THE BRUTALIST (2024, Dir: Brady Corbett) (w/ Ryder Canepa)
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Release Date: 02/01/2025
"The Mastermind" (2025, Dir: Kelly Reichardt)/Top Fives of 2025
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A Great American Film Artist made a movie about a liar trying to power through his banal midcentruy existence by grifting. It's not Marty Supreme, though, it's "The Mastermind" by Kelly Reichardt! We talk about it! Listen to KR on the Check out the show on . . Our next episode will be about, uhh... how about Escape from New York? We've never done Carpenter before. .
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"Hail Mary" (1985, Dir: Jean-Luc Godard)
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Merry Christmas. In the mid-80's, Godard made a fascinating high art movie about the Virgin Mary and the Christmas story. It made some people extremely angry. Should they have been angry? We discuss. . . . Matt's rec is life management based. Next episode is about THE MASTERMIND. , a service Corbin does not have access to. Hope he figures that out!
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"Racetrack" (1985, Dir: Frederick Wiseman)
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Frederick Wiseman made a movie about a horse racing track in New York State. That's all it is. But then what? We discuss. . Interview with . You can also find hundreds of other interviews with him. He's very smart. . . Check out the show on . . Our next episode is our Christmas Special, where we will be discussing "Hail Mary." .
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"Earth" (1930, Dir: Alexander Dovzhenko)
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Corbin plays a flu game for "Earth," early Soviet filmmaker Alexander Dovzhenko's weird mashup of Soviet Propoganda and Art Film. Topics include: Soviet Cinema: what's up with that, Lenin's role in constructing the industry, Ukraine, and the question of the spiritual in Soviet soceity. . . Corbin accidently skipped Matt's rec rushing out of the episode. He apoligizes. Check out the show on . . ! Our next episode about about .
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"Nouvelle Vague" (2025, Dir: Richard Linklater)
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Why did a great American director who doesn't speak French make a movie about one of the most famous French movies of all time? What was the French new wave all about? Why does Zoey Deutch resemble Jean Seberg as deeply as she does? Why didn't Corbin remeber Hit Man when talking about Linklater and Netflix? How is Michael Bay involved in all this? Why doesn't anyone do this kind of thing anymore? IT'S NOUVELLE VAGUE FOLKS! . (Corbin also recommends ). Matt recommends The Museum. Next episode is about EARTH. .
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THE DARK CRYSTAL (1982, Dir: Jim Henson and Frank Oz)
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'The Dark Crystal' is a monument to craft, a movie made entirely with puppets, primative robots, strings, fog machines, lighting rigs, and spit. A true monument to analog filmmaking. But is it any good? We discuss. . . Corbin apoligizes for rambling about rap lists like a weirdo at the end of this episode. Check out the show on . . ! Our next episode is about Nouvelle Vague, .
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"Eddington" (2025, Dir: Ari Aster) w/ John Wilmes
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Earlier this year Ari Aster released a movie About Now that some people liked and some people didn't like. Corbin and Matt and friend of the program John Wilmes DID like it and we get into it! Feelings! Politics! Money! The whole gang is here, folks! Corbin . Wilmes . Check out the show on . . ! Out next episode is about THE DARK CRYSTAL, and probably somewhere else but cmon man give it up for tubi! They got all the Looney Tunes over there!
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"Cobra Verde" (1987, Dir: Werner Herzog) w/ Ryder Canepa
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Werner Herzog deals in ecstatic truths. But are they truthful enough to deal with the brutal legacy of slavery and colonialism? We discuss COBRA VERDE, Herzog's last collaboration with Klaus Kinski, a movie about the slave trade and the little freaks who kept it running. Topics include: producing a shot with thousands of extras, Herzog and history, and, weirdly, Michael Haneke. , who are doing a right now. that was interesting that I dont necessarily 100% agree with. . Corbin's rec is in a weird release vortex right now but you'll be able to see it soon. Ryder recommends a food. Our...
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"Metallica: Some Kind of Monster" (2004, Dir: Joe Berlinger Bruce Sinofsky)
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Since we started this show we've known that, someday, we would sit down to talk about Metallica: Some Kind of Monster, a movie about Metallica, and the world, going to therapy for the first time. Topics include: popular music, thrash, the 80's, drinking, how exactly you make a heavy metal record, the way computers absolutely annihilated the music business in a way that predicted the future annihilations we are currently living through, the advent of a new perspective on therapy and the emergence of therapy-speak, even among the world's biggest violence-celebrating band. excerpted music...
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"The Shrouds" (2025, Dir: David Cronenberg) w/ Nathan Lee
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Happy Halloween! To celebrate spooky season, Corbin and Matt are joined by NATHAN LEE, a film academic and critic whose work has appeared in The New York Times, Film Comment, The Village Voice, and NPR, among others, to discuss THE SHROUDS, David Cronenberg's movie about the SPOOKIEST topics of all... Grieving and Technology and Anxiety and Conspiracy. SpoooOOOoooOOOoooOOOky! . Corbin's rec is in theaters right now. . . Our next episode is about METALLICA: SOME KIND OF MONSTER, and it should come out earlier next week to make up for the gap last week (Sorry, busy). But NEXT WEEK IN THE NORMAL...
info_outlineMatt and Ryder love The Brutalist! Corbin thinks it's fine. We talk about it! Topics: codings in the text, the question of a broad anti-oppression reading vs. a zionist one, and the life of an artist, which sucks ass.
Corbin reccomends TWO MOVIES currently in theaters. Ryder reccomends "Different Trains" by Steve Reich. Matt reccomends "Blueprinting" by the Aizuri Quartet.
Next week's episode will be the beginning of a new series, DIGITAL FRONTIERS, a history of the early days of Digital Cinema. Our subject will be "The Celebration" by Thomas Vintenberg. Watch it here.