Oscar Season Begins: Inside the Venice and TIFF Lineups

<p>This week, David, Rebecca, and Richard dive into the newly announced TIFF and Venice Film Festival lineups for clues on front-runners and sleepers in the Oscar season to come—as well as a few surprising omissions. The hosts also dig into the shocking cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s The Late Show, and revisit Ari Aster’s Eddington after its muted opening weekend.</p><p><strong><br></strong>Our next <em>Little Gold Men </em>book club read is <em>Hamnet</em> by Maggie O'Farrell. We'll be discussing the novel and its upcoming film adaptation on our August 14 episode. We've also added one more book for this summer, the third most-popular in our listener survey: <em>The Ballad of a Small Player</em> by Rowan Joffé. We'll be discussing that one on our August 28 episode. Read along with us and send your questions to littlegoldmen@vf.com. </p> Learn about your ad choices: <a href="https://dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices">dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices</a>