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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…









