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Secret Movie Club Podcast

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SMC Pod #100: Our 100th episode! Nominating 21st...

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2022/04/15

The SMC Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, Craig Hammill) celebrates and clashes (as usual) their 100th podcast episode milestone. After some initial marital bickering, each member of the team nominates a 21st century movie he feels is a new masterpiece for new canon. Titles that get name-checked include Lord of the Rings, Spirited Away, and Un Prophete. And of course Edwin bucks the premise and nominates 1999's The Mummy but balances it out by coupling it with 2001's The Mummy

39:59

SMC Pod #99: Best Picture winner CODA & the state of...

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2022/04/08

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, Craig Hammill) discuss 2021's Best Picture winner CODA (about a hearing-abled teen in a working class family of fishermen who are deaf) and their thoughts on the current state of the Oscars and the Academy Awards. We briefly touch on the moment that seemed to cause more conversation than any of the movies-the Will Smith and Chris Rock slap-but mostly pass over that to discuss everyone's different feelings about the movies

30:39

SMC Pod #98: Controversial German Filmmakers Gunther...

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2022/04/01

Controversial German filmmakers, director Gunther and actor Hans Dieter Stormhammer shocked the 2022 Berlinale this year with their 296 minute film der toefl die kindergarten und die sexy dame (2022, wri/dir Gunther, Germany) which has the dubious distinction of being the only movie EVERY SINGLE AUDIENCE MEMBER walked out on. The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Caesar Gomez, Daniel Ott, Craig Hammill) get the exclusive post-shock debut interview with these filmmakers who agreed to

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SMC Pod #97:Our 2nd Anniversary! Topic: Movies we...

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2022/03/25

The Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, Craig Hammill) reflect on how quickly time passes we realize we've spent 2 years doing the podcast. As a special topic, we each put forward a movie we love that others often dismiss or hate. Spielberg's 1941, Magic Mike XXL, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and John Ford's The Fugitive all get discussed. Long time listeners might be able to guess who picked what even before listening.

38:59

SMC Pod #96: Reconsidering SPEED RACER & The Wachowskis

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2022/03/18

Special guest TV & movie writer Anne Mortensen-Agnew (@annesplains) joins the SMC team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, Craig Hammill) to discuss the Wachowski's 2008 live action adaptation of anime classic SPEED RACER which everyone (but Edwin) thinks is a 21st century masterpiece due for reconsideration. The Wachowskis' other work gets discussed as well as the price filmmakers pay when they try to innovate or push the form in a summer blockbuster medium. Everyone is yet again blown

43:42

SMC Pod #95 Dancer in the Dark and Lars Von Trier

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2022/03/11

The Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, Craig Hammill) discuss Lars Von Trier's and Bjork's controversial 2001 Palm D'Or winning anti-musical DANCER IN THE DARK. The team discusses Von Trier's mental health issues and how to deal with the allegations Bjork brought against Von Trier of wildly inappropriate behavior. Strangely they all agree THE HOUSE THAT JACK BUILT is a great movie while Craig seems to be the most into Von Trier's work and Edwin avoids it because he finds it too

33:23

SMC Pod #94: AMERICAN MOVIE & a deeper dive into the...

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2022/03/04

The SMC team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, Craig Hammill) discuss Chris Smith's 1999 classic doc AMERICAN MOVIE about Wisconsin filmmaker Mark Borchardt's near quixotic quest to complete his horror short movie COVEN to finance his feature NORTHWEST with the help of his family andd best friend Mike Schenk. The team talks about other documentaries that have blown them away from Robert Flaherty's 1940's LOUISIANA STORY all the way to the current run of Netflix amazing true-crime docs

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SMC Pod #93: BAND OF OUTSIDERS & Jean Luc Godard

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2022/02/25

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, Craig Hammill) talk French New Wave master Jean Luc Godard's 1964 BAND OF OUTSIDERS, how so many moviemakers post 60's were influenced by Godard's revolutionary film experimentation, why Tarantino named his company after this movie, and much more. Also Mr. Godard suddenly calls in to yell at Edwin. Plus Craig tells a story about being invited to smoke hash by two women in Prague and how his nerdiness blew everything.

38:59

SMC Pod #92: Law of Desire & Pedro Almodovar

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2022/02/18

The Secret Movie Club team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Craig Hammill; Daniel Ott is still out on a shoot) discuss Spanish master filmmaker Pedro Almodovar, his transgressive daring, often LGBTQ focus, with a specific look at his transitional work 1987's LAW OF DESIRE. Two of the team-members have seen it. One tries to fake his way through. All discuss Almodovar's incredible talent with color, framing, and injecting Hitchcockian tension into almost any genre including melodrama. Edwin and Craig

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SMC Pod #91: Genres we’re not hot on

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2022/02/11

The Secret Movie Club team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Craig Hammill; Daniel is off shooting) discusses genres its not super hot on. Connor and Edwin explain why romcoms and Hugh Grant aren't their jam. Craig expresses his ambivalence about the slasher genre. Edwin airs his grievances about kid's movie CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG. Connor makes the key point that despite this, many movies beloved by the entire team are in genres they don't gravitate to because greatness always transcends.

41:59

SMC Pod #90: The Art of the Short Film

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2022/02/04

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, Craig Hammill) talks about the short film as an art form. Everything from avante garde filmmaker Stan Brakhage to 80's/90's music videos to omnibus movies where famous directors get together to make a collection of 30 minute shorts around a theme gets discussed. And even Orson Welles' French TV hour-long The Immortal Story get name-checked. Plus Edwin no longer needs compliments, Daniel has developed an edge, and Craig has a

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SMC Calendar Pod: FEBRUARY 2022 HIGHLIGHTS

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2022/02/01

The SMC Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, Craig Hammill) works to evolve and be dynamic by changing up our monthly podcast to a "Highlights" podcast. You can always go to our website to see our entire calendar (https://www.secretmovieclub.com/calendar?view=calendar&month=02-2022). Here we just shout out a few special events we want to put on your radar. And why. Plus Edwin bites his tongue and we all make fun of him.

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SMC Pod #89: When Comedians Move to Art Films & Drama

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2022/01/28

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, Craig Hammill) discuss when comedians begin to make dramas and art films, a transition that often happens mid-career. Well known examples of Robin Williams, Jim Carrey, Adam Sandler get discussed as well as international art house sensation Beat Takashi. The Team then flips the script and discusses when action and drama stars start making comedies like The Rock in PAIN & GAIN. Edwin yet again attacks Craig for perceived

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SMC Pod #88:Celebrating Stanley Kubrick, our director...

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2022/01/21

The SMC Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, Craig Hammill) finally-FINALLY!-gets to do the celebration episode of Stanley Kubrick, our 2020 director of the year. COVID halted the year but once SMC was able to show movies indoors again in May 2021, we picked up and finished the series. DR. STRANGELOVE, FULL METAL JACKET, PATHS OF GLORY, and LOLITA all get special looks. Connor makes the important distinction that Kubrick was definitely Great (as an artist) but may not have always been

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SMC Pod #87: I Know What You Did Over Winter Break...

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2022/01/14

The Secret Movie Club Team (Connor Lloyd Crews, Edwin Gomez, Daniel Ott, Craig Hammill) re-assembles after various and sundry adventures over winter break 2021-2022 to discuss what they saw. Spider Man No Way Home, the use of multiverses, Spielberg's West Side Story, Edwin's love for Daniel Day Lewis, Amir "Questlove" Johnson's Summer of Soul, Frank Zappa's blistering guitar solos all get discussed.

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DEFEND THIS MOVIE #4: Ingmar Bergman’s Persona

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2022/01/07

Like Godzilla vs King Kong, Edwin Caesar Gomez and Craig Herbert Hammill of Secret Movie Club go head to head on Ingmar Bergman's 1966 PERSONA. Edwin doesn't get it and thinks a lot of Bergman doesn't work. Craig thinks PERSONA is one of the greatest movies ever made and Bergman one of the greatest moviemakers who ever lived. Thus. . .Craig has to DEFEND THIS MOVIE. Who wins? Is the point even winning? At the very least we hope you'll take a listen and watch PERSONA to make up your own mind. Here

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SMC Pod #86: The ”Lost” Podcasts-Hitchcock, Star...

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2022/01/01

Today, we release the "pilot" conversations for what would become our Secret Movie Club podcast. Filmmmakers Matt Olsen, Brian Hatfield, and Steve Grest joined Secret Movie Club Founder.Programmer Craig Hammill in 2018 to discuss Hitchcock movies like SHADOW OF A DOUBT, REAR WINDOW, PSYCHO as well as 80's sci-fi like STAR TREK II: THE WRATH OF KHAN and James Cameron's original TERMINATOR. Along the way, beer gets drunk, stories get told, Sam Peckinpah's weird cuckolding fetish somehow gets touched

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SMC Bonus Pod: Stream of Consciousness Holiday Movies...

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2021/12/24

Twas the night before Christmas and the SMC Podcast Team had returned from whence they came/yet Craig found he needed to record a podcast all the same...While team members Connor, Edwin, and Daniel take a much needed break/vacation (they will return at the start of Jan 2022!), Founder.programmer Craig Hammill does a solo stream of consciousness mini-podcast previewing January 2022 at Secret Movie Club and rat-a-tat-tatting a number of favorite holiday themed movies or movies with incredible holiday

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