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It"s On The List

Gerry Hartman and Sammy Ray

Gerry and Sammy talk about movies. Old, new, bad, good, and everything in between. Generally, two films that are loosely connected in some form or fashion will be discussed in each episode, but the boys will divert from this format to rank the filmographies of certain directors, discuss end-of-the-year best-of lists, etc. Come listen to the two smartest people in the world deliver their objectively correct analyses on a variety of films. Hosts: Gerry Hartman, Sammy Ray. Theme song produced by Eric

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#55: Dissociating at the Zoo

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2025/07/03

Sammy and Gerry tackle one of the great pop melodramatists of his time - you know him, you love him, it's the one and only Cameron Crowe. The boys discuss his despairing Y2K head-trip, Vanilla Sky (2001), and his beautifully bittersweet family drama We Bought a Zoo (2011). They discuss the effectiveness of his cornball leanings, his excellent direction of actors, and the amount of times that they cried listening to Matt Damon talk about that damn zoo. Contains spoilers for both films. (0...

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#54: Milwaukee Film Festival 2025

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2025/07/02

On this VERY belated podcast covering April's Milwaukee Film Festival, Gerry takes on hosting duties by himself to discuss the films he saw. Titles include: The Shrouds, Cloud, Black Dog, Magic Farm, WTO/99, and more! (00:00) Intro (02:39) The Shrouds (11:10) Dead Lover (12:30) Midnight Shorts (19:34) AJ Goes to the Dog Park (20:44) Black Dog (23:14) Cloud (26:59) Magic Farm (30:04) WTO/99 (32:43) Outro

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#53: Bava Told Me To

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2025/05/20

Genre schlock or high art? The answer is yes. Sammy and Gerry are talking about Giallo maestro Mario Bava's A Bay of Blood (1971) and New York crime/horror filmmaker Larry Cohen's God Told Me to (1976), two films that explore violence and the cinematic apparatus from a variety of angles. Deranged content is discussed, and this episode contains spoilers for both films. (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:00) Bava background (00:08:35) A Bay of Blood (00:27:32) Cohen background (00:31...

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#52: Here (2024) and There

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2025/03/29

In the last episode, Gerry and Sammy discussed films about trains - one of cinema's oldest subjects, and a topic which innately ties into cinema's essence of moving images. This episode, we're leaning in the other direction, toward isolated locations and still images. The films discussed are Here (2024), Robert Zemeckis' experimental melodrama from last year, and Contactos (1970), Paulino Viota's elusive, under-seen film which was made in secret during Franco's dictatorship in Spain. The two ...

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#51: Trains

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2025/03/03

We're talking about train movies - more specifically, Nazi train movies. Discussed today are: John Frankeneheimer's suspense-filled The Train (1964) and Lars Von Trier's stylish neo noir Europa (1991). Contains spoilers for both films.

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#50: Nosferatu(s)

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2025/01/31

Another year goes by, another Dracula adaptation hits the cinemas... Sammy and Gerry are discussing 3 of the most famous film adaptations of the classic text - the 3 which are entitled "Nosferatu:" F.W. Murnau's 1922 silent classic, Werner Herzog's 1979 reimagining, and the latest version from Robert Eggers. The boys discuss which features of the original text the respective filmmakers emphasize and focus on, the various virtues (or downfalls) of their different stylistic approaches, as well ...

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#49: 2024 in Review

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2024/12/28

Another year has come and gone, the unstoppable march of time continues to yield physical and psychological torment, and another crop of new films has hit the public consciousness. Sammy and Gerry dive into the cinema that 2024 had to offer: their favorite films from the year, their least favorites, and the best older films they watched in the year of our lord 2024. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times - thank you for listening to the boys ramble about movies this year.(00:00:0...

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#48: Only Angels Have Wheels

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2024/11/30

On this holiday weekend, Gerry and Sammy are feeling thankful for the films of Howard Hawks - one of the greatest Hollywood auteurs. Discussed are: the similarities and subtly radical differences between Hawks' aviation melodrama Only Angels Have Wings (1939) and his dour car racing film Red Line 7000, Hawks' prioritizing of characterization over narrative propulsion, his recurring themes and stylistic approaches, and his filmography at large. Contains spoilers for both films.

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#47: Black Cats and Bye Bye Men

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2024/10/30

Spooky season is reaching its climax, so Sammy and Gerry decided to dive into two equally revered and beloved horror films: Edgar G. Ulmer's classic The Black Cat (1934), and Stacy Title's misunderstood masterpiece (according to some, at least) The Bye Bye Man (2017). They discuss The Black Cat's unique place in Ulmer's filmography, its lasting thematic potency, and the excellent performances of Karloff and Lugosi, as well as The Bye Bye Man's idiosyncratic tone, its uncanny images and perfor...

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#46: Francis Ford Coppola

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2024/09/28

In anticipation of Megalopolis' release this weekend, Sammy and Gerry are discussing their top 5 favorite films by Francis Ford Coppola. They discuss the arc of Coppola's career, from his low budget 60s work to his renowned 70s blockbusters to his more experimental late period, delving into his rigorous style, unabashed earnestness, and all of the different ways that his interests manifest across his filmography.

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#45: Sammy is Going to Lisbon

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2024/08/31

The title says it all - Sammy is going on a trip to Lisbon, so he and Gerry decided to discuss some films about Portugal: Raul Ruiz's sprawling epic, Mysteries of Lisbon (2010), and Rita Azevedo Gomes' stunningly beautiful The Portuguese Woman (2018). They discuss the distinctly different stylistic approaches of these two filmmakers, how these films break traditional narrative forms, and the ways in which the filmmakers merge other art forms into their cinema. Contains spoilers for both films...

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#44: The Mise-en-Scène Gods

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2024/07/27

Come on a journey with us to the other side of the French New Wave: working alongside the more renowned likes of Godard, Truffaut, and Varda, critics/filmmakers Alexandre Astruc and Paul Vecchiali are two of the unsung greats of French cinema. Gerry and Sammy discuss Astruc's Balzac adaptation, Albert Savarus (1993), and Vecchiali's tragic comedy, Femmes Femmes (1974), discussing the stunning staging and formal rigor of these two underrated and under-seen artists. Contains spoi...

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#43: Ancient and Modern China

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2024/06/29

Gerry and Sammy examine two of China’s greatest filmmakers - King Hu and Jia Zhangke - by talking about their films Legend of the Mountain (1979) and Mountains May Depart (2015). They discuss the films’ interesting depictions of the passage of time, their larger connections to China’s culture and politics, the beauty of Hu’s and Jia’s bold stylistic decisions, and more. Contains spoilers for both films.(00:00:00) Intro(00:02:05) King Hu background(00:11:11) Legend of the Mountain(00:45:26) Ji...

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#43: Sports/Sex

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2024/05/25

Summertime is here and the sun is out, so it's time to dust off those tennis rackets and get out those baseball bats as the boys discuss Luca Guadagnino's latest film, Challengers (2024), alongside Ron Shelton's baseball dramedy, Bull Durham (1998). Gerry and Sammy breakdown the stylish maximalism of Challengers and what it says about relationships and competition, as well as delving into the romanticism and poetry of Bull Durham's depiction of success and career...

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#42: Genre-hopping with Kiyoshi Kurosawa and M. Night...

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2024/05/11

Two maestros of fascinating genre-blending released two of their strangest genre mashups in the late 2010s: M. Night Shyamalan's trilogy capper Glass (2019) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Before We Vanish (2017). The boys discuss how these auteurs play with genre, the silly strangeness of Glass, and the humanist beauty of Before We Vanish. Contains spoilers for both films.

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#41: Milwaukee Film Festival 2024

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2024/04/27

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#40: Romcoms (sort of)

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2024/04/13

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#39: Early and Late Style: The Works of Tobe Hooper...

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2024/03/30

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#38: Hurt People Hurt People

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2024/03/16

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#37: Straub/Huillet/Costa

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2024/03/02

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