Walking the Venice Red Carpet (and getting ignored) + The Best Performances of the 21st Century

This week on FoF we have a deep dive into my Venice Film Festival VIP experience, including being ignored on the red carpet, the most annoying MC ever, and my attempts at celebrity spotting. We also discuss the movie itself "No Other Choice", as well as cover some recent news from the worlds of Bradley Cooper and Harry Potter. We then finish off with some of my favourite picks from The Ringer's Top 101 Performances of the 21st Century list, which you can find here (theringer.com/2025/08/25/movies/101-best-movie…).
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TIMESTAMPS
00:00 TikTok/Insta @fredasquithonfilm - THANKS FOR 10k! (instagram.com/fredasquithonfilm)
00:26 Agenda & Full Disclosure
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My VENICE FILM FESTIVAL experience!
01:44 Venice is strange
04:29 The Bezos wedding must have been a nightmare
05:37 Zero nightlife other than on super yachts
06:37 Celebrity Spotting
08:29 The vibe-killer lounge bar MC
10:58 The Premieres are all on this pop-up island
11:55 This was my first PROPER red carpet
14:15 My shoes let me down. Brilliant.
15:15 The photographers couldn’t care less about us hahaha
18:00 But my darling wife was popular…
20:00 Inside it was NUTS
20:43 The ONE celebrity I ACTUALLY spotted
21:39 Imagine Julia Roberts on a recliner seat
22:29 The movie that I actually saw: “No Other Choice”
24:09 Brilliant cinematography & sound design
26:20 The standing ovations are weird
26:40 Movies I wished I’d seen at the festival
27:55 Another person of note on my economy flight home??!
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OTHER NEWS
29:50 Is This Thing On? Trailer
30:30 Bradley Cooper’s pattern of directorial projects
32:02 Stand Up is underepresented on screen
32:57 Warwick Davis is BACK as Flitwick in the HBO Potter series
34:50 Who else COULD have been recast from the original movies?
36:15 The 101 Best Performances of the 21st Century - MY PICKS!
37:40 I love the concept of “NAILED IT” performances
40:23 Being goofy and NOT annoying on screen is the hardest thing to do
41:25 More picks from the list
44:15 TikTok/Insta @fredasquithonfilm - THANKS FOR 10k! (instagram.com/fredasquithonfilm)