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Jay and Tim reconnect with Thomas Torrey about his film Long December, new to streaming. We talk about the creative process, music and film, marathon running (well, Jay and Thomas), and how new projects come together when things fall apart.
Long December
Long December Instagram
Register for a Zoom watch party on December 15 with cast and crew!
Our first episode with Thomas about his movies (among other things)
Our episode with Thomas on Robert Machoian's The Killing of Two Lovers
Some of the films we mention in this episode: Long December, Fare, Minor Premise, OnceCome find us:
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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
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Tim and Jay talk about the new movie Heretic, true belief, and playing games with choice and control.
Some of the other movies we mention in this episode: Hard Truths, September 5, Small Things Like These, Saw, Nosferatu, and some others that I forgot about.Come find us:
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Jay and Tim talk with Travis Garcia, the co-director of the features programming team for the Newport Beach Film Festival, two weeks out from its 25th anniversary. We hit some of the films we've already seen, as well as some we're looking forward to. Come and join us, October 17-24!
The Newport Beach Film Festival
See the schedule and get tickets here.
Some of the films we mention in this episode: Whatever It Takes, Memoir of a Snail, Wake (short film), Thelma, Hard Truths, The Ghost/An Taibhse, I Can't Be Sorry (short film), Bob Trevino Likes It, Seed of the Sacred Fig, Small Things Like These, Blitz, Come and Save Me (music video), Calf (short film), The Last ShowgirlCome find us:
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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
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Jay and Tim talk about vocation, doing the right thing, how do you know what the right thing is, ambulances, and cigarettes...plus far too many outtakes
Some of the films we mention in this episode: The Insider, Bringing Out the Dead, Fight Club, and probably some others that Tim forgot to write downCome find us:
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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
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Tim gets echoey in his new house as he and Jay talk documentaries, history rhyming, and the life you make when you're trying to make something else.
Some of the films we mention in this episode: One Day in September, American Movie, Coven, Buena Vista Social Club, Who Took Johnny, Liberated, Abducted in Plain Sight, Love Me, Karl Marx City.Come find us:
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In this episode, Tim and Jay talk about two seemingly opposite films, the primarily French-language Beau Travail and the German-language Run, Lola, Run. But maybe the themes and questions aren't as far apart as we initially thought!
We discuss free will, choice, human nature, and a bit of slow cinema.
Some of the films we discuss in this episode are: Beau Travail; Run, Lola, Run; Silent Light, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, Uncut Gems, Good Time, The Butterfly Effect, Fight Club, High Life, Rosetta; Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.Come find us:
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In this episode, we get existential, philosophical, and humanistic with Boise-based filmmaker (and NBFF alum) Collin Insley. We work through the implications of Being John Malkovich and Charlie Kaufman's filmography for fame, identity, and what it means to be human. Also puppetry.
Collin's film Scam Likely is here.
Some of the films we mention in this episode: Burn After Reading, Magnolia, Being John Malkovich, Rounders, Con-Air, Beau is Afraid, Synechdoche, NY, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, and Anomalisa.Come find us:
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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
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Tim and Jay talk about two of the highest grossing movies of 1999: M. Night Shyamalan's first major hit, The Sixth Sense, and the beginning of the found-footage explosion, The Blair Witch Project. How do they play 25 years later? What do they tell us about our fears and traumas? What makes a genre film work, or not?
Some of the films we mention in this episode: The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Blair Witch Project, Cannibal Holocaust, Nosferatu.Come find us:
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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
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Tim and Jay talk about two defining movies of 1999: The Matrix and Fight Club. How do they hold up? Why do they hold up? Should Tim have kept his word to preach a sermon focused on The Matrix? Or was he just dumb (with sincere apologies to all college students who are not as dumb as he was)? Plus, some good feedback for our Magnolia episode.
Some of the movies we mention in this episode: The Matrix, Fight Club, Hackers, The Machinist.Come find us:
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Jay and Tim talk with Pr. Mark Pierson of St. Paul's Lutheran Church (Long Beach, CA) about the first in our 25th anniversary series of films from 1999. We talk about where we were in 1999, and then get into free will, chance, fate, God, confession, forgiveness, salvation...and frogs.
Some of the movies we mention in this episode are: Boogie Nights, Sidney/Hard Eight, There Will Be Blood, Fight Club, The Matrix.
Tim wrote something about Magnolia in 2017 for The Jagged Word.
The brief clip is from Aimee Mann's song "Save Me."Come find us:
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Obviously we haven't seen all of the Oscar-nominated films. Who do you think we are? But we have fun talking about the ones we have seen.
96th Academy Awards air on Sunday, March 10, at 4 pm (Pacific).
Some of the films we mention in this episode: Oppenheimer, Poor Things, American Fiction, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Parasite, The Zone of Interest, Barbie, Perfect Days, Society of the Snow, Maestro, Past Lives, Anatomy of a Fall, Four Daughters, To Kill a Tiger, The Eternal Memory, The After, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Godzilla Minus One, Mission:Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part 1, May December, Rustin, El Conde, The Boy and the Heron, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.Come find us:
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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
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First episode of 2024, we talk about our favorites of 2023. These might be our most divergent best-of lists so far. Is your favorite on our lists? Are our favorites on your list? Let us know!
Some of the films we mention in this episode: Past Lives, Beau is Afraid, Anatomy of a Fall, Sisu, John Wick 4, Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1, Oppenheimer, Poor Things, Infinity Pool, American Fiction, Wildcat, Dune 2, The Zone of Interest, The Holdovers, The Iron Claw, Afire, Asteroid City, The Boy and the Heron, Killers of the Flower Moon, Godzilla Minus One, Monster, Tori and Lokita, Talk to Me, The Boys in the Boat, Maestro, Society of the Snow.Come find us:
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In only our second-ever joint episode, we spend some time with Philip Marinello of The Substance discussing whether movies are serious or frivolous. Are they just entertainment or something more significant? How seriously should we take them? Then we each offer up our own frivolous and serious picks. Enjoy!
The Substance
Special thank you to Dave Hallahan of The Gospel According To... podcast for editing this episode!
Some of the movies we mention in this episode: Dumb and Dumber, Jackass Forever, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Spotlight, After Yang, Columbus, Calvary, A Hidden Life, Silence, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Boondock Saints, The Rock, The Evil Dead.Come find us:
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On the last day of the 2023 Newport Beach Film Festival, we finally catch up with Phillip Yaw Domfeh, NBFF alum, filmmaker, producer, and Senior Manager of Disney's Launchpad short film incubator. We talk about all sorts of things, from music, to his films, including Cary in Retrograde (which he made with his wife, Priya), to the films he's working on now for Disney's Lanchpad, to religion and what he's learned about faith.
For this episode, Phillip graciously allowed us to use part of his song from Cary in Retrograde, "Give Up the Ghost," which you can purchase here, or wherever you get digital music.
Phillip and Priya's production company, Cosmic Otter Productions
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Jay and Tim preview their favorite week of the year, the Newport Beach Film Festival. We talk film festival programming, feature films, short films, what we've seen, and what we're looking forward to watching.
See the schedule and get tickets here: NEWPORT BEACH FILM FEST
(Use the code URSpecialNBFF for $5 off a ticket!)
Some of the feature films we mention in this episode: Monster, Vincent Must Die, Exposure, Crawdaddy, American Star, The Michoacan File, Gentleman, Remembering Gene Wilder, William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill, Nyad, Fingernails, Susan Feniger: Forked, The First Day of My Life, Without Her, The Holdovers, May December, High Class.
Some of the short films we mention in this episode: Astor Place: The American Dream, David Se Va, Cherubs, Eat Flowers, Dark Moon, The Ruse, Blood, The Chosen One, English Tutor, #followme, Detox, The Stranger, Baseball Behind Barbed Wire, music videos by The National, Zach Bryan, shame, Sparks.Come find us:
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In this episode Tim and Jay talk about The Equalizer 3 and what's going on with some of the symbolism and religious references in the movie. Then we talk about other action franchises, and what sets some apart from others.
Some of the films and franchises we mention in this episode: The Equalizer, John Wick, James Bond, Jason Bourne, Mission: Impossible, Taken, Nobody, Transformers, Jurassic Park, The Transporter.
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Jay and Tim talk about Christopher Nolan's latest, and where it fits among our favorite Nolan films.
Some of the films we mention in this episode: Barbie, Oppenheimer, The Dark Knight, Memento, The Day after Trinity, Paper City, The Prestige, The Dark Knight Rises, Tenet, Dunkirk, Following, Inception, Interstellar.
Wendell Berry's essay, "The Way of Ignorance" (2004), from this book (or here).Come find us:
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In our 60th episode, we talk with Josh Larsen of Think Christian and the Filmspotting podcast about his new book Fear Not! A Christian Appreciation of Horror Movies.
We talk about what Christians can learn from horror movies about themselves and about the world, and then we give our top 3 horror films.
Fear Not!
Movies are Prayers
Think Christian
Filmspotting
Brehm Film at Fuller Theological Seminary
Some of the films we mention in this episode: A Nightmare on Elm Street, Funny Games, V/H/S, The Exorcist, The Blair Witch Project, Jaws, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Vampyr, Train to Busan, Psycho, Rear Window, The Birds, Them (Ils), The Host, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Cache, The Exorcism of Emily Rose, Us.Come find us:
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Jay and Tim talk to cinematographer (and fellow Lutheran) Ryan Spacone about Jesus Revolution, Christian movies, cinematography, and how Lutherans understand vocation with respect to film. What does a cinematographer do? How does Ryan choose the jobs on which he's going to work? What makes a film "Christian," and is Jesus Revolution that? What would make a good Christian film? We talked about all that and more.
Some of the films (and series) we mentioned in this episode: Jesus Revolution, God's Not Dead, Lawrence of Arabia, National Treasure, The Chosen, Fare (although Tim didn't actually say the name of it).
Check out Ryan's work here.
Tim wrote something about Jesus Revolution here.
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We're not going to lie; the episode gets a little weird. But so is the movie. Tim and Jay talk Beau Is Afraid, the new neurotic nightmare from Ari Aster.
There are spoilers. See the movie first. Do not read anything about it before you go!
Some other movies we mention in this episode: MidsomMAR, Hereditary, You Were Never Really Here (sort of; we couldn't remember the correct title), Kandahar and The Covenant (or did I just dream that we mentioned those?); Forrest GumpCome find us:
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