20 - A Man and A Woman (1966)
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Tim and Ben really shake up the format this week and talk about a pleasant movie with a happy ending, Claude Lelouch's dreamy 1966 romance "A Man and A Woman". We get into the fly by night production, debate the possible themes in the cornucopia of film stocks, Ben loses it over talented women acting with their faces and Tim offers some valid criticism to go with Ben's gushing. Also discussed: Michael Clayton, John Wick 4, Constantine, Dune pt 1, Minority Report plus another Crimson Desert check-in. The Spring of Love continues next week about movie that is going to make you feel BAD,...
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19 - Solaris (1972/2002)
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The boys kick off The Spring of Love proper with a beefy double feature of Andrei Tarkovsky's arthouse sci-fi tale of love and loss along with the confusing but interesting remake by our boy Soderbergh. We talk about Tarkovsky's beef with Kubrick and 2001, filmmaking in the USSR and how not very different it was from the West, explore the depths of hatred author Stanisław Lem had for both adapations and marvel about how Hollywood got together to make sure George Clooney's nude ass could appear in a PG-13 rated movie. Also discussed: Bad Day at Black Rock, Apocalypto, Ad Astra, Intersteller,...
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18 - The Wrestler (2008)
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With Tim in Ireland Ben enlists a tag team of special guests, returning champ Nick (Nyid07) and Jeremy (jmball321) to talk Darren Aronofsky's 2008 masterpiece "The Wrestler". We get into the coolness of pro wrestling, the world that the movie captures in downright uncanny detail, Aronofsky as the dumb guy GOAT, suggest Necro Butcher matches to watch on YouTube and of course we remember so many guys. Also discussed: Stone Cold, The Truman Show, Project Hail Mary, The Alabama Solution, Den of Thieves, Killers of the Flower Moon and the work of Jean Claude Van Dam along with so much more. The...
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17 - Army of Shadows (1969)
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The boys are back with another episode before Tim left in the first place. This week we are talking one of the coolest to ever do it, Jean-Pierre Melville and his brutally personal mangum opus "Army of Shadows". We dive into another tortured production, talk about the near semi-autobiographical nature of the French Resistance capering, how Le Wokeism kept this movie from most of the world for over 40 years and talk about why every director you think has made cool movies since the 70s probably was influenced by Melville to some extent. Also discussed: Brawl in Cell Block 99, Sometimes I Think...
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Rerun - The Counselor (2013)
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With Tim in Ireland we are back this week with an episode from the old show where we dig into Ridley Scott and Cormac McCarthy's utterly insane 2013 film "The Counselor". Everyone knows this movie sucks but this podcast presupposes that notion.... maybe it's actually awesome? We will return with a new episode next week, the schedule for April will be: Army of Shadows (Melville, 1969) The Wrestler (Aronofsky, 2008) Solaris (Tarkovsky/Soderbergh, 1972/2002) A Man and a Woman (Lelouch, 1966) Thanks to Disco for the show art and to Eric for the theme music. Letterboxed: DeadFormatPod BlueSky:...
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16 - Night Moves (2014)
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Tim and Ben are back with Kelly Reichardt's masterfully tense and morally thorny terrorism thriller "Night Moves". Ben argues for her status as one of our most underrated working filmmakers and offers plenty of comparison to 2025's "Mastermind". Together we get into the fantastic Acting on display, the insane tension it builds, how it compares to How To Blow Up a Pipeline and how you can't outrun the consequences of your actions. Also discussed: In the Loop, Undertone (spoilers, like you care), 2001: A Space Odyssey, War Machine plus we preview the Oscars which have already happened and I...
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15 - Fatal Deviation (1998)
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Tim and Ben are back and have reached the logical end point crap auterism, Ireland's first kung-fu crime thriller "Fatal Deviation". We talk about movie fighting, how this feels legitimately dangerous to watch in places, jam to the rock group Boy Zone, speculate as to what Irish karate might look like and get into all the things you take for granted when you watch a movie that is made by professionals. Also discussed: Hundreds of Beavers, C'était un rendez-vous, Speed Racer and somehow Marathon vs ARC Raiders. All that plus Tim reviews Akira Yamaoka live in concert! We will be back next week...
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14 - Observe & Report (2009)
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The boys wrap up the Winter of Torture with the first big studio comedy we have done and sorry, it's a Ben pick so it's still super nasty and unpleasent! We dive into Jody Hill's blacker than black 2009 mall cop comedy "Observe & Report" and talk about how this movie should have been the end of Jody Hill's career, how the complete opposite ended up happening and marvel at how ahead of it's time this movie is in showing a dangerous, mentally ill man trying to become a cop to live out a violent power fantasy and isn't that just 2026 America? All that, plus we examine what it means to have a...
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13 - Dogville (2003)
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Tim and Ben go absurdly deep into Lars Von Trier's 2003 black box theater psycological horror small town drama "Dogville". We talk about what the hell this movie actually is, the murder's row cast and what this movie actually says about Our Present Moment as the Winter of Torture climaxes. Plus, Tim kinda defends the infamous sequel "Manderlay" from Ben's weed addled memory. Also discussed: The Atomic Cafe, so many vampire movies, another Red Dead Redemption 2 check-in PLUS Ben remembers Fredrick Wiseman. We will be back next week to complete Ben's trilogy of movies with relevance to 2026...
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12 - Us (2019)
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Ben and Tim are back talking Jordan Peele's 2019 home invasion, horror movie "Us". Ben gets really confused about why this movie exists and Tim provides some analysis that kinda helps even things out. Not crap auterism per se but a baffling movie all the same. Also discussed: Citizen Kane, Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Underworld: Evolution, Lost in America, Death Rider: In the House of the Vampire. We will be back next week going deep on Lars Von Trier's 2003 black box Dust Bowl nightmare "Dogville" as the winter of torture continues apace. Thanks to Disco for the show art and Eric for the...
info_outlineBen, Tim and Nick (NYid07) meet at the corner of Washington & Cherry to compare notes on David Fincher's 2007 serial killer newspaper procederual "Zodiac". Also discussed on the episode: Park Chan-Wook's "Oldboy", Pascal Plante's "Red Rooms" and The Kane & Lynch franchise of video games. Weekly episodes begin starting next Monday, 12/22 with Peter Strickland's psychosexual romance thriller "The Duke of Burgundy".
Thanks to Disco for the show art and Eric for the theme music!
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