1186 - The Tall T (1957)
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That Pat Brennan… what a man! Come listen to us face an ethical quandary when we stumble upon a real treasure of a western, that is still undeniably a 1950s western. What am I talking about? Let’s just say that it can be summed up in two words: Henry Silva. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Seijun Suzuki’s Youth of the Beast (1963).
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1264 - The Wiz (1978)
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The more you learn about this movie, the more clear it becomes that what you’d think to be the good parts are the bad parts, and that the bad parts are really the good parts. Making movies is hard. Sidney Lumet directs a visually stunning reimagining of the Wizard of Oz and then some other stuff is in it too. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Budd Boetticher‘s The Tall T (1957).
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741 - My Winnipeg (2007)
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We know y’all are some nasty freaks out there who have been waiting a long time for this one to drop. Guy Madden comes back with an irreverently cinematic fake/real/fake documentary about his home town of Winnipeg. It’s black and white, it’s out of focus, the cuts are fast and many. It’s psycho-sexual. It’s arty AF. Is he going to vignette any shots? Uh, yeah. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film,...
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19 - Shock Corridor (1963)
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Samuel Fuller turns a critical eye on the state of mental health treatment in the United States to, uh… well, not really. Mostly he just uses a stage theater’s idea of a mental hospital as a narrative device for exploring three major American anxieties in the 1960s. Want to complain about nukes? Have a patient do a one-man show for a while about how we went insane after building them. And you know what, that’s the tame one of the three. For a B-movie about a reporter going undercover in a mental ward to solve a murder, things get wild. *Come support the...
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752 - Vernon, Florida (1981)
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Documentarian of the ages Errol Morris turns his gentle eye toward the old fellers of a small town in Florida and just sort of lets them do their thing. Talking about gobblers, wigglers, growing sand, ambidexterity, fake (or maybe real) jewels, seeing the perfection of God in nature, and the magical definition of the word “therefore.” *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Samuel...
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LD99 - Burn! (1969)
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Gillo Pontecorvo directs a cast of unknowns in his big swing on the historical action/drama about a British agent sent to use all of his cynical wile to foment a slave revolt on Portuguese colony island. Keep careful eye out for a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it cameo by Marlon Brando at his understated best. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Errol Morris’ Vernon, Florida (1981).
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498 - Paisan - War Trilogy (1946)
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Roberto Rossellini travels length of the Italian peninsula in the immediate aftermath of WWII to share 6 stories about the lives of Italian civilians and partisans and their relationships with foreign Allied troops. Love, tragedy, heroism, and sacrifice result from the difficulties of communicating purpose and need of individuals confronted with the inhumane machine of war. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be...
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469 - The Hit (1984)
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What does it mean to die? What does it mean to truly live… on a road trip across Spain with Terence Stamp, John Hurt, and Tim Roth in a giant white Mercedes Benz? Director Stephen Frears grabbles with these enduring questions in his sun-soaked take-down of the neo noir. Ten Years after snitching on his compatriots, a criminal in hiding is rousted from his dreamy Spanish village life by two hit men sent to exact retribution. But he seems oddly cool about it all. What gives? *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at...
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1048 - Dos Monjes (1934)
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One, two monks kneel before you That’s what I said now Monks, monks who adore you Just go ahead now One has diamonds in his pockets And that’s some bread now This one says he has tuberculosis It’s in his lungs now… Juan Bustillo Oro takes us on a Rashomon-esque journey into nightmarish memory in this 1930s Mexican classic. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Stephen Frears’ The Hit...
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326 - Metropolitan (1990)
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Finally, a movie comes along with the guts to ask the question: can you be a Fourierist AND a Vebleninian at the same time? Explore this question and more at the Manhattan debutante ball season after parties of Whit Stillman’s career defining entrée about class, love, and pretentious discussion topics. *Come support the podcast and get yourself or someone you love a random gift at our . T-shirts, hoodies, mugs, stickers, and more! If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Juan Bustillo Oro’s Dos Monjes (1934).
info_outlineOur odd run of road movies continues with a classic from an American master. Terrence Mallick turns the couple-on-a-crime-spree sub genre into a deadpan fairy-tale with stirring visuals, iconic performances, and a meditative tone.
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If you’d like to watch ahead for next week’s film, we will be discussing and reviewing Lizzie Borden's Born in Flames (1983).