Venice Film Festival

She's my AI assistant.

I told her to look at all the fall film festivals like TIFF and Venice, New York, just any of the film festivals from this year.

Can.

The film festival can, not The verb can, which I did ask her, can you please take all of the kind of best movies from the film festivals and then put them into a document and then let me know when all those movies are coming to Kansas City and let me know where they're going to be and when.

Welcome to The Last Thing I Saw.

I'm really happy to have as a guest Robert Greene, the director most recently of Too Much Sugar, which had its world premiere in the Venice Film Festival, which is where I saw it, as well as numerous other films that I hope we will also talk about here.

And he also teaches at the University of Missouri.

I know I'm also as someone I run into, like every couple of years at a festival, immediately have a rundown of movies and then do not see again until that time next year.

He's been playing at a lot of international film festivals.

The Venice Film Festival gave him a Lifetime Achievement Award

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couple of years ago.

Danny Boyle's got a new film out, Inc.

It played at the Venice Film Festival, and it is a bio drama.

So based on a true story about Rupert Murdoch.

When he acquired The Sun, one of the things that's interesting about this is that it is actually Boyle – I got this from IndieWire.

Yes, among them, U.S. film rating site Rotten Tomatoes, which gave Possible Love a tomato meter score of 100% from critics, placed Possible Love on its predicted list of next year's Oscar Best Picture nominees alongside The Odyssey and Dune Part 3 and projected Chun for a Best Actress nomination.

After winning the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival in September, Possible Love was selected as Korea's submission for the Academy Award for International Feature Film.

Netflix, which will be streaming Possible Love in November, launched a push for major Oscar categories with plans to back Chun Do-yeon for Best Actress.

Okay, and second story of the day, please.

He also won Australian Directors Guild Awards for his work on First Nations series Grace Beside Me, as well as Crazy Fun Park.

His debut feature, Boys in the Trees, made its world premiere at the Venice International Film Festival in 2016, and he is currently in development on his next feature.

Throughout the podcast, Nicholas talks about his pathway into the industry, being able to explore heavier themes through teen genre stories like Crazy Fun Park and Boys in the Trees, optioning and adapting Invisible Boys for the screen and getting feedback from fans all over the world.

why it's important to him to create stories for young adult audiences in Australia, his thoughts on how to then not just reach but connect to those audiences, and much more.

dropped the movie starring Andrew Garfield that was very damning towards, wait for it, Sam Altman called Artificial.

It premiered at Venice Film Festival, got rave reviews.

So, huh, why would a movie that could be nominated for several awards as directed by superstar director, stars Andrew Garfield, all of a sudden be dropped by Amazon? Oh, yeah, because it makes his buddy Sam Altman look bad.

Who spent $40 million on a documentary, a puff documentary on Melania? Wait for it.

I think those are sort of the big ones.

I could be missing something, Telluride, Venice as well.

Yeah, no, absolutely.

So, okay, let's move into some superlatives.