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World of Wongie podcastWorld Of Wongie July 2017 - A Ghost StorySo the WoW podcasts are gonna be a semi-regular thing now! Outside of the film festivals that I attend, I'll be posting whenever there's some interesting stuff to talk about as I experience them myself.
Recently I was invited to visit A Ghost Store in conjunction with the wonderful movie A Ghost Story (dir: David Lowery) and was surprised to see the director there checking out the surreal shop that custom makes Ghost sheets for you to inhabit. I grabbed him for a few minutes and tried not to fanboy him too much since I was a big fan of...2017-07-0800 minWorld of Wongie podcastWorld Of Wongie @ Cannes 2017 FinaleIt's over! The awards have been handed out! The 70th Cannes Film Festival is done!
Which is why I brought back my co-star Irene Crespo to help me break down the winning films ("The Square", "120 Beats per Minute", "Loveless")
We also list our fave movies of the fest...
Wongie: "Visage Village, "120 Beats per Minute", "The Florida Project"
Irene: "Visage Village", "The Florida Project", "You Were Never Really Here"
Plus a general summary of the whole experience that is Cannes. It's been kind of...2017-06-1100 minWorld of Wongie podcastWorld Of Wongie @ Cannes 2017 Final DayIt's Wongie's last day at the Cannes Film Festival and even though it's his last official podcast recording on premises of the biggest film fest in the world, he still manages to discover some gems about the fest.
Final Day: Wongie talks to the amazing Didier Allouch, correspondent to Canal Plus but also the official red carpet interviewer at the Cannes Film Festival. We get to hear his fave movies of the fest, the ability to stay awake in some of these films and what it's like to interview 35 mega names for the Cannes 70th anniversary event. Oh and we...2017-06-1100 minWorld of Wongie podcastWorld Of Wongie @ Cannes 2017 Day 8Wongie and friends find themselves at the almost tail end of the Cannes Film Festival and there's still some wonderful insider intel about attending the biggest film fest in the world!
Day 7: Wongie bumps into fellow NYC journalist and US programmer for the Venice Film Festival Giulia D'Agnolo Vallan, and talks about choosing movies for film festivals as big as Cannes and Venice, the pressure of finding movies that will find award season glory and how she went from journalist to a programmer for Venice Film Festival.
Then Wongie catches up with German journalist Patrick Heidmann and gets intel on...2017-06-1100 minWorld of Wongie podcastWorld Of Wongie @ Cannes 2017 Day 7Wongie and friends have hit Day 7 of the Cannes Film Festival and they continue to give you insider intel of attending the biggest film fest in the world.
Day 7: Wongie grabs Belgium journalist Ward Verrijcken for a talk about finding a semblance of normalcy at a crazy film festival, their picks for fave critical / emotional / fun film so far and what it's like to interview this years very prolific star Nicole Kidman. Plus Wongie adds a quick post script about award winning director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu's amazing VR experience "Carne Y Arena" which took place in an airport...2017-06-1100 minWorld of Wongie podcastWorld Of Wongie @ Cannes 2017 Day 6Wongie and friends have hit the 1/2 mark of the Cannes Film Festival and they get talking about some insider intel of attending the biggest film fest in the world.
Day 6: Wongie talks to Belgium journalist Lieven Trio about socializing at Cannes Film Festival and his fave films of the fest so far. Then with Fandango/Filmstruck's Alicia Malone the three discuss the highly buzzed about new film 'The Killing of a Sacred Deer' by Yorgos Lanthimos and how this filmmaker is fast becoming one of the best directors in the world today.
Then Wongie drops by the suite of atelier...2017-06-0900 minWorld of Wongie podcastWorld Of Wongie @ Cannes 2017 Day 5Wongie continues to talk to his knowledgable friends about the Cannes Film Festival and what it's like to attend the biggest film fest in the world.
Day 5: Fandango/Filmstruck's Alicia Malone co-stars for the whole ep as she talks about the previous evenings 'bomb scare' in the Palais (false alarm) and then we find ourselves in a secret dining hall to discuss the 2nd Netflix film at Cannes, Noah Baumbach's "The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)" starring Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Adam Sandler & Ben Stiller. Then we try to break down John Cameron Mitchell's insane "How...2017-06-0600 minWorld of Wongie podcastWorld Of Wongie @ Cannes 2017 Day 4Wongie enters day 4 of the Cannes Film Festival and discusses with his posse what it's like to attend the biggest film fest in the world.
Day 4: As we enter Day 4 of the festival, it seems like it's taken a toll on a few of us as we discuss the Cannes fatigue effect. The gang also talk about being invited to the Netflix "Okja" party and being the odd ducks among a sea of glamour. Then Ward & I get honest about the wonderful and political film by Robin Campillo "120 Beats per Minute" about ACTUP Paris and...2017-06-0600 minWorld of Wongie podcastWorld Of Wongie @ Cannes 2017 Day 3Wongie continues to talk to his knowledgable friends about the Cannes Film Festival and what it's like to attend the biggest film fest in the world.
Day 3: Cannes Film Festival red carpet host Didier Allouch & Fandango/Filmstruck's Alicia Malone talk about the insane morning screening of Netflix's "Okja" (boo's were involved), the charming gem that is the Agnes Varda & Jr doc "Faces Places (Visages Villages)", the contemporary biting humor of Ruben Ostlund's "The Square" and why it's ok to just watch movies at a film festival. Who'd have thought?
Guests:
Didier Allouch...2017-05-3100 minWorld of Wongie podcastWorld of Wongie @ Cannes 2017 Day 2Wongie continues to discuss with his fellow journalists on the 2017 Cannes Film Festival from a behind the scenes perspective!
Day 2: With a few movies in the bag, Wongie talks to Ward about Todd Haynes "Wonderstruck", Vanessa Redgrave's doc "Sea Sorrow" and then returns at the end about a party that the two were both invited to.
Then Irene chats about her thoughts on Andrey Zvyagintsev's "Loveless" which has people already claiming a prize at the end of the fest, and Takashi Miike's 100th film "Blade of the Immortal".
Finally Nadia and Wongie...2017-05-3000 min