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Episode 129 – Losing Ground

Posted April 20, 202000:59:26

Losing Ground (Collins, 1982) should have been a lot of things. It should have been the foundation of a long career and important filmography. Instead,...

Episode 128 – Cléo from 5 to 7

Posted April 5, 202001:01:36

There is a question I pose during the episode: if anyone who disparaged the French New Wave started with Cléo from 5 to 7 (Varda, 1962), might they...

Episode 127 – World on a Wire

Posted March 22, 202001:01:23

I had the pleasure of seeing Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s World on a Wire (1973) for the first time on the big screen. Being able to experience it in...

Episode 126 – The Matrix

Posted March 8, 202001:08:39

The day after I saw The Matrix (Lana and Lilly Wachowski, 1999), I proclaimed to anyone within shouting distance that the film changed my life. I was...

Episode 125 – A Woman Under the Influence

Posted February 24, 202001:09:58

It’s taken 125 episodes and almost five years of doing the show, but I’m finally ready to talk about John Cassavetes’ A Woman Under the Influence...