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SHORT SUBJECT: The BFI/Sight and Sound 100 Greatest Films Ever (2022)
Not long ago, Sight and Sound, the magazine dedicated to film that’s run by the British Film Institute (BFI) published it’s eighth decennial list of the 100 Greatest Films Ever, as voted on by hundreds of film critics worldwide. It’s fun to contrast this with the American Film Institute’s list, especially inasmuch as they’re so…
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Reel 46: David Bowie Musicals
…in fact, I got the film titles backward. Absolute Beginners is first. But this looks a little better, graphically (he said, twisting himself to justify the goof). This is the second of our three “lost” episdoes, and it seems like we managed to cover all the same points we did the first time around. Unfortunately,…
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Reel 45: Before the Revolution
I know the matching doesn’t quite work but I still like the way the cover art for this one came out. We’re back on track, episode number-wise. And in this case we’re looking at a couple of periods in time that aren’t very far apart. Despite their relative closeness on the calendar, they each represent…
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Reel 43: Dublin Calling
It’s the Lost Episode! Sean and I went back and re-recorded this episode. Fortunately I store hardcopies of the film synopses, and Sean takes a ton of notes, and I do my usual blundering in between, and I’m pretty positive that we covered literally everything that we covered the first time around, with the exception…
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Reel 42: Off-Beat Musical Biopics
Biographical films are always tricky to navigate, largely because they need to choose a point of view to work from. For instance, when talking with other people about the recent biopic Elvis, some viewers were disappointed that we didn’t get to see Elvis Presley eating one of his weird sandwiches, or that we didn’t get…
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