We're back and accidentally falling ass backward into a lil Noirvember double feature. And, while our main event this week isn't exactly a noir - it is part noir, part melodrama, part dance picture, part crime story. We're discussing the undefinable and absolutely stunning Victims of Sin (1951) directed by Emilio Fernández and starring the phenomenal Ninón Sevilla. ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:48) What we've been watching (00:16:40) Victims of Sin (00:46:05) Final thoughts...

We continue our Spooky Season double feature and this time it's a little bit back to basics with a stripped down ghost story on a shoe-string budget with Herk Harvey's only narrative feature film, Carnival of Souls (1962). We also chat Criterion Collection and channel additions for January 2025 and November 2024 respectively. ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:50) What we've been watching (00:15:40) Criterion Collection Announcements for January 2025 (00:25:34) Criterion Channel...

Happy Spooky Season to all who celebrate! This week we're getting scared white as a sheet as we talk about TRAUMA (or was it actually ghosts?) with Jack Clayton's incredibly atmospheric adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw ~ The Innocents (1961). ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:01:57) What we've been watching (00:22:41) The Innocents (01:00:35) Final thoughts (01:06:41) Listener Messages (01:08:18) Next week ---- Links Ian on ⁠⁠⁠⁠Letterboxd⁠⁠⁠⁠ McKenzie...

This week we pick back up talking about the pioneering female filmmaker and hot butch, Dorothy Arzner with her second to last film, Dance, Girl, Dance (1940). ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:03) What we've been watching (00:26:40) Dance, Girl, Dance (00:58:36) Final thoughts (01:04:40) Listener Messages (01:07:03) Next week ---- Links Ian on ⁠⁠⁠Letterboxd⁠⁠⁠ McKenzie...

Journey back with us, to the era before the infamous Hollywood Hayes Code where debauchery was the norm. Men drank and married couples would have sex with other people! This week we talk pioneering female filmmaker and hot butch, Dorothy Arzner's Merrily We Go to Hell (1932). We also chat briefly about what is coming to Janus Contemporaries in December 2024. ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:38) What we've been watching (00:17:00) Janus Contemporaries Additions for December...

Highly lauded by historians, the cult that is Letterboxd, and critics alike. But did we like Jules Dassin's Rififi, the seminal 50s heist classic of French cinema? There's only one way to find out. Grab your foam canister, umbrella, and chisel! Join us as we dig through the floor of the upstairs apartment and into this film as well as discuss whats coming to the Criterion Collection in December 2024. ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:37) What we've been watching (00:19:09) Criterion...

What if there was a thief? Michael Mann answers that questions with all the style he possibly could summon in his debut feature starring the late great James Caan in what can only be described as the Citizen Kane of debuts that arent Citizen Kane. This week we chat neon noir and moog synths as we tackle Thief (1983). ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:32) What we've been watching (00:26:28) Thief (01:00:05) Final thoughts (01:10:41) Next week ---- Links Ian on Letterboxd McKenzie...

Join us this week as we journey back into Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project! Its Picture No. 2 from Vol. 2 of the fantastic Criterion boxset series in collaboration with ⁠The Film Foundation⁠. This week we are going all the way back to the dawn of cinema with our first silent feature and the only film from Brazilian socialite, Mário Peixoto, Spine #877 ~ Limite (1931). Thanks to our friend Scott for his email! ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:40) What we've been...

It's our first time diving into Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project! Join us as we crack open Vol. 2 of the stellar Criterion boxset series in collaboration with The Film Foundation and queue up Spine #875, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's debut mashup of narrative and documentary filmmaking: Mysterious Object at Noon (2000). Thanks to our friend Conan for his email! ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:06) What we've been watching (00:22:05) Mysterious Object at Noon (00:51:25) Final...

This week we welcome back the patron saint of Hong Kong cinema with arguably his most beloved film, Chungking Express (1994). We also chat November 2024 Criterion Collection Additions and September 2024 Channel Highlights. ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:45) What we've been watching (00:19:00) Criterion Channel highlights for Sept. 2024 (00:25:50) Criterion Collection additions for Nov. 2024 (00:35:00) Chungking Express (01:03:30) Final thoughts (01:09:31) Next...

We're back on our world cinema shit this week as we take our first trip to Nigeria with an absolutely stunning debut from twin brothers Arie & Chuko Esiri with the impressionistic Eyimofe (This is My Desire) [2020]. ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:31) CC40 Box Set (00:18:22) What We've Been Watching (00:37:00) Eyimofe (This is My Desire) (01:11:43) Final thoughts (01:19:45) Listener Messages (01:28:48) Next week ---- Links Ian...

We continue our double feature about isolation and discontent in an ever evolving world with Michelangelo Antonioni's Red Desert. Thank you to our friends Truman Capote for the voicemail and Keegan for their email. ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:16) What We've Been Watching (00:34:14) Red Desert (00:59:15) Final thoughts (01:04:53) Listener Messages (01:11:11) Next week ---- Links Ian...

Are you allergic to the [21st] century? This week we are chatting one of our mutual favorite filmmakers and the movie that put him on the map and in the Criterion Collection. We discuss Todd Haynes and his second feature that announces Julianne Moore to the world and also remains as prescient as it was in 1995, Safe. ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:04:29) What We've Been Watching (00:23:25) Safe (01:20:47) Final thoughts (01:23:36) Listener Messages (01:25:32) Next...

FILL'ER UP! The engine may have been idling but we are revving her back up as we head into part two of our queer road trip double feature with Gus Van Sant's impressionistic portrait of Gen-X ennui in 90s America that also kinda sorta doubles as an adaptation of the Henriad. We also discuss what's coming to the Criterion Channel in Aug 2024 as well as the new additions to the Criterion Collection coming in Oct 2024. ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:00) What We've Been...

VROOM VROOM! This week we welcome back our dear friend and someone who dares say they will be seated day one for Barry Jenkins' Mufasa, Josh (he/they) of Film Explorers. Josh comes back to help us be gay and do crime with the first of a road trip double feature. We've got nothing except our love to take us to the limit as we evade the law and fly into Thelma & Louise (1991). Thank you to our friend Ron for his email! Listen to Reel Latinos! ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:57)...

There are many films that we could have paired with Bound from last week, but it only felt right to give the spot to the mother of all noir... Billy Wilder makes his return to the show with his genre defining classic, Double Indemnity (1944). ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:38) What We've Been Watching (00:35:40) Double Indemnity (01:17:00) Final thoughts (01:24:48) Next week ---- Links Ian...

"You know what the difference is between you and me?" US NEITHER! It's our biggest episode ever (literally) - a defining McKenzie movie and just one of our all time favorites. We are finally discussing one of our longest awaited additions to the Criterion Collection, The Wachowski's brilliant pulp genre exercise that kicked off their career's with a bang: BOUND (1996). Thank you to Pat for their email! ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:58) What We've Been Watching (00:28:50)...

YIPEEEEEE KI YAY! We're about to get on off our horsies, but for now stay saddled up in as we wrap up our "Western starring Barbara Stanwyck" double feature with Anthony Mann's The Furies (1950). We also chat about what's coming to the Collection in September 2024 and the Criterion Channel in July 2024. ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:23:11) Criterion Collection Announcements (Sept 2024) (00:36:07) Criterion Channel Additions for July 2024 (00:42:33) Forty Guns (01:10:18) Final...

YeeeHaw! We're saddling up this week with our friend Philip Marinello (The Substance Pod) to head back into Hollywood's past once again with a pulp western starring the effervescent Babs! On this episode we're discussing our first Samuel Fuller picture: Forty Guns (1957). ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:05:56) Philip's 4 Favs (00:19:28) Forty Guns (00:56:28) Final thoughts (01:11:46) Next week ---- Links Philip on Letterboxd & Listen to The Substance Pod Ian...

Welcoming back Kev (ADP) to the show we dive into a hallmark film of the collection, one of Kev's favorites and one of the most aesthetically significant films we have discussed thus far. If you have seen this film then you know what our connection is....... We discuss Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (1985). Thank you to Michael & Austin for your letters! ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:30) Kev's 4 Favs (00:15:32) Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters (00:50:00)...

We return to our regular schedule with a brand new double feature: this time centered on Japanese codes of honor and why, just maybe, they are no good. This week we discuss the #1 highest rated film on Letterboxd (as of June '24) and a totemic work of the samurai genre: HARAKIRI (1962). McKenzie also continue her Billy Wilder journey. Thank you to dear friend of the show, Brandon, for his letter! ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:04:00) What we've been watching (00:22:11)...

"She just reached in and out a string of lights around my heart." WE LOVE THIS MOVIE! Welcome back to the Criterion QUEER Connection where we discuss queer films in the Criterion Collection. If only we could forever. ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:03:31) What we've been watching (00:19:35) Criterion News (00:36:34) Desert Hearts (01:18:09) Final thoughts (01:24:58) Next week ---- Links LIsten to The Film Explorers discuss DESERT HEARTS Ian...

This week we begin anew, once again, but with some similar themes. We are tackling a brand new queer double feature - this time starting with Dee Rees' beautiful debut feature based on her acclaimed short: Pariah (2011). ---- Chapters (00:00:00) Intro (00:02:25) What we've been watching (00:30:21) Pariah (01:04:01) Final thoughts (01:08:30) Next week ---- Links Ian on ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Letterboxd⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠  McKenzie...