Sep 26, 2022
Content Warning: If you know, you know. Because this is Funny Games. A movie celebrated and criticized for its brutal and emotionally devastating depiction of violence, mental and physical torture, murder, and emotional distress. We discuss these features directly in this episode and consequently not all listeners...
Sep 19, 2022
It turns out that while Mike knows EXACTLY what happed to the girls who disappeared on a school trip in Victoria on Valentine’s Day 1900, Charlie really doesn’t. Director Peter Weir’s period-set mystery explores the unknowable horror of gloves and corsets within the restrictive confines of the...
Sep 12, 2022
It’s weird to think of a film in the Criterion collection that took twelve years to make that doesn’t involve production delays. I mean, who does Richard Linklater think he is? Some sort of anti-Gilliam: casting children with the intent that they will literally mature into their roles, smoothly wrangling a...
Sep 5, 2022
Who would have thought that 23 years later we’d be having a conversation about how a Jim Jarmusch film starring Forest Whitaker as a samurai hitman for the mafia actually… holds up? Luckily we are joined by artist Alexandra Mavrikis to help us make sense of this puzzling realization.
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