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00:49:49

Orson Welles

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2021/01/08

This week, Owen and Ralph take to the stand in defence of The Trial, Orson Welles' horny and hectic adaptation of Kafka's eponymous novel. But they also take a sip from the bottle of Welles' wider life, aided by a sensationalist Netflix documentary and his final, unfinished film, The Other Side of the Wind. Has Welles aged well, like the finest of champagnes, or is he just a load of trapped wind? Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, your deliberations may begin.

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00:39:21

Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters

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2021/01/03

Obsessive, sexually-frustrated and determined to restore honour to a decadent society. But enough about Owen and Ralph, this week they wipe the white splashes off Paul Schrader's ornate biopic of horny militarian Yukio Mishima and ask: is this Hollywood homage edging or hedging?

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00:49:33

It's a Wonderful Life

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2020/12/24

Live from Pottersville, NY, the boys are joined by Daniel Neofetou for a festive foray into Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life. But is it, actually? And why is this paean to the American Dream quite so hard to pin down?

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00:40:54

Meek's Cutoff w/ Lara Alonso Corona

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2020/12/19

A desperate, misguided venture, driven by vanity and doomed to failure - but enough about Owen and Ralph’s podcasting ambitions, this week they’re joined by Lara Alonso Corona to discuss Kelly Reichardt’s existential western Meek’s Cutoff, a ‘desert poem’ from the dry valleys of the Oregon trail.

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00:48:33

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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2020/12/10

Beef’s back on the menu this week as the boys disagree over Alejandro Jodorowsky’s late-career output, The Dance of Reality (2013) and Endless Poetry (2016). Ravishing, restorative poetry or cringey, non-cinematic fluff? And we’re not just talking about Ralph and Owen’s camera rolls. Let the fight begin!

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00:42:16

Philippe Garrel

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2020/12/04

The gentrification of a filmmaker. Owen and Ralph compare the avant-garde excitement of Philippe Garrel's classics Le Lit de la Vierge and Le Revelateur (made around May '68) with his more conventional 2017 romantic drama Lover For a Day and wonder where did it all go so regular?

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01:01:53

Mani Kaul

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2020/11/27

This week, the boys immerse themselves in the sensual worlds of Indian director Mani Kaul, specifically Uski Roti, Duvidha and Nazar. Underrated, underappreciated, a king among filmmakers. Sort your shit out, Criterion Collection.

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00:23:34

Meshes of the Afternoon

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2020/11/19

The boys dive in for a short, sharp dip in this cool 14-minute classic of the American avant-garde by Maya Deren and her husband Alexander Hamid.

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00:37:34

I Am Cuba

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2020/11/13

We’re Havana a nice time over here. This week, the boys take a look at Mikhail Kalatazov’s sadly sidelined masterpiece, Soy Cuba (1964). It’s propaganda, but not as we know it.

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00:35:36

Malina w/ Matthew Turner

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2020/11/07

Isabelle Huppert stars in this fiery adaptation of Ingeborg Bachmann's classic novel about a writer torn between two unavailable men. Three more unavailable men, Owen, Ralph and their guest Matthew Turner, pick apart this neurotic classic.

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01:06:29

Cure + the best of the pod so far

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2020/10/30

Happy Halloween, you delightful ghouls, and happy twenty-five episodes! This week, the boys fall under the hypnotic spell of Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s ‘j-horror’ masterpiece, Cure (Kyua). They also rank every single film they’ve reviewed so far, in an act of righteous folly.

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01:01:18

Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs w/ Igor Toronyi-Lalic

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2020/10/23

Owen and Ralph are joined by Igor Toronyi-Lalic to discuss Éric Rohmer’s charming yet incisive cycle of ‘Comedies and Proverbs’, specifically The Aviator's Wife, Pauline at the Beach and My Girlfriend’s Boyfriend. Behind these picture postcards lie questions of fate, desire and some serious object-oriented observation.

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00:45:49

Time of the Wolf

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2020/10/16

Mad, ‘bad’ and uncomfortable to watch, Michael Haneke’s films have often plumbed the very depths of what it means to be human in a time of crisis. In 2003’s minimalist apocalyptic chamber piece The Time of the Wolf, the boys find themselves torn: should cinema console us? Or should it lay our souls bare? Timely stuff indeed!

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00:43:39

Short films on MUBI

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2020/10/09

Does length matter? This week Owen and Ralph go for film tapas, sampling the smaller dishes currently warm on the MUBI buffet, including some very recent works made during the Covid-19 lockdown. In this order they discuss: Wind by Marcell Iványi In My Room by Mati Diop End of Summer by Jóhann Jóhannsson Strasbourg 1518 by Jonathan Glazer Seven Years In May by Affonso Uchoa

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00:43:20

Salon Kitty

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2020/10/02

Sexy, deranged, and a little bit, er, romantic. This week, the boys go eyeballs deep into Tinto Brass’s 1976 Nazispolitation soft core extravaganza, Salon Kitty. Does something serious stir beneath the covers, or was it just a limp attempt to shock us into submission?

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00:49:40

India Song

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2020/09/25

Welcome to Calcutta, or is it Versailles? The boys wade into Marguerite Duras’ woozy chamber play - oozing with promiscuity and desperation - and ask that crucial existential question, are we nearly there yet?

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00:56:51

Apocalypse Now

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2020/09/18

Colonel Kurtz, I presume? This week, the boys deploy to Vietnam for Francis Ford Coppola’s psychedelic exegesis on violence, horror and despair. Is it more myth than movie - and how does war make monsters of us all?

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00:36:55

A Couch in New York

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2020/09/12

Ever get the feeling you're in the wrong city, or maybe just the wrong genre? A bubbly Parisian dancer (Juliette Binoche) swaps apartments with an uptight Manhattan shrink (William Hurt) while a brooding arthouse auteur (Chantal Akerman) tries her hand at directing a fluffy screwball rom-com. What's the worst that could happen? To make sense of this 'perfect failure' the boys are joined by friend of the pod Daniel Neofetou.

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01:04:14

Lolita

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2020/09/04

'How did they ever make a movie of Lolita?' So goes the famous tagline to Kubrick's 1962 adaptation of Nabokov's wildly controversial novel of 1955. This week, the boys met IRL to ask why Adrian Lyne bothered to do it again in 1997, taking a madcap detour via the motorways of the male gaze.

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00:49:23

Talk To Her

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2020/08/28

What's love got to do with it? Pedro Almodovar's chilling drama about two comatose women and the men who watch over them gets Owen and Ralph animated about desire, trauma and yes, repressed heterosexuality.

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