw, what their experience was like, and offer up their own 'best of the fest' honors on this episode of Vick's Flicks!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
And now, ladies and gentlemen, these network proudly brings to
you some in depth movie discussion with a resident film critic, Brandon.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Vic At the evening, Everyone, the vix Flicks Podcast is here.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Welcome back to another episode of the vix Flicks Podcast
right here on Nashville Movie Dispatch. I'll be your host
for the show the e I see at Sobros Network,
Big Natural, Stony Keeley. You can follow me on Twitter
at Stony Keeley. Collectively at Sobros Network, and you can
check out all of our work here at Nashville Movie
Dispatch by going to substack and uh search Nashville Movie Dispatch.
(00:58):
You can google Nashville Movie Dispatch. At this point, we've
been around long enough that finally our shit is starting
to populate on the search engines.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
I googled it. Yeah, I googled it because I was
telling people about it at the film Festival and thought,
what are they seeing when they do? And I was
pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, because I think the last time you and I
got in the room together to google it, we were
not very pleased with what was coming up.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
No, no, it's very very weird. But sometimes you know,
it's like a new new website. It takes time for
things to all clue together, just a year. The search
engines want to see that consistency of production and that
sort of stuff, So you got to you gotta check
those boxes and pay your due.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Well, I'm happy to say the description is nice, makes
it sound like a bigger deal than it is. But
Nashville Movie Dispatch dot substack dot com is the first
thing you could click on.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, that's nice. That's nice.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Good to see.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well that other voice that you heard and Brandon, by
the way, that is our resident film critic here on
Nashville Movie Dispatch Board, member of the Music City Film
Critics Association, a member of the Southeastern Film Critics Association.
How you doing today, my.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Man good Man Award season award season.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, and it's I'm.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Starting to get those little emails of like, hey have
you coming out on digital?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Or hey have you gotten any collectible Wooden Moose? Like no,
the Mitchell's versus the Machines.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I will say Netflix, I didn't. I think I got
one thing last year that was like a big like
I mean, like an actual like case with product because
I got a of course ended up getting a huge backlash.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
But the.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
What's that Netflix musical movie? But Zoe Seldona one? Yes,
I got something I remember. I got a shirt. Do
you wear some other stuff? Huh? Do you wear that
in the privacy own home.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I'm just I'm just curious. I'm surprised.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Actually, actually, I don't you know what I up wearing.
It's really weird. Is I got one about the Northman mm?
Like at a screening? It had nothing to do with
like a Pryea, I wear that one, and I wear
a uh a ready or not one? And I don't
even know how. I I don't know how I got
that one. I guess from a screening.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Didn't you get like a really nice hoodie for tick
tick boom or sweater?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yes? I do wear that.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yes, that's nice. I would wear that.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And I got one that That one is very cozy.
The other one I got is a bit heavier because
of the stitching on it. But it's a oh gosh,
see the stuff works as I remember exactly what they are.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, we have great sharp minds, but that are it's
the Netflix one.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Noah bomb Bach it was like the end of the World.
Adam Driver was in it.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Oh, h White Noise. Yeah, yeah, is that what it's called.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I got a like a sweatshirt thing of like one
of the stores or something. It's really cool, but it's
really like so heavy, it's not as cozy.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
That felt like two different movies in one and I
did not one of them. One of them was good
and it only lasted about the first thirty minutes of
the Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Was gonna say, I think the best part was early
on and rather quick.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah. I forgot about that film.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
But I've gotten candles, I've gotten wine. I've gotten the wine.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
You shared with me, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, I
think you brought it over one night when h one
night when we were podcasting and said, let's let's have
some of this, and I said, well, I'll be dull gong.
I ain't gonna turn down a glass of wine.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
No.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I was just curious what it tasted like. I can't
remember what. And then I remember for the.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You got a funko pop for Pinocchio, Yeah, because it's
still in my collection over here.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And I think it was for Harder They Fall. The
Western had like Idris Elba, yeah, with the major stuff,
and I got on movie. Yeah, decanter o, No, no, no,
what's the what's that thing called where you put liquor
in and you put in your pocket.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It's like a flask.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I got a flask with twoth.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Say they're sending out decanters.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I mean, listen, I did get wind and candles. I mean,
we're not too far off. But in a couple of glasses.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
What do you think you'll get for weapons this shop?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Probably nothing. It's not Netflix. Netflix the only ones that've
sent us like stuff like that other stuff I get
now we've gone to digital. If I'm held stuff that much.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
If I'm if I'm speaking out of pocket, tell me
to shut up. But don't. Is it Neon or A
twenty four that sends you the big booklet of their DVDs?
That's pretty work of art? Yeah, that's I listen.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I don't mean I I rarely I don't post anything
about this because I feel like it's like it's a
privilege just to get these.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You don't want to be like, look at all the
cool stuff that I get.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
But if I did, I would do those Neon boxes
just because of how they all have a theme. Yeah,
and then in them is like each little like disc
and that explains it in the way it comes in. Anyway,
it's become an annual tradition and a lot of the
screeners and stuff end up having to toss and get
rid of. But I save those and they're on my
(06:10):
shelf because I love I just love that they go
through that much effort. Yeah, and it's now become a thing,
and I'm excited to see, which usually I think comes
around November.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I think, okay, yeah, that's uh, well, actual they won't
do it. What's what if? What is Neon put out
this year?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Shit, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I yeah, I can't.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I mean they've got stuff, They've got stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I don't want to Well, I mean I'm not you
don't have to effort that. I'm just curious because well,
I just didn't know off the top of my head.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And sometimes they'll send stuff like in October, November that
comes out like December and January. Like sometimes I'll get
ones where I don't even know yet. I Splitsville is
one of them. That had to cod to Johnson in it.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Oh yeah, how did you see that?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah? I liked it. It's funny.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I kind of wanted to see that one. It's funny
Dakota Johnson, I think is underrated a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Together the Franco Dave Franco.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, the that was Neon Okay, yep.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
And then they've got they've got some other stuff. I
think some of the big stuff that's gonna end up
playing well at the award season. It's uh and they're
all international films, but it was just an accident which
has been getting rave reviews since Sundance, Sentimental Value another case,
and it's got Scars Card, Scars Guard Dad Stella Stella
(07:39):
and the Secret Agent. All of those have gotten really
big stuff. And also I'm oh, I was trying to
click on one. Listen to this. This is an animated
film that's coming soon called Arco. It's about a ten
year old girl Iris witnesses Arco, mysterious boy in a
rainbow suit fall from the sky. It's kind of done
(08:00):
like an anime starring this is the voices Will Ferrell,
America Ferreira, Flee, Nadley Portman, Mark Ruffalo, Andy Sambert Dang.
So they got the heavy hitters are coming, yeah, I
and they should be a part of that box. That
box said.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I have I've had a Hernia this week, and we're
here to talk about We're here to just kind of
catch up because we haven't caught up on the Nashville
Film Festival since our preview. This is the part on
the other side of what we talked about on the
last episode, where we're looking ahead to the festival. Now
(08:42):
the festival has happened and we're catching up on it.
I went once I went, I saw one screening on
I had tickets for more than one screening. I was
going to go see two movies on Friday, and then
was leaving Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday open at the possibility
(09:05):
of going to see more. And then I sent you
a text message that I will not repeat on the air.
But I was having some problems on Friday and was
not feeling to go, and I said I'm gonna cut out.
I canceled my ticket for September, says, and I drove
home after Louder than Guns, and I ended up in
(09:28):
the er two days later, two mornings later, and that
was it for me for the Nastville twenty. I did
have wait in. I was really I really wanted to
go see the Opera Land documentary, and I didn't get
to do that, but thankfully it was a part of
the virtual cinema. So I actually got to watch that
(09:50):
this morning before we recorded this. We're recording on Friday,
the twenty sixth.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You saw this morning, Yeah, I watched it this ohh
So I was sinking that was like you were laying
in bed.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Uh no. I I wanted to, but then like all
the pain meds I was on made it kind of
difficult to pay attention.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It's just fine.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Uh no. There.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I didn't want to miss a second of that. That
was my childhood, that's true. And then I kept thinking
there was going to be some revelatory information in it
that there there wasn't.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
But I love the I love the old merch yeah
stuff that people. I've still got some of those mugs.
I remember those mugs.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, I've got some opuland stuff around the house. But
I really want to I went to a ventage shop
once and found a map of the park that somebody
had framed, and I was like, man, if I they
wanted it was something like what there's some that they
wanted like one hundred and something bucks for it, and
(10:56):
I was like, I don't. I don't know if I
can swing that right now for something that I'm going
to take home and my wife's gonna be like, what
the fuck do you with this map of operation?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Now, I would pay for like one of those Hangman carts.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah, you just put out in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah yeah, put my son in that, like it's a swing.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I uh. I reserved my time in bed for the
classics that I'd seen a million times because I thought,
I mean, it was literally like I'd be awake and
then two minutes later I'd be sawing logs, and then
I'd wake up again and maybe watch fifteen minutes of
a movie, and then I'd roll over and go back
to sleep. And it was like that for two days.
(11:34):
So I was watching things to cheer me up, like
The Lighthouse.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, and uh, it's a small movie.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I did watch Monster House. Oh yeah, I uh.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
And then you're getting it. You're getting a little bit
ahead of the space.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yeah, what you're doing. And then I I did. When
I was feeling a little bit better and a little
more clear headed, after I'd had a meal or something,
I was usually good for an hour or two, and
I would use that time to watch like I finally
finished The Phoenician scheme and I watched in Bruges for
the first time.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Our our internet was down, so I hooked up the
DVD player in our Hell. Yeah, it was just going
through all these DVDs that I bought it danger Zone Video.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And Goodwill on different stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, and there was something else that I actually don't remember.
I just remember there was something else that I was
watching and sleeping through.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
So it's a bit foggy, I get it.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
So it came down to, like, I'm not gonna have
the time to get caught up on all this stuff,
so I'm I'm a little out of it. Like I said, Uh,
since we last spoke, I saw Louder than Guns, which
was a fantastic documentary. I've got a full review of
that up on Nashville Movie Dispatch dot substack dot com.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, what's so we have a kind of one that
led into the festival. Yeah, because we got to see
quite a few things. Yeah, and then we did a
special kind of move of you rewind went for Cold
Mountain because Nicole Kidman did a thing on Sunday and
they showed that film. So there's some stuff out there
about the film Festival but like you said today, it's
(13:16):
just kind of wrappings, rapping things. Oh yeah, creative vets
and louder than those that you wrote.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I wanted to. I really wanted to write about the
gas station attendant, but I just.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I know, did you see where at one?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Did it?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
What did it? I haven't even seen the documentary feature
my inbox. I've got like eighty emails that I've got
to get through.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Uh best documentary?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I uh yeah, maybe I will still write about it.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And it's either best of the Fest. It's it's kind
of a blur because there was the uh Best of
the Fest winners, and then there was the audience award winners.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Well, let me tell you somebody, I did some good
picking because a lot of those I had seen.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Where did that come to? As a via press release?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It is?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I think it's on socials now?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Is it okay?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
But fuck toys one one something? And I how was that?
I got? I saw that, uh you know, the writer
and the star and the director was there, and I
tell it it's it's more of style over substance. It
gets a little nuts. It's very much meant to be
like kind of this like sexpointation kind of like trashy
(14:28):
like it. It's for a reason, and there's a lot
of things esthetically that are great and part of the story,
but sometimes it goes all over the place. Story wise.
I wasn't that engaged in but you couldn't really help,
but not like you couldn't look away because of just
(14:49):
like the colors or like the production stuff. And she's
she's actually from Nashville. She talked about how she came
to Green Hills Theater to watch Napoleon Dynamite, which so
did I. That was actually one of like that one.
And then Little Trouble Girls, which I talked about in
our last Yeah, yeah, those are kind of at the bottom.
(15:13):
Nothing went below two and a half or three. But
I just I just wasn't into it as much. It's
definitely got the feel of like occult, classic midnight movie
kind of thing. Yeah, but I mean, listen, there's a
lot of stuff that, uh that the writer director Starr,
(15:33):
that she did that that looks sensational. Uh, But I
think that's its biggest strengths. It's kind of the look
of it, not so much story wise, but the Python
hunt won something, The gas station attendant won something. Cactus
payers won something, Omaha won something. Uh, there was quite
a few. I was. I was sort of uh impressed
(15:55):
that a lot of those I actually had we actually
had seen an opera land and won something.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
It was the best Tennessee feature. Yeah. I know the
festival in the last couple of years has come under
fire for its curation, but it kind of feels like
and I didn't watch as many obviously, like being sidelined
due to injury. Essentially, I didn't get to see as
(16:23):
many as I usually do. I think I ended up
my my final tally was only seven or eight I
can't remember. Probably that numbers down from what is usually
around twelve to fifteen. But I didn't see a movie
this year that. While there may not have been as
(16:46):
much like big name, big ticket items so to speak,
in the in the festival this year, I also I
didn't see anything this year that I was just like,
damn that that was rough. That was hard.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, I agree, No, there is always some type of
skill present. Yeah, and it's just more of kind of
what spoke to you obviously the way I mean all
films do. But but yeah, I would agree with that
there was nothing where it's like I'm sorry, how did this?
How did this get here?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Like when we were sitting at a hotel in Memphis,
I hate this movie. I hate Cubic Zirconia has never gone.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
God, somebody would tell you the name.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Somebody's gonna find me in my ass one day.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Well I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
But I remember the two of us we had the
screener for it, and when we woke up, like getting
ready for the day's festivis, we were sitting in our
hotel room in Memphis watching this movie just like who, like,
oh man, how did this get selected?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
That's a perfect one where if you're just hanging out
with friends getting drunk, yeah, and you just want to
have a good laugh.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
It is it is, it is something.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
And it didn't won something, didn't it?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
It might have. I don't remember. That was bullshit.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
We know that that was bullshit.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
But I digress. Uh didn't And And to be like,
you know, let's let's uh, let's spread the criticism equally.
That has happened watching films at the Nashville Film Festival.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, and uh.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
It didn't happen this year. It kind of felt like
maybe I don't know There wasn't like an Eileen or
a Saturday night for me or anything like that. Is it?
They come on? Come on, like, yeah, none of Spencer, Spencer,
none of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
But that was in one day. And there's another one too.
I'm forgetting because come on, come on. Was a secret screening,
oh Man, then Spencer, and then I think it was
the closing night. But I remember mccash and I because
we went. It was at bill Court, all of them,
and we went to the party and we just ate
(19:07):
and drank shit, and I think we talked to two
people and then we loved cool.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Cool, really great network.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, well well you should well you should have seen
the crowd and maybe.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
We I but my my larger point being like we
didn't have one of those kind of runs. No, and
we haven't for for a few years.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
No, we haven't.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
But I think from an overall quality standpoint, it kind
of feels like, maybe maybe you didn't hit that ceiling,
but maybe the floor was raised a little bit with
the festival this year.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
That's a good way to put it, because one of
the things, so I thought, so the closing night one
was kissed the Spider woman. I thought, Oh, now, that's
a good get. Like that's got j Lo Diego Luna.
I mean he's right and high off and or comes
out in October. But Bill Condon, who's an Oscar. So
I'm like, okay, that's a good one. And actually they
(20:02):
had man, I'm gonna butcher this name Tona Tua.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Okay, so right, so what that looks like? I have
no idea.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Well, well he was there, he was actually there, and
he got the Rising Star ward and I didn't stay
for the Q and A because I'm old and tired.
But he spoke, he spoke words, He spoke words, spoke
some words before about it. And I tell you what, man,
First of all, he's great and kiss a spire woman.
I liked the movie. It's a musical. It's based off
(20:38):
of based off a novel, based off of a Tony
winning musical. Uh. They did do a movie in the eighties. Uh,
and it recently popped in because Marley Malton's a documentary
who was together with William Hurt. William Hurt was in it,
but it was not a musical. It was played just
as a straight kind of drama. Way anyway, he won
(20:59):
an Oscar for and Raoul Joya was in it.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Do you know who that is?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
No Adam's family, he was the he was Gomez. Oh okay, yeah,
and Bison, which just side note, I didn't realize that
when that movie came out he had already passed away.
Really yeah, that's so technically Street Far was his last movie.
But anyway, so but uh, Jeffer Lowipez was. I mean,
(21:28):
she's fabulous in it. I just didn't. I couldn't really like, basically,
it's a movie within a movie. These two guys there,
one's a political prisoner, the other one is like caught
with indecent exposure. He's gay, he's thrown in there. He's
basically also used by the It was all in Argentina.
He's being used by the government to get information from
(21:52):
the political prisoner, which Diego Luna plays. Uh, but so
he so basically as a form escapism, he the let
me make sure I get the names right. So there
is just like I says, Lewis is telling him about
(22:14):
this movie he loves, and so then it's all in
like bright, vivid, tetnic color with Jennifer Lopez who plays
Ingrid Luna who also plays a spider woman, but man
I just couldn't get into it all of it like
I did. The musical aspects of it were fine, but
(22:35):
I kind of like the the prison part of it,
but then like the relationship that forms just doesn't seem
like it it was. It didn't feel authentic, like they
shared stuff. But then it ended up trying like basically
their journey and the journey of these characters and the
Spider Woman movie are kind of the same. And I
(22:58):
don't know, I but he was the main takeaway, like
he is fantastic in it. But but I thought that
was a good get for a closing night one because
it is getting buzz the stuff and the Jada Plas baltimoorns.
We talked about this.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Man I would have loved to have been able to.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
That was a good git. That was cool. That was
that took place in Soho house. But I thought that
was that was you know, there's a few things, and
they did the Nicole Kidman thing, which I have to
tell you and I haven't told you. This Saturday, two
things happened. I saw two very famous people. One I
was talking to this guy I met. His name was
(23:42):
also Brandon and he's a recent subscriber to National Movie dispanch.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Oh, shout out.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
He's a sweet man. We watched Kiss of the Spider
Woman together and I was talking to him about Omaha,
and I actually got him to cancel his John Candy ticket,
so take that John Candy to watch Omaha. And but
he loved Omaha, and I told him, I'm like, dude,
(24:08):
I don't don't read much any about it.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Let's go see it.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I'm talking to him, and I'm looking because the girl
that's tearing the tickets or whatever has these big, like
icy cup ear rings. But then I look next to
her and Nicole Kidman is there going to see a
movie with two of her friends, and they went what
movie did they go see? A big, bold, beautiful Journey
with Colin Pharaoh?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Margo, Robbie, what are you hearing about that one? I've
had so interesting?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
My friend Brandon loved it.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
You should have asked, well, well, I was going to say.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Well, I had to get on with it. But I mean,
I I've heard it's not very good. I've heard that
the script is lousy and calling fail. Margot Robber are
just basically, you know, floating around in there, just.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Just hanging out.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah. But then before that I just got done eating
him walking and I see someone pass by, turned back
to look and it's Mac lun Is that right? And
he had just seen Operland at the h screen Yeah
(25:18):
on Saturday, which yeah, and so he I got to
meet his girlfriend, who I obviously never.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Meant oh wow.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah. And uh but the guy that did the director
of this Operland doc got some that archive footage from Max.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I didn't want to say it out loud, but I
remember him telling me like, well, I cause I didn't
know if that's why he was there or not. But
I remember Mac saying, hey, this guy's reached out like
I've got some of this footage.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Well, he did tell me he didn't make the movie, oh,
which I now know that to be true because I
hadn't seen it at the time. But so that's a
wild Saturday if you ask me.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, that is a pretty wild.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
But yeah, I thought i'd tell you that on the air,
thank you. But yes, Kiss of the Spider Woman was okay,
that's it was kind of in the middle of for me.
And we talked about Baltimorn's and omaha, really is the
one of the best things I saw.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
What Uh, well, let's let's get this out of the
way now. Then let's ask it what what was your
best of the festival?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
So I have one feature in one doc okay uh,
there was a it was actually added a special presentation
the same day of Kiss a Spider Woman, and it's
called All That's Left of You I did. It's a
it's an international film takes. It's about Palestine, but just
about generational trauma where it kind of starts in the
(26:45):
forties and eventually ends in like two thousand and two. Yeah,
of just like a father who has to abandon his family,
who ends up having to abandon his land, and then they
have to start over again, and then what does that
do to the sun? And then the Sun has his
family and it's it's a it's really about the culture,
(27:07):
but generational trauma in the whole situation within involving Israel Palestine,
and obviously it's a hot topic and but but it's
a family story. But it just shows the ripple effects
of things that are done that end up just kind
of trickling down. And I found it very moving and
(27:30):
very powerful. I was, I really was. I was very
impressed with it. And it's like almost two and a
half hours. But it's such it's such a it's such
a tale of just struggle and survival and love. And
there's a there's a thing that is said in there
(27:52):
that I put in my letter box that just talked
about that how your humanity can be the resistants. And
it was a nice it was it was really good.
I really enjoyed it. And I just read literally that
afternoon that Mark Ruffalo and Javier Bardim have put their
names and their executive producing as well, and it comes
(28:15):
out in November, I think. And another one's called Speak
that's the documentary about basically it's called like oral something,
but it's basically you are giving a speech about all
these different things. I think a lot of it dealt
with with whether it was with judgment or rather it's immigration, race,
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whatever they wanted to be. But the competition man with
these kids put themselves through and the coaching that's involved,
and I found it completely fascinating. The characters that they follow.
It was it was you know, one had had had
lost his mom, One was coming out as gay and
(29:03):
kind of the exception and that in Minnesota, and a
lot of immigrant stories on how like they came like
like someone's parents came here. And but the thing I
walked away with the most is I had hope because
these these young kids, they've they've got the right idea,
(29:25):
they've got the right passion and determination, and I sure
hope they can do something with it. So those are
my top Those are my top two. And then right
beneath that was Omaha saw a movie called Peacock. I
really like, another international film, but it's a very satirical
(29:45):
about basically having this job where he's being all kinds
of different people for them, but then he kind of
has lost himself and the ending, the ending is so absurd,
but it's so perfect. So I really liked that one.
And then Python Hunt Man, I've told you, I'm hoping
(30:06):
you could get to see that one and drag yourself
to it. But it's a wild ride. And one of
the guys named Jimbo, who actually has the best kind
of story arc as someone who used to do this
pipe annual Python Hunt thing to kind of changing his
mind and kind of seeing maybe for what it truly is.
He he showed up for a little Q and a
(30:27):
thing they actually did stay for and stuff, and so
it was cool. He's been on like swamp people and
stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I wanted to see that one, but I have a
terrible phobia of things jumping out of the water.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
At me, and I thought that there was really none
of that.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I don't know if I could see that on the
on the big screen. I tried to get a screener,
but I think it wasn't available.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
And you see it, I mean you see him, but
there's nothing like crazy. But some of them like the
way that they just pull them out. But it also
has this emotional hug because of basically pythons may not
really be problem. And then Jimbo gave an update to
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basically being like, listen, the the glade is not I
mean that's it adapts and so it's already talked about
where he said they've already adapted to these pythons that
came in. There's a whole thing about the flooding that
brought them in and stuff. But they said that he
said that that they they didn't quite know like python's
reading this, this and this, and it's bearing out everything
(31:32):
else and kind of the nature of itself. And come
to find out that's not necessarily true because everybody's all
these animal species are kind of adapting to it. But
that one of the examples he gave was that they
found a python in the in the mouth of a
cotton mouth. So even that is like they're not like
(31:53):
top of the food chain even there because now they
know oh this and so it was, it was there.
It's also just a wild ride, a lot of eclectic,
ye cast of people. So it was, uh, it was,
it was, It was good. I like that one.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I think I go with Omaha for my uh oh
yeah for mine. I I really to to give a documentary.
I really liked the gas station attendant and we talked
about both of those on our preview of the film festival.
So yeah, go find that in the Nashville Movie Dispatch archives.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yep. And I I'm want to give a shout out
to Rebuilding. So Rebuilding an Omaha where two like Sun
Dance favorites. Yeah, kind of gone uh to all the
kind of the film festival route. But as Josh O'Connor,
who was in Challengers, he's in the New Knives Out
movie that comes out later. He's in a movie now
with Paul mescal He's in one called The Mastermind that
(32:51):
comes out Busy, So he's yeah, so uh, but it's
basically where it was. He's basically a cowboy and a
fire and he loses everything and so ends up being
put into the kind of this like FEMA thing, and
so it's it's about family, community, it's about his daughter
(33:11):
where he kind of you know, the rebuilding is not
just about physically rebuilding what he's lost, it's also that
relationship with his daughter rebuilding. I thought it was a
very tender, sweet film. And I really liked his performance
because sometimes you don't even have to say anything just
to kind of see like kind of the outsider and
(33:31):
then kind of warming up and then end up kind
of being that kind of being that savior for for
for somebody, because you're you're enduring what they're enduring, and
no one else can really can really kind of well
knows how how knows how it feels. Then those people
(33:54):
living in it right then and there and have nothing
to come back to, and anyway it was I was,
I was, I really like that one too.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
I I will say I've had some on the opery
Land documentary. I have had some really interesting conversations with friends,
maybe some some beers involved about the character of Nashville
as a city, and I think that it is kind
(34:24):
of interesting to think about what Nashville has become recently
and a lot of transplants, a lot of people from
different areas, and I'm not I'm not hating on that,
but it does there is something about Nashville that feels
overtly commercial these days that does kind of feel like
(34:48):
a bit soulless, that is just We're just gonna come
here and we're just gonna drink and party for a
few days and it's and it's a good time, and
then we go home and I think you you and
I even talked about this a little bit when we
went to Memphis last November for the Indie Memphis Film
Festival to cover that. It was like, how different the
(35:10):
vibes are as cities, but how Memphis just kind of
has this character that is sort of palpable wherever you
are in the city, like you feel it, and I
don't think you feel that in Nashville anymore. And I
had a friend that once tell me, like, I don't
know that Nashville does have character anymore. And I was
(35:32):
reminded of this conversation watching the opry Land documentary yeah,
because there were a lot of childhood memories in it.
But I just remember, I remember that version of Nashville.
That yeah, that old Nashville from the nineties and the
eighties and the seventies before me. But it did kind
(35:56):
of make me think, like, man, I know, like downtown
Nashville was not a place you wanted to hang out
back in the nineties. But there is a part of
me that that wondered, like if because I don't remember,
because I was a kid and I just remember like
if I went downtown to my dad's shop, he would say,
you got to stay in the office. You can't go outside.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
I mean there was nothing there.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Yeah, but it does kind of make me wonder if
I don't know, things were different back then, like things
had more character, it felt like when I was a kid,
And in a way, watching the documentary kind of made
me think like it was around that time when Ouprey
(36:41):
Mills opened and and things start really ramping up for
the tourism. Just sitting here wondering like, did old Nashville
die with Oprey Land.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
I mean, I'm sure you can link it to that
in some I'm.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Gonna work on I'm gonna work on an essay.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
But I yeah, I mean the whole thing was like,
oh you can listen to live music and when the
opery land doc like they wanted to be a musical
thing back, Like not so much all about the rides,
but about these performances. And one thing I enjoyed is
that I didn't realize just how much they put into those.
Like performances were like I forgot the number, but a
(37:18):
lot of them went to Broadway. Well, I mean it
was like super profet, not like someone just gathered up,
you know, locally. I mean there were real artists, performers,
and I'll be honest, I didn't see a whole lot
of that because I did like the rides and stuff.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Well we were kids, right.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
So I mean to go in that theater and watch something,
which I remember doing, but you know that was boring
for you know, a ten year old that, yeah, I
want to go on a roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Born in eighty six weeks, so we got what like
and I mean you can't say ten years because it's
not like my parents were trotting me out there as
a newborn.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
But yeah, we did have a pass. I do remember that.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I would say I probably maybe five or six years
with the land.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
And I remember when the mall came, I told I
remember telling my mom like, well, at least, you know,
like it got to a point where when the mall came,
I wasn't really going to Opryland anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
So it's like, all I'm glad I got to enjoy
it while I was a kid, But now when I
watch I'm like, you know what, it's actually it's actually
a shame because other kids. Now, I was.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
About saying that now you're a father, right, and you
don't have.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
That share, And it would be a much cheaper trip
for my fortieth birthday if I could just go to
opuland show. But so that's part of it. I mean,
the Apreland doc is nice. It's it's it's nostalgia driven.
It's a trip down memory lane. I don't really think
the dog does anything for Well.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
That was my thing to you was like, imagine showing
this to somebody that didn't go to Operyland, Like if
I showed it to my wife, what would she what
would she say about this?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Right? I don't know, and I don't think anybody. I
don't think.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
But if you went, if you lived it.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
When they show you that when they go I had
no idea up in dots, like that was the first thing.
I have no idea. I remember being I remember that,
and I remember Grizzly River rampage and the log ride,
which I didn't really go on that one, but yeah,
and like they were talking about how chaos was like
a thing of like.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
State of the future.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Yeah, that's that's that's cool to see. But then and
like I remember where the train would come, like I
remember that stuff. But at the same time, as just
an informative documentary, I feel like it kind of does
the bare minimum. I don't really think we get a lot.
I think there's some interviews that are fine. There's others
(39:37):
that I just don't really know if it adds anything,
or we go a long time before we even see
them again, I forgot even what they did. But we
were talking before this, like I'm glad that guy got
to get on that train.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
I was stoked for him.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
God bless him because he was excited. But but yeah,
I but also, I mean it plays well here, yeah,
And I don't think it plays well anywhere else because
if you say opry Opperland, USA, A circle broken in
New York. Who gives a ship and everybody has a story.
I'm sure of something they loved Paved Paradise.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Yeah, because I don't think the story is very scandalous
or controversial.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
It's not universal.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Yeah, and and it is like just a it's a
bit of nostalgia for.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
For nostalgia and corporate greed.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
All right, Yeah, so Mari it was, but it was, Man,
what I wouldn't give to go down one of those rides? Again,
I don't know, I'm almost.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Threepecially is it the the Walbash Cannonball which they acted
which in the documentary they acted like that was like
the it was and I think it was the first
roller coaster you got.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Yes, no, no, it was like the first roller coaster
they had that was like a roller coaster? Roll?
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Is that the rocking was that ended up being the
rock and roll? I feel like that was the.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
No, the that the same thing, the rock No, that
was to two different the rock and roller coaster you
got in like the old timey looking thing.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Okay, then Walbash Cannonball is the one that I would
ride first, because.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
They showed it. They showed it in the documentary.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Well that's what I remember, but I thought it was
called I thought they changed the name to the Rocking
the roller Coasters.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
No, that was like the I don't remember. I have
an image. I'd have to look it up. But that
was in do Wah Diddy City, that part.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Of Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, where you spin on those things.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
So I think they were old timey cars, but.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
I can't yeah, yeah, yeah remember, No, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
I just remember that one hurting my knees because the
sides came up, yeah, kind of high and it would
turn real thick, and my knees would smack again.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
And also good for roy Acuff for house. Yeah, for leeching.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Yeah, I didn't know that was an option.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
I didn't either, And apparently it was only for him
and then and he hung just hung out there, which
God bless them.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
But yeah, I I the Grizzly River rampage.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Yeah, I remember the bridge.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Yeah you get scream. Yeah, I had the log ride,
the Flume Zoom or whatever. It was actually called the
Wabash Cannonball. I was surprised they didn't talk about the
Hangman at all.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
I know they showed it, and I don't know if
it's because that was the big deal, the latest addition,
So they didn't or that someone died on it.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Maybe they were like sure that was I've thought for sure,
But then I'm like, okay, I guess they didn't because
that was kind of the last attempt and then like
what two or three years later, it's when it closed.
But you know, and it's funny because it's like, yeah,
you know what, like they were getting pressure to build
new stuff, but first of all, that's not really what
they wanted opper Land to be. And second of all,
as somebody talked, like, they're they're landlocked. You can't go anywhere,
(42:56):
so what you have to replace something, which I don't
know how you do that, So but.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
You kind of get to a point where you're just
kind of like, yeah, this all all this stuff kind
of makes sense that these people got involved.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
So right, it sold it to someone else, and that they.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Can't build anymore. So it's that's what I'm saying. It's
not very like scandalous.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
The only thing is that people were going and it
was making money. It was not a business failure.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Is it like they're in the hole, which there were
I remember some reports at the time people were saying like, oh, well,
nobody goes to oppery Land anymore.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Well, and the one thing that came out of it
was that no, we're not going to get rid of it.
We're just it's gonna take this and this and then
and I sort of remembered that because there was a
time where you went and you could still see Grizzly
River rampage and that was going to be that wasn't
supposed to be. And then that it just took over.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
I I don't know if I'm if I'm implicating myself here.
I with some buddies of mine, actually, Man mac Lunn,
who you mentioned earlier, you ran to it this screening,
went to the opper Land Hotel one night, just dicking
around like teenagers do, and met up with some buddies
and we actually jumped the fence and walked through the
Grizzly River rampage that had been drained for gosh, almost
(44:14):
ten years at that point.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
It was sad when they went back and just showed
like the remains of it, yea, and the fact. But
and then it's like, well, I don't know about you,
but if opper Land was open today, would it be
the same.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
There's a I think I think you can't escape corporate creed,
and I feel like either it would be super expensive, yeah,
or that it would be or people have stopped going
because maybe you don't update anything else. Yeah, no one
thinks all this is cute anymore, you know, like, does
(44:57):
it adapt? Does it become something that's still fun for
kids today than it was like for us in the nineties.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
There's a part of me that thinks, yeah, because the
city still it doesn't have anything like that. I mean,
it's lacking true something for families like that. But then
there's also a part of me that thinks, to go
back to my question earlier, a part of what made
opry Land so special was the character of the city
(45:26):
at the time. And I don't know that. I don't
know that as a city we value the same things
now that we did then.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Oh yeah no.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
And that makes me question whether or not the care
would be put into something like Opryland, which I kind
of love as like a Southern Broadway. Like the idea
of like going to see a show at oprey Land
kind of deal is pretty cool. I could I could
see like my wife and I going to enjoy that
(45:56):
on a nice date night.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Yeah, something like oh yeah, well, you know they talked
about where like Dolly Parton tried to open up something
here but you know there was a thing and it's
still not built, but they there was gonna be a dome,
but it was like a drive in movie theater that
you set in the car.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Stuff.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
Anyway, that never happened. That was supposed to be a
Nashville thing. But the last thing I heard was Nate.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
Bergurette, who Nate BGEI that.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
Burghetzi you could say that petitum the uh he's trying
to open something because he was on a podcast. I
think it was Conan's podcast. Instead. He mentioned oppery Land
and how kids don't have that at all, to like
just go like and not be a Disney World where
it's thousands and thousands of dollars, And I'm like, I
(46:44):
think it's gonna be called Nate Land or so. I
don't know, it's early stages, but I'm like, you know what,
I hope somebody can do something like that, at least
for like, I guess I think of my son and stuff,
where like it doesn't you don't have to break the bank,
but go and enjoy some some yeah, some stuff off
without you know, but I mean, it can't be in Nashville.
You know, it has to be built somewhere. I mean,
(47:05):
I don't even know where the hell you build a
theme park around.
Speaker 3 (47:07):
Out in Gladeville.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
That race car track, Yeah, tear it down, tear it down,
build that and build.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
God, imagine the traffic.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
Nate Barghetsi's opery land. Yeah. Right. Thoughts on the operation
of the festival as a whole, I was, I was
very pleased that, Like, yeah, their PR people, their media
relations people are are awesome. They've had the same group
for several years now. They've been super helpful, super kind,
(47:37):
super generous and giving to us. So appreciate them. Getting
my pass, like, man, everything was so easy as far
as like the signage, like the flow you just I
walked in, I picked up my pass, my media credential,
and I walked downstairs into my screening.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
The scan them good dad was. They didn't really go
over anything most of the time. It was kind of
like they started like they didn't announce a lot of
the things.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
A lot of Q It felt like, Yeah, when I
saw Louder than Guns. Catch Sea Corp. Of Old Crow
Medicine show was there. Uh, David Green, the journalist that
he collaborated with on the film, was there, the director.
They had a whole panel up there.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
Yeah. I I didn't have any I have I didn't
have any complaints.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
All I did was spend a ton of money at
restaurants filling in Yeah, Hernia, Yeah, Hernia went home.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
Yeah, but no, it was it was.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
It was as smooth as can be and like just
getting in it's fine. I mean, some were more crowded
than others, but I was never just like total pandemonium
or chaos in it all. It was nice. And and
when I got there like the Tuesday like kind of
like when things are winded down, Oh man, it was nice.
I mean, I'm sure they probably want it packed, but
a lot of people, I mean again, you're you're replaying
(49:00):
that a lot of people have seen a lot of
people out of town have gone home. But it was
very it was. It was nice.
Speaker 3 (49:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
I love the Green Hills area anyway. And to see
the last couple of ones at Bell Court is is
is a cool thing.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
Those two venues, I think, I mean, unless they want
to branch out and just do it at Thoroughbred twenty
or something like that. Yeah, I think those are the
two right right spots.
Speaker 2 (49:24):
Yeah, I like that, and I like that it was
all just kind of here and then this this day,
and especially like I guess, most of it was just
kind of the closing day was Bell Court. But I
think that's I think that's the ticket.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Don't have to mess don't mess with it too much.
And I think we're I think you're in good.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
Shape already looking forward to next year. Anything else you
want to add, Brandon, Are we clear to take off here?
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Yeah? No, I think that's it. I think it's been.
It was a nice run. I was pleasantly surprised by
almost everything that I've watched again and nothing was all
full of that. Oh gosh, that was expeciating to sit through.
I did not have any of those experiences. I think
we did a good job picking mount and like I said,
a lot of them are award winners and so hopefully
(50:11):
the ones that don't can find distribution. And yeah, let's there.
You go, another year.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
Down, another year of the Nashville Film Festival. In the books,
that's going to do it for us on this episode
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Speaker 2 (01:07):
I googled it. Yeah, I googled it because I was
telling people about it at the film Festival and thought,
what are they seeing when they do? And I was
pleasantly surprised.
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Yeah, because I think the last time you and I
got in the room together to google it, we were
not very pleased with what was coming up.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Yeah.
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No, no, it's very very weird. But sometimes you know,
it's like a new new website. It takes time for
things to all clue together, just a year. The search
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Speaker 2 (01:40):
Well, I'm happy to say the description is nice, makes
it sound like a bigger deal than it is. But
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Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yeah, that's nice. That's nice.
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Good to see.
Speaker 3 (01:52):
Well that other voice that you heard and Brandon, by
the way, that is our resident film critic here on
Nashville Movie Dispatch Board, member of the Music City Film
Critics Association, a member of the Southeastern Film Critics Association.
How you doing today, my.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Man good Man Award season award season.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
Yeah, and it's I'm.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Starting to get those little emails of like, hey have
you coming out on digital?
Speaker 3 (02:16):
Or hey have you gotten any collectible Wooden Moose? Like no,
the Mitchell's versus the Machines.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
I will say Netflix, I didn't. I think I got
one thing last year that was like a big like
I mean, like an actual like case with product because
I got a of course ended up getting a huge backlash.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
But the.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
What's that Netflix musical movie? But Zoe Seldona one? Yes,
I got something I remember. I got a shirt. Do
you wear some other stuff? Huh? Do you wear that
in the privacy own home.
Speaker 3 (02:55):
I'm just I'm just curious. I'm surprised.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Actually, actually, I don't you know what I up wearing.
It's really weird. Is I got one about the Northman mm?
Like at a screening? It had nothing to do with
like a Pryea, I wear that one, and I wear
a uh a ready or not one? And I don't
even know how. I I don't know how I got
that one. I guess from a screening.
Speaker 3 (03:17):
Didn't you get like a really nice hoodie for tick
tick boom or sweater?
Speaker 2 (03:21):
Yes? I do wear that.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Yes, that's nice. I would wear that.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
And I got one that That one is very cozy.
The other one I got is a bit heavier because
of the stitching on it. But it's a oh gosh,
see the stuff works as I remember exactly what they are.
Speaker 3 (03:40):
Yeah, we have great sharp minds, but that are it's
the Netflix one.
Speaker 2 (03:45):
Noah bomb Bach it was like the end of the World.
Adam Driver was in it.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
Oh, h White Noise. Yeah, yeah, is that what it's called.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
I got a like a sweatshirt thing of like one
of the stores or something. It's really cool, but it's
really like so heavy, it's not as cozy.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
That felt like two different movies in one and I
did not one of them. One of them was good
and it only lasted about the first thirty minutes of
the Yeah, I.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
Was gonna say, I think the best part was early
on and rather quick.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Yeah. I forgot about that film.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
But I've gotten candles, I've gotten wine. I've gotten the wine.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
You shared with me, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, I
think you brought it over one night when h one
night when we were podcasting and said, let's let's have
some of this, and I said, well, I'll be dull gong.
I ain't gonna turn down a glass of wine.
Speaker 1 (04:37):
No.
Speaker 2 (04:37):
I was just curious what it tasted like. I can't
remember what. And then I remember for the.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
You got a funko pop for Pinocchio, Yeah, because it's
still in my collection over here.
Speaker 2 (04:46):
And I think it was for Harder They Fall. The
Western had like Idris Elba, yeah, with the major stuff,
and I got on movie. Yeah, decanter o, No, no, no,
what's the what's that thing called where you put liquor
in and you put in your pocket.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
It's like a flask.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
I got a flask with twoth.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Say they're sending out decanters.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
I mean, listen, I did get wind and candles. I mean,
we're not too far off. But in a couple of glasses.
Speaker 3 (05:11):
What do you think you'll get for weapons this shop?
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Probably nothing. It's not Netflix. Netflix the only ones that've
sent us like stuff like that other stuff I get
now we've gone to digital. If I'm held stuff that much.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
If I'm if I'm speaking out of pocket, tell me
to shut up. But don't. Is it Neon or A
twenty four that sends you the big booklet of their DVDs?
That's pretty work of art? Yeah, that's I listen.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
I don't mean I I rarely I don't post anything
about this because I feel like it's like it's a
privilege just to get these.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
You don't want to be like, look at all the
cool stuff that I get.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
But if I did, I would do those Neon boxes
just because of how they all have a theme. Yeah,
and then in them is like each little like disc
and that explains it in the way it comes in. Anyway,
it's become an annual tradition and a lot of the
screeners and stuff end up having to toss and get
rid of. But I save those and they're on my
(06:10):
shelf because I love I just love that they go
through that much effort. Yeah, and it's now become a thing,
and I'm excited to see, which usually I think comes
around November.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
I think, okay, yeah, that's uh, well, actual they won't
do it. What's what if? What is Neon put out
this year?
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (06:29):
Shit, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
I yeah, I can't.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
I mean they've got stuff, They've got stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
I don't want to Well, I mean I'm not you
don't have to effort that. I'm just curious because well,
I just didn't know off the top of my head.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
And sometimes they'll send stuff like in October, November that
comes out like December and January. Like sometimes I'll get
ones where I don't even know yet. I Splitsville is
one of them. That had to cod to Johnson in it.
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Oh yeah, how did you see that?
Speaker 2 (06:58):
Yeah? I liked it. It's funny.
Speaker 3 (06:59):
I kind of wanted to see that one. It's funny
Dakota Johnson, I think is underrated a little bit.
Speaker 2 (07:06):
Together the Franco Dave Franco.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Oh yeah, yeah, the that was Neon Okay, yep.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
And then they've got they've got some other stuff. I
think some of the big stuff that's gonna end up
playing well at the award season. It's uh and they're
all international films, but it was just an accident which
has been getting rave reviews since Sundance, Sentimental Value another case,
and it's got Scars Card, Scars Guard Dad Stella Stella
(07:39):
and the Secret Agent. All of those have gotten really
big stuff. And also I'm oh, I was trying to
click on one. Listen to this. This is an animated
film that's coming soon called Arco. It's about a ten
year old girl Iris witnesses Arco, mysterious boy in a
rainbow suit fall from the sky. It's kind of done
(08:00):
like an anime starring this is the voices Will Ferrell,
America Ferreira, Flee, Nadley Portman, Mark Ruffalo, Andy Sambert Dang.
So they got the heavy hitters are coming, yeah, I
and they should be a part of that box. That
box said.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
I have I've had a Hernia this week, and we're
here to talk about We're here to just kind of
catch up because we haven't caught up on the Nashville
Film Festival since our preview. This is the part on
the other side of what we talked about on the
last episode, where we're looking ahead to the festival. Now
(08:42):
the festival has happened and we're catching up on it.
I went once I went, I saw one screening on
I had tickets for more than one screening. I was
going to go see two movies on Friday, and then
was leaving Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday open at the possibility
(09:05):
of going to see more. And then I sent you
a text message that I will not repeat on the air.
But I was having some problems on Friday and was
not feeling to go, and I said I'm gonna cut out.
I canceled my ticket for September, says, and I drove
home after Louder than Guns, and I ended up in
(09:28):
the er two days later, two mornings later, and that
was it for me for the Nastville twenty. I did
have wait in. I was really I really wanted to
go see the Opera Land documentary, and I didn't get
to do that, but thankfully it was a part of
the virtual cinema. So I actually got to watch that
(09:50):
this morning before we recorded this. We're recording on Friday,
the twenty sixth.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
You saw this morning, Yeah, I watched it this ohh
So I was sinking that was like you were laying
in bed.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Uh no. I I wanted to, but then like all
the pain meds I was on made it kind of
difficult to pay attention.
Speaker 2 (10:10):
It's just fine.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
Uh no. There.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
I didn't want to miss a second of that. That
was my childhood, that's true. And then I kept thinking
there was going to be some revelatory information in it
that there there wasn't.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
But I love the I love the old merch yeah
stuff that people. I've still got some of those mugs.
I remember those mugs.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
Yeah, I've got some opuland stuff around the house. But
I really want to I went to a ventage shop
once and found a map of the park that somebody
had framed, and I was like, man, if I they
wanted it was something like what there's some that they
wanted like one hundred and something bucks for it, and
(10:56):
I was like, I don't. I don't know if I
can swing that right now for something that I'm going
to take home and my wife's gonna be like, what
the fuck do you with this map of operation?
Speaker 2 (11:06):
Now, I would pay for like one of those Hangman carts.
Speaker 3 (11:10):
Yeah, you just put out in the backyard.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Yeah yeah, put my son in that, like it's a swing.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
I uh. I reserved my time in bed for the
classics that I'd seen a million times because I thought,
I mean, it was literally like I'd be awake and
then two minutes later I'd be sawing logs, and then
I'd wake up again and maybe watch fifteen minutes of
a movie, and then I'd roll over and go back
to sleep. And it was like that for two days.
(11:34):
So I was watching things to cheer me up, like
The Lighthouse.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Yeah, and uh, it's a small movie.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
I did watch Monster House. Oh yeah, I uh.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
And then you're getting it. You're getting a little bit
ahead of the space.
Speaker 3 (11:48):
Yeah, what you're doing. And then I I did. When
I was feeling a little bit better and a little
more clear headed, after I'd had a meal or something,
I was usually good for an hour or two, and
I would use that time to watch like I finally
finished The Phoenician scheme and I watched in Bruges for
the first time.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Oh that's a good one.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
Our our internet was down, so I hooked up the
DVD player in our Hell. Yeah, it was just going
through all these DVDs that I bought it danger Zone Video.
Speaker 2 (12:19):
And Goodwill on different stuff.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Yeah, and there was something else that I actually don't remember.
I just remember there was something else that I was
watching and sleeping through.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
So it's a bit foggy, I get it.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
So it came down to, like, I'm not gonna have
the time to get caught up on all this stuff,
so I'm I'm a little out of it. Like I said, Uh,
since we last spoke, I saw Louder than Guns, which
was a fantastic documentary. I've got a full review of
that up on Nashville Movie Dispatch dot substack dot com.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Yeah, what's so we have a kind of one that
led into the festival. Yeah, because we got to see
quite a few things. Yeah, and then we did a
special kind of move of you rewind went for Cold
Mountain because Nicole Kidman did a thing on Sunday and
they showed that film. So there's some stuff out there
about the film Festival but like you said today, it's
(13:16):
just kind of wrappings, rapping things. Oh yeah, creative vets
and louder than those that you wrote.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
I wanted to. I really wanted to write about the
gas station attendant, but I just.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
I know, did you see where at one?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Did it?
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:29):
What did it? I haven't even seen the documentary feature
my inbox. I've got like eighty emails that I've got
to get through.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Uh best documentary?
Speaker 3 (13:39):
I uh yeah, maybe I will still write about it.
Speaker 2 (13:41):
And it's either best of the Fest. It's it's kind
of a blur because there was the uh Best of
the Fest winners, and then there was the audience award winners.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Well, let me tell you somebody, I did some good
picking because a lot of those I had seen.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
Where did that come to? As a via press release?
Speaker 1 (14:00):
It is?
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I think it's on socials now?
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Is it okay?
Speaker 2 (14:03):
But fuck toys one one something? And I how was that?
I got? I saw that, uh you know, the writer
and the star and the director was there, and I
tell it it's it's more of style over substance. It
gets a little nuts. It's very much meant to be
like kind of this like sexpointation kind of like trashy
(14:28):
like it. It's for a reason, and there's a lot
of things esthetically that are great and part of the story,
but sometimes it goes all over the place. Story wise.
I wasn't that engaged in but you couldn't really help,
but not like you couldn't look away because of just
(14:49):
like the colors or like the production stuff. And she's
she's actually from Nashville. She talked about how she came
to Green Hills Theater to watch Napoleon Dynamite, which so
did I. That was actually one of like that one.
And then Little Trouble Girls, which I talked about in
our last Yeah, yeah, those are kind of at the bottom.
(15:13):
Nothing went below two and a half or three. But
I just I just wasn't into it as much. It's
definitely got the feel of like occult, classic midnight movie
kind of thing. Yeah, but I mean, listen, there's a
lot of stuff that, uh that the writer director Starr,
(15:33):
that she did that that looks sensational. Uh, But I
think that's its biggest strengths. It's kind of the look
of it, not so much story wise, but the Python
hunt won something, The gas station attendant won something. Cactus
payers won something, Omaha won something. Uh, there was quite
a few. I was. I was sort of uh impressed
(15:55):
that a lot of those I actually had we actually
had seen an opera land and won something.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
It was the best Tennessee feature. Yeah. I know the
festival in the last couple of years has come under
fire for its curation, but it kind of feels like
and I didn't watch as many obviously, like being sidelined
due to injury. Essentially, I didn't get to see as
(16:23):
many as I usually do. I think I ended up
my my final tally was only seven or eight I
can't remember. Probably that numbers down from what is usually
around twelve to fifteen. But I didn't see a movie
this year that. While there may not have been as
(16:46):
much like big name, big ticket items so to speak,
in the in the festival this year, I also I
didn't see anything this year that I was just like,
damn that that was rough. That was hard.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Yeah, I agree, No, there is always some type of
skill present. Yeah, and it's just more of kind of
what spoke to you obviously the way I mean all
films do. But but yeah, I would agree with that
there was nothing where it's like I'm sorry, how did this?
How did this get here?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
Like when we were sitting at a hotel in Memphis,
I hate this movie. I hate Cubic Zirconia has never gone.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
That's it.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
God, somebody would tell you the name.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Somebody's gonna find me in my ass one day.
Speaker 2 (17:31):
Well I'm gonna tell you.
Speaker 3 (17:32):
But I remember the two of us we had the
screener for it, and when we woke up, like getting
ready for the day's festivis, we were sitting in our
hotel room in Memphis watching this movie just like who, like,
oh man, how did this get selected?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
That's a perfect one where if you're just hanging out
with friends getting drunk, yeah, and you just want to
have a good laugh.
Speaker 3 (17:56):
It is it is, it is something.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
And it didn't won something, didn't it?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
It might have. I don't remember. That was bullshit.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
We know that that was bullshit.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
But I digress. Uh didn't And And to be like,
you know, let's let's uh, let's spread the criticism equally.
That has happened watching films at the Nashville Film Festival.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, and uh.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
It didn't happen this year. It kind of felt like
maybe I don't know There wasn't like an Eileen or
a Saturday night for me or anything like that. Is it?
They come on? Come on, like, yeah, none of Spencer, Spencer,
none of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:46):
But that was in one day. And there's another one too.
I'm forgetting because come on, come on. Was a secret screening,
oh Man, then Spencer, and then I think it was
the closing night. But I remember mccash and I because
we went. It was at bill Court, all of them,
and we went to the party and we just ate
(19:07):
and drank shit, and I think we talked to two
people and then we loved cool.
Speaker 3 (19:11):
Cool, really great network.
Speaker 2 (19:13):
Yeah, well well you should well you should have seen
the crowd and maybe.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
We I but my my larger point being like we
didn't have one of those kind of runs. No, and
we haven't for for a few years.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
No, we haven't.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
But I think from an overall quality standpoint, it kind
of feels like, maybe maybe you didn't hit that ceiling,
but maybe the floor was raised a little bit with
the festival this year.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
That's a good way to put it, because one of
the things, so I thought, so the closing night one
was kissed the Spider woman. I thought, Oh, now, that's
a good get. Like that's got j Lo Diego Luna.
I mean he's right and high off and or comes
out in October. But Bill Condon, who's an Oscar. So
I'm like, okay, that's a good one. And actually they
(20:02):
had man, I'm gonna butcher this name Tona Tua.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Okay, so right, so what that looks like? I have
no idea.
Speaker 2 (20:16):
Well, well he was there, he was actually there, and
he got the Rising Star ward and I didn't stay
for the Q and A because I'm old and tired.
But he spoke, he spoke words, He spoke words, spoke
some words before about it. And I tell you what, man,
First of all, he's great and kiss a spire woman.
I liked the movie. It's a musical. It's based off
(20:38):
of based off a novel, based off of a Tony
winning musical. Uh. They did do a movie in the eighties. Uh,
and it recently popped in because Marley Malton's a documentary
who was together with William Hurt. William Hurt was in it,
but it was not a musical. It was played just
as a straight kind of drama. Way anyway, he won
(20:59):
an Oscar for and Raoul Joya was in it.
Speaker 3 (21:03):
Do you know who that is?
Speaker 2 (21:04):
No Adam's family, he was the he was Gomez. Oh okay, yeah,
and Bison, which just side note, I didn't realize that
when that movie came out he had already passed away.
Really yeah, that's so technically Street Far was his last movie.
But anyway, so but uh, Jeffer Lowipez was. I mean,
(21:28):
she's fabulous in it. I just didn't. I couldn't really like, basically,
it's a movie within a movie. These two guys there,
one's a political prisoner, the other one is like caught
with indecent exposure. He's gay, he's thrown in there. He's
basically also used by the It was all in Argentina.
He's being used by the government to get information from
(21:52):
the political prisoner, which Diego Luna plays. Uh, but so
he so basically as a form escapism, he the let
me make sure I get the names right. So there
is just like I says, Lewis is telling him about
(22:14):
this movie he loves, and so then it's all in
like bright, vivid, tetnic color with Jennifer Lopez who plays
Ingrid Luna who also plays a spider woman, but man
I just couldn't get into it all of it like
I did. The musical aspects of it were fine, but
(22:35):
I kind of like the the prison part of it,
but then like the relationship that forms just doesn't seem
like it it was. It didn't feel authentic, like they
shared stuff. But then it ended up trying like basically
their journey and the journey of these characters and the
Spider Woman movie are kind of the same. And I
(22:58):
don't know, I but he was the main takeaway, like
he is fantastic in it. But but I thought that
was a good get for a closing night one because
it is getting buzz the stuff and the Jada Plas baltimoorns.
We talked about this.
Speaker 3 (23:18):
Man I would have loved to have been able to.
Speaker 2 (23:20):
That was a good git. That was cool. That was
that took place in Soho house. But I thought that
was that was you know, there's a few things, and
they did the Nicole Kidman thing, which I have to
tell you and I haven't told you. This Saturday, two
things happened. I saw two very famous people. One I
was talking to this guy I met. His name was
(23:42):
also Brandon and he's a recent subscriber to National Movie dispanch.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Oh, shout out.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
He's a sweet man. We watched Kiss of the Spider
Woman together and I was talking to him about Omaha,
and I actually got him to cancel his John Candy ticket,
so take that John Candy to watch Omaha. And but
he loved Omaha, and I told him, I'm like, dude,
(24:08):
I don't don't read much any about it.
Speaker 3 (24:11):
Let's go see it.
Speaker 2 (24:12):
I'm talking to him, and I'm looking because the girl
that's tearing the tickets or whatever has these big, like
icy cup ear rings. But then I look next to
her and Nicole Kidman is there going to see a
movie with two of her friends, and they went what
movie did they go see? A big, bold, beautiful Journey
with Colin Pharaoh?
Speaker 3 (24:32):
Margo, Robbie, what are you hearing about that one? I've
had so interesting?
Speaker 2 (24:37):
My friend Brandon loved it.
Speaker 3 (24:38):
You should have asked, well, well, I was going to say.
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Well, I had to get on with it. But I mean,
I I've heard it's not very good. I've heard that
the script is lousy and calling fail. Margot Robber are
just basically, you know, floating around in there, just.
Speaker 3 (24:57):
Just hanging out.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah. But then before that I just got done eating
him walking and I see someone pass by, turned back
to look and it's Mac lun Is that right? And
he had just seen Operland at the h screen Yeah
(25:18):
on Saturday, which yeah, and so he I got to
meet his girlfriend, who I obviously never.
Speaker 3 (25:26):
Meant oh wow.
Speaker 2 (25:27):
Yeah. And uh but the guy that did the director
of this Operland doc got some that archive footage from Max.
Speaker 3 (25:35):
I didn't want to say it out loud, but I
remember him telling me like, well, I cause I didn't
know if that's why he was there or not. But
I remember Mac saying, hey, this guy's reached out like
I've got some of this footage.
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Well, he did tell me he didn't make the movie, oh,
which I now know that to be true because I
hadn't seen it at the time. But so that's a
wild Saturday if you ask me.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
Yeah, that is a pretty wild.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
But yeah, I thought i'd tell you that on the air,
thank you. But yes, Kiss of the Spider Woman was okay,
that's it was kind of in the middle of for me.
And we talked about Baltimorn's and omaha, really is the
one of the best things I saw.
Speaker 3 (26:15):
What Uh, well, let's let's get this out of the
way now. Then let's ask it what what was your
best of the festival?
Speaker 2 (26:21):
So I have one feature in one doc okay uh,
there was a it was actually added a special presentation
the same day of Kiss a Spider Woman, and it's
called All That's Left of You I did. It's a
it's an international film takes. It's about Palestine, but just
about generational trauma where it kind of starts in the
(26:45):
forties and eventually ends in like two thousand and two. Yeah,
of just like a father who has to abandon his family,
who ends up having to abandon his land, and then they
have to start over again, and then what does that
do to the sun? And then the Sun has his
family and it's it's a it's really about the culture,
(27:07):
but generational trauma in the whole situation within involving Israel Palestine,
and obviously it's a hot topic and but but it's
a family story. But it just shows the ripple effects
of things that are done that end up just kind
of trickling down. And I found it very moving and
(27:30):
very powerful. I was, I really was. I was very
impressed with it. And it's like almost two and a
half hours. But it's such it's such a it's such
a tale of just struggle and survival and love. And
there's a there's a thing that is said in there
(27:52):
that I put in my letter box that just talked
about that how your humanity can be the resistants. And
it was a nice it was it was really good.
I really enjoyed it. And I just read literally that
afternoon that Mark Ruffalo and Javier Bardim have put their
names and their executive producing as well, and it comes
(28:15):
out in November, I think. And another one's called Speak
that's the documentary about basically it's called like oral something,
but it's basically you are giving a speech about all
these different things. I think a lot of it dealt
with with whether it was with judgment or rather it's immigration, race,
(28:40):
whatever they wanted to be. But the competition man with
these kids put themselves through and the coaching that's involved,
and I found it completely fascinating. The characters that they follow.
It was it was you know, one had had had
lost his mom, One was coming out as gay and
(29:03):
kind of the exception and that in Minnesota, and a
lot of immigrant stories on how like they came like
like someone's parents came here. And but the thing I
walked away with the most is I had hope because
these these young kids, they've they've got the right idea,
(29:25):
they've got the right passion and determination, and I sure
hope they can do something with it. So those are
my top Those are my top two. And then right
beneath that was Omaha saw a movie called Peacock. I
really like, another international film, but it's a very satirical
(29:45):
about basically having this job where he's being all kinds
of different people for them, but then he kind of
has lost himself and the ending, the ending is so absurd,
but it's so perfect. So I really liked that one.
And then Python Hunt Man, I've told you, I'm hoping
(30:06):
you could get to see that one and drag yourself
to it. But it's a wild ride. And one of
the guys named Jimbo, who actually has the best kind
of story arc as someone who used to do this
pipe annual Python Hunt thing to kind of changing his
mind and kind of seeing maybe for what it truly is.
He he showed up for a little Q and a
(30:27):
thing they actually did stay for and stuff, and so
it was cool. He's been on like swamp people and
stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (30:33):
I wanted to see that one, but I have a
terrible phobia of things jumping out of the water.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
At me, and I thought that there was really none
of that.
Speaker 3 (30:41):
I don't know if I could see that on the
on the big screen. I tried to get a screener,
but I think it wasn't available.
Speaker 2 (30:48):
And you see it, I mean you see him, but
there's nothing like crazy. But some of them like the
way that they just pull them out. But it also
has this emotional hug because of basically pythons may not
really be problem. And then Jimbo gave an update to
(31:11):
basically being like, listen, the the glade is not I
mean that's it adapts and so it's already talked about
where he said they've already adapted to these pythons that
came in. There's a whole thing about the flooding that
brought them in and stuff. But they said that he
said that that they they didn't quite know like python's
reading this, this and this, and it's bearing out everything
(31:32):
else and kind of the nature of itself. And come
to find out that's not necessarily true because everybody's all
these animal species are kind of adapting to it. But
that one of the examples he gave was that they
found a python in the in the mouth of a
cotton mouth. So even that is like they're not like
(31:53):
top of the food chain even there because now they
know oh this and so it was, it was there.
It's also just a wild ride, a lot of eclectic,
ye cast of people. So it was, uh, it was,
it was, It was good. I like that one.
Speaker 3 (32:10):
I think I go with Omaha for my uh oh
yeah for mine. I I really to to give a documentary.
I really liked the gas station attendant and we talked
about both of those on our preview of the film festival.
So yeah, go find that in the Nashville Movie Dispatch archives.
Speaker 2 (32:27):
Yep. And I I'm want to give a shout out
to Rebuilding. So Rebuilding an Omaha where two like Sun
Dance favorites. Yeah, kind of gone uh to all the
kind of the film festival route. But as Josh O'Connor,
who was in Challengers, he's in the New Knives Out
movie that comes out later. He's in a movie now
with Paul mescal He's in one called The Mastermind that
(32:51):
comes out Busy, So he's yeah, so uh, but it's
basically where it was. He's basically a cowboy and a
fire and he loses everything and so ends up being
put into the kind of this like FEMA thing, and
so it's it's about family, community, it's about his daughter
(33:11):
where he kind of you know, the rebuilding is not
just about physically rebuilding what he's lost, it's also that
relationship with his daughter rebuilding. I thought it was a
very tender, sweet film. And I really liked his performance
because sometimes you don't even have to say anything just
to kind of see like kind of the outsider and
(33:31):
then kind of warming up and then end up kind
of being that kind of being that savior for for
for somebody, because you're you're enduring what they're enduring, and
no one else can really can really kind of well
knows how how knows how it feels. Then those people
(33:54):
living in it right then and there and have nothing
to come back to, and anyway it was I was,
I was, I really like that one too.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
I I will say I've had some on the opery
Land documentary. I have had some really interesting conversations with friends,
maybe some some beers involved about the character of Nashville
as a city, and I think that it is kind
(34:24):
of interesting to think about what Nashville has become recently
and a lot of transplants, a lot of people from
different areas, and I'm not I'm not hating on that,
but it does there is something about Nashville that feels
overtly commercial these days that does kind of feel like
(34:48):
a bit soulless, that is just We're just gonna come
here and we're just gonna drink and party for a
few days and it's and it's a good time, and
then we go home and I think you you and
I even talked about this a little bit when we
went to Memphis last November for the Indie Memphis Film
Festival to cover that. It was like, how different the
(35:10):
vibes are as cities, but how Memphis just kind of
has this character that is sort of palpable wherever you
are in the city, like you feel it, and I
don't think you feel that in Nashville anymore. And I
had a friend that once tell me, like, I don't
know that Nashville does have character anymore. And I was
(35:32):
reminded of this conversation watching the opry Land documentary yeah,
because there were a lot of childhood memories in it.
But I just remember, I remember that version of Nashville.
That yeah, that old Nashville from the nineties and the
eighties and the seventies before me. But it did kind
(35:56):
of make me think, like, man, I know, like downtown
Nashville was not a place you wanted to hang out
back in the nineties. But there is a part of
me that that wondered, like if because I don't remember,
because I was a kid and I just remember like
if I went downtown to my dad's shop, he would say,
you got to stay in the office. You can't go outside.
Speaker 2 (36:19):
I mean there was nothing there.
Speaker 3 (36:20):
Yeah, but it does kind of make me wonder if
I don't know, things were different back then, like things
had more character, it felt like when I was a kid,
And in a way, watching the documentary kind of made
me think like it was around that time when Ouprey
(36:41):
Mills opened and and things start really ramping up for
the tourism. Just sitting here wondering like, did old Nashville
die with Oprey Land.
Speaker 2 (36:51):
I mean, I'm sure you can link it to that
in some I'm.
Speaker 3 (36:55):
Gonna work on I'm gonna work on an essay.
Speaker 2 (36:57):
But I yeah, I mean the whole thing was like,
oh you can listen to live music and when the
opery land doc like they wanted to be a musical
thing back, Like not so much all about the rides,
but about these performances. And one thing I enjoyed is
that I didn't realize just how much they put into those.
Like performances were like I forgot the number, but a
(37:18):
lot of them went to Broadway. Well, I mean it
was like super profet, not like someone just gathered up,
you know, locally. I mean there were real artists, performers,
and I'll be honest, I didn't see a whole lot
of that because I did like the rides and stuff.
Speaker 3 (37:32):
Well we were kids, right.
Speaker 2 (37:33):
So I mean to go in that theater and watch something,
which I remember doing, but you know that was boring
for you know, a ten year old that, yeah, I
want to go on a roller coaster.
Speaker 3 (37:44):
Born in eighty six weeks, so we got what like
and I mean you can't say ten years because it's
not like my parents were trotting me out there as
a newborn.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
But yeah, we did have a pass. I do remember that.
Speaker 3 (37:57):
I would say I probably maybe five or six years
with the land.
Speaker 2 (38:03):
And I remember when the mall came, I told I
remember telling my mom like, well, at least, you know,
like it got to a point where when the mall came,
I wasn't really going to Opryland anymore.
Speaker 3 (38:13):
Yeah, that's true.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
So it's like, all I'm glad I got to enjoy
it while I was a kid, But now when I
watch I'm like, you know what, it's actually it's actually
a shame because other kids. Now, I was.
Speaker 3 (38:23):
About saying that now you're a father, right, and you
don't have.
Speaker 2 (38:26):
That share, And it would be a much cheaper trip
for my fortieth birthday if I could just go to
opuland show. But so that's part of it. I mean,
the Apreland doc is nice. It's it's it's nostalgia driven.
It's a trip down memory lane. I don't really think
the dog does anything for Well.
Speaker 3 (38:43):
That was my thing to you was like, imagine showing
this to somebody that didn't go to Operyland, Like if
I showed it to my wife, what would she what
would she say about this?
Speaker 2 (38:52):
Right? I don't know, and I don't think anybody. I
don't think.
Speaker 3 (38:54):
But if you went, if you lived it.
Speaker 2 (38:57):
When they show you that when they go I had
no idea up in dots, like that was the first thing.
I have no idea. I remember being I remember that,
and I remember Grizzly River rampage and the log ride,
which I didn't really go on that one, but yeah,
and like they were talking about how chaos was like
a thing of like.
Speaker 3 (39:14):
State of the future.
Speaker 2 (39:15):
Yeah, that's that's that's cool to see. But then and
like I remember where the train would come, like I
remember that stuff. But at the same time, as just
an informative documentary, I feel like it kind of does
the bare minimum. I don't really think we get a lot.
I think there's some interviews that are fine. There's others
(39:37):
that I just don't really know if it adds anything,
or we go a long time before we even see
them again, I forgot even what they did. But we
were talking before this, like I'm glad that guy got
to get on that train.
Speaker 3 (39:49):
I was stoked for him.
Speaker 2 (39:50):
God bless him because he was excited. But but yeah,
I but also, I mean it plays well here, yeah,
And I don't think it plays well anywhere else because
if you say opry Opperland, USA, A circle broken in
New York. Who gives a ship and everybody has a story.
I'm sure of something they loved Paved Paradise.
Speaker 3 (40:12):
Yeah, because I don't think the story is very scandalous
or controversial.
Speaker 2 (40:17):
It's not universal.
Speaker 3 (40:19):
Yeah, and and it is like just a it's a
bit of nostalgia for.
Speaker 2 (40:23):
For nostalgia and corporate greed.
Speaker 3 (40:25):
All right, Yeah, so Mari it was, but it was, Man,
what I wouldn't give to go down one of those rides? Again,
I don't know, I'm almost.
Speaker 2 (40:35):
Threepecially is it the the Walbash Cannonball which they acted
which in the documentary they acted like that was like
the it was and I think it was the first
roller coaster you got.
Speaker 3 (40:47):
Yes, no, no, it was like the first roller coaster
they had that was like a roller coaster? Roll?
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Is that the rocking was that ended up being the
rock and roll? I feel like that was the.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
No, the that the same thing, the rock No, that
was to two different the rock and roller coaster you
got in like the old timey looking thing.
Speaker 2 (41:07):
Okay, then Walbash Cannonball is the one that I would
ride first, because.
Speaker 3 (41:10):
They showed it. They showed it in the documentary.
Speaker 2 (41:13):
Well that's what I remember, but I thought it was
called I thought they changed the name to the Rocking
the roller Coasters.
Speaker 3 (41:21):
No, that was like the I don't remember. I have
an image. I'd have to look it up. But that
was in do Wah Diddy City, that part.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Of Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, where you spin on those things.
Speaker 3 (41:32):
So I think they were old timey cars, but.
Speaker 2 (41:34):
I can't yeah, yeah, yeah remember, No, you're right, you're right.
Speaker 3 (41:37):
I just remember that one hurting my knees because the
sides came up, yeah, kind of high and it would
turn real thick, and my knees would smack again.
Speaker 2 (41:46):
And also good for roy Acuff for house. Yeah, for leeching.
Speaker 3 (41:52):
Yeah, I didn't know that was an option.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
I didn't either, And apparently it was only for him
and then and he hung just hung out there, which
God bless them.
Speaker 3 (42:01):
But yeah, I I the Grizzly River rampage.
Speaker 2 (42:06):
Yeah, I remember the bridge.
Speaker 3 (42:09):
Yeah you get scream. Yeah, I had the log ride,
the Flume Zoom or whatever. It was actually called the
Wabash Cannonball. I was surprised they didn't talk about the
Hangman at all.
Speaker 2 (42:21):
I know they showed it, and I don't know if
it's because that was the big deal, the latest addition,
So they didn't or that someone died on it.
Speaker 3 (42:31):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (42:32):
Maybe they were like sure that was I've thought for sure,
But then I'm like, okay, I guess they didn't because
that was kind of the last attempt and then like
what two or three years later, it's when it closed.
But you know, and it's funny because it's like, yeah,
you know what, like they were getting pressure to build
new stuff, but first of all, that's not really what
they wanted opper Land to be. And second of all,
as somebody talked, like, they're they're landlocked. You can't go anywhere,
(42:56):
so what you have to replace something, which I don't
know how you do that, So but.
Speaker 3 (43:02):
You kind of get to a point where you're just
kind of like, yeah, this all all this stuff kind
of makes sense that these people got involved.
Speaker 2 (43:08):
So right, it sold it to someone else, and that they.
Speaker 3 (43:11):
Can't build anymore. So it's that's what I'm saying. It's
not very like scandalous.
Speaker 2 (43:15):
The only thing is that people were going and it
was making money. It was not a business failure.
Speaker 3 (43:22):
Is it like they're in the hole, which there were
I remember some reports at the time people were saying like, oh, well,
nobody goes to oppery Land anymore.
Speaker 2 (43:29):
Well, and the one thing that came out of it
was that no, we're not going to get rid of it.
We're just it's gonna take this and this and then
and I sort of remembered that because there was a
time where you went and you could still see Grizzly
River rampage and that was going to be that wasn't
supposed to be. And then that it just took over.
Speaker 3 (43:50):
I I don't know if I'm if I'm implicating myself here.
I with some buddies of mine, actually, Man mac Lunn,
who you mentioned earlier, you ran to it this screening,
went to the opper Land Hotel one night, just dicking
around like teenagers do, and met up with some buddies
and we actually jumped the fence and walked through the
Grizzly River rampage that had been drained for gosh, almost
(44:14):
ten years at that point.
Speaker 2 (44:15):
It was sad when they went back and just showed
like the remains of it, yea, and the fact. But
and then it's like, well, I don't know about you,
but if opper Land was open today, would it be
the same.
Speaker 3 (44:32):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (44:34):
There's a I think I think you can't escape corporate creed,
and I feel like either it would be super expensive, yeah,
or that it would be or people have stopped going
because maybe you don't update anything else. Yeah, no one
thinks all this is cute anymore, you know, like, does
(44:57):
it adapt? Does it become something that's still fun for
kids today than it was like for us in the nineties.
Speaker 3 (45:05):
There's a part of me that thinks, yeah, because the
city still it doesn't have anything like that. I mean,
it's lacking true something for families like that. But then
there's also a part of me that thinks, to go
back to my question earlier, a part of what made
opry Land so special was the character of the city
(45:26):
at the time. And I don't know that. I don't
know that as a city we value the same things
now that we did then.
Speaker 2 (45:35):
Oh yeah no.
Speaker 3 (45:36):
And that makes me question whether or not the care
would be put into something like Opryland, which I kind
of love as like a Southern Broadway. Like the idea
of like going to see a show at oprey Land
kind of deal is pretty cool. I could I could
see like my wife and I going to enjoy that
(45:56):
on a nice date night.
Speaker 2 (45:57):
Yeah, something like oh yeah, well, you know they talked
about where like Dolly Parton tried to open up something
here but you know there was a thing and it's
still not built, but they there was gonna be a dome,
but it was like a drive in movie theater that
you set in the car.
Speaker 1 (46:13):
Stuff.
Speaker 2 (46:13):
Anyway, that never happened. That was supposed to be a
Nashville thing. But the last thing I heard was Nate.
Speaker 3 (46:21):
Bergurette, who Nate BGEI that.
Speaker 2 (46:23):
Burghetzi you could say that petitum the uh he's trying
to open something because he was on a podcast. I
think it was Conan's podcast. Instead. He mentioned oppery Land
and how kids don't have that at all, to like
just go like and not be a Disney World where
it's thousands and thousands of dollars, And I'm like, I
(46:44):
think it's gonna be called Nate Land or so. I
don't know, it's early stages, but I'm like, you know what,
I hope somebody can do something like that, at least
for like, I guess I think of my son and stuff,
where like it doesn't you don't have to break the bank,
but go and enjoy some some yeah, some stuff off
without you know, but I mean, it can't be in Nashville.
You know, it has to be built somewhere. I mean,
(47:05):
I don't even know where the hell you build a
theme park around.
Speaker 3 (47:07):
Out in Gladeville.
Speaker 2 (47:08):
That's true.
Speaker 3 (47:09):
That race car track, Yeah, tear it down, tear it down,
build that and build.
Speaker 2 (47:14):
God, imagine the traffic.
Speaker 3 (47:15):
Nate Barghetsi's opery land. Yeah. Right. Thoughts on the operation
of the festival as a whole, I was, I was
very pleased that, Like, yeah, their PR people, their media
relations people are are awesome. They've had the same group
for several years now. They've been super helpful, super kind,
(47:37):
super generous and giving to us. So appreciate them. Getting
my pass, like, man, everything was so easy as far
as like the signage, like the flow you just I
walked in, I picked up my pass, my media credential,
and I walked downstairs into my screening.
Speaker 2 (47:55):
The scan them good dad was. They didn't really go
over anything most of the time. It was kind of
like they started like they didn't announce a lot of
the things.
Speaker 3 (48:03):
A lot of Q It felt like, Yeah, when I
saw Louder than Guns. Catch Sea Corp. Of Old Crow
Medicine show was there. Uh, David Green, the journalist that
he collaborated with on the film, was there, the director.
They had a whole panel up there.
Speaker 2 (48:20):
Yeah. I I didn't have any I have I didn't
have any complaints.
Speaker 3 (48:26):
Ye.
Speaker 2 (48:27):
All I did was spend a ton of money at
restaurants filling in Yeah, Hernia, Yeah, Hernia went home.
Speaker 3 (48:35):
Yeah, but no, it was it was.
Speaker 2 (48:38):
It was as smooth as can be and like just
getting in it's fine. I mean, some were more crowded
than others, but I was never just like total pandemonium
or chaos in it all. It was nice. And and
when I got there like the Tuesday like kind of
like when things are winded down, Oh man, it was nice.
I mean, I'm sure they probably want it packed, but
a lot of people, I mean again, you're you're replaying
(49:00):
that a lot of people have seen a lot of
people out of town have gone home. But it was
very it was. It was nice.
Speaker 3 (49:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (49:06):
I love the Green Hills area anyway. And to see
the last couple of ones at Bell Court is is
is a cool thing.
Speaker 3 (49:13):
Those two venues, I think, I mean, unless they want
to branch out and just do it at Thoroughbred twenty
or something like that. Yeah, I think those are the
two right right spots.
Speaker 2 (49:24):
Yeah, I like that, and I like that it was
all just kind of here and then this this day,
and especially like I guess, most of it was just
kind of the closing day was Bell Court. But I
think that's I think that's the ticket.
Speaker 3 (49:38):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 2 (49:39):
Don't have to mess don't mess with it too much.
And I think we're I think you're in good.
Speaker 3 (49:44):
Shape already looking forward to next year. Anything else you
want to add, Brandon, Are we clear to take off here?
Speaker 2 (49:51):
Yeah? No, I think that's it. I think it's been.
It was a nice run. I was pleasantly surprised by
almost everything that I've watched again and nothing was all
full of that. Oh gosh, that was expeciating to sit through.
I did not have any of those experiences. I think
we did a good job picking mount and like I said,
a lot of them are award winners and so hopefully
(50:11):
the ones that don't can find distribution. And yeah, let's there.
You go, another year.
Speaker 3 (50:18):
Down, another year of the Nashville Film Festival. In the books,
that's going to do it for us on this episode
of the Vick Flicks podcast. Rate review, Subscribe wherever you
take in your shows. Subscribe to all of our work
at Nashville Moviedispatch dot substack dot com. Getting close to
having another Movie Annual hit the Amazon shelves, so be
(50:39):
on the lookout for that. Wrapping up some work on
that in the coming months, and until until next time,
He's Brandon, I'm stony, and you stay classy. Nashville
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