Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 Part 2: Transmissions, Shorts, and Ghosts
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We had so much to say about this year's Chattanooga Film Festival that we couldn't help but hit the record button again! Joe and Graham keep it rolling with a slew of shorts such as Roger is a Serial Killer, The Cost of Flesh, Giallo, Like Me, Apotemnofilia, and the BANANAS The Rainbow Bridge. And things get meta as we talk podcast representation in films during our features discussion which include Graham Skipper's The Lonely Man with the Ghost Machine, Video Visions, Falling Stars and Carnage for Christmas.
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Chattanooga Film Festival 2024 w/ Allison of Who's There?
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The smell of freshly popped popcorn, the clicking and spinning of projector wheels, oh it can only the summer camp for cinefiles, the Chattanooga Film Festival. This year we are joined by Allison of the Who's There? podcast to discuss some of our favorite things we saw such as Canvas, Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Adult, The Vourdalak and Red Rooms. And we certainly didn't forget about the wonderful slew of short films. Check it out!!
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Episode 47: Vanishing Point
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We're LIVE again at the Colonial Theatre where we are joined by filmmaker Ryan Hammaker to discuss 1971's Vanishing Point, a film championed as one of the greatest car movies ever made. Does it live up to its legendary status or does it crash and burn in a fiery smoldering wreck?
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Episode 46: Daisies
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This episode we are joined by Rachel and Ariel from The More Deadly Podcast to chat about Věra Chytilová's Daisies, a movie near and dear to Joe's chaotic heart. For maximum chaos, subjects include food fights, blacklists, feminsim in film, taking mushrooms and talking to the police, and surprise appearance from Ariel's cat! Check it out!!
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The 7th Annual Jim Thorpe Independent Film Festival (2024)
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Join us in the cozy little mountain town of Jim Torpe for The Seventh Annual Jim Thorpe Independent Film Festival as we regale the sights and sounds of one of Pennsylvania's BEST Film Festivals. We talk creepy Irish tales, locally shot tearjerkers, and finally find something tense enough that it forced Graham to flee the theater. JTIFF really does have something for everyone!
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Firsts of the Month: March 2024
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Instead of our socials with images of what we watched, we're sitting down to chat about some of our favorite (and least favorite) films that we watched in March of 2024. And of course we get wildly distracted along the way. So join us for our inaugural episode of Firsts of the Month!
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Off the Shelf: La Gammick aka The Mob
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Welcome to Off the Shelf, where we dive into the world of physical media. In our first episode, Joe and Graham look at Canadian International Pictures' release of The Mob (La gammick) (1975), a crime driven character study which is accompanied with the animated short film Hunger (1974) and a wonderfully Canadian mixtape of Quebec crime film trailers.
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Exposure Time: Ennio
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On this episode of Exposure Time, we preview the documentary, Ennio, a retrospective look at the work of master film composer, Ennio Morricone.......... sorry I got lost thinking of the sweeping beauty that is the theme to One Upon a Time in the West. Well, at this point, might as well save all of the gushing, flowery language, and superlatives for the episode. It's a good one.
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Episode 45: Human Lanterns (1982)
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Joe and Graham welcome their friend and FFS alumnus Caitlin Grant, host of Plug It Up podcast, on a deep dive into a sincere and heartwarming drama about the people who shine brightest in our lives and how they inspire us to our greatest potential... jk, it is straight-up about a dude who makes lanterns out of human flesh. What?
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Episode 44: The Last American Virgin (1982)
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In which Joe and Graham cleanse their palate from their recent exposure to Salo by way of the 1982 sex comedy The Last American Virgin. Was it the light-hearted nostalgia blanket the guys needed? Listen to find out. You know it'll bother you if you don't.
info_outlineJoe and Graham sit down to watch the 80's slasher Alone in the Dark, a movie with a wonderful cast and fortunately for all of us, not that piece of garbage from Uwe Boll.