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Some Like It Unauthorized

Zachary Domes & J Brooks Young

Two siblings go film by film through cinema history, from the blockbusters to the arthouse, with discussions on what these movies meant then and how we see them now. Using the BFI Sight and Sound list as a starting point, we’ve watched canonical films from the silent era up to the 60’s, and now we examine the decade when the cinema medium exploded. We don’t have film degrees or press passes, we like it unauthorized.Hosted by Zachary Domes and J Brooks Young.

tv & film film history

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66:29

Wanda (1970)

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2025/10/29

This week we tackle another “reclaimed” classic, actress Barbara Loden’s sole feature-length directing effort, the spare character study Wanda. Should we be wary, like Paul Schrader suggested after the 2022 BFI Sight and Sound List was published, of the new canonizing of just this sort of previously unsung film? To find the answer, we go deep on Loden’s aesthetic choices, and the themes to be teased out of both the images and the narrative of this american ghost story.Next week: The Conformist

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71:34

A Touch of Zen (1970)

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2025/10/15

King Hu stood at a crossroads early in his career, just before the release of 1967’s Dragon Inn. He had left Hong Kong and the film industry he had just begun to break into, following his mentor Li Han-Hsiang to Taiwan at a time when there was no taiwanese film industry. To make matters worse, Li’s epic gamble Beauty of Beauties had just flopped, casting the entire future of their independent enterprise into doubt. Against all odds, Dragon Inn was a smash success, and set the template for King’s

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65:27

One Battle After Another (2025)

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2025/10/05

What does it mean to be an artist in a fascist country? Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio appears to be less about revolutionary politics and more about the universal experience of two generations of a family struggling to relate. The politics are timely, but is there something untoward about an overtly political film, especially in the Trump era, that wants to frontline its emotional family drama and sideline, or altogether avoid, a tangible call to action? We put our heads

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60:16

Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

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2025/10/01

Do yourself a favor, and watch this Toshio Matsumoto film. It’s made by a playful and original filmmaker, whom was almost certainly versed in the work of Godard, Resnais, and every other new wave voice in that moment, but whom brought his own eye and his own inventions to film and made something totally new. It stars strikingly beautiful trans and queer actors that you’d otherwise never see on film, whom perform in daring roles with aplomb, and get to speak for themselves in documentary interludes

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67:15

Easy Rider (1969)

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2025/09/24

A new generation of cinephilic filmmakers have arrived on the scene in the US; raised on Hitchcock and Godard, these youngsters know what makes a film feel exciting, and they know how to get their kicks in real life too: with drugs and women. But, as we examine on this episode, Easy Rider is not just a hangout film. Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, and Jack Nicholson are out to explore why they’ve hit the road and why this generation is so rebellious, and that means examining both the country and

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58:50

Army of Shadows (1969)

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2025/09/17

Jean-Pierre Melville’s look back at the perilous times of France’s occupation during WWII arrived while the French were trying to look forward; protests and workers’ strikes throughout ‘68 had attempted to spur change in de Gaulle’s government, and that man, who had made a political career of his role in the campaign to free France from nazi occupation, was the last person that young audiences wanted to see celebrated. Army of Shadows was a box office failure as a result, but more recent

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64:36

Theorem (1968)

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2025/09/10

Pier Paolo Pasolini described his 1968 film with young star Terence Stamp as the story of when “a young man, maybe god, maybe the devil, that is to say, authenticity, visits this bourgeois family,” and the aftermath that follows. It’s a boldly provocative work from a gay catholic marxist that never failed to speak his mind, even when it meant defying those whom might otherwise identify with him. It’s also a work that skirts many lines: comic and tragic, flippant and earnest, indulgent and austere

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57:17

if... (1968)

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2025/09/03

What do you know about Free Cinema? Not much, Lindsay Anderson would presume, as he and his group of british outsider filmmakers put on screenings of their films in the 50’s and did not set the world on fire like they hoped. Some of his cohorts would make the biggest films of the kitchen-sink genre that followed in the 60’s: gritty, working-class portraits of modern discontentment in Britain. But while those filmmakers left for Hollywood, Anderson stayed in Britain and produced a truly scandalous

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56:15

Playtime (1967)

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2025/08/27

Jacques Tati enjoyed great critical and commercial success as the director and star of comedies in the 50’s, but like Chaplin or even Fellini, he wouldn’t dare repeat himself twice. He dreamt of going above and beyond, and it would take a decade to finally realize the giant, genre-bending Playtime. The gentle, conservative satire did not capture the attention of the young radicalized french audience that was about to embark on widespread protest throughout ‘68, but Playtime’s reputation has

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53:31

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

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2025/08/20

Like in hollywood with the bloated roadshow musical, the italian film industry faced a crisis of identity in the 60’s as their investment in huge historical epics drew in smaller and smaller crowds. Sergio Leone had the antidote. The son of a director, Leone worked his way up to that vaunted role and started making westerns that borrowed liberally not just from his favorite Ford or Hawks films, but also samurai films and new bloody, edgy horror films like those of Mario Bava. The resulting films

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51:17

Belle de Jour (1967)

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2025/08/13

They don’t make ‘em like Luis Buñuel anymore, a true blue iconoclast whose career charted across continents and spanned the last days of silent film up to cinema’s heyday in the 70’s. We catch up with the serial offender of catholic and bourgeois sensibilities in his late career team-up with an adventurous movie star, Catherine Deneuve, in this fantastical exploration of taboo sexuality among the Paris elite. We talk about how the Venice Golden Lion winner toes the line between sexual liberation and

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54:21

Wavelength (1967)

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2025/08/06

The only artists Michael Snow wanted to model his career after defied categorization, mixing mediums and blowing out boundaries of what was or wasn’t fine art. Artists like Dalí and Warhol loomed large, and each had also deigned to touch the lowly cinema when it was still thought to be below painting or sculpture. Snow saw the camera as a tool that had not yet been utilized to its full potential, not by conventional narrative cinema nor by the avant-gardists he rubbed elbows with in NYC. His best

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54:12

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

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2025/07/30

Few movie stars enjoyed the laurels or faced the criticisms that Sidney Poitier did, a historic Best Actor winner and a man accused of abetting all of hollywood’s fantasies of easy racial reconciliation. He played many a saintly character on screen before playing hollywood’s first black (and decidedly self-assured) detective in Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night. This novel role would allow him to embody the discontent of being black in late 60’s America, and audiences were more than ready

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60:36

Eddington (2025)

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2025/07/23

We expanded the podcast for this episode and brought in some new voices to help us make sense of Ari Aster's new movie Eddington.Next week: In the Heat of the Night (1967) by Norman JewisonUnauthorizedPod.com for more. Hosted by Zachary Domes and J Brooks Young. Music by hetchy

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48:57

Black Girl (1966)

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2025/07/16

From our vantage in the US today, we’re not just unaware of the history of african film, we’re unequipped — it’s hard to find documents that go beyond the surface level facts, and in many cases, even the films themselves have only recently been restored and widely released. Ousmane Sembène later in life said that even he did not know where many of his film’s original prints or negatives were. Would we be watching this film for the pod today if not for a restoration by the Scorsese-led World Cinema

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52:23

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1966)

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2025/07/09

Mike Nichols. Elizabeth Taylor. Richard Burton. An expletive-filled broadway play. A draconian Hays Code on its last legs. These were the ingredients for a film that would shake hollywood to its core in the mid 60’s. We talk about a notorious production, the scenes that astounded us, and how the film feels like an inspiration for filmmakers like Cassavetes, Aster, and the Safdies.Next week: Black Girl (1966) by Ousmane SembèneHosted by Zachary Domes (hetchy on letterboxd) and J Brooks Young (jyoun

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55:56

Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors (1965)

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2025/07/02

French New Wave gets all the publicity, but the Soviet New Wave might be the most astounding development that cinema had seen to date. In this episode, we talk about the precursors to Sergei Parajanov’s career-changing, and medium-changing, Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors, from Dovzhenko to Tarkovsky, and the films this Ukrainian folk art epic inspired, like Children of Men. We also discuss how folk art and music affects us deeply in this day and age when so much of culture is manufactured and

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64:09

Materialists (2025) and Berlinale 2025

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2025/06/25

We take a break from the 60’s to discuss the new film from director Celine Song, Materialists, a contemporary romantic drama that has divided audiences. After that, we talk about our trip to the Berlin Film Festival earlier this year and some of the standout films shown there from directors like Radu Jude and Hong Sang-soo.2:09 - Materialists21:58 - Materialists w/ spoilers41:59 - Berlinale intro43:21 - Magic Farm44:12 - If I Had Legs I’d Kick You46:45 - Kontinental ‘2549:46 - What Does that Nature

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56:02

Le Bonheur (1965)

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2025/06/18

Agnès Varda arrived as a filmmaker before the french new wave became a known trend (La Pointe Courte, 1955), and endured in the culture decades after it faded from public consciousness. Overlooked doesn’t begin to describe the biases she faced as a young female director; at least one american critic labeled Cléo From 5 to 7 as a derivative clone of earlier new wave films, not aware that Varda had released a stylistically daring feature film before Chabrol, Truffaut, or Godard. Her third film, Le

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71:47

Pierrot le Fou (1965)

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2025/06/11

Jean-Luc Godard’s feature film-shaped provocations have incited eye rolls and ire since the start: in the leftist literary mag Les Lettres Françaises, Louis Marcorelles read Pierrot Le Fou for filth, likening it to “the refusal to construct a film, to tell a story.” But in a later issue of that same publication, poet Louis Aragon settled the score, declaring Godard himself to be “art today.” Godard’s deification says as much about the times as it does the man himself; the 60’s were pretty square,

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