The Magic Lantern

Recent Episodes

Episode 109 – Drug War

Posted July 28, 2019 • 00:44:23

Johnnie To’s Drug War (2012) is one of those great cinematic cases of having your cake and eating it too. On one hand, you have To bringing his decades...

Episode 108 – The Battle of Algiers

Posted July 14, 2019 • 00:49:46

Would it surprise you to learn that The Battle of Algiers (Pontecorvo, 1966) is on the top ten lists of countless film critics and filmmakers, and was...

Episode 107 – The Devil and Daniel Webster

Posted July 1, 2019 • 00:55:35

The Devil and Daniel Webster (Dieterle, 1941) is truly one of my desert island films. You couldn’t have assembled a more perfect film for me in a...

Episode 051 – Little Murders

Posted June 19, 2017 • 01:10:46

Little Murders (1971) is the most personal choice I have made for the show so far. Prior to discovering it, I don’t think I had ever seen anything...

Episode 050 – Say Anything…

Posted June 5, 2017 • 00:59:57

I saw Say Anything… (Crowe, 1989) when I was fourteen. It changed my life. I was a young person then. I felt the pulls of longing and desire and hope...