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Sean is joined by Scarecrow Video’s Matt Lynch and the Alamo Drafthouse’s Laird Jimenez to talk about famed Hong Kong action auteur John Woo. They cover the length of Woo’s 40+ year career including his early studio days (Last Hurrah for Chivalry), his explosive peak years (Bullet in the Head), his mixed results working in the American studio system (Face/Off) and his return to Hong Kong in recent years (Red Cliff).
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Hibernating perhaps but not quite dead, we are finally back after a long hiatus and hopefully back to a more regular schedule. In this episode of They Shot Pictures, Sean and Seema are joined once again by past guest Nathan Rogers-Hancock to discuss the films of Preston Sturges. For six Thursdays in a row since July 8th, the Seattle Art Museum has been showing Preston Sturges films in 35mm with the last two (Miracle at Morgan’s Creek and Hail the Conquering Hero) coming up. It seemed like a good time to rewatch and reconsider Preston Sturges’s all too short career.
We start off discussing his career in screenplay writing prior to directing his own films with a discussion of The Good Fairy and follow that up with a discussion of Christmas in July and end by talking about Unfait [...] -
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In Part 2 of our Year End Roundup, we discuss our favorites (and not so favorites) from the year in a few more categories and finally countdown our overall Top 5 Films of the Year.
Most/Best Depressing Movie of the Year 00:56Best cinematic moment or scene 08:45Hayao Miyazaki or Isao Takahata 18:12< [...] -
On this two-part episode Sean, Seema, Jhon and Lance discuss some of our favorite films from 2014. We start off by explaining our eligibility criteria or lack thereof and then move on to declaring our favorites in a bunch of categories. Interspersed are Top 5 lists from all of the nice people that guested on TSP in 2014. On this installment we cover the following categories:
Film We Haven’t Seen Yet That We Think Would’ve Made Our List 01:58Best Debut Feature 06:34Favorite Animated Film 12:00Best Documentary or Nonfiction Film 14:14 -
On this episode of They Shot Pictures, Sean and Seema are joined by Nathan Rogers-Hancock to discuss the films of Chinese filmmaker King Hu, best known for his legendary and influential wuxia films. They focus in particular on the films, Come Drink With Me (1966), The Fate of Lee Khan (1973) and Legend of the Mountain (1971).
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Seema is joined by her friend, Kaj van Zoelen to discuss the films of Douglas Sirk, best known from his Hollywood melodramas from the 50s but whose career was prolific and transcended countries and genres. In a strange (somewhat) unplanned twist, we end up ignoring the colorful melodramas he’s best known for (although they do come up) and instead focus on three of his relatively underseen films. We discuss the films, Das Mädchen von Moorhof (1935), Shockproof (1949) and There’s Always Tomorrow (1956).
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Sean is joined by Matt Lynch and CJ Roy to talk about Hong Kong director Lau Kar-leung, the man behind many of the greatest kung fu films of the Shaw Brothers era. They cover pretty much his whole career, with many digressions on martial arts cinema in general, but focus especially on three of his best films: Dirty Ho (1976), My Young Auntie (1981) and Eight-Diagram Pole Fighter (1983). Sean writes about all things film on this here blog and is also on twitter @TheEndofCinema. Matt can be found at Scarecrow Video in Seattle and on twitter @colonelmortimer.CJ can be found in Canada and on twitter @CJRoy89.
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On part 1 of this multi-part episode of They Shot Pictures, Seema is joined by her friend Annie to discuss the melodramas of Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Specifically, they discuss the films Martha (1967), The Marriage of Maria Braun (1979) and In a Year With 13 Moons (1978).
Seema and Annie first met on this here film forum where they continue to discuss all things cinema. Seema is also on twitter as @wormatwork.
Show Notes:
- Opening Music: Serenade Out of Tune from Lola by Peer Raben
- Closing Music: Each Man Kills the Thing He Loves from Querelle Vocals by Jeanne Moreau, Music by Peer Raben -
On part 1 of this two-parter, Jhon, Sean and Seema discuss the lush musicals of Vincente Minnelli. We center our discussion around the films The Pirate (1948), The Band Wagon (1953) and Gigi (1958). We have one rather exhausted and drowsy host and if you’re lucky the editing still left in some of Sean’s singing!
On a follow-up to this episode, we will be discussing Minnelli’s melodramas.
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On this episode of They Shot Pictures, Jhon and Sean are joined by guest Mike and the three of them discuss the magical world of Hayao Miyazaki and more broadly, Studio Ghibli. Over the course of nearly 3 hours, they discuss in detail the films Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984), Kiki’s Delivery Service (1989), Only Yesterday (1991) and Miyazaki’s latest film, The Wind Rises (2013).
Show Notes:
- Mike’s Review of Kiki’s Delivery Service
- Sean’s Review of The Castle of Cagliostro
- Jhon’s Studio Ghibli Rankings on Letterboxd
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On this episode of They Shot Pictures, Sean and Seema discuss the all too brief but nevertheless spectacular and influential filmography of F.W. Murnau. We focus in particular on the films Phantom (1922), Faust (1926) and City Girl (1930).
Sean blogs about all things cinema on his blog and is also on twitter @theendofcinema.
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In Part 2 of our Year End Roundup, we discuss our favorites (and not so favorites) from the year in a few more categories and finally countdown our overall Top 5 Films of the Year.
Johnnie To or Hong Sang Soo 01:00Best Music 05:37Best Lead Performance 08:08Best Supporting Performance 12:35Worst Movie of the Year 16:00Best Script 20:41Best Director 27:37Top 5 Films of the Year Countdown 35:00
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On this two-part episode Sean, Seema, Jhon and Lance discuss some of our favorite films from 2013. We start off by explaining our eligibility criteria or lack thereof and then move on to declaring our favorites in a bunch of categories. On this installment we cover the following categories:
Film We Haven’t Seen Yet That We Think Would’ve Made Our List 04:30Best Debut Feature 06:40Favorite Animation - Feature or Short 09:03Best Documentary or Non Fiction Film 11:56Best Science Fiction Movie 17:40Favorite Horror Film 23:08Best Hollywood Movie 31:22Favorite Bollywood 37:25
Film We Like that (almost) No One Else Has Seen 41:56
Unpopular Pick / Film You liked that no one else liked 50:50Most /Best Depressing Movie of the Year: 1:00:05Best cinematic moment or scene 1:05:20Please add your own favorites in the comments sect [...]
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On this second of 4 (or possibly more!) episodes of They Shot Pictures dedicated to the filmography of the prolific and legendary John Ford, we focus our attention on his War Films. We center our discussion around the films Pilgrimage, They Were Expendable and 7 Women.
If you haven’t listened to the first instalment in our John Ford series, you can find it here.Sean blogs about all things cinema on his blog and is on twitter as @theendofcinema.
Seema is also on twitter as @wormatwork.
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On this episode of They Shot Pictures, we are joined by Lance to discuss one of our most beloved (well, for some or one of us anyway) working filmmakers, Claire Denis. We discuss in particular the films, Beau Travail, L’Intrus and 35 Shots of Rum.
Lance writes about film eloquently albeit infrequently on this here blog and is also on twitter as @LanceJMc.Sean blogs about all things cinema on his blog and is on twitter as @theendofcinema.
Seema is also on twitter as @wormatwork.
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On this episode of They Shot Pictures, we continue our discussion on Akira Kurosawa and shift our focus to his Samurai films. We discuss in detail the films The Men Who Tread on the Tiger’s Tail, Seven Samurai AKA The Greatest Film of All Time* and Ran.
Lance writes about film eloquently albeit infrequently on this here blog and is also on twitter as @LanceJMc.
Sean blogs about all things cinema on his blog and is on twitter as @theendofcinema.
Seema is also on twitter as @wormatwork.
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In the second part of our recap of the Vancouver and Toronto International Film Festivals, we take a look four films Sean saw and five that Seema saw:
Norte, the End of History (Lav Diaz)The Missing Picture (Rithy Panh)Under the Skin (Jonathan Glazer)Wolf Children (Mamoru Hosada)Stranger By the Lake (Alain Guiraudie)Yumen (JP Sniadecki, Xu Ruotao, Huang Xiang)The Strange Little Cat (Ramon Zurcher)Four Ways to Die in My Hometown (Chai Chunya)Bastards (Claire Denis)
And we wrap up the episode with some general thoughts on the film festival experience and Vancouver and Toronto in particular.
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In this special two-part episode of They Shot Pictures, Seema and Sean recount their experiences at the Toronto and Vancouver Film Festivals, respectively. In Part One, they discuss the films they both saw: Tsai Ming-liang’s Stray Dogs, Hong Sangsoo’s Our Sunhi, Ben Russell and Ben Rivers’s A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness, Mark Peranson and Raya Martin’s La última película, Jia Zhangke’s A Touch of Sin, Miguel Gomes’s Redemption, João Pedro Rodrigues’s The King’s Body and Johnnie To’s Blind Detective.
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On this episode of They Shot Pictures, Seema is joined by first-time guest Josh-Slater Williams and returning guests, Slayton Hurst Bourdon and Jhon to discuss the films of a truly under-seen and under-discussed Japanese filmmaker, Shinji Somai. Josh was the original inspiration for this episode having watched and loved a number of Somai films during a rare retrospective at the Edinburgh International Film Festival. Thanks to that one and a couple other retrospectives, a few of Somai’s films have slowly become available and this is our modest attempt at bringing some much-needed attention to these unique films that we think set a precedent for various much more well-known filmmakers that were Somai’s contemporaries and/or came after him. We focus in particular on the films, Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (1981), Typhoon Club (1985) and Moving (1993).
Josh Slater-Williams is the editor of the film section for
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This episode of They Shot Pictures is the first in a series of episodes on one of the most beloved and prolific of American filmmakers, John Ford. On this episode, we restrict our focus to his Westerns and discuss in-depth the films, Stagecoach, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Two Rode Together.
On future episodes in this series, we will be talking about his War Films, his films that center around Communities and Ford films that focus on American History.
Sean writes extensively about film on his blog, The End of Cinema. He can be found on twitter under the name @theendofcinema. He also co-hosts another podcast called The George Sanders Show with his friend Mike where they pai [...] - Show more