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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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Reel 53: Only Disconnect
Sean and I individually thought for a long time about what a good title for this episode might be. We’d informally called it “Personalities,” but that was too bland. We kicked around “Mind F**ks” but we like being family-friendly, mostly. There were a few others, and as publication time approached, I was afraid we weren’t…
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Reel 52: South American Way
¡Hola, amigos! Welcome to Reel 52, wherein we take our tour Around the World in 20 films down to South America! In Part 1, we’re in an unnamed South American country that’s totally not Uruguay, in the 1972 film State of Siege, directed by Costa-Gavras. It’s a film where you (mostly) know the ending right…
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Reel 51: Alfonso Cuaron’s Mexico
It’s not going out on a limb to say that Alfonso Cuarón has directed a wide variety of films. From the sex comedy Sólo con tu pareja to the near-future Children of Men (which we discuss in Episode 11), to the pure fantasy of the third film in the Harry Potter series, to the films…
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Short Subject: Around the World in 20 Films
The next ten episodes are going to cover a variety of foreign films from all over the world. Sean went through a very meticulous process to curate this particular list, and in this mini-episode, we’re going to chat a little bit about what first got us interested in foreign films, and the criteria that he…
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Reel 50: Inspired TV
Yow! We’ve made it to the 50-episode mark! Thanks so much for your support; we couldn’t have done it without you. Today we’re looking at a pair of films that bear a very strong resemblance to a pair of television shows, but (on paper, at least) there’s no official connection between the two productions. We…