761 - Valerie and Her Week of Wonders (1970)
A historical-psycho-erotic surrealist film exploring themes of womanhood, Christianity, and Freudian-infused takedowns of family and cultural identity...
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Each week Mike (an independent filmmaker) and Charlie (a professor of art history) have Randy (the random number generator) select a film for them to watch from the Criterion Collection. Then they discuss and review it for your listening pleasure. It’s a podcast about the love of film, expanding horizons, painstakingly cataloging the duration of every long take, and friendship.
202 - Indiscretion of an American Wife (1953) and Terminal Station (1953)
This movie has some killer credits: Jennifer Jones and Montgomery Clift star in a Vittorio de Sica directed, David Selznick produced, Christian Dior c...
779 - Mulholland Drive (2001)
It’s always a special, if troubling, time on this podcast when another David Lynch film is randomly selected. And this week we have his hotly-debated...
LD141- Carrie (1976)
Look: will we talk about the use of split screen? Of course we will. Will we talk about this early breakout supporting role for John Travolta? Yep....
857 - Before Sunrise (1995)
This week we revel in the lo-octane ease of 90’s independent filmmaking with Richard Linklater’s love letter to love and travel, and discussions about...
811 - The Naked Island (1960)
Sorry this episode is posting a little late this week, but we wanted to add a little extra no-dialogue silence to our discussion of Kaneto Shindo’s si...
906 - The Lure (2015)
This is a movie that sells itself. Director Agnieszka Smoczyńska‘s musical is about flesh-eating mermaids working in a sleazy cabaret/strip club in 1...
204 - The Marriage of Maria Braun (1978)
It’s first episode for one of our theme song directors! And one of your hosts went a little overboard getting up to speed with the works of Rainer We...
LD08 - Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
Boy oh boy, we really crack the nut of red scare allegories this time! Or we don’t. Hard to say which. But we have a great time talking about rural ...
46 - The Most Dangerous Game (1932)
The word “game” has two meanings. So that means that the title of director Ernest B. Schoedsack’s The Most Dangerous Game can also mean…wait…oh no…oh...