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ABC Movies
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Two smart guys talk dumb about today's great films
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Petit Maman & Where Is The Friend’s House
May 16, 202200:53:46Tap to summarizeThis week, it's two films about the vast, unknowable world of children: Petit Maman and Where Is the Friend's House.
Transcribe →We’re All Going to the World’s Fair & Unfriended
May 2, 202200:53:40Tap to summarizeThis week, it's two films valiantly trying to capture the slippery, universal experience of ~~being online~~. It's We're All Going to the World's Fair (2022), and Unfriended (2014).
Transcribe →Apollo 10 1/2 & Dazed and Confused
Apr 18, 202201:08:37Tap to summarizeIt's 420! Zone out to two Linklater films: his latest rotoscope cartoon, the '60s nostalgia fest Apollo 10 1/2, and a film you may have seen on VHS 10,000 times, Dazed and Confused.
Transcribe →Deep Water& Body Heat
Apr 4, 202201:12:46Tap to summarizeThis week, we're looking at two ~~erotic thrillers~~ !! A much-maligned genre making a small, tentative comeback, in part thanks to this week's movie, Deep Water (2022); we're also talking about one of the genre's foundational texts, 1981's Body Heat.
Transcribe →Turning Red & Eighth Grade
Mar 21, 202200:51:02Tap to summarizeThis week, it's two extremely different movies about almost exactly the same extreme situation: being a 13-year-old girl. It's Turning Red (2022) and Eighth Grade (2018).
Transcribe →After Yang and Alphaville
Mar 7, 202201:00:14Tap to summarizeThis week, we're talking about two philosophical science fiction films made by critics-turned-directors: After Yang (2022, Kogonada), and Alphaville (1965, Jean-Luc Godard).
Transcribe →Flee and Summer of Soul
Feb 21, 202201:04:25Tap to summarizeThis week, it's two films nominated for Best Documentary Feature: Summer of Soul (Amir Questlove Thompson, 2021), and Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021; also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and Best International Feature, a first!). Like all great documentaries, these movies make you ask what a documentary really is, anyway.
Transcribe →A Hero & Pickpocket
Feb 7, 202200:55:19Tap to summarizeThis week, we're looking at two films that untangle the messy web of supposedly criminal acts -- A Hero (Asghar Farhadi, 2021) and Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959).
Transcribe →Bergman Island & Day for Night
Jan 24, 202200:56:32Tap to summarizeThis week, it's two transcendent European movies about Europeans makin' movies: 2021's Bergman Island and 1973's Day For Night.
Transcribe →The Lost Daughter & Night of the Hunter
Jan 10, 202201:00:18Tap to summarizeThis week we're looking at a very small category: directorial debuts from actors in which they do not appear as actors. So, we've got The Lost Daughter (2022, Maggie Gyllenhaal), and Night of the Hunter (1955, Charles Laughton).
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