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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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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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65:27

One Battle After Another (2025)

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2025/10/05

What does it mean to be an artist in a fascist country? Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film starring Leonardo DiCaprio appears to be less about revolutionary politics and more about the universal experience of two generations of a family struggling to relate. The politics are timely, but is there something untoward about an overtly political film, especially in the Trump era, that wants to frontline its emotional family drama and sideline, or altogether avoid, a tangible call to action? We put our heads

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60:16

Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)

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2025/10/01

Do yourself a favor, and watch this Toshio Matsumoto film. It’s made by a playful and original filmmaker, whom was almost certainly versed in the work of Godard, Resnais, and every other new wave voice in that moment, but whom brought his own eye and his own inventions to film and made something totally new. It stars strikingly beautiful trans and queer actors that you’d otherwise never see on film, whom perform in daring roles with aplomb, and get to speak for themselves in documentary interludes

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67:15

Easy Rider (1969)

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2025/09/24

A new generation of cinephilic filmmakers have arrived on the scene in the US; raised on Hitchcock and Godard, these youngsters know what makes a film feel exciting, and they know how to get their kicks in real life too: with drugs and women. But, as we examine on this episode, Easy Rider is not just a hangout film. Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, and Jack Nicholson are out to explore why they’ve hit the road and why this generation is so rebellious, and that means examining both the country and

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58:50

Army of Shadows (1969)

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2025/09/17

Jean-Pierre Melville’s look back at the perilous times of France’s occupation during WWII arrived while the French were trying to look forward; protests and workers’ strikes throughout ‘68 had attempted to spur change in de Gaulle’s government, and that man, who had made a political career of his role in the campaign to free France from nazi occupation, was the last person that young audiences wanted to see celebrated. Army of Shadows was a box office failure as a result, but more recent

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64:36

Theorem (1968)

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2025/09/10

Pier Paolo Pasolini described his 1968 film with young star Terence Stamp as the story of when “a young man, maybe god, maybe the devil, that is to say, authenticity, visits this bourgeois family,” and the aftermath that follows. It’s a boldly provocative work from a gay catholic marxist that never failed to speak his mind, even when it meant defying those whom might otherwise identify with him. It’s also a work that skirts many lines: comic and tragic, flippant and earnest, indulgent and austere

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57:17

if... (1968)

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2025/09/03

What do you know about Free Cinema? Not much, Lindsay Anderson would presume, as he and his group of british outsider filmmakers put on screenings of their films in the 50’s and did not set the world on fire like they hoped. Some of his cohorts would make the biggest films of the kitchen-sink genre that followed in the 60’s: gritty, working-class portraits of modern discontentment in Britain. But while those filmmakers left for Hollywood, Anderson stayed in Britain and produced a truly scandalous

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56:15

Playtime (1967)

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2025/08/27

Jacques Tati enjoyed great critical and commercial success as the director and star of comedies in the 50’s, but like Chaplin or even Fellini, he wouldn’t dare repeat himself twice. He dreamt of going above and beyond, and it would take a decade to finally realize the giant, genre-bending Playtime. The gentle, conservative satire did not capture the attention of the young radicalized french audience that was about to embark on widespread protest throughout ‘68, but Playtime’s reputation has

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53:31

Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

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2025/08/20

Like in hollywood with the bloated roadshow musical, the italian film industry faced a crisis of identity in the 60’s as their investment in huge historical epics drew in smaller and smaller crowds. Sergio Leone had the antidote. The son of a director, Leone worked his way up to that vaunted role and started making westerns that borrowed liberally not just from his favorite Ford or Hawks films, but also samurai films and new bloody, edgy horror films like those of Mario Bava. The resulting films

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51:17

Belle de Jour (1967)

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2025/08/13

They don’t make ‘em like Luis Buñuel anymore, a true blue iconoclast whose career charted across continents and spanned the last days of silent film up to cinema’s heyday in the 70’s. We catch up with the serial offender of catholic and bourgeois sensibilities in his late career team-up with an adventurous movie star, Catherine Deneuve, in this fantastical exploration of taboo sexuality among the Paris elite. We talk about how the Venice Golden Lion winner toes the line between sexual liberation and

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54:21

Wavelength (1967)

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2025/08/06

The only artists Michael Snow wanted to model his career after defied categorization, mixing mediums and blowing out boundaries of what was or wasn’t fine art. Artists like Dalí and Warhol loomed large, and each had also deigned to touch the lowly cinema when it was still thought to be below painting or sculpture. Snow saw the camera as a tool that had not yet been utilized to its full potential, not by conventional narrative cinema nor by the avant-gardists he rubbed elbows with in NYC. His best

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54:12

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

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2025/07/30

Few movie stars enjoyed the laurels or faced the criticisms that Sidney Poitier did, a historic Best Actor winner and a man accused of abetting all of hollywood’s fantasies of easy racial reconciliation. He played many a saintly character on screen before playing hollywood’s first black (and decidedly self-assured) detective in Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night. This novel role would allow him to embody the discontent of being black in late 60’s America, and audiences were more than ready

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