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Movies 101

"The Teachers' Lounge" & "The Greatest Night in Pop"

Published February 16, 2024 at 7:15 PM PST
From left: Leonie Benesch in The Teachers' Lounge (2023); Michael Jackson in The Greatest Night in Pop (2024), from archival footage.
The Teachers' Lounge, Arte/If... Productions/ZDF/Sony Pictures Classics, 2023. The Greatest Night in Pop, Dorothy Street Pictures/MakeMake Ent./MRC Film/Paramount Pictures/Netflix, 2024.
From left: Leonie Benesch in The Teachers' Lounge (2023); Michael Jackson in The Greatest Night in Pop (2024), from archival footage.

We’re still a month away from the Super Bowl for movie fans, which is how Movies 101 typically views the annual Oscars broadcast, so there’s still plenty of time to catch up with the various nominees. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss one of those nominees, the German film The Teachers’ Lounge, which is up for Best International Feature Film, and then shift direction to talk about the Netflix documentary The Greatest Night in Pop.

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