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This podcast is dedicated to all podcasters who ever podcasted, all⊠Nevermind, Pedro Almodovar does it better in his tragic, heartwarming, found-family melodrama about an unlikely group of women who find one another in Barcelona.
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be celebrating the 6th Annual Rando Awards!
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Costa-Gavras puts the viewer in the middle of a two-sided conspiracy of wrestle power in an unnamed South American nation. At its heart: a rebel-led kidnapping scheme to force the police state to release political prisoners. Corruption, torture, murder, and terror - all sponsored and plotted out by American âadvisorsâ - are exposed in this chilling procedural.
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing Pedro Almodovarâs All About My Mother (1999).
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You know that Scorsese movie that everyone always forgets about but also everyone says that it's really their favorite? What seems at first glance to be just another 80s comedy reveals itself to be a highly cinematic exploration of one man's polite decent into maddening frustration. And we're joined by Derrick Scocchera to help find our way back uptown.
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing Costa-Gavras' State of Siege (1972).
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The real strength of Richard Linklaterâs day-in-the-life ensemble film isnât the cast of all-time 1990s heavy hitters. It isnât the meticulous recreation of 1976 Austin, Texas. Itâs not the teen comedy hijinks. Itâs not the banging soundtrack. Itâs more that all this combines to present to its film going audience a hyper-specific and long-lost subculture unlike any presented in the vast offerings of films tackling the lives of high school students.
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing Martin Scorseseâs After Hours (1985).
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At the beginning of the 20th century, a deranged serial killer was convicted of seducing, marrying, robbing, and murdering over a dozen women. It is believed that he killed many, many more than that. So the lovable Tramp himself, Charlie Chaplin, decided to portray him in a movie. Whatâs his light-hearted take on this unexpected premise? Human society is diseased and nothing matters. In a funny way, though.
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing Richard Linklaterâs Dazed and Confused (1993).
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Director Henri-Georges Clouzot maps out one of the all-time great thrillers. âExplosiveâ is the right word in all possible ways to describe this film.
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing Charles Chaplinâs Monsieur Verdoux (1947).
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Is it about corporate greed run amok? Class warfare? Human indulgence? Human suffering? Uh⊠the hubris of man? Well, itâs definitely not about some dumb diamond necklace. Roy Ward Bakerâs all-time classic account of the sailing and sinking of the Titanic is far more than simply a blueprint for later, better retellings. It may very well set the high watermark for them all.
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing Henri-Georges Clouzot Wages of Fear (1952).
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Special guest Michael Patrick Jann brings us an almost-lost character study of a young woman lost in a world that doesnât value her existence. Director/Writer/Star Barbara Loden crafts a little drama, a little crime, and all the grimey Pennsylvania you can handle. Understated and sublime; American independent cinema by a singular filmmaker who was way ahead of her time.
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing Roy Ward Bakerâs A Night to Remember (1958).
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Jacques Demyâs dazzlingly colorful palette that is perhaps more symphonic than itâs grand romantic score, sets the stage for a musical about young love and the obstacles it must endure in modern France.
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing Barbara Lodenâs Wanda (1970).
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Sweeping vistas! Dangerous men driven by greed, glory, honor, and obsession! Is this what acclaimed epic director David Lean has in store for us today? Well⊠it does feature some dramatically filmed trains. Thatâs one of his things, right?
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jacques Demyâs The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964).
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I canât help it if Iâm scarred from too many bad 1980s and 90s comic book movie adaptations that werenât faithful to the source material. I know it shouldnât matter. Especially if the movie was made in the 1940s, itâs directed by podcast-favorites Powell and Pressburger, and itâs actually excellent.
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing David Leanâs Brief Encounter (1945).
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Can we chalk this up as another Walter Matthau all-time slam-dunk that most people have never heard of? Or is this old man spy caper exactly what it looks like? We are joined by the duo Brad and Jake from the Never Did it podcast as we race across the globe in search of a potential antidote to Moonraker (which Charlie still thinks is a very good old man spy caper for some reason).
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburgerâs The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1946).
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Singular-voiced American comedic auteur Bobcat Goldthwait writes, directs, and stars in his absurdist satire of the 1980s stand-up comedy scene reimagined as a grimey city infested with infighting sub-castes of clowns whose insecurities, addictions, and lack of talent lock them in a perpetual rut of demeaning gigs, black-out benders, and petty jealousies. But one stands apart: Shakes. Perhaps the most talented and definitely the most alcoholic and self-sabotaging of them all.
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing Ronald Neamesâ Hopscotch (1980).
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RenĂ© Lalouâs timeless (well, maybe not exactly) hand drawn science fiction epic turns a skeptical eye on human systems of power in an unimaginable world of inhuman blue giants (that are somehow even more human). You know: itâs your basic Jack and the Beanstalk meets Avatar situation. With better (by which I mean funkier) music.
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing Bobcat Goldthwaitâs Shakes the Clown (1991).
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The good days are long past for Chan and Leung, a couple slowly drifting apart, and losing themselves in the oncoming wave of modernity consisting of unemployment, debt, loneliness, and alienation. But since Edward Yang directed it, somehow itâs all beautiful.
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing RenĂ© Lalouâs Fantastic Planet (1973).
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There was a time, believe it or not, when the channel Bravo was willing to pay for some âcelebritiesâ and a camera crew to get out of their comfort zones, go on various excursions around the world, and watch the sparks fly as they bicker, backstab, and try to make ârealityâ look fun for the audiences back home. That time was 1991. Those celebrities were John Lurie, Jim Jarmusch, Tom Waits, Matt Dillon, Willem Dafoe, and Dennis Hopper. They made 6 episodes. Bravo never explored this format further.
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing Edward Yangâs Taipei Story (1985).
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Brett Morgen's expressionistic documentary seeks to sidestep the question of "which is the real David Bowie?" and instead sees the creation of his personas as just one strategy used by the performer to craft a life of continuous artistic challenge and innovation. "Reinvention" isn't so much a gimmick used to promote album and ticket sales as it is the inevitable path of a creative life. Oh, and it's beautiful and the music is good. Freak out!
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing John Lurie's Fishing With John (1991).
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Director Jacques Becker's belle epoque period drama about gangsters sets their lives on such a delicate balance between honor death that the eponymous pretty blonde is all it takes to bring it crashing down. Would you say a "love quadrangle" or a "love square"?
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing Brett Morgenâs Moonage Daydream (2020).
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Indie director Melvin van Peeblesâ one film for Columbia Pictures pointedly slams against the dictates and standards of studio filmmaking with his Godfrey Cambridge-starring vehicle about a white bigot who wakes up black and finds himself in a world that no longer tolerates his existence.
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jacques Beckerâs Casque dâOr (1952).
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Just in time for February: it's... Random Acts of Cinema's Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. Take me away from all of these possessives.
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If youâd like to watch ahead for next weekâs film, we will be discussing and reviewing Melvin van Peebles' Watermelon Man (1970).
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