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Episode 210: Nobuhiko Obayashi Week 3 (Beijing...

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2026/04/20

On Episode 210 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our next series picked by Blake, Nobuhiko Obayashi! In this week, we start by reviewing his 1989 drama Beijing Watermelon, followed by his 1992 coming of age film The Rocking Horsemen (1:14:37). We hope you enjoy!Episode Next Week: Casting Blossoms to the Sky + Seven WeeksMusic:- Intro: from Beijing Watermelon - Break: The Rocking Horsemen- Outro: The Rocking Horsemen Hosts: Luke Seay (LB: https://letterboxd.com/seayluke/, Twitter:

02:08:40

Episode 209: Nobuhiko Obayashi Week 2 (Lonely Heart +...

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2026/04/13

Episode 209: Nobuhiko Obayashi Week 2 (Lonely Heart + His Motorbike, Her Island)On Episode 209 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our next series picked by Blake, Nobuhiko Obayashi! In this week, we start by reviewing his last film from his 'Onomichi Trilogy', 1985's Lonely Heart, followed by his 1986 film His Motorbike, Her Island (1:08:30). We hope you enjoy!Episode Next Week: Beijing Watermelon + The Rocking Horseman Music:- Intro: from Lonely Heart - Break: His Motorbike,

02:40:40

Episode 208: Nobuhiko Obayashi Week 1 (I Are You, You...

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2026/04/06

On Episode 208 of Floating Through Film, we're starting our next series picked by Blake, Nobuhiko Obayashi! On this opening week of the series, we start by giving our overall thoughts on the director, before reviewing two films from his 'Onomichi Trilogy', 1982's I Are You, You Am Me (24:54), and 1983's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1:38:15). We hope you enjoy!Senses of Cinema Article by Hal Young: https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2021/great-directors/obayashi-nobuhiko/Midnight

01:28:11

Episode 207: FTF Theory #4 (Fritz Lang's M +...

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2026/03/30

On Episode 207 of Floating Through Film, we're coming back to our FTF Theory series to talk about Fritz's Lang's 1931 serial killer film M, while bringing up Deleuze's analysis of the film contained in one of his lectures on his book "Cinema 1: The Movement-Image". We hope you enjoy!Lecture available here: https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/lecture/lecture-14-6/Episode Next Week: Nobuhiko Obayashi Week 1 (I Are You, You Am Me + The Girl Who Leapt Through Time) Music:- Intro: from M

02:17:44

Episode 206: FTF Genre Night - Con Men (Trouble in...

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2026/03/24

On Episode 206 of Floating Through Film, we're returning to our Genre Night series to talk about the two films in the con men genre, Lubitsch's 1932 comedy Trouble in Paradise, followed by Jules Dassin's 1950 film noir, Night and the City (1:19:10). We hope you enjoy!Episode Next Week: FTF Theory (Fritz Lang's M + Deleuze's Large Form of the Action-Image) Music:- Intro: from Trouble in Paradise (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gab6yekmnUM)-Break from Night and the City

01:01:19

Episode 205: FTF Theory #3 (In the Realm of the...

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2026/03/16

On Episode 205 of Floating Through Film, we're coming back to our FTF Theory series to not only review Oshima's controversial 1976 film In the Realm of the Senses, but to also talk about it in connection to the essay he wrote about the film, "Theory of Experimental Pornographic Film". This was an interesting discussion to have, and Oshima's thoughts really helped framed our own. We hope you enjoy!Essay available here:

02:12:43

Episode 204: FTF Rejects (Rivette's Wuthering Heights...

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2026/03/15

On Episode 204 of Floating Through Film, we're reviewing two films we passed over during our initial runs of Rivette and Woo's films. But that's why we have FTF Rejects! We start with Rivette's 1985 film Wuthering Heights, followed by John Woo's 1991 film Once a Thief (1:02:18). We hope you enjoy!Episode Next Week: FTF Theory (Oshima's Theory of Experimental Pornographic Film (essay) + 1976's In the Realm of the Senses) Music:- Intro: from Wuthering Heights - Break: from

01:34:19

Episode 203: Villains Draft

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2026/03/08

On Episode 203 of Floating Through Film, we're each drafting our top 10 favorite villains (and antagonists) in film. We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: FTF Rejects (Rivette's Wuthering Heights + Woo's Once a Thief) Music:- Intro: from Wind Accros the Everglades - Outro: Vertigo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWDLb3UNkXs&list=PLkAUJkbhd-RjJLu2tWpOgCNVQAoiJxap3&index=2) Hosts: Luke Seay (LB: https://letterboxd.com/seayluke/, Twitter: https://x.com/luke67s)Blake Tourville (LB:

03:18:36

Episode 202: John Ford Week 5 (The Searchers + The...

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2026/02/23

On Episode 202 of Floating Through Film, we're concluding our series on John Ford! For this final week, we're reviewing two of Ford's most renowned Western films, starting with the all-time 1956 classic The Searchers, followed by 1962's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1:44:39). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Top 10 Villains in Film Music:- Intro: The Searchers (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xc1iYRrMBWk)- Break: The Man Who Shot Libert Valance

02:12:30

Episode 201: John Ford Week 4 (The Sun Shines Bright...

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2026/02/17

On Episode 201 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Luke, John Ford! For week 4, we're reviewing two Ford films from the early 50s, starting with his 1953 small town drama The Sun Shines Bright, followed by his 1955 film about West Point, The Long Gray Line (1:01:24) . We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: The Searchers + The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Music:- Intro: The Sun Shines Brights- Break: The Long Gray Line (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMdxiEQMfvg)-

02:11:25

Episode 200: FTF Canon Update

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2026/02/09

For Episode #200 of Floating Through Film, we're looking back on the last 2 years of doing the podcast, and updating our FTF Canon list (check episode #100 for our first version). Because this is kind of a checkpoint episode for us, we also spent some time during the second half of the episode going over ten of our favorite films at the moment (1:00:10). We hope you enjoy! FTF Canon List: https://letterboxd.com/floatingfilm/list/ftf-canon/Episode Next Week: John Ford Week 4 (The Sun Shines Bright +

01:59:49

Episode 199: John Ford Week 3 (Wagon Master + The...

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2026/02/09

On Episode 199 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our next series picked by Luke, John Ford! In week 3 of the series, we're reviewing 2 of Ford's more pleasant films, starting with his 1950 western Wagon Master, followed by his 1952 romantic dramedy The Quiet Man (43:57) . We hope you enjoy!Episode Next Week: Episode 200: Updating the FTF Canon Music:- Intro: Wagon Master (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_G9Yp8BjibM)- Break: The Quiet Man - Outro: The Quiet Man

02:45:59

Episode 198: John Ford Week 2 (My Darling Clementine...

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2026/01/26

On Episode 198 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our next series picked by Luke, John Ford! In week 2 of the series, Luke starts by giving us his reasons for picking Ford, we're reviewing 2 different kind of Ford westerns, starting with 1946's My Darling Clementine, followed by 1948's Fort Apache (1:41:06). We hope you enjoy!Episode Next Week: Wagon Master + The Quiet ManMusic:- Intro: My Darling Clementine (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEGG0hQbLzM)- Break: Fort Apache

03:29:26

Episode 196: 2025 Recap

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2026/01/12

On Episode 196 of Floating Through Film, we're recapping our 2025 in film! As has become an annual tradition for us, we're going over each of these categories: Worst Movie Watched in 2025, Top 3 Movies released in 2025 (16:13), Top 5 Rewatched Movies this year (41:34), and then closing out with our Top 10 First Watches in 2025 (1:27:00). We also have our good friend Dustin on with us again to help us recap. We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: John Ford Week 1 (Young Mr. Lincoln + How Green

00:57:04

Episode 195: NYT Connections (Film Edition) + True...

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2026/01/05

On Episode 195 of Floating Through Film, we're going back to Griffith with his 1919 film, True Heart Susie (33:07). But before we review the film, Luke created his own film version of NYT Connections for Dany to try solve on air. If you want to see ifyou can do better than Dany did (you definitely can), the links for the four games are listed below. We hope you enjoy! #1: connectionsplus.io/game/GpI6R3#2: connectionsplus.io/game/3G78gb#3: connectionsplus.io/game/wVwyl8#4:

01:02:30

Episode 194: FTF Comedy Canon

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2025/12/29

On Episode 194 of Floating Through Film, we're coming up with our official comedy canon list. The goal was to come up with one comedy film from each decade (starting from the 1920s) that we could all agree on. And since we did have some disagreements throughout the show, at the end of the list, each host was also allowed to pick one wild card choice that the other hosts weren't allow to veto. We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: True Heart Susie Music:-Intro: Early Summer-Outro:

01:20:44

Episode 192: Experimental Film Week 5 (Ernie Gehr)

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2025/12/21

On Episode 192 of Floating Through Film, we're concluding our series picked by Dany on Experimental Film. This week we're focusing on another major figure of the American Avant-Garde, the "structuralist" filmmaker Ernie Gehr! Dany spends the first half of the episode going through some of Gehr's interests and concerns in the cinema, before we briefly discuss some of the films he made over the course of his careers (listed here:

01:56:31

Episode 191: Experimental Film Week 4 (Jordan Belson)

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2025/12/08

On Episode 191 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Dany, Experimental Film. This week we're focusing on another figure of the American Avant-Garde,the "abstract" filmmaker Jordan Belson! Dany spends the first hour going through some of Belson's interests and concerns, before we briefly discuss some of the films he made over the course of his careers (listed here: https://letterboxd.com/djoshuva/list/ftf-experimental-week-4-jordan-belson/). We hope

01:41:18

Episode 190: Experimental Film Week 3 (Stan Brakhage)

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2025/12/01

On Episode 190 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Dany, Experimental Film. This week we're focusing on another one of the key figures of the American Avant-Garde, Stan Brakhage! Dany spends the first hour going through some of Brakhage's main ideas and interests, before we briefly discuss some of the films he made over the course of his careers (listed here: https://letterboxd.com/djoshuva/list/ftf-experimental-film-week-3-brakhage/). We hope you

01:43:18

Episode 189: Experimental Film Week 2 (Maya Deren)

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2025/11/24

On Episode 189 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Dany, Experimental Film. This week we're focusing on one of the key figures of Avant-Garde film, Maya Deren! Dany spends the first hour going through some of the main ideas of her film and film theory, before reviewing 1943's Meshes of the Afternoon (1:03:27), 1944's At Land (1:14:51), and concluding with her 1946 masterpiece, Ritual in Transfigured Time (1:28:08). We hope you enjoy!Episode Next Week: Stan

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