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We continue forward with our David Fincher season. We got off to a somewhat easy start last episode with Alien³ & Seven, but today’s conversation is a lot more interesting, at least as far as rankings go.
Danny has a curveball up his sleeve and I have a feeling he’ll be able to argue that curveball well, but that is a topic for later on. In the meantime, I’m Evan Miller. Joining me today to talk about the worst birthday party of all time and to break the first two rules of Fight Club are. 
The Game is the third film from David Fincher. It was released on September 12, 1997. Production executives initially announced at the 1996 Cannes Film Festival that Jodie Foster would co-star alongside Michael Douglas. Fincher expressed discomfort regarding the casting of an actor of that stature in a supporting capacity, which prompted script revisions to transform the character of Conrad from the brother of Nicholas into the daughter of Nicholas. Douglas opposed the parental dynamic due to the 18-year age difference between the performers, which led to subsequent script adjustments transforming the character into the sister of Nicholas. Foster rejected the sibling modification on the grounds of the age disparity, noting that Douglas previously portrayed her character's adult guardian in the 1972 Disney production "Napoleon and Samantha" when she was nine years old and Douglas was 28 years old.
Fight Club is Fincher’s fourth film. It opened in theaters on October 15, 1999, but we don't talk about it (except we do). 
Our current collaborative ranking so far:
Seven
Alien³
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Evan Miller
Danny Jarabek
Patrick J. Regal
Timmy Lee
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Once you've seen one big head, you've seen them all. Or at least, that might be the case with Wild Horse Nine, the fifth feature film from writer-director Martin McDonagh. Oscar prospects! Searchlight! Behemoth! Predictions! All that and more on The Awards Tape with Paul Rai.
Starring John Malkovich, Sam Rockwell, Steve Buscemi, and Mariana di Girolamo, Wild Horse Nine has been met with considerable critical acclaim, currently boasting a 94% on Rotten Tomatoes, a 77 on Metacritic, and a 4.2 out of 5 on Letterboxd.
Following its World Premiere at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, John Malkovich took home the Volpi Cup for Best Actor, further cementing the film's status as a major Oscar contender for Searchlight Pictures. After a relatively quiet showing for the studio during the previous awards cycle, Wild Horse Nine could mark a significant return to form.
Today, we're diving into the film's Oscar potential, as well as the rest of the studio's awards slate, similar to what we did with A24 back in August. This year, Searchlight also has Tony Gilroy's Behemoth!, starring Pedro Pascal and scheduled for release on December 4th.
Then, in the second half of the episode, we'll continue our category-by-category Oscar predictions with two more major races: Best Cinematography and Best Film Editing.
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Paul Rai
Adam Patla
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We’re into our sixth and final week of double feature reviews traversing through Gotham City, the Impassable Wilderness of Portland, from Norway Child Protective Services to the inner mechanisms of Colleen Hoover’s mind. Today, we add pre-coup Chile and post-war Japan with Martin McDonagh’s Wild Horse Nine and Takashi Yamazaki’s Godzilla Minus Zero.
It’s the last week in our stretch of double feature reviews, don’t fret the format will return for Avengers: Doomsday. We review both films and wrap up with a couple of mini games: Oscar over/under on the total nominations these two films will receive, and our power ranks our six recent double features.
Our pre-episode Patreon exclusive conversation features:
James Bond Casting Rumors
NYT to purchase Letterboxd
Netflix acquires Jack of Spades
Taika Waititi Bombs with Klara and the Sun
Our guest:
Daniel Westheimer
On this episode:
Danny Jarabek
Joshua Mbonu
Jacob Diedenhofer

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Mouse is the third feature film by creative duo Kelly O'Sullivan and Alex Thompson following Saint Frances (2019) and Ghostlight (2024). The film is a coming-of-age drama that examines friendship, grief, and teenage identity while set in 2002 Arkansas, and stars Katherine Mallen Kupferer, Chloe Coleman, Sophie Okonedo, and Tara Mallen.
Kelly and Alex join us to discuss how Mouse tackles grief from various perspectives, as well as the process behind their writing-and-directing partnership.  
Mouse opens on November 6th in New York at IFC Center and Los Angeles at the Laemmle Royal before expanding on November 13th.
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Alex Thompson IMDb, Instagram
Kelly O'Sullivan IMDb, Instagram

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Danny Jarabek
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Y’know, this isn’t going to have a happy ending.
Welcome to a BRAND NEW SEASON of RETRO//RANKED, the Rolling Tape network series in which we discuss various franchises and filmographies that we love and rank their individual entries leading up to some of the biggest new releases. 
Today, we’re back for SEASON 8. We’ve covered a lot of major filmmakers and franchises in our previous seasons, like Paul Thomas Anderson, James Cameron, Christopher Nolan, and Star Wars. But, this season might end up being crazier than every other season combined because today we’re beginning our deep dive into the career of David Fincher, a filmmaker whose name holds a lot of meaning to many of us at The Rolling Tape. Among us lies a member whose personal ranking of Fincher’s filmography is so controversial that it’s sparked countless debates and arguments within the team, and it partially led to the idea for this show. 
We’re of course covering David Fincher as we lead up to the release of his latest film, The Further Mis-Adventures of Cliff Booth, which at time of recording this first episode, we were not 100% sure would even end up releasing this year. 
We rolled with it anyway because we live in a crazy world. David Fincher’s directing a sequel to a Quentin Tarantino movie with a script written by Tarantino himself. Aaron Sorkin is directing a sequel to a David Fincher movie that he wrote himself. Maybe we’ll cover it on this show. Who knows? 
We do know that we are discussing David Fincher's first two movies: Alien³ & Seven. Many numbers to think about. Welcome to Season 8. 
On this episode:
Evan Miller
Paul Rai
Danny Jarabek
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