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Cinematic Oblivion

Nick and Harry Nordlinger

Brothers and life-long cinephiles Nick and Harry Nordlinger explore the full spectrum of film history, with an eye for the esoteric, the strange and the sublime.

tv & film visual arts

All Episodes

53:12

Curse of the October Boys

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2025/10/25

A more wholesome year then most, adjusting to fatherhood/unclehood and the trappings of a toddler's Halloween while also inviting more wild 80s horror comedies into the discourse like Wacko (1982) and Full Moon High (1981). Harry wants to remind everyone to, like him, watch the entire filmography of Jose Ramon Larraz, if you can find it, and Nick wants to talk about the bookends of the screen life genre which also happen to be the bookends of Gen Z representation in media. Pack it up and move over

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01:04:33

The October Boys V: no edits, no escape

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2024/10/30

Where is that sinister, beautiful, liminal hospital of which I endlessly dream? Where can I get a can of frozen apple juice concentrate in this day and age? When will I stop getting election texts? Why won't the police stop ruining horror movies? And why did everyone in the early 2000s think they'd reached the peak of what CGI effects had to offer? Happy Halloween! I refuse to edit this one out of bitterness and haste.

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01:13:34

Revenge of The October Boys

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2023/10/30

Strange cutout anime, brooding resentment about the 00's, discourse on disturbing horror, nostalgia for the Universal classics, major creative output from our circle, welcome back to our cacophonous carnival of Halloween horrors, we've missed you.

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01:21:27

October Boys III: Season of the Witch

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2022/10/31

Taste the fruits of Autumn Burn away the dead crops

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01:06:39

Return of the October Boys

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2021/10/27

Once a year, once a year, now it's here, now it's here.

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01:09:37

The October Boys

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2020/10/28

Our last episode ever. Putting the final nail in the coffin on the original concept of Cinematic Oblivion. Happy Halloween, it's the season of change and death after all. Keep watching the screens.

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01:14:27

grab bag: Quarantine 2020

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2020/04/30

It's been a while. We discuss what's kept us entertained and sane in Shelter-In-Place including the gory, gutsy guerrilla action film Deadbeat at Dawn (1988) Guy Maddin's odes to his city and ours in My Winnipeg (2007) and The Green Fog (2017), Harry's pickaxe striking a mother lode of untapped 80's horror sleepers, Nick teaching Chris Marker's La Jetée (1962) to his AP English class, and our ever-returning to the town of Twin Peaks. Also we share our "to watch" quarantine lists. Enjoy, stay safe,

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55:00

outings: Noir City 2020

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2020/02/18

You can find me in the back of the Castro theater drinking whiskey and cherry Coke yelling at people to get off their phones before the third Mexican noir starts.

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01:18:03

Top Ten of the Twenty-Teens

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2020/01/16

We promise to only be this basic once every ten years.

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48:50

grab bag: Halloween 2019

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2019/10/31

In this year's Halloween episode of Grab Bag Harry revisits some horror movies we didn't used to like very much and reveals that we were right about one of them and wrong about another, Nick discusses his new Giallo concept bar and cocktail menu, and we both revisit some childhood Halloween specials that warm our heart. Carve a Jack O' Lantern now before it's too late!

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01:38:55

Barker's Books of Blood

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2019/10/30

Sweets for the sweet, it's our official Halloween special. Listen as we discuss horror fantasy's finest imaginer, Clive Barker, and his brief career in film, as well as the trademarks of his work, including sadomasochistic inter-dimensional travelers, queer zombies, and ghosts of urban segregation. prologue: I have seen the future of horror (1:43) Chapter 1: Now we can begin (14:30) Chapter 2: Casting Cronenberg (47:35) Chapter 3: Be My Victim (1:05:55) epilogue: Darkplace (1:19:25)

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37:49

Profecy of the Black Spider

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2019/10/20

The Earth shall tremble. Graves shall open. They shall come among the living as messengers of death and there shall be the "nigths" of terror. Continuing our October horror rituals, we examine the ineffable minimalism of Andrea Bianchi's zombie shadow play Burial Ground, a film that achieves unique style and effectiveness completely by accident.

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53:36

Furankenshutain tai Baragon

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2019/10/12

We turn our October attention to one of the least conventional iterations of the Frankenstein monster all in the interest of discussing Nick's favorite and most expensive toy.

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01:37:54

Dude Bros at the Balboa: an interview with Michael...

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2019/10/03

The Dude Bros are coming to the Balboa Theater here in San Francisco on October 23rd for a Rewind Wednesday VHS screening of Cinematic Oblivion's favorite slasher comedy Dude Bro Party Massacre III! Two of the directors, Tomm Jacobsen and Michael Rousselet, will be in attendance, the latter of whom chats with Nick in this episode. Listen as they discuss the early comedy of USC's public access channel "Trojan Vision," the "Golden Age" of Five Second Films, the writing, scoring, and acting of Dude Bro

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04:17

snippet: Remembering Sid Haig

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2019/09/30

R.I.P. Sid Haig 1939-2019

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01:11:44

Soviet Sci-Fi part 3: post-Tarkovsky

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2019/04/28

The third part of our three-part history and analysis of Soviet Science Fiction films. In this episode we focus on the science fiction films of the USSR's final years including grey, colorful, and silver tones all in the wake of Andrei Tarkovsky's influence. Chapter One: Grey Chapter Two: Color Chapter Three: Silver

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01:12:02

outings: Unnamed Footage Festival 2019

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2019/03/11

Our report from an oblivionated weekend at the historic Balboa theater under the curation of the Overlook Hour. We briefly review the history of found-footage and then discuss such diverse representatives of the subgenre as The Midnight Swim, La Llorona Investigation, The Moosehead on the Mantel, Hound Footage, and the film that may have killed us both; Antrum.

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49:32

outings: Noir City 2019

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2019/02/20

We briefly review and analyze such classics as Pickup on South Street (1952) and Kiss Me Deadly (1955) from our recent outing to Noir City at the Castro Theater, during which we discovered that we are total amateurs at this whole "liking movies" thing.

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01:18:37

Soviet Sci-Fi part 2: Tarkovsky

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2019/01/28

The second part of our three-part history and analysis of Soviet Science Fiction films. In this episode we focus on the two science fiction contributions of Soviet auteur Andrei Tarkovsky, Solaris (1971) and Stalker (1979), and discuss how his contributions forever changed the landscape of Eastern genre cinema and film in general. Chapter 1: The Ocean (3:35) Chapter 2: The Zone (43:30)

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01:03:14

grab bag: Midori Sour

Cinematic Oblivion ·

2019/01/13

A sickly sweet cocktail of various ingredients, Harry and Nick reunite after two weeks apart to discuss the 90's films of Brian De Palma, the video art of Jan Svankmajer, Ryan Trecartin, Alan Resnick, and the "wayward circus child" sub-genre, particularly Mira Nair's Salaam Bombay (1988) and Hiroshi Harada's Midori (1992).

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