Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 315: Jeanne Dielman

Released 12 February 2025

For this episode, we watched the 1975 film Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles, written and directed by Chantal Akerman and starring Delphine Seyrig. As well as holding a 95% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the film unexpectedly topped the 2022 Sight & Sound poll of the greatest movies ever made. We take the opportunity to explore what this poll is, how it has changed over seventy years, and what films we would have put on our lists, had we been asked.

• https://princecharlescinema.com/savethepcc/
• Sight and Sound Top Tens https://bestpickpod.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/The-Sight-and-Sound-Survey-top-tens-1.pdf
• https://thefilmstage.com/watch-a-behind-the-scenes-documentary-on-the-making-of-jeanne-dielman
• https://www.slantmagazine.com/film/q-a-with-chantal-akerman-jeanne-dielman-three-decades-later/
• John Cage’s 4’33” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTEFKFiXSx4

BEST PICK – the book is available now from all the usual places, and the paperback is out on 18 February.

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Best Pick with John Dorney, Jessica Regan and Tom Salinsky

Episode 314: Oscar nominations 2025

Released 23 January 2025.

For this episode, we quickly reviewed the nominations for the 97th Academy Awards which were announced by Bowen Yang and Rachel Sennott.

• Donate today to help victims of the LA fires. https://mutualaidla.org
• The Substance Behind the Scenes https://youtu.be/8H64HNvXrqU
• Guilty Feminist interview with Shiori Ito and Megumi Inman https://pod.fo/e/2a1532

BEST PICK – the book is out now from all the usual places, including…

• From the publisher https://tinyurl.com/best-pick-book-rowman
• UK Amazon https://amzn.to/3zFNATI
• US Amazon https://www.amzn.com/1538163101
• UK bookstore https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781538163108
• US bookstore https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/best-pick-john-dorney/1139956434
• Audio book https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Best-Pick-Audiobook/B09SBMX1V4

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Episode 231: Mulholland Drive (REDUX)

First released 19 October 2022. Rereleased 17 January 2025 in tribute to David Lynch.

We lost David Lynch this week at the age of 78. In tribute to this giant of American cinema, we are rerunning this episode in which we looked at his 2001 slice of LA Gothic Mulholland Drive.

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For this episode, we watched the 2001 David Lynch film Mulholland Drive, starring Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Robert Forster and Ann Miller. This film began life as a TV pilot and was eventually repurposed by Lynch as a one-off feature film. It was suggested by Patreon supporter Joel Aarons, made it on to our shortlist and came top of our Patreon poll, by a narrow margin.

· https://crooked.com/podcast/bros-dont-prefer-blonde-w-isabella-rossellini/

· Brand New Cherry Flavor https://youtu.be/wOzM3c33TVg

· Mel Gibson interview https://youtu.be/PdYjnIDfi9Q

· David Lynch’s sitcom https://youtu.be/YdfTQ29sca8

· Mulholland Drive explained https://youtu.be/VvgRLTP3U5Y

BEST PICK – the book is out now from all the usual places, including…

- From the publisher https://tinyurl.com/best-pick-book-rowman

- UK Amazon https://amzn.to/3zFNATI

- US Amazon https://www.amzn.com/1538163101

- UK bookstore https://www.waterstones.com/book/9781538163108

- US bookstore https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/best-pick-john-dorney/1139956434

- Audio book https://www.audible.co.uk/pd/Best-Pick-Audiobook/B09SBMX1V4

To send in your questions, comments, thoughts and ideas, you can join our Facebook group or find us on BlueSky.

You should also visit our website at https://bestpickpod.com and sign up to our mailing list to get notified as soon as a new episode is released. Just follow this link: http://eepurl.com/dbHO3n.

If you enjoy this podcast and you’d like to help us to continue to make it, you can support us on Patreon for as little as £2.50 per month.