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A Brief Intermission
Hi there, folks: We know that you’ve been absolutely clamoring for the next episode (shhh, just let us have this), and we’re eager to get it to you. But we learned a couple of days ago that our opening/closing credits are outdated (more even than we thought when we first found out), and so we’re…
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Reel 57: Wedding Blues
To quote from a certain Very Impressive Clergyman, “Mawage is wot bwings us togeder today.” Weddings are kind of weird. You get a lot of friends and family together, and it’s a multi-day thing leading up to a relatively small amount of time for the ceremony and subsequent reception. (It reminds me of the Super…
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Short Subject: Recent Changes at Turner Classic Movies
In this mini-episode recorded on June 27, Sean and Claude talk about the recent staffing changes over at Turner Classic Movies and the impact it’s having on people, not only the viewers but the people who are so intimately involved with the medium, such as Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. Listen in, and worry along…
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Reel 56: Only Connect
See? Weren’t you promised an episode with this title a while back? We do the fan service pretty well, methinks. (Also, I don’t have an especially good reason for it, but I kind of like the artwork on this episode.) This time around, “Only Connect” is a rather ironic title, because the films we’re looking…
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Reel 55: Another Brick in the Berlin Wall
Or, “Sean Gives Me Hell For Writing Another T00-Clever Title.” Our tour Around the World in Twenty Films lands us in Germany this time around, and we begin with The Lives of Others, a 2006 drama which is set in Communist East Germany in (go figure) 1984. Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck wrote and makes his…
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Reel 54: Les Crimes Français
We continue our trip Around the World in Twenty Films with a stopover in France, and a look at a couple of crime dramas, told largely from the criminals’ point of view. In Part One we’re reviewing Jean-Luc Godard’s Breathless (À bout de souffle). This 1960 film stars Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Seberg. Belmondo is…
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