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The Brattle Film Podcast

The Brattle Theater, Ian Brownell, Ivy Moylan, Ned Hinkle, Alissa Darsa

The official podcast of Boston"s unofficial film school: The Brattle Theatre. Since 1953 the Brattle has been a home for film lovers to gather and share great cinema; showing an eclectic mix of classic, cutting-edge, foreign, cult, and art-house movies on 35mm film, digital projection, and now virtually.

tv & film visual arts

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Episode 74: Lauren Bacall Centennial Tribute

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2024/09/10

We pay tribute to one of our favorite movie stars on the occasion of what would have been her 100th birthday. Lauren Bacall's early films played a major role in the history of the Brattle Theatre, and she's a figure all four of us have long admired. We take a deep dive into some of Bacall's most revered pictures as well as some of her lesser-known films, discuss her life and work, and Ned shares the story of his brief encounter with the screen legend.

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02:00:14

Episode 73: Cruel Summer

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2024/07/23

As the dog days of summer approach, we take a look at the sweatiest movies we can think of. Many of these films artfully showcase how oppressive heat leads to conflict.

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01:25:46

Episode 72: Desperately Seeking Susan Seidelman

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2024/07/01

We welcome Susan Seidelman to the podcast in celebration of her new memoir and her upcoming live appearance at the Brattle on July 18th. In addition to listening to stories about her life in film, we talk about what her films have meant to us and what it was like revisiting many of them while reading her book. We also dive into the past couple of months of listener mail.

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02:45:08

Episode 71: Reunion Week: 1949, 1974, 1999

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2024/05/20

We kick off Season 5 with our annual Reunion Week show, talking about films celebrating their 75th, 50th, and 25th anniversaries. This year, that's 1949, the year of the first televised Oscar ceremony; 1974, one of the greatest movie years of all time; and 1999, a pivotal, trendsetting year for cinema. While our discussion is tied to the series running at the Brattle, we touch on all sorts of films from each year in this extra-long episode.

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01:53:45

Episode 70: Needle Drops

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2024/04/24

We close out our 4th season with a show about needle drops, those brilliant and sometimes lazy pop music choices filmmakers employ to set a tone, evoke an era, express a character's unspoken emotions, or just give the film a burst of energy.

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01:02:13

Episode 69: Boston Underground Film Festival

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2024/03/18

Boston Underground Film Festival programmers Kevin Monahan and Nicole McControversy join us to discuss the history of this unique fest and their 2024 lineup.

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02:00:01

Episode 68: More of the Best of 2023

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2024/02/28

We wrap up awards season with more thoughts on the terrific year in film that was 2023, including discussions about the 10 Best Picture nominees, the documentary and international feature nominees, the idiocy of this year's Oscar controversies as well as other internet hot takes that surrounded the big movies before and after their releases, and we shine our appreciation on the big swings taken by actors and filmmakers this year.

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Episode 67: Some of the Best of 2023

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2024/01/17

We begin our deep dive into the abundance of excellent films of 2023, a year that still saw fewer new releases than is typical of pre-pandemic cinema but gave us far more exciting, risky, and unusual movies of quality than we've gotten used to. It was a year of big swings by filmmakers, actors, and studios—most of which paid off, and familiar "comfort fair" from old favorites that still delivered excellence, as well as a fairly resounding rejection of the same-old-same-old corporate franchise

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02:18:09

Episode 66: Warner Brothers in the '80s: Enter the...

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/12/20

For our last episode of 2023, we wrap up the Brattle's yearlong look back on 100 years of Warner Brothers by diving into how the studio reacted to the blockbuster era. Examining Warner's overt attempts to capitalize on its "franchise" intellectual properties like Superman and Batman, to its unexpected '80s blockbusters like Private Benjamin, Gremlins, and Beetlejuice, to the risks that paid off like Purple Rain, Pee-wee's Big Adventure, and The Lost Boys, to some lesser-known gems like Crossing

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Episode 65: Lost In Alphaville: Noir & Technology

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/11/14

For this year's Noirvember, we look at crime and caper pictures that center on technology as well as dark dramas that deal with noirish themes of identity and mistrust. Film Noir and Science Fiction are two great cinematic genres that taste great together, and we have a grand old time discussing how the tropes, subtexts, and visual styles of each criss cross and complement each other.

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01:30:28

Episode 64: Talking Documentaries with GlobeDocs...

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/10/15

We discuss our love of documentary features and the Brattle's legacy of screening non-fiction, sometimes in conjunction with one of our series partners. We're then joined by the programmer of one of those series: GlobeDocs Film Festival Director of Programming Lisa Viola, who gives us a history of that series and a preview of 2023's line-up.

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01:42:50

Episode 63: Walken on Sunshine - Christopher Walken...

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/09/19

Diving deep into the ‘80s filmography of one of our favorite actors, we discuss the unique performance style of Christopher Walken; his sense of humor, sense of menace, skills as a dancer, the many commercial failures he made as a leading man during this decade, and why we think all his '80s movies are all worthy of revisiting. Along the way, we get into many cultural aspects of the decade: Madonna power ballads, the Roger Moore era of James Bond, Golan-Globus fairly tale musicals, pre-CGI special

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01:40:26

Episode 62: RIP Paul Reubens & William Friedkin

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/09/02

We pay tribute to the late great Paul Reubens and his iconic film Pee Wee's Big Adventure. Then we take a deep drive into some of the lesser-known works of New Hollywood legend, Billy Friedkin.

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Episode 61: Thrill Ride Horror

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2023/07/18

For the dog days of summer, we strap in for an episode that asks, if there is such a thing as "elevated horror," then what the devil is unelevated horror? We try to answer that question with a summer series of Thrill Rides featuring giant monsters, killer AI, and demons from hell.

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01:28:42

BONUS: Quarantainment Favorites Revisited

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/07/01

In this rerun, we revisit an early episode that highlighted some small movies (and a couple of big ones) that are very much worth checking out.

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02:45:09

Episode 60: Reunion Week: 1948, 1973, 1998

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/05/23

We embark on our annual journey into movies celebrating their 25th, 50th, and 75th anniversaries in conjunction with our annual Reunion Week series. (Actually 10 days not a week this year, so this is a double episode!) With our upcoming Noir City Boston program entirely comprised of 75th-anniversary crime pictures, we spend some time on those as well.

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01:26:43

Episode 59: 20 Years of Independent Film Festival Boston

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/04/24

We welcome Brian Tamm and Nancy Campbell back to the podcast to talk about the twenty-year history of the Independent Film Festival Boston and the line up for the 2023 fest.

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01:37:21

Episode 58: Celebrating Celluloid

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/03/28

To celebrate "Reel Film Day" and in honor of the Brattle's commitment to screening 35mm prints, we dive deep into why we love showing films on film and why Boston is such a unique and abundant city for repertory cinema. We talk with our fellow programs and projectionists at some of the other five cinemas in Boston and beyond that continue this rich tradition. And we chat with some of our patrons, visitors, and fellow podcaster as to why they love the celluloid experience.

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01:53:51

Episode 57: More Of The Best Of 2022

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/02/21

We continue looking back on 2022’s best films via some listener suggestions for their favorite films of the year. We then discuss the Oscars nominations, the Best Actress “controversy,” the various rules and non-rules of the Academy’s nomination process, the pros and cons of digital color grading, and many other Oscar-adjacent topics we have strong opinions about. There’s never a dull moment around awards season.

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02:10:06

Episode 56: Some Of The Best Of 2022

The Brattle Film Podcast ·

2023/01/17

We look back on the ups and downs of 2022, a year that saw some huge successes and some huge disappointments and some disturbing trends. This episode focuses mostly on the smaller films that people may have missed, but we start out with Top Gun Maverick and Everything Everywhere All at Once because we can't talk about 2022 in film without going deep on the two films that got people back to the cinemas.

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