2004 A Podcast Odyysey

Initially turned off by the idea of a film only containing improvised dialogue, we are surprised at the genuine emotion felt at response to this film. We follow our lead Delphine a newly single twenty-something faced with finding a plan for her 2 months of vacation from work. The entire plotline of this film is taken straight from Marie Rivière's own life. Of course this allows her performance as Delphine to be all the more real.

Orson Welles' 1966 Shakespeare adaptation revolves around the minor character Fastaff, the drunken thief and alternative father-figure to Prince Hal.

It's a Jacques Tati double-feature including the masterpiece Playtime from 1967 and the final appearance of M. Hulot, 1971's Trafic.

We finally made it to Jacques Demy's first two feature lengths, which we present to you in a double feature. We talk 1961's Lola and 1964's The Umbrellas of Cherbourg both directed by the French New Wavist and husband of Agnès Varda.

Today we offer a counterpoint to a topic on a recent episode of Chapo Traphouse. We discuss Lucifer, the 2016, originally Fox now Netflix series.

This movie is bad but Adam Brody isn't.

Spike Lee's 2000 joint. Ultimately the flaws of this film are the voice choice and the video quality. The VX1000 is tight for skate videos and home movies from the mid-00's but a feature length with a shitty white guy voice from the protagonist is a kick in the palet

Kathleen Collins' 1982 debut is the first film made by an African American woman that is still in existence. We talk about it.

The same guy that made Shaft made this movie. Gordon Parks' 1969 autobiographical drama The Learning Tree.

For Black History Month we're covering black filmmakers. We're starting with the first African film made by an actual African person Sembène's 1963 Borom Sarret. We then spend the majority of the episode struggling to explain Symbiopsychotaxiplasm Greaves' 1968 documentary about the process of filming a movie being shot.

We're talking about the lovely documentary about the street mural scene in late 1970's L.A. Ol' French lady Varda does the narration of her findings and we learn about the vibrant Chicano and Hispanic culture of expression that takes place in those communities.

French New Wave! Finally, We're getting weirder and French. Agnès Varda's La Pointe Courte

What can we say? The holidays, right? 7 Samurai; Akira Kurosawa 1954. It's a goddamn classic.

We're talking about Bergman's 1973 dramatic mini-series Scenes from A Marriage. We discuss the original Swedish 6 episodes here and compare with the new American HBO remake on our Patreon.

Today we're watching 1953''s Italian comedy-drama directed by Fellini, I Vitelloni.

We're talking about Bergman's 1953 drama today.