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The Twin Geeks

The flagship film program for The Twin Geeks. Join us for bi-weekly podcast specials where we rank, dissect, and discuss the best of classic and contemporary cinema with friends from our community and the industry at large.A production of The Twin Geeks | Join our Discord

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The Twin Geeks 134: In Memory of Norm Macdonald

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/09/24

Last week, we lost one of the people who made us laugh the most. Iconic comedian Norm Macdonald left behind a vast legacy of work and we've spent the last week chewing over his great contributions to comedic storytelling. What we've found is a veritable treasure chest of profoundly funny material spanning diverse forms and functions. Today we celebrate the endless joy Norm Macdonald has provided us with, from his stint on Saturday Night Live with Weekend Update, to his legendary appearances

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The Twin Geeks 133: PlayTime

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/09/17

After many attempts of conjoining in person yet again, a mutual love of the French comic auteur and his gargantuan masterwork PlayTime have reunited our two cohosts for an in-person discussion of their various misadventures throughout the day, as well as the setting and spectacle of Tati's grandiose playground for his signature Monsieur Hulot character. Tati's recurring themes about the oppressive reach of modernist design and technological advancements reach skyscraper-like heights in this

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The Twin Geeks 132: Rififi

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/09/10

The inimitably stylish worlds of American Film Noir and pre Nouvelle Vague French crime cinema collide in the most commanding display of technical execution ever implemented in translating the artistry of the heist to the silver screen. After getting caught in the crosshairs of Hollywood's blacklisting during the McCarthy Era, director Jules Dassin found himself excommunicated to France, with nary an opportunity to reinvigorate his career in sight. With a meager budget and a cast of relative

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The Twin Geeks 131: Point Break

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/09/04

Summer is coming to a close, but before we pack it in for the season we’ve got one last major thrill to end it on. Point Break is the ludicrous, amazing, exhilarating action spectacle which still defines the high point of Kathryn Bigelow’s directorial career. It embodies the best of what we love about Keanu Reeves and is brimming with career-best performances from the likes of Patrick Swayze, Lori Petty, Gary Busey, and a number of others. The fusion of high-octane sports spectacle like surfing and

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The Twin Geeks 130: Metropolis

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/08/27

The titanic scale and legacy of Fritz Lang's monolithic Sci-Fi epic is undeniable, despite a tumultuous and storied history of arduous ambition, calamitous failure, enduring influence, and eventual resurrection. The history of Metropolis' evolution within the public conscious is at least as fascinating as the innovative film itself. Its nearly complete form has only existed for little more than a decade at this point, making its all-encompassing influence all the more impressive. Seeing it

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The Twin Geeks 129: The Sting & Steely Dan

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/08/13

Paul Newman and Robert Redford pair as another couple of aces in this sleek, stylish portrait of a fantastical Depression Era Chicago in which grifters and gamblers run amok making their way the only way they know how. The Sting is a textbook example of great screenwriting, with a meticulously crafted narrative brimming with colorful characters and satisfying twists, you can't help but be enraptured by its carefully plotting and sensational sleight of hand. The film is a brilliant testimony to

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The Twin Geeks 128: The Green Knight & The Green Mile

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/08/06

Stephen King and Frank Darabont's second prison-set adaptation captures the same sense of literary and cinematic symbiosis that its more famous predecessor is most lauded for. Though The Shawshank Redemption (1994) reigns supreme amongst King adaptations, The Green Mile is perhaps an even more compelling reverse side of that same coin, aligning its perspective with the prison guards instead of the inmates this time. An all-star cast lead by Tom Hanks and featuring the likes of Michael Clarke

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The Twin Geeks 127: To Have and Have Not

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/07/30

The famous film that brought together the power couple of Bogie and Bacall, Howard Hawks' To Have and Have Not is an enigma of sensual fascination. Ostensibly an adaptation of the famous Ernest Hemingway novel of the same name, but in actuality anything but, Hawks' laissez faire pairing of the hard-boiled Bogart and the sumptuous ingénue Bacall marinates in electric chemistry sparked between its two leads, emphasizing little else beyond their seductive rapport. The tropical Martinique

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66:54

The Twin Geeks 126: Claire's Knee

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/07/23

As the fifth entry in his famous Six Moral Tales, Éric Rohmer's Claire's Knee tackles a range of sexual themes in a singular approach that is both laid back and biting in its criticisms. The careful maneuvering of Rohmer's storytelling, novelistic in nature, allows him to explore the fallibility of human desire and manipulative nature of lust and infatuation without outright demonizing the nuances of his characters. Claire's Knee is an incredibly human portrait of the world while

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The Twin Geeks 125: The Gold Rush

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/07/16

There are few things in the history of cinema more iconic than Chaplin's Little Tramp and his many adventures. His exploits in the snowy landscape of The Gold Rush (1925) are perhaps the most recognizable of all, from the innovative miniature trickery to the famous rolls dance which has permeated pop culture ever since. The purest rendition of Chaplin's indelible persona is perhaps also his most transformative, with two distinct versions to choose from which author varying perspectives on

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The Twin Geeks 124: Chinatown

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/07/09

Often proclaimed as the greatest script ever written, the intricate detective plot, thoroughly sketched characters, grand unfolding conspiracy, and riveting narrative developments of Chinatown are undeniably difficult to compare. Adopting all the sensibilities from the highly stylized and sizzling American crime films from the 1940s to the less restricted and more politically astute era of the mid 1970s, Robert Towne's peerless script elevates the conventions of film noir to their most

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The Twin Geeks 123: The Lost Weekend - Recovery Special

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/06/25

We like to remember Billy Wilder today more for his outstanding efforts as the foremost comic director of his time, but before the days of Some Like it Hot (1959) and The Apartment (1960) Wilder's greatest successes were of the dramatic kind, and none more so than his multi-Oscar winning study on the disease of alcoholism. The Lost Weekend still resonates today because its subject is a perennial one. The pains and desperation experienced by Ray Milland's sickly writer extend beyond the

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The Twin Geeks 122: Whiplash

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/06/18

With his first directorial feature Damien Chazelle lit up the screen with a sensational depiction of musicality and determination, both as his subject and his prowess as a filmmaker. Whiplash often feels like Jazz in cinematic form: kinetic, vibrant, and masterful in its expression. The sleekly told story of an enterprising jazz drummer and his struggle to achieve greatness under the tutelage of an abusive yet advancing teacher who seeks to mold this young talent into the likes of a legend, by any

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The Twin Geeks 121: Romancing the Stone

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/06/11

Capitalizing on the success of rollicking adventure films in the vein of Steven Spielberg's Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981), as well as the farcical popularity of booming romance novels at the time, Robert Zemeckis' Romancing the Stone saw a significant leap in his success as a director, paving the way for important projects to further bolster his career in the immediate future, and cementing his status as one of the most enterprising filmmakers of the decade. Before he becomes overwhelmed by

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The Twin Geeks 120: Phoenix

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/06/04

The dark shadow of an unbelievable atrocity plays as the background to Christian Petzold's multifaceted drama straddling such themes as evolving identity, a city scarred, the complexities and perceptions of an intimate relationship, and a wealth of other topics. On the surface, though, Phoenix presents a relatively simple premise with popular intrigue. The story of a disfigured woman posing as herself so that her unaware husband might abscond with her inheritance echoes the allures of a more

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The Twin Geeks 119: The Grapes Of Wrath

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/05/20

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The Twin Geeks 118: Fargo

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/05/19

As a key solidifier of their early reputation, the Coen Brothers’ dark comic masterpiece enjoys a lauded reputation for its unique setting, memorable characters, and unequal blend of macabre drama and brilliant comedy. Fargo is perhaps the most prominent flagship of the brothers’ filmography, standing as not only their earliest and most prominent success, but perhaps the most enduring as well. Few films manage to inhabit such a singular sense of locale, the duality of desolation and warmth of

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The Twin Geeks 117: The Muppet Show

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/05/07

t’s the Twin Geekscast! With our very special hosts, David and Murph? For many, our cultural jubilance at the sheer presence of Kermit and the like began with this landmark sketch series, but for others its accessibility has only recently been made possible thanks to its inclusion in the Disney+ canon. The brainchild of Jim Henson, The Muppet Show was the revolutionary sketch comedy/late night program that first skyrocketed the felt family to the mainstream, introducing and codifying all our

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The Twin Geeks 116: Forrest Gump

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/04/30

With the 93rd Annual Academy Awards ceremony in the rearview, with every winner and loser alike accounted for, we look back to one of the most prolific Oscar winners of the past thirty years. One that has permeated all spheres of our popular culture, for better or worse, and is greatly emblematic of the types of films the Academy historically prefers to recognize. Director Robert Zemeckis was at the height of his powers in 1994 when he made the box-office sensation Forrest Gump. The lovable title

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The Twin Geeks 115: Harold And Maude

The Twin Geeks ·

2021/04/23

The charming and hilarious story of a young rich boy obsessed with death and romantically entangled with a life-loving septuagenarian who has a penchant for posing nude and stealing cars, is a tale as old as time, or so it feels in the perennially charming Harold and Maude. Hal Ashby's beloved romantic black comedy captures our hearts with its reflections on the embrace of life juxtaposed with a constant fixation on death that often penetrates the uncertain minds of the youth. For any teenager

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