Films for Today
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Hosted by Jimmy Bernasconi (‘Sacred Cinema’, ABC Radio), ‘Films for Today’ explores how the art of cinema can help us understand the social, cultural and political issues that currently trouble us. Each week, Jimmy selects a seminal film and contemplates its profound insights into the most pressing challenges of our time. For questions or enquiries about the show, you can reach Jimmy at contact@jimmybernasconi.com or on Instagram by searching ‘filmsfortoday’.
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Can we break free of deviance? | "Catch Me if You Can" (2002) d. Steven Spielberg
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May 03, 2026 |
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Should storytellers strive for authenticity? | "Blue Heron" (2025) d. Sophy Romvari w/ Sophy Romvari
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Apr 26, 2026 |
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What does evolution have in store for modern man? | "Jurassic Park" (1993) d. Steven Spielberg
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Apr 19, 2026 |
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Can you outgrow evil? | "Forbidden Planet" (1956) d. Fred M. Wilcox
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Apr 12, 2026 |
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What does it take to be a real man? | "Little Shop of Horrors" (1986) d. Frank Oz
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Apr 05, 2026 |
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Is violence ever justifiable? | "Tyrannosaur" (2011) d. Paddy Considine
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Mar 29, 2026 |
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What is the truest form of love? | "Breaking the Waves" (1996) d. Lars von Trier
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Mar 22, 2026 |
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Does personal ambition have a limit? | "We Need to Talk About Kevin" (2011) d. Lynne Ramsay
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Mar 15, 2026 |
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Who triggers societal collapse? | "Escape from New York" (1981) d. John Carpenter
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Mar 08, 2026 |
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How can we get what we want? | "Groundhog Day" (1993) d. Harold Ramis
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Mar 01, 2026 |
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Does everything need to be solved? | "Under the Silver Lake" (2018) d. David Robert Mitchell
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Feb 22, 2026 |
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Where might overthinking lead us? | "The End of the Tour" (2015) d. James Ponsoldt
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Feb 15, 2026 |
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Who should we listen to? | "Donnie Darko" (2001) d. Richard Kelly
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Feb 08, 2026 |
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Are you The One? | "The Fisher King" (1991) d. Terry Gilliam
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Feb 01, 2026 |
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What is the participatory aspect of cinema and reality itself? | "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One" (1968) d. William Greaves w/ Bhenn Tonks
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Jan 25, 2026 |
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How do you overcome the alpha male? | "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" (2004) d. Rawson Marshall Thurber
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Jan 18, 2026 |
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What is the fate of the basic man? | "The Man Who Wasn't There" (2001) d. Joel Coen
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Jan 11, 2026 |
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How might we respond to an uninspiring world? | "The Shining" (1980) d. Stanley Kubrick
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Jan 04, 2026 |
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2025: A Year in Review
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Dec 28, 2025 |
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What is the fate of the exceptional? | "Edward Scissorhands" (1990) d. Tim Burton
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Dec 21, 2025 |
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Do we truly see what we already have? | "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999) d. Stanley Kubrick
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Dec 14, 2025 |
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Can a lot come from a little? | "Fantasia" (1940) d. Various
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Dec 07, 2025 |
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What is the paradoxical nature of rebellion? | "Patterns" (1956) d. Fielder Cook
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Nov 30, 2025 |
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Is happiness more available than most of us think? | "Little Miss Sunshine" (2006) d. Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton
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Nov 23, 2025 |
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Is it possible to outrun a timeless sense of duty? | "The Wild Bunch" (1969) d. Sam Peckinpah
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Nov 16, 2025 |
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Are we getting too crazy? | "Bugonia" (2025) d. Yorgos Lanthimos
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Nov 09, 2025 |
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What are the vulnerabilities of democracy? | "Jaws" (1975) d. Steven Spielberg
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Nov 02, 2025 |
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What are the effects of modern discourse? | "Party Animal" (2025) d. Ali Gill w/ Ali Gill and Aimie Sullivan
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Oct 26, 2025 |
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Can worn-out relationships be renovated? | "Sentimental Value" (2025) d. Joachim Trier | LFF 2025 Special
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Why do healthy relationships feel impossible to achieve? | "Possession" (1981) d. Andrzej Żuławski
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Oct 11, 2025 |
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What is the power of performed intellect? | "The Master" (2012) d. Paul Thomas Anderson
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Oct 05, 2025 |
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Can we trust our ordinary senses of self and reality? | "Perfect Blue" (1997) d. Satoshi Kon
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Sep 28, 2025 |
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How might we liberate ourselves from oppressive regimes? | "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994) d. Frank Darabont
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Sep 21, 2025 |
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How political are we qualified to be? | "Eddington" (2025) d. Ari Aster
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Sep 07, 2025 |
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Is there such a thing as dignified rebellion? | "Killer of Sheep" (1978) d. Charles Burnett
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Aug 31, 2025 |
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How might passive attention impact the world? | "Los Angeles Plays Itself" (2003) d. Thom Andersen
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Aug 24, 2025 |
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Will anyone ever understand your existential plight? | "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) d. Nicholas Ray
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Aug 17, 2025 |
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How powerless are we as individuals in the face of existential threats? | "First Reformed" (2017) d. Paul Schrader w/ Christopher Smol
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Aug 10, 2025 |
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Why make art? | "Sideways" (2004) d. Alexander Payne
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Aug 03, 2025 |
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How deep can human connections go? | "The Double Life of Veronique" (1991) d. Krzysztof Kieślowski
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Jul 27, 2025 |
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Is trust between people doomed in a world of imitations? | 'The Thing' (1982) d. John Carpenter
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Jul 20, 2025 |
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What is truly at stake in the cinema? | 'Babylon' (2022) d. Damien Chazelle
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Jul 13, 2025 |
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How should we view claims to innocence? | 'The White Ribbon' (2009) d. Michael Haneke
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Jul 06, 2025 |
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Can love actually be found in a hopeless place? | 'Mud' (2012) d. Jeff Nichols
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Jun 29, 2025 |
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How can we know when to speak the truth? | "On the Waterfront" (1954) d. Elia Kazan
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Jun 22, 2025 |
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What is the ultimate consequence of integrating the shadow? | "Youth in Revolt" (2009) d. Miguel Arteta
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Jun 15, 2025 |
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Are there stages of true toughness? | "Good Will Hunting" (1997) d. Gus Van Sant
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Jun 08, 2025 |
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What does criticism look like in a postmodern world? | 'Ratatouille' (2007) d. Brad Bird & Jan Pinkava
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Jun 01, 2025 |
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Are we content with our treatment of beauty? | "Parthenope" (2024) d. Paolo Sorrentino
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May 25, 2025 |
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How available are our deepest emotions? | "American Beauty" (1999) d. Sam Mendes
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May 18, 2025 |
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How should we navigate subjective experience in a world of "objects"? | "Withnail & I" (1987) d. Bruce Robinson
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May 11, 2025 |
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What might be the antidote to fascism? | "Hot Fuzz" (2007) d. Edgar Wright
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May 04, 2025 |
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How are we to make sense of artistic ambition? | "Paterson" (2016) d. Jim Jarmusch
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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What does it mean to give our true selves to those we love? | "Wings of Desire" (1987) d. Wim Wenders
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Apr 20, 2025 |
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Are we on track to see the end of cinema? | "The Second Act" (2024) d. Quentin Dupieux
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Apr 13, 2025 |
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How dangerous is the romanticisation of modern life? | "The End" (2024) d. Joshua Oppenheimer
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Apr 06, 2025 |
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How might a simple life constrain us more than we think? | "Pather Panchali" (1955) d. Satyajit Ray
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Mar 30, 2025 |
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What is the value of privacy? | "The Conversation" (1974) d. Francis Ford Coppola
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Mar 23, 2025 |
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What does noble desire look like? | "Malena" (2000) d. Giuseppe Tornatore
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Mar 16, 2025 |
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Why should we care about the end of humanity? | "On the Beach" (1959) d. Stanley Kramer
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Mar 09, 2025 |
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How far away are we from transformative experiences? | "Night on Earth" (1991) d. Jim Jarmusch
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Mar 02, 2025 |
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Does anyone have chance at a decent life? | "Stand By Me" (1986) d. Rob Reiner
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Feb 23, 2025 |
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What do we desire in an ideal companion? | "Wallace and Gromit" (Various) d. Nick Park et al
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Feb 16, 2025 |
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How can we transcend life's inevitable tragedies? | "The Elephant Man" (1980) d. David Lynch
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Feb 09, 2025 |
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What kinds of people should we open up to? | "Leave Her to Heaven" (1945) d. John M. Stahl
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Feb 02, 2025 |
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What does a true commitment to science really look like? | "I Origins" (2014) d. Mike Cahill
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Jan 26, 2025 |
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'Big Fish' (2003) d. Tim Burton
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Jan 19, 2025 |
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'The Innocents' (1961) d. Jack Clayton
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Jan 12, 2025 |
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'A Complete Unknown' (2024) d. James Mangold
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Jan 05, 2025 |
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2024: A Year in Review
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Dec 29, 2024 |
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'The Day of the Beast' (1995) d. Álex de la Iglesia
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Dec 22, 2024 |
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'Bad Santa' (2003) d. Terry Zwigoff w/ Eddie Bernasconi
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Dec 15, 2024 |
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'Anora' (2024) d. Sean Baker w/ Henry Bretz
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Dec 08, 2024 |
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'The Remains of the Day' (1993) d. James Ivory w/ Christopher Smol
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Dec 01, 2024 |
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'The Taste of Mango' (2023) d. Chloe Abrahams w/ Chloe Abrahams
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Nov 24, 2024 |
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'Like My Brother' (2024) d. Sal Balharrie w/ Archie Chew
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Nov 17, 2024 |
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'Sofa, So Good' (2024) d. The Thiele Brothers w/ The Thiele Brothers
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Nov 09, 2024 |
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'Joker: Folie à Deux' (2024) d. Todd Phillips
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Nov 03, 2024 |
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Special Early Release - 'Halloween' (1978) d. John Carpenter w/ Matthew T. Price
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Oct 24, 2024 |
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'Crocodile Tears' (2024) d. Tumpal Tampubolon w/ Tumpal Tampubolon
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Oct 20, 2024 |
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'Trainspotting' (1996) d. Danny Boyle
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Oct 13, 2024 |
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'A Real Pain' (2024) d. Jesse Eisenberg
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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'When the Wind Blows' (1986) d. Jimmy T. Murakami
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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'Watership Down' (1978) d. Martin Rosen & John Hubley
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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'The Leopard' (1963) d. Luchino Visconti
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Oct 05, 2024 |
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'Amadeus' (1984) d. Miloš Forman
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Sep 29, 2024 |
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'The Browning Version' (1951) d. Anthony Asquith
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Sep 22, 2024 |
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'2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968) d. Stanley Kubrick
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Sep 15, 2024 |
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'The Purple Rose of Cairo' (1985) d. Woody Allen
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Sep 08, 2024 |
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The End of Sacred Cinema...
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Aug 11, 2024 |
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The Formidable-Facing Feminine - 'The Birds' (1963) d. Alfred Hitchcock, 'Contact' (1997) d. Robert Zemeckis & 'Twisters' (2024) d. Lee Isaac Chung
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Aug 04, 2024 |
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F(eminine) B(udding) I(nvestigator)s - 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991) d. Jonathan Demme, 'Wind River' (2017) d. Taylor Sheridan & 'Longlegs' (2024) d. Oz Perkins
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Jul 28, 2024 |
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Adult Entertainers - 'Showgirls' (1995) d. Paul Verhoeven, 'Boogie Nights' (1997) d. Paul Thomas Anderson & 'MaXXXine' (2024) d. Ti West
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Jul 21, 2024 |
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Dreams - 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) d. Victor Fleming & King Vidor, 'Waking Life' (2001) d. Richard Linklater & 'Kinds of Kindness' (2024) d. Yorgos Lanthimos
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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Modern Japan - 'Tokyo Story' (1953) d. Yasujirô Ozu, 'Sans Soleil' (1983) d. Chris Marker & 'Godzilla Minus One' (2023) d. Takashi Yamazaki
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Jul 07, 2024 |
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Primates - 'King Kong' (1933) d. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 'Twelve Monkeys' (1995) d. Terry Gilliam & 'Sasquatch Sunset' (2024) d. David Zellner & Nathan Zellner
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Jun 30, 2024 |
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Buried Treasure - 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' (1948) d. John Huston, 'National Treasure' (2004) d. Jon Turteltaub & 'La Chimera' (2023) d. Alice Rohrwacher
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Jun 23, 2024 |
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Seductive Alter Egos - 'The Nutty Professor' (1963) d. Jerry Lewis, 'The Mask' (1994) d. Chuck Russell & 'Hit Man' (2024) d. Richard Linklater
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Jun 16, 2024 |
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Fall Guys - 'Angels with Dirty Faces' (1938) d. Michael Curtiz, 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' (1988) d. Robert Zemeckis & 'The Fall Guy' (2024) d. David Leitch
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Jun 09, 2024 |
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Avenging the Feminine - 'Lady Snowblood' (1973) d. Toshiya Fujita, 'Irreversible' (2002) d. Gaspar Noé & 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' (2024) d. George Miller
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Jun 02, 2024 |
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Clingers - 'Play Misty for Me' (1971) d. Clint Eastwood, 'The Cable Guy' (1996) d. Ben Stiller & 'The Piano Teacher' (2001) d. Michael Haneke
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May 26, 2024 |
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Private Investigators - 'The Long Goodbye' (1973) d. Robert Altman, 'Ace Ventura: Pet Detective' (1994) d. Tom Shadyac & 'I Heart Huckabees' (2004) d. David O. Russell
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May 19, 2024 |
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Side-Switchers - 'The Bridges of Madison County' (1995) d. Clint Eastwood, 'Match Point' (2005) d. Woody Allen, 'Challengers' (2024) d. Luca Guadagnino
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May 12, 2024 |
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Shooting Violence - 'Peeping Tom' (1960) d. Michael Powell, 'Nightcrawler' (2014) d. Dan Gilroy & 'Civil War' (2024) d. Alex Garland
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May 05, 2024 |
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Bohemian Triangles - 'Jules and Jim' (1962) d. François Truffaut, 'The Dreamers' (2003) d. Bernardo Bertolucci & 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' (2008) d. Woody Allen
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Apr 28, 2024 |
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All Roads Lead to Rome - 'Rome, Open City' (1945) d. Roberto Rossellini, 'La Dolce Vita' (1960) d. Federico Fellini & 'Il Divo' (2008) d. Paolo Sorrentino
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Apr 21, 2024 |
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Vengeful Street Fighters - 'Old Boy' (2003) d. Park Chan-wook, 'John Wick' (2014) d. Chad Stahelski & David Leitch & 'Monkey Man' (2024) d. Dev Patel
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Apr 14, 2024 |
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Missing Persons - 'The Vanishing' (1988) d. George Sluizer, 'Prisoners' (2013) d. Denis Villeneuve & 'The Sweet East' (2023) d. Sean Price Williams
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Apr 07, 2024 |
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Accidental Love Bots - 'Metropolis' (1927) d. Fritz Lang, 'Her' (2013) d. Spike Jonze & 'Robot Dreams' (2023) d. Pablo Berger
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Mar 31, 2024 |
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Monsters in the Forest - 'Predator' (1987) d. John McTiernan, 'Monsters' (2010) d. Gareth Edwards & 'Monster' (2023) d. Kore-eda Hirokazu
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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Kidnapped - 'The Searchers' (1956) d. John Ford, 'Funny Games' (1997/2007) d. Michael Haneke & 'Gone Baby Gone' (2007) d. Ben Affleck
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Mar 17, 2024 |
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Heroes in the Sand - 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962) d. David Lean, 'Black Hawk Down' (2001) d. Ridley Scott & 'Dune: Part Two' (2024) d. Denis Villeneuve
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Mar 10, 2024 |
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Limited Resources - 'Modern Times' (1936) d. Charles Chaplin, 'Cléo from 5 to 7' (1962) d. Agnès Varda & 'Perfect Days' (2023) d. Wim Wenders
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Mar 03, 2024 |
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Cooks and Cannibals - 'Babette's Feast' (1987) d. Gabriel Axel, 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover' (1989) d. Peter Greenaway & 'The Taste of Things' (2023) d. Anh Hung Tran
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Feb 25, 2024 |
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Suffocating Authority - 'Rope' (1948) d. Alfred Hitchcock, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' (1975) d. Milos Forman & 'The Iron Claw' (2023) d. Sean Durkin
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Feb 18, 2024 |
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Fictitious Figures - 'Meet John Doe' (1941) d. Frank Capra, 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' (1999) d. Anthony Minghella & 'American Fiction' (2023) d. Cord Jefferson
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Feb 11, 2024 |
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Mundane Malevolence - 'Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles' (1975) d. Chantal Akerman, 'Little Children' (2006) d. Todd Field & 'The Zone of Interest' (2023) d. Jonathan Glazer
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Feb 04, 2024 |
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Under the Wing - 'The Last Detail' (1973) d. Hal Ashby, 'Malcolm' (1986) d. Nadia Tass & 'The Holdovers' (2023) d. Alexander Payne
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Jan 28, 2024 |
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Motherhood Now - 'The End We Start From' (2023) d. Mahalia Belo, 'Poor Things' (2023) d. Yorgos Lanthimos & 'The Boy and the Heron' (2023) d. Hayao Miyazaki
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Jan 21, 2024 |
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Fight For Your Life - 'A Matter of Life and Death' (1946) d. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 'A Hidden Life' (2019) d. Terrence Malick & 'One Life' (2023) d. James Hawes
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Jan 14, 2024 |
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Salvation by Sedation - 'Life is Beautiful' (1997) d. Roberto Benigni, 'Shutter Island' (2010) d. Martin Scorsese & 'Leave the World Behind' (2023) d. Sam Esmail
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Jan 07, 2024 |
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2023: A Year in Review
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Dec 31, 2023 |
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Home for the Holidays (Early Release) - 'It's a Wonderful Life' (1946) d. Frank Capra, 'Black Christmas' (1974) d. Bob Clark & 'Home Alone' (1990) d. Chris Columbus
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Dec 21, 2023 |
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Requesting Your Favourite Films of 2023
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Dec 19, 2023 |
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Final Solutions - 'Toy Story' (1995) d. John Lasseter, 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009) d. Quentin Tarantino, 'How to Have Sex' (2023) d. Molly Manning Walker
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Dec 17, 2023 |
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Delayed Anonymous Romance - 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin' (2005) d. Judd Apatow, 'Last Tango in Paris' (1972) d. Bernardo Bertolucci & 'Fallen Leaves' (2023) d. Aki Kaurismäki
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Dec 10, 2023 |
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Napoleonic Weakness - 'Napoleon Dynamite' (2004) d. Jared Hess, 'Napoleon' (2023) d. Ridley Scott & 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (1951) d. Elia Kazan
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Dec 03, 2023 |
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Eat the Rich - 'Delicatessen' (1991) d. Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' (1972) d. Luis Buñuel & 'Saltburn' (2023) d. Emerald Fennell
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Nov 26, 2023 |
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Ends of Eras - 'Falling Down' (1993) d. Joel Schumacher, 'Anatomy of a Fall' (2023) d. Justine Triet & 'The Last Emperor' (1987) d. Bernardo Bertolucci
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Nov 19, 2023 |
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Been There, Done That - 'The Worst Person in the World' (2021) d. Joachim Trier, 'Passages' (2023) d. Ira Sachs & 'The Great Beauty' (2013) d. Paolo Sorrentino
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Nov 12, 2023 |
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Romantic - 'Bright Star' (2009) d. Jane Campion, 'Grizzly Man' (2005) d. Werner Herzog & ' Before Midnight' (2013) d. Richard Linklater
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Nov 05, 2023 |
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Heroes of the Past - 'Killers of the Flower Moon' (2023) d. Martin Scorsese, 'Akira' (1988) d. Katsuhiro Otomo & 'The Manchurian Candidate' (1962) d. John Frankenheimer
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Oct 29, 2023 |
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Pair Bonding - 'Nebraska' (2013) d. Alexander Payne, 'Thelma & Louise' (1991) d. Ridley Scott & 'Before Sunset' (2004) d. Richard Linklater
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Oct 22, 2023 |
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No Man Is an Island (LFF/Radiothon Special) - 'The Bikeriders' (2023) d. Jeff Nichols, 'Maestro' (2023) d. Bradley Cooper & 'The Killer' (2023) d. David Fincher
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Oct 15, 2023 |
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Discussing Life - 'Naked' (1992) d. Mike Leigh, 'Before Sunrise' (1995) d. Richard Linklater & 'Mindwalk' (1990) d. Bernt Amadeus Capra
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Oct 08, 2023 |
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Realising the Fantasy - 'La La Land' (2016) d. Damien Chazelle
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Sep 10, 2023 |
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Lost Love - 'Brief Encounter' (1945) d. David Lean, 'Past Lives' (2023) d. Celine Song & 'Casablanca' (1942) d. Michael Curtiz
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Sep 04, 2023 |
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From Naught to Naughty - 'Talk to Me' (2022) d. Danny and Michael Philippou, 'Kids' (1995) d. Larry Clark & 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial' (1982) d. Steven Spielberg
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Aug 27, 2023 |
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Alien Encounters - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (1977) d. Steven Spielberg, 'Godland' (2022) d. Hlynur Pálmason & 'Asteroid City' (2023) d. Wes Anderson
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Aug 20, 2023 |
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About Parents - 'About My Father' (2023) d. Laura Terruso, 'All About My Mother' (1999) d. Pedro Almodóvar & 'About Time' (2013) d. Richard Curtis
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Aug 13, 2023 |
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Iconic/Demonic - 'Mazey Day' (2023) d. Uta Briesewitz, 'Demon 79' (2023) d. Toby Haynes & 'Loch Henry' (2023) d. Sam Miller
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Aug 06, 2023 |
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Barbenheimer (Special Early Episode) - 'Barbie' (2023) d. Greta Gerwig, 'Oppenheimer' (2023) d. Christopher Nolan & 'Melancholia' (2011) d. Lars von Trier
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Politics on the Plain - 'Sweet Home Alabama' (2002) d. Andy Tennant, 'Alcarràs' (2022) d. Carla Simón & Sonia Castelo & 'Blazing Saddles' (1974) d. Mel Brooks
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Jul 23, 2023 |
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Phantasmic Figures - 'He's Just Not That Into You' (2009) d. Ken Kwapis, 'Run Rabbit Run' (2023) d. Daina Reid & 'Mr. Nobody' (2009) d. Jaco Van Dormael
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Jul 16, 2023 |
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Excavating Germans - 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny' (2023) d. James Mangold, 'Blind Spot' (1981) d. Claudia von Alemann & 'The Tin Drum' (1979) d. Volker Schlöndorff
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Jul 09, 2023 |
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The Love Horse - 'American Pie' (1999) d. Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz, 'No Hard Feelings' (2023) d. Gene Stupnitsky & 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' (2004) d. Michel Gondry
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Jul 02, 2023 |
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Honour Thy Family - 'Omen' (2023) d. Baloji, 'You Hurt My Feelings' (2023) d. Nicole Holofcener & 'Ordinary People' (1980) d. Robert Redford
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Jun 25, 2023 |
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The Multiverse, NY - 'Annie Hall' (1977) d. Woody Allen, 'Synecdoche, New York' (2008) d. Charlie Kaufman & 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' (2023) d. J. Dos Santos, K. Powers & J. K. Thompson
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Jun 18, 2023 |
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Trouble in Paradise - 'L'Avventura' (1960) d. Michelangelo Antonioni, 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' (2008) d. Nicholas Stoller & 'Infinity Pool' (2023) d. Brandon Cronenberg
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Jun 11, 2023 |
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A Single Mother's Burden - 'As Good as It Gets' (1997) d. James L. Brooks, 'Erin Brockovich' (2000) d. Steven Soderbergh & 'One Fine Morning' (2022) d. Mia Hansen-Løve
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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Conservative/Progressive - 'The Blue Caftan' (2022) d. Maryam Touzani, 'Princess Mononoke' (1997) d. Hayao Miyazaki & 'The Sound of Music' (1965) d. Robert Wise
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May 28, 2023 |
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The Church of Sport - 'Any Given Sunday' (1999) d. Oliver Stone, 'Raging Bull' (1980) d. Martin Scorsese & 'Moneyball' (2011) d. Bennett Miller
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May 21, 2023 |
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The Monstrous Feminine - 'Shrek' (2001) d. Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson, 'Monster' (2003) d. Patty Jenkins & 'Saint Omer' (2022) d. Alice Diop
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May 14, 2023 |
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Masculine Cowardice - 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' (2007) d. Andrew Dominik, 'Beau is Afraid' (2023) d. Ari Aster & 'Nocturnal Animals' (2016) d. Tom Ford
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May 08, 2023 |
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Senses of Security - 'November' (2022) d. Cédric Jimenez, 'Children of Men' (2006) d. Alfonso Cuarón & 'Ex Machina' (2014) d. Alex Garland
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Apr 30, 2023 |
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The Simulate 90s - 'Dark City' (1998) d. Alex Proyas, 'The Matrix' (1999) d. the Wachowski Sisters & 'The Thirteenth Floor' (1999) d. Josef Rusnak
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Apr 23, 2023 |
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Lifting Off - 'Gattaca' (1997) d. Andrew Niccol, 'Sunshine' (2007) d. Danny Boyle & 'Interstellar' (2014) d. Christopher Nolan
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Apr 16, 2023 |
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The Dance of Romance - 'Dirty Dancing' (1987) d. Emile Ardolino, 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' (1953) d. Howard Hawks & 'Pearl' (2022) d. Ti West
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Apr 09, 2023 |
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The Seeds of War - 'City of God' (2002) d. Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund, 'All Quiet on the Western Front' (2022) d. Edward Berger & 'Wag the Dog' (1997) d. Barry Levinson
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Apr 02, 2023 |
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Escape to the Seaside - 'Two Tickets to Greece' (2022) d. Marc Fitoussi, 'Pierrot le Fou' (1965) d. Jean-Luc Godard & 'The Green Ray' (1986) d. Éric Rohmer
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Mar 26, 2023 |
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The Enemy Within - 'Face/Off' (1997) d. John Woo, 'To Leslie' (2022) d. Michael Morris & 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (1964) d. Stanley Kubrick
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Mar 19, 2023 |
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Princes, Prowlers and Progenitrices - 'Harold and Maude' (1971) d. Hal Ashby, 'Empire of Light' (2022) d. Sam Mendes & 'In the Bedroom' (2001) d. Todd Field
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Mar 12, 2023 |
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Princesses, Predators and Protectors - 'Leon' (1994) d. Luc Besson, 'An Education' (2009) d. Lone Scherfig & 'Aftersun' (2022) d. Charlotte Wells
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Mar 05, 2023 |
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Consolidating Competence - 'Tár' (2022) d. Todd Field, 'Being There' (1979) d. Hal Ashby & 'Armaggedon' (1998) d. Michael Bay
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Feb 26, 2023 |
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Coming of Age at Work - 'Caddyshack' (1980) d. Harold Ramis, 'Mystic Pizza' (1988) d. Donald Petrie & 'Adventureland' (2009) d. Greg Mottola
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Feb 18, 2023 |
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The Roaring (20)20s - 'Babylon' (2022) d. Damien Chazelle, 'The Whale' (2022) d. Darren Aronofsky & 'Triangle of Sadness' (2022) d. Ruben Östlund
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Feb 12, 2023 |
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Listening to Your Conscience - 'Pinocchio' (2022) d. Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson, 'Heathers' (1988) d. Michael Lehmann & 'Donnie Darko' (2001) d. Richard Kelly
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Feb 04, 2023 |
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Going Undercover - 'Mean Girls' (2004) d. Mark Waters, 'The Departed' d. Martin Scorsese & 'Le Doulos' (1962) d. Jean-Pierre Melville
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Jan 29, 2023 |
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Dark Knights - 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (2001) d. Chris Columbus, '12 Angry Men' (1957) d. Sidney Lumet & 'Ladybird' (2017) d. Greta Gerwig
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Jan 22, 2023 |
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21st Century Vigilance - 'Saw' (2004) d. James Wan, 'V for Vendetta' (2005) d. James McTeigue & 'The Dark Knight' (2008) d. Christopher Nolan
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Jan 15, 2023 |
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Containing the Year - 'The Apartment' (1960) d. Billy Wilder, 'My Night at Maud's' (1969) d. Éric Rohmer & 'When Harry Met Sally' (1989) d. Rob Reiner
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Dec 25, 2022 |
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A Kafkaesque Christmas - 'Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life' (1993) d. Peter Capaldi, 'Brazil' (1985) d. Terry Gilliam & 'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999) d. Stanley Kubrick
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Dec 18, 2022 |
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Russia, Part II - 'Battleship Potemkin' (1925) d. Sergei Eisenstein, 'Mirror' (1975) d. Andrei Tarkovsky & 'The Sacrifice' (1986) d. Andrei Tarkovsky
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Dec 11, 2022 |
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Russia, Part I - 'Kompromat' (2022) d. Jérôme Salle, 'Andrei Rublev' (1966) d. Andrei Tarkovsky & 'Ivan the Terrible Parts, I & II' d. Sergei Eisenstein
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Dec 04, 2022 |
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Ruling Over the Dominion - 'Willow' (1988) d. Ron Howard, 'Margrete - Queen of the North' (2021) d. Charlotte Sieling & 'Moonrise Kingdom' (2012) d. Wes Anderson
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Nov 27, 2022 |
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Raising Hell, Raising Heaven - 'Hellraiser' (1987) d. Clive Barker, 'Armageddon Time' (2022) d. James Gray & 'Gladiator' (2000) d. Ridley Scott
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Nov 21, 2022 |
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Adam McKay's Apex - 'Anchorman' (2004), 'Talladega Nights' (2006), 'Step Brothers' (2008), 'The Other Guys' (2010), 'The Big Short' (2015), 'Vice' (2018) & 'Don't Look Up' (2021)
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Nov 13, 2022 |
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Canberra Short Film Festival Special w/ Stephanie Begg and Josh Mawer
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Nov 06, 2022 |
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The Home Ground Advantage - 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' (1974) d. Tobe Hooper, 'Barbarian' (2022) d. Zach Cregger & 'Blood Diamond' (2006) d. Edward Zwick
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Oct 30, 2022 |
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College Boys - 'Old School' (2003) d. Todd Phillips, 'Liberal Arts' (2012) d. Josh Radnor & 'Brad's Status' (2017) d. Mike White
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Oct 24, 2022 |
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Robert Altman's America - 'Nashville' (1975), 'The Player' (1992) & 'Short Cuts' (1993)
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Oct 16, 2022 |
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Blending Art Forms w/ Terry Zwigoff - 'Louie Bluie' (1985), 'Crumb' (1994), 'Ghost World' (2001), 'Bad Santa' (2004) & 'Art School Confidential' (2006)
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Sep 25, 2022 |
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Secular Faith - 'The Hunt' (2012) d. Thomas Vinterberg, 'Ghost World' (2001) d. Terry Zwigoff & 'Sideways' (2004) d. Alexander Payne
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Sep 18, 2022 |
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Intro to Infidelity - 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' (1946) d. Tay Garnett, 'Closer' (2004) d. Mike Nichols & 'Both Sides of the Blade' (2022) d. Claire Denis
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Sep 11, 2022 |
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Double-Edged Talent - 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?' (1962) d. Robert Aldrich, 'All About Eve' (1950) d. Joseph L. Mankiewicz & 'The Pianist' (2002) d. Roman Polanski
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Sep 04, 2022 |
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(K)nowhere to Look - 'Nope' (2022) d. Jordan Peele, 'Don't Look Up' (2021) d. Adam McKay & 'Network' (1976) d. Sidney Lumet
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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Middle Eastern Cinema w/ Sarah Barrie - 'About Elly' (2009) d. Asghar Farhadi, 'Women Without Men' (2009) d. Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari & 'Incendies (2010) d. Denis Villeneuve
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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Enemies of the State - 'Cool Hand Luke' (1967), 'The Conference' (2022) & 'The People vs. Larry Flynt' (1996)
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Aug 14, 2022 |
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Existopmotionalism - 'Anomalisa' (2015), 'Harvie Krumpet' (2003) & '$9.99' (2008)
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Aug 07, 2022 |
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Stressful Sequences - 'After Hours' (1985), 'Uncut Gems' (2019) & 'Full Time' (2021)
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Jul 31, 2022 |
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The Turning Tides in Taiwanese Cinema w/ Benson Wu, Helen Stenbeck & Yi-Tsun Chen - 'Homebound' (2022), 'Goddamned Asura' (2021) & 'Yi Yi' (2000)
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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Playing with Murder w/ Nicolas Pleskof - 'Murder Party' (2022)
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Jul 24, 2022 |
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High Art, Low Art - 'Sullivan's Travels' (1941), 'In Bruges' (2008) & 'Compartment Number 6' (2021)
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Jul 17, 2022 |
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The Odyssey of Brotherhood - 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' (2000), 'About Schmidt' (2002) & 'The Straight Story' (1999)
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Jul 10, 2022 |
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Descendants and Ancestors - 'Hereditary' (2018), 'Once Were Warriors' (1994) & 'The Descendants' (2011)
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Jul 03, 2022 |
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Decisiveness, Discipline and Dexter - 'Cold War' (2018), 'Whiplash' (2014) & ''Round Midnight' (1986)
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Jun 26, 2022 |
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Weeping Widows - 'Midsommar' (2019), 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore' (1974) & 'Good Luck to You, Leo Grande' (2022)
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Jun 19, 2022 |
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Blow-ins, Bravado & Beliefs - 'Straw Dogs' (1971), 'Wake in Fright' (1971) & 'The Wicker Man' (1973)
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Jun 12, 2022 |
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Killers - 'Snowtown' (2011), 'Killer Joe' (2011) & 'Sling Blade' (1996)
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Jun 05, 2022 |
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Boys Gone Wild - 'Taxi Driver' (1976), 'La Haine' (1995) & 'This Sporting Life' (1963)
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May 29, 2022 |
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Eliminating the Enemy - 'Dial M for Murder' (1954), 'Zulu' (1964) & 'Suspiria' (1977)
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May 22, 2022 |
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False Prophets - 'La Ricotta' (1962), 'The Night of the Hunter' (1955) & 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' (2011)
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May 15, 2022 |
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Rosebud - 'Citizen Kane' (1941), 'Midnight in Paris' (2011) & 'Be Kind Rewind' (2008)
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May 08, 2022 |
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Making Fun of Actors - 'Tropic Thunder' (2008), 'Waiting for Guffman' (1996) & 'Team America' (2004)
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May 01, 2022 |
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Cops - 'Beverley Hills Cop' (1984), 'RoboCop' (1987) & 'Supercop' (1992)
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Apr 10, 2022 |
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Scary Stalkers II: The Final Girl - 'Scream' (1996), 'It Follows' (2014) & 'X' (2022)
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Apr 03, 2022 |
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Modern Relationships - 'The Last Days of Disco' (1998), 'The Virgin Suicides' (1999) & 'Licorice Pizza' (2021)
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Mar 27, 2022 |
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Divergent Roads - 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' (1997), 'Force Majeure' (2014) & 'The Daytrippers' (1997)
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Mar 20, 2022 |
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Sex, Desire and Videotape - 'To Die For' (1995), 'Crash' (1996) & 'Sex, Lies and Videotape' (1989)
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Mar 13, 2022 |
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Quarantine Special
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Mar 06, 2022 |
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The Dark Side of Fatherhood - 'Dogtooth' (2009), 'Take Shelter' (2011) & 'Distant Voices, Still Lives' (1988)
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Feb 27, 2022 |
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The Pains of Motherhood - 'Quo Vadis, Aida?' (2020), 'Secrets & Lies' (1996) & 'Autumn Sonata' (1978)
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Feb 20, 2022 |
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Scary Stalkers - 'Halloween' (1978), 'Friday the 13th' (1980) & 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' (1984)
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Feb 13, 2022 |
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The Deep Blue Sea - 'Deep Blue Sea' (1998), 'The Big Blue' (1988) & 'The Deep Blue Sea' (2011)
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Feb 06, 2022 |
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World War II - 'The Thin Red Line' (1998), 'Das Boot' (1981) & 'Schindler's List' (1993)
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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The Power of Nature in the Films of Peter Weir - 'The Cars That Ate Paris' (1974), 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' (1975), 'The Mosquito Coast' (1986), 'Master and Commander' (2003) & 'The Way Back' (2010)
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Jan 23, 2022 |
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Maturity in the Films of Sean Baker - 'Starlet' (2012), 'The Florida Project' (2017) & 'Red Rocket' (2021)
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Jan 16, 2022 |
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Modern Variations of Santa Claus - 'Die Hard' (1988), 'Bad Santa' (2003) & 'Krampus' (2015)
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Dec 19, 2021 |
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Prostitution - 'Vivre Sa Vie' (1962), 'Tangerine' (2015) & 'Nights of Cabiria' (1957)
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Dec 12, 2021 |
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The Ick - 'Contempt' (1963), 'The Fly' (1986) & 'Another Year' (2010)
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Dec 05, 2021 |
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The Power of Silence - 'Silence' (2016), 'Good Morning' (1959) & 'Lost in Translation' (2003)
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Nov 28, 2021 |
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Cyborgs - 'Tetsuo: The Iron Man' (1989), 'Aliens' (1986) & '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968)
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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Bodily Autonomy - 'Alien' (1979), 'Swallow' (2019) & 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1956)
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Nov 14, 2021 |
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Breaking Free - 'The Rock' (1996), 'Pickpocket' (1959) & 'Ace in the Hole' (1951)
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Nov 07, 2021 |
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Masks - 'Eyes Without a Face' (1960), 'Goodnight Mommy' (2014) & 'The Mask of Zorro' (1920)
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Oct 31, 2021 |
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Loving Powerful Women - 'Roman Holiday' (1953), 'Chocolat' (1983) & 'Notting HIll' (1999)
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Oct 24, 2021 |
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Young Love - 'Fish Tank' (2009), 'It Felt Like Love' (2013) & 'Pauline at the Beach' (1983)
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Oct 17, 2021 |
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Beauties & Beasts - 'Beauty and the Beast' (1946), 'The Beast' (1975) & 'The Babadook' (2014)
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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Werewolves - 'The Wolf Man' (1941), 'The Wolfman' (2010) & 'An American Werewolf in London' (1981)
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Oct 03, 2021 |
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Manhunting - 'Manhunter' (1986), 'The Fugitive' (1993) & 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' (1920)
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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Hollywood - 'Swingers' (1996), 'Under the Silver Lake' (2018) & 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' (2019)
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Sep 19, 2021 |
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Creation - 'The Golem' (1920), '8½' (1963) & 'Ed Wood' (1994)
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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Men with Gravity - 'Fatal Attraction' (1987), 'Misery' (1990) & 'Cape Fear' (1991)
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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The Modern Quest - 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' (1972), 'Stalker' (1979) & 'Old Joy' (2006)
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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Women with Gravity - 'The Collector' (1967), 'Shiva Baby' (2020) & 'Ema' (2019)
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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Female Victimhood - 'La Strada' (1954), 'Requiem for a Dream' (2000) & 'Rashomon' (1950)
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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Mortality - 'The Seventh Seal' (1957), 'The Fountain' (2006) & 'Ikiru' (1952)
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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The Duality of Man - 'Apocalypse Now' (1979), 'Persona' (1966) & 'Mulholland Drive' (2001)
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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Confronting Reality - 'The Truman Show' (1998), 'Come and See' (1985) & 'Blue Velvet' (1986)
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Sep 05, 2021 |
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Drifters - 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' (1993), 'Five Easy Pieces' (1970) & 'Paris, Texas' (1984)
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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Male Victimhood - 'Kes' (1969), 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' (1960), 'If....' (1968) & 'Look Back in Anger' (1959)
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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Freedom and Relationships - 'The Piano' (1993), 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' (2019) & 'Phantom Thread' (2017)
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Sep 04, 2021 |
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Authority Figures - 'There Will Be Blood' (2007), 'Cabaret' (1972) & 'The Master' (2012)
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Sep 04, 2021 |