> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.thesecretscreening.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # I Wanna Gig Like Common People - URL: https://www.thesecretscreening.com/i-wanna-gig-like-common-people/ - Published: 2026-09-25T16:00:23.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-25T16:00:22.000Z - Author: Aaron Hillis - Tags: Weekly Picks, Theatrical Picks, Music Picks, Miscellaneous Picks, Film Industry Tips & Anecdotes ![Now Playing](https://storage.ghost.io/c/86/6b/866b2bfd-593e-41db-b4ad-b0afa3293fe4/content/images/2026/05/now-playing-NEW.gif) ****THE SCOUT** (2025, dir. Paula González-Nasser) People-watching in New York, poking around gorgeous apartments... location scouting must be a dream job, no? First-time filmmaker Paula González-Nasser spent six years knocking on strangers' doors and charming her way into private spaces. ***The Scout***, her quietly enthralling corrective of slowly accumulating indignities, follows her exhausted stand-in (Mimi Davila) as she races through a day to find TV-pilot interiors. Shot in wide, patient frames that mirror a scout's wandering eye, this modest yet poetically observed dramedy about the emotional labor of transactional relationships finds the universality in banal frustrations. 📽️ ***The Scout** (Greenwich Entertainment) opens today in NYC at [Film Forum (Q&As this weekend)](https://filmforum.org/film/the-scout?ref=thesecretscreening.com). For more cities and dates, [click here](https://thescoutfilm.com/?ref=thesecretscreening.com). --- ![Now Streaming (icon of a hand holding a remote control in front of a flat screen TV)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/86/6b/866b2bfd-593e-41db-b4ad-b0afa3293fe4/content/images/2026/09/now-streaming-NEW-1.gif) ****PULP: WHAT DO YOU DO FOR AN ENCORE?** (2026, dir. Garth Jennings) In all their thrift-store glamour and art-school misfit energy, Pulp were never really Britpop. They were older than the Gallagher brothers and Damon Albarn, weirder, more sexually uneasy, more interested in class resentment and social humiliation than in swaggering. Reflectively narrated by the still gangly, theatrical and capable-of-making-a-massive-arena-feel-intimate frontman Jarvis Cocker, director Garth Jennings' scrapbook concert doc ***Pulp: What Do You Do For an Encore?*** captures the band touring behind "More," their first album in 24 years. For the die-hard fans, this is hardcore—but newbies should also find it booty-shakingly joyful. 🎤 ***Pulp: What Do You Do For an Encore?** (MUBI) is [now streaming you-know-where.](https://mubi.com/en/us/films/pulp-what-do-you-do-for-an-encore?ref=thesecretscreening.com) ![Now Listen (icon of a guitar, cassette, vinyl record, headphones, microphone and an amp)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/86/6b/866b2bfd-593e-41db-b4ad-b0afa3293fe4/content/images/2026/05/now-listen-NEW-1.gif) ****Adult DVD:** "Jesus Christ Supercar" (from ****"Adult DVD"**) Predictably, I gravitated toward **Adult DVD**'s self-titled debut LP based on the novelty name alone. The Leeds six-piece have been building a following for years (two EPs, slots at Glastonbury and Green Man, a genuinely baffling level of fame in Japan) and have finally bottled their live chaos. It's impolite dance-punk dressed in warped synths, jungle-adjacent breakbeats, and Harry Hanson's sneering, character-driven vocals. The songs are populated by coffin dodgers, cowboys losing it in the supermarket, and conspiracy theorists, all rendered with silly-smart lyrics that point out the hypocrisies in our ridiculous modern society. 🎵 ****"Adult DVD"** (Fat Possum Records) drops today on [vinyl, CD, Bandcamp](https://adultdvd.bandcamp.com/album/adult-dvd?ref=thesecretscreening.com), [Apple Music](https://music.apple.com/us/album/adult-dvd/6775588661?ref=thesecretscreening.com), [Spotify](https://open.spotify.com/album/17BEYcycElkLNpRbd85OT7?si=1b2Bc8PwTBy8WIn2AJARdA&ref=thesecretscreening.com), [TIDAL](https://tidal.com/album/529804921?ref=thesecretscreening.com), [Amazon Music](https://music.amazon.com/albums/B0H3M38XB7?ref=thesecretscreening.com), and more. --- ![Just One More Thing... (icon, illustrated, of Peter Falk as Columbo)](https://storage.ghost.io/c/86/6b/866b2bfd-593e-41db-b4ad-b0afa3293fe4/content/images/2026/05/just-one-more-thing-NEW.gif) **Three to See at the** [**64th New York Film Festival**](https://www.filmlinc.org/nyff/?ref=thesecretscreening.com)**.** NYFF (through Oct. 12) kicks off tonight with James Gray's *Paper Tiger*. A recommended trio I've seen: the exclamation point in Tony Gilroy's **Behemoth!** promises spectacle and instead delivers a graceful, low-key study of a conflicted cellist (Pedro Pascal), the kind of intelligent, grown-up drama we claim we want and then don't show up for. It trusts its audience, unlike the overdirected, emotionally fraudulent *Tár*. Satirist *par excellence* Radu Jude's ***The Diary of a Chambermaid*** moves Mirbeau's novel to contemporary Bordeaux, where a Romanian au pair endures passive-aggressive French intellectuals and a meta-theatrical subplot commenting on its own source material. And Sandra Wollner's ***Everytime***, an experimental drama about grief that eerily bends time (and your senses!) as a family travels to Tenerife, was easily my favorite film at Cannes. Maybe that's a tough sell, but see it anyway. ****Still with me?** Two ways to support The Secret Screening: ****\* Need a gut-check for your film project?** If you'd like a second set of eyes on your strategy, I have a few spots open for one-on-one consultations. Script notes, distribution tactics, and more. [\[Details here.\]](https://www.thesecretscreening.com/consulting/) ****\* Send this to a friend. Subscribe for FREE below.** Get this in your inbox every Friday. No spam. Just two minutes of useful recommendations. [Subscribe ](#/portal/signup/free)