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Reel 38: You Can Like Both, Part 3
When two films are this similar in subject matter, it’s curious that they were both released by the same company during the same year (Columbia Pictures, 1964). But therein lies a story, as Sean will tell you during this episode. Both Dr. Strangelove and Fail-Safe deal with an American airplane that’s “gone rogue” for different…
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Reel 37: You Can Like Both, Part 2
This is one of those pairings that’s a little tough to understand why people would be asked to choose between the two films, because they really couldn’t be much more different from one another. But, here we are, telling you that despite what other people have to say, you don’t have to make a choice,…
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Short Subject: Reel 36 Outtake
This one isn’t an outtake so much as it is a little bit of extra stuff we did after recording Episode 36. But we made the template and we’re gonna keep using it. In this clip, Sean had some comments about Auteur Theory when it comes to film, and Claude mostly let him do his…
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Reel 36: You Can Like Both, Part 1
When it comes to daily emails, there are only a few that Claude reads on a regular basis. You know how it goes: you skim the rest of them and maybe click if something is of interest, but generally you’re deleting them until finally you realize that you’re deleting ALL of them and haven’t bothered…
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Short Subject: Reel 35 Outtake
This was a chunk of Episode 35 that went off-topic and we decided to cut it for time, but also thought most of what was said was actually kind of important. Also, we both made a mistake regarding Cecil B. DeMille near the end of the clip, so Claude took the opportunity to eat crow…
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Reel 35: Scorsese and Christianity
Martin Scorsese has never shied away from the fact that he is a Catholic, and that his religion oftentimes informs his work. There are few places where it’s more overt than in the two films we cover this week. First we have 1988’s The Last Temptation of Christ, which portrays a side of Jesus (Willem…
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Reel 34: Epic Altman
In which we take nearly six hours of film and reduce it to about eleven minutes of synopses and and hour or so of scintillating discussion. Robert Altman’s work had a lot of “trademarks” that delineated his films: overlapping dialogue, huge casts, multiple storylines and a way to subvert whatever genre he was working in.…
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Wha’ Hoppen?
You might have noticed that the website hasn’t been getting updated, even though new episodes have been coming through for the past few weeks. We’ve been having a weird issue with GoDaddy, our website provider, and after spending literally hours on the phone with them (most of it on hold), we realized that we weren’t…
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Reel 33: Modern-Day Kurosawa
…and by “Modern-Day” we mean that, while Akira Kurosawa is best known for period pieces, in this episode we’re checking out a couple of instances where the film is set in the present day. They have something else in common, too, but you’re just going to have to listen to the episode to find out…
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Reel 32: Cop & Crook Team Up
Sean chooses most of the movies that we cover, and occasionally he chooses stuff that’s a little tough to find. But in the long run you don’t mind going through the hunt, because they’re still a romp. In this episode we first take a look at The Killer, a film from 1989 directed by John…