Babette's Feast (1987)
Jules: Do we deceive ourselves when we attempt to distinguish the sacred from the carnal? A small film made in a small village in a small (for Scandin...
Overlooked Pictures
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The real-time, film commentary podcast about films (or film aspects) that may have been overlooked. This podcast is intended to be played alongside the film in question, as you watch.
Only Lovers Left Alive (2013)
David: The perenniality of the vampire genre derives from its capacity for reinvention. Its form mimics its content in similar fashion to the zombie g...
Last Year at Marienbad (1961)
Jules: Alain Resnais' and Alain Robbe-Grillet's L'année dernière à Marienbad has astonished viewers for six decades and counting. Who, or what, are ‘A...
The Hill (1965)
David: When a military prison devoted to regimentation, correction and the rebuilding of wayward units fails to manage its own, the hierarchy of power...
Byzantium (2012)
Jules: Is it possible to make a film about vampires that is not a vampire film? The genre is perennial, with familiar tropes that filmmakers endlessly...
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968)
David: A black satire perhaps running overlong with other ideas. It presages a spate of dark, disillusioned and memorably bleak films from the followi...
Spirits of the Dead - Toby Dammit (1968)
Jules: Many films depict deals with the Devil at the time the deal is done. Fewer - like Fellini's contribution to this anthology - depict the Devil a...
Spirits of the Dead - William Wilson (1968)
Part Two of the Vadim-Malle-Fellini moral ménage à trois. David: Does the shadow have its own shadow? Does a remorseless psychopath have a suppressed ...
Spirits of the Dead - Metzengerstein (1968)
Part one of a 3-in-1 Poe anthology, baton passed between directors Vadim, Malle and Fellini. Jules: Are soulmates real, even if one or more of the par...
Matriculated (2003)
Jules: Whether or not machines can, should, or will become self-aware are perennial debates in the field of artificial intelligence. They are perfectl...