Sep 27, 2021
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. Will we talk about how these and more contribute to the manner of director Brian de Palma? You bet. But mostly Mike and I have been desperate to talk about Stephen...
Sep 20, 2021
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 love and travel. Julie Delpy and Ethan Hawke 90’s it up even more in a single evening long meet-cute set in Vienna, killing time until their departure in the...
Sep 14, 2021
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 similarly dialogue-free year-in-the-life of a family struggling to farm on a small isolated island. It’s a quiet film, to be sure, but full of nuance, rich humanity,...
Sep 6, 2021
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 1980s Poland. That deranged mash-up of a premise provokes just as varied of a series of responses: thrilling, unsettling, sexy, repulsive, funny, and despairing. With a...