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Aug 28, 2023

Our first Cannon Group movie!!  And it’s the sequel to Godfrey Reggio’s 1983 art house documentary that cuts artfully shot footage to the pace of a rhythmic Philip Glass score.  But Chuck Norris or Charles Bronson are still going to show up at some point, right?  Right?!?

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Aug 21, 2023

The romantic misadventures of the continental European upper class of the nineteenth century?  Making use of expertly-machined narrative devices that play with pattern, coincidence, and repetition? Sounds to me like director Max Ophüls has gone and made another movie.  A pair of diamond earrings are sold to discreetly...


Aug 14, 2023

This week we are re-joined by filmmaker Scott Sawitz (Save State) to discuss Jean-Pierre Melville’s beautifully bleak WWII French resistance film.  Are we going to get a film drenched in that Melville cool or and old-man-war-movie?  Maybe both? 

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Aug 7, 2023

Is it bad because it’s a theatrical follow-up to a television phenomenon that famously went of the rails, or does David Lynch’s prequel somehow manage to get everything back on track.  Opinions are divided.  We’re joined this week by Vincent and Craig of the Twin Peaks: Evangelion podcast to solve this debate once...