Episódios
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Big Matt and Lil' Corbs talk about 'CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI,' a movie about a dissident who get sent to the world's cruddiest village by Benito Mussolini. He learns lessons. Topics include: Pringles, anarchism, its similarities and differences to "The Tree of Wooden Clogs," another movie about pesants, and which came first: Christianity or History?
Matt reccomends Roger Waters' new Dark Side of the Moon remake. Corbin reccomends a video game. Next week's episode is about "The Young Master," available at Criterion. RIP Fredric Jameson.
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Ellis and the Corbot talk about "DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD," Radu Jude's recent bang bang exploration of the feeling of being alive under late capitalism. Subjects include: terrible Romanian techno, exploitated people observing other exploited people for the purpose of exploitation, and international business's wholesale domination of our lives.
Corbin reccomends concerts by Ted Leo, Matt reccomends ASASSINS CREED. Next week's episode is about "Christ Stopped At Eboli," which you can watch here.
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Ellis and Corbin talk about "The Rocketeer," a Walt Disney Live Action Classic™ about a guy who acquires a Rocketpack and becomes... not like, a superhero but like... a guy with a jetpack and good intentions? Topics include: Fredric Jameson, the nexus of technological emergence in turn of the century California, and the deep and profound tragedy at the center of this movie: lazy casting.
Corbin reccomends "Red Mars," a book available at your local library. Ellis reccomends "Promethus" and "Alien: Covenent."
Next week's episode is about "Do Not Expect too Much from the End of the World," which you can watch on mubi if you're that degree of art-film-sicko.
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Ellis and Corbs talk about "Los Angeles Plays Itself," Thom Anderson's lengthy video essay about Movie City's place in the Movies, and the Movies place in Movie City. Topics include: Modernist Architecture: is it evil? The germ of the other American cinema we see in the end of this movie, and filming driving in Los Angeles and in Portland.
Corbin's reccomendation is an album, you can find it on a streaming service. Matt's is a video game he only kind of enjoyed.
Watch the movie here. Next week's episode is about "The Rocketeer," which you can watch over on Disney+.
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Corbin, Matt, and SPECIAL GUEST MATEA (Check out her ROBUST Letterboxd here) talk about CRUEL INTENTIONS, a truly wild erotic thriller/black comedy from the precise moment when the Americans were most sick and tired of their own bullshit. Topics include a lengthy diatribe about Clinton and Bush, the gauzy-TV look of the movie, and the movie's depiction of Step-sisters as well as the culture's.
Check out a cool intertextual essay about the movie here.
Matt reccomends the podcast "Fall of Civilizations." Corbin reccomends Pauline Kael aggregregator accounts. Matea reccomends a book by the 40 Laws of Power guy, but she swears you shouldn't take advice from it.
When I said Hunter Thompson is hard to read, I didn't mean as literature, just that it's kind of tedious.
Next week's episode is about "LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF" which you can watch here.
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Big Corbs and the El Train talk about "All That Heaven Allows," Douglas Sirk's MASTERFUL melodrama about conformity, love, and how your daughter likes Freud too much. Topics: Digital Restoration: Not Actually That Bad, justice for the daughter, television, and the relationship between beaknikism and nostalgia.
Good essay about the movie here.
Matt's reccomendation is in theaters. Corbin's is Tetris, I guess? Next week's episode is about CRUEL INTENTIONS, which you can watch on FreeVee with ads, which is, in truth, the best way to watch it.
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Corbin and Ellis talk about NORTH BY NORTHWEST, a movie about Cary Grant, world class charmer, getting chased around America by a faint idea about the Cold War. Topics: Grant, who is charming and handsome, the movie as a of proto-action thriller and how it succeeds and doesn't in that capacity, and style Hitch vs. Neurosis Hitch.
Matt's reccomendation may or may not be in theaters. Corbin reccomends the Portland Pickles Baseball Club in Portland's beautiful Lents Neightborhood.
Our next episode is about Douglas Sirk's "All that Heaven Allows." It's not streming anywhere for free at the moment but I'm sure you can shell out a few bucks on iTunes or your local DVD rentery to check it out.
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Ellis and Corbin talk about "THE RULES OF THE GAME," and are kind of bowled over by how much there is in it. Topics include: farce in collapse, the movie's technical achivements, and how it functions as a frustrated, bordering on nihlistic flipside to Renoir's other prewar masterpiece.
Corbin reccomends "Link's Awakening," available on your Nintendo Switch or your Nintendo Game Boy. Matt reccomends a bar in Portland. Next week's episode is NOT about 'All that Jazz,' because it was hard to find on the internet and Matt got annoyed while watching it. Instead we talked about Alfie Hitchie's "NORTH BY NORTHWEST," which you can watch on Tubi.
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Matt and Corbin talk about THE ROARING TWENTIES, a remarkably sedate gangster picture featuring the talents of JAMES CAGNEY, America's mean lad. Topics include: a weirdly progressive view on the twenties, Bogey, and Matt's band.
Matt reccomends this song. Corbin reccomends the act of zoning out in front of Mario Kart. Next week's episode is about "The Rules of the Game," a very famous movie. Watch it on Criterion or Kanopy.
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Ellis and Smith discuss 'Another Round,' Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's tribute to the wonder and dangers of both booze and male friendship. We discuss the little liberation of .05, the modern condition vs the human condition, and MADS.
Ellis reccomends 'The Roaring Twenties,' which talk about on next week's episode. Watch it here. Corbin reccomends 'Doppelganger,' a book by Naomi Klein, available at your local library.
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Ellis and Corbin talk about "GOOD MORNING," Ozu's little fable about two brave little boys and their quest to acquire the most forbidden of all fruits... a television. It's also about adults running their mouths.
Matt and Corbin both reccomended books. Corbin also reccomends "Hit Man," the new Richard Linklatter movie, which you can watch on Netflix (Ugh). Next week's episode is about Frank Capra's 'Lost Horizon,' which you can watch on the Internet Archive.
Ellis send my this with the file: 'Song at the end, if you want to put it into notes, is "Go Mad and Mark" off of Envy's A Dead Sinking Story. I think you should put it in the notes its one of my favorite albums of all time and I will admit I put it on this episode because they are from Japan lmao.'
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Folks it's time to say "Symptomatic," because we're watching SHANE! Topics include: why is this movie basically Heaven's Gate, the weird glimpse of Hollywood's narrative future it provides, and just how guilt a violent person needs to feel to experience some degree of redemtpion in the eyes of the audience. Warning: Corbin sounds a little weird
Watch Corbin's reccomendation here. Matt reccomended shirts. Next episode is about "GOOD MORNING," which you can watch here.
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Hey! Me and Matt had a little scheduling SNAFU this week so we are releasing and episode we recorded a while back, just in case we got off schedule. It's about "Werckmeister Harmonies," a movie by Bela Tarr, Mr. Turin Horse Himself.
Watch Corbin's reccomendation here, if you dare. Matt's can be listened to here.
Next week's episode has been AUDIBLED. We are doing "SHANE," the western classic by George Stevens. It's on Paramount Plus and Pluto.
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Corbin and Matt, two male American movie enthusiasts, watched a Martin Scorsese movie, so you KNOW they're juiced. Topics include: what in the movie ACTAULLY a little blasphemous, the ongoing translations of Judas in these movies, David Bowie's Stoic Pilate, and Peter Gabriel.
Corbin's reccomendation can be acquired here. Matt's is here. Next week's episode is about TOUCH OF ZEN, which can be seen here.
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Corbin and Matt talk about THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT MATTHEW, Marxist Neorealist Pier Paolo Pasolini's pretty straight on take on the book of Matthew. Topics: Where's Mary Magdeline?, a political Jesus, yet another disappointing crucifixion, and the temptation to find some sense in Judas.
Check out a good essay on the move here. Corbin's reccomendation can be seen on Mubi, if you're that kind of sicko. He also reccomends a movie that is presently in theaters. Acquire Matt's reccomendation here.
Next week: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST! Watch it here!
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This week, Corbin and Ellis talk about THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, a lengthy epic about Jesus from right before New Hollywood started. Topics: Max Von Sydow, John Wayne, Political Jesus, and Nikolai Jokic.
Next week (By this I mean in the next few days, on account of this episode's lateness) we are talking about THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT MATTHEW, a neorealist take on the story of Jesus, which you can watch here. Also coming up: The Last Temptation of Christ.
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In this, the first episode of TPNWICMFP's first ever JESUS MONTH, Corbin and Matt discuss "KING OF KINGS," a silent picture (With color segments!) from the father of the film epic, CECIL B. DEMILLE. Topics include: why we aren't we doing one specific movie, DeMille's odd theater aesthetic, the scenes that work (The Ressurection!), the scenes that don't (The Crucifixion), and the question of sin-ema trying to navigate the world of values.
Watch King of Kings here. Corbin's reccomendation can be seen here. Matt's can be imbibed here. Next week's episode is about 'THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD,' a different, later take on the Gospels. Watch it here. Corbin is just at this moment learning it is more than three hours long, so, should be fun.
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