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Some Like It Unauthorized

Zachary Domes & J Brooks Young

A discussion show about the cinema canon, the margins and the mainstream, and how they intersect. Film enthusiasts but newcomers to film history, siblings Zach and J Brooks watch notable movies from the 60s and 70s in chronological order, unpacking their place in history and their relevance today. The 2022 BFI Sight and Sound List serves as a guide, but blockbusters, arthouse darlings, and cult classics are all fair game, whether these films show up on critics lists or not. These two hosts don’t

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96:35

Jeanne Dielman (1975)

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2026/04/23

The big question since the 2022 BFI Sight and Sound Top 250 List was published, that no one has answered satisfyingly, is simply: why Jeanne Dielman? We watched Chantal Akerman’s film for the first time, and now, we’re talking about whether it lives up to expectations, and trying to answer the big question by examining how the gender politics of the ‘70s recontexualized film history and laid the groundwork for a young woman from Brussels to make her mark on the medium.Afterwards (1:15:51), Zach

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73:03

Céline and Julie Go Boating (1974)

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2026/04/16

Though he was present in the heyday of Cahiers du Cinema, that contrarian film review mag where the biggest names in french new wave would ferment and develop their eclectic taste, Jacques Rivette had a lot more false starts on his way to directing films full time. Rather than endearing himself to wide audiences, he endeared himself to actors, and fostered an improvisational style almost akin to Cassavetes, but frencher. Next to the behemoth Out 1, Céline et Julie vont en bateau stands as his most

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64:03

A Woman Under the Influence (1974)

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2026/04/09

Filmmaking genius or fraud provocateur? The work of John Cassavetes has been the subject of unending adoration and extensive dissection ever since the actor picked up a camera in NYC in the late ‘50s and joined the likes of Jonas Mekas and Shirley Clarke in the burgeoning independent film scene. Almost instantly, he became a cult figure to cinephiles in the know, and while he would go on to make some films for the major studios, his housewife-on-the-edge vehicle for his wife Gena Rowlands could

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73:29

Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974)

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2026/04/02

30-some feature films. 24 plays. 3 tv miniseries. Many drugs, many relationships. Dead at 37. Rainer Werner Fassbinder was a chaser (in more ways than one), and remains among that rare class of film artists that turned cinema into a verb, into an ongoing process and processing of the world around him. What’s astounding is that his films, while so specific to postwar german society, have a universal resonance that makes them just as worthwhile today.In talking about his most well-regarded film about

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57:10

The Mother and the Whore (1973)

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2026/03/26

If Godard and Truffaut busted down the door for a new generation of french filmmakers, Jean Eustache followed them in and stood in the corner and received little attention. After making a few docs and shorts, he finally made a bid for cinematic immortality with this first-person-epic (longer than Jeanne Dielman!), La Maman et la Putain. It stars Jean-Pierre Léaud, the avatar-du-jour for many autobiographical directors, and in this episode we compare Eustache’s film with another experimental french

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71:18

American Graffiti (1973)

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2026/03/19

George Lucas’s breakout Best Picture nominated film reanimated a time barely a decade past, 1962, before a generation of boys went to Vietnam, before rock and roll went psychedelic, and before baby boomer nostalgia was an entire industrial complex. Less melodramatic and more laid back than the teen films of his youth, American Graffiti was exactly realistic enough, misogynist warts and all, to catch fire at the box office and set the template for the teen hangout genre.On this episode, we discuss

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74:36

The Spirit of the Beehive (1973)

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2026/03/12

It’s time to talk Víctor Erice. It’s time to talk bees. On this episode, we examine this legendary spanish film’s reputation and the filmmakers that influenced ‘70s dream cinema, and we consider what the Frankenstein and beehive metaphors have to say about social rigidity and childhood fluidity. In addition, we dive into some albums coming out in 1973, from funk to krautrock to reggae, and everywhere in between.2:20 - Spirit of the Beehive discussion57:10 - Zach’s 5 albums to check out from ‘73Next

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64:09

The Godfather (1972)

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2026/03/05

Early 1971, young upstart director Francis Ford Coppola, who had already founded his own independent production company to sidestep studio meddling and had recently produced George Lucas’s debut feature THX 1138, was weighing the offer to direct the adaptation of Mario Puzo’s bestselling novel, a project that was ostensibly Paramount’s, and particularly the vainglorious Robert Evans’s, baby. It was exactly the for-hire scenario Coppola didn’t want to be in, but good friend Lucas, after his film

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59:43

An Oscar Nominations Reaction Show

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2026/01/22

We react LIVE to the 2026 Oscar Nominations, giving you our honest, unauthorized opinions on all the nominated films and the shameful snubs.Next episode: The Godfather (1972) by Francis Ford CoppolaUnauthorizedPod.com for more. Hosted by Zachary Domes and J Brooks Young.

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Top 10 Films of 2025! plus, a Movie Draft of...

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2026/01/15

EndadaYear! Hosts Zach Domes and J Brooks Young reveal each of their Top Ten Films of 2025, and the 1st ever cumulative Some Like It Unauthorized Top Ten Official Official Best Films of the Year. In a year of aliens and monsters, political radicals and ping pong players, which film will be crowned the totally not arbitrary best of the best? Listen to find out! Or watch on youtube!Additionally, we revise our chronological watchlist of 485 films from cinema’s history by selecting the final 15 films to

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50:32

Marty Supreme (2025)

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2026/01/11

The year ended not with a bang, but with the ping and the pong of that little ball of energy Timmy Chalamet bouncing across the silver screen in Josh Safdie’s new film. Topics include: the rise of the Safdie/Bronstein anxiety wave of films, the adoption of these films by the awards voters, and a segue into the 60s avant-garde and what radical filmmaking looks like today.Next episode: Top Ten Lists of 2025, and a Movie Draft to round out the History of Film list… and then …THE GODFATHER (1972) by

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54:41

Sambizanga (1972)

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2025/12/24

Filmmaking was a mid-life discovery for Sarah Maldoror: she made her first short film at the age of 39, after making waves in Paris as part of a black theater troupe, advocating abroad for african independence and supporting the fight in places like Algeria and Angola, and crucially, studying film in the USSR before assisting on The Battle of Algiers. As she witnessed Gilles Pontecorvo’s film become an international rallying cry for anti-imperialists everywhere, she knew without question that she

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58:26

Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)

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2025/12/17

We’re joined by Werner Herzog to discuss his early career film imagining the search for El Dorado by the spanish conquistadors, starring Klaus Kinski, and we explore post-colonial art, unexpected comedy, and the legacy of white dudes making their own epic jungle movies.Next week: Sambizanga (1972) by Sarah MaldororWatch the trailer for our short filmSuggest a film to be added to our Film History watchlistUnauthorizedPod.com for more. Hosted by Zachary Domes and J Brooks Young. Music by hetchy

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71:30

Pink Flamingos (1972)

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2025/12/10

Garbage man John Waters witnessed the explosion of specialty theaters in the 60s that offered all manner of forbidden fruit, from nudie european films to gross-out gore films, and with natural business savvy, he catered to that growing audience with his own ultra out-there amateur films. He made out with a nice profit, but his films really persisted in public consciousness because of their smart satire, and because they felt like a coming out party for a whole community of interesting,

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61:30

The Last Picture Show (1971)

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2025/12/03

Larry McMurtry, the author of the novel that he and Peter Bogdanovich adapted into this smash success film, made it his life project to reconcile the popular image of the american west with the reality he grew up in post WWII. His novel “Horseman, Pass By” became the Paul Newman starring Hud, as defeatist as a film western can get, and The Last Picture Show is no sunnier. We explore how the film depicts sex and growing up in small town USA, and talk about the Gen Z aversion to sex in films today. We

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59:56

A New Leaf (1971)

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2025/11/26

As fate would have it, young divorcée Elaine May would move across the country, leaving her baby daughter with her parents, to pursue higher education at one of the only colleges that admitted people without a high school diploma: the University of Chicago. Only there would she befriend Mike Nichols, with whom she would become a nationally known comedic performer, before they quit while they were ahead and forged separate careers. By ‘71, Nichols has already won the Best Director Oscar for The

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96:47

The Conformist (1970)

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2025/11/19

Bernardo Bertolucci has us thinking about World War 2 and the effects wrought by loser fascists like our protagonist Clerici, and the generation that came after, Bertolucci’s own baby boomers. We talk about his influences in hollywood and the french new wave, the legacy of this era of italian cinema, and queer readings of the film.9:25 - The Conformist discussion beginsNext week: A New Leaf (1971) by Elaine MayUnauthorizedPod.com for more. Hosted by Zachary Domes and J Brooks Young. Music

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59:13

Bugonia (2025)

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2025/11/12

We interrupt your regularly scheduled podcast to hash out our Bugonia feelings - does Yorgos Lanthimos strike a chord with his sci-fi class war extremity, or do these provocations ring hollow? Topics include: Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons, Stanley Kubrick and Rian Johnson, and the nature of meaning in the universe.Next week: The Conformist (1970) by Bernardo BertolucciUnauthorizedPod.com for more. Hosted by Zachary Domes and J Brooks Young. Music by hetchy

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66:29

Wanda (1970)

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2025/10/29

This week we tackle another “reclaimed” classic, actress Barbara Loden’s sole feature-length directing effort, the spare character study Wanda. Should we be wary, like Paul Schrader suggested after the 2022 BFI Sight and Sound List was published, of the new canonizing of just this sort of previously unsung film? To find the answer, we go deep on Loden’s aesthetic choices, and the themes to be teased out of both the images and the narrative of this american ghost story.Next week: The Conformist

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71:34

A Touch of Zen (1970)

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2025/10/15

King Hu stood at a crossroads early in his career, just before the release of 1967’s Dragon Inn. He had left Hong Kong and the film industry he had just begun to break into, following his mentor Li Han-Hsiang to Taiwan at a time when there was no taiwanese film industry. To make matters worse, Li’s epic gamble Beauty of Beauties had just flopped, casting the entire future of their independent enterprise into doubt. Against all odds, Dragon Inn was a smash success, and set the template for King’s

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