"Happy-Go-Lucky" (2008, Dir: Mike Leigh)
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Release Date: 10/03/2025
"RAN" (1985, Dir: Akira Kurosawa)
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The master is here folks and this time he wields the themes and some of the particulars of WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE'S great work KING LEAR in service of a hypnotic nightmare about the horrors of war. It whips! We talk about that, about Kurosawa as a supremely 'Cinematic' figure trying on a 'Theatatrical' think in this movie, Lear as an eternal political fable, some of the hot shit sequences in here, and other stuff. this is a weird way to deal with this bit theres a lot of interesting academic writing about RAN out there, in shakespeare journals and filmic ones. . Check out the show on...
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'The Secret Agent' (2025, Dir: Kleber Mendonça Filho) w/ Ryder C.
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Ryder C. joins Matt and Corbs to discuss "The Secret Agent," a drama film that uses the rythyms of historical research to tell a story about a man getting suqeezed by the military dictatorship in 1970's Brazil. It's a cool movie, scope it out. . Ryder's rec sounds cool but is hard to find on streaming. Perhaps you can take a journey and find it. Corbin reccomends a movie currently in theaters. Check out the show on . . Our next episode is about RAN. .
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"The Turin Horse" (Dir: Béla Tarr, 2011)
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This week, Béla Tarr, a Hungarian art film director of note, passed away at the age of 70. Tarr's stark, highly idiosyncratic dramas about the dread in the heart of every man are favorites of Matt Ellis and many other philosphically inclined, hard thinking movie fans the world over. 'The Turin Horse,' Tarr's last film, released in 2011, tells a story so small you can drown it in a bathtub: A farmer and his daughter and their horse live a brutally meger lifetyle in a small farmhouse while the world around them devolves into... something? That's it, that's all he needs, folks. Art! . ....
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"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!
info_outlineIn 2008 Mike Leigh made a movie about a genuinely nice lady coming into contact with a lonely right wing maniac. Sooner or later it became the model for how society was structured. Let's talk about it! Topics include: Sally Hawkings, clubbing, British repression, Mike Leigh in particular, and other stuff.
Matt recc. Corbin recc's a music artist. Next week's episode is about The Tragedy of Man. I have no idea how I'm going to watch this thing though.