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Episode 2: Taipei Story (Edward Yang, 1985)

This week we're beginning a recurring series on the Taiwanese New Wave with one of it's earliest and best films: Taipei Story. Chris and Zach discuss globalization and mo

Episode 1: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)

Annnnnd we're back! For the pilot episode of our new podcast, we've chosen a film that reflects our new title. Sunrise, released in 1927, was one of German Expressionist

Ep12: Corpus Christi: European Cinema and Religious Morality

This week Zach and Chris are taking a look at their third 2019 Best International Feature, Corpus Christi. Hailing from Poland, it's a complex and morally grey look at fa

Ep11: One Flew Over Cuckoo's Nest - The Institution and Personal Autonomy

This week Chris and Zach talk about an anti-establishment classic, pitting Jack Nicholson and Louise Fletcher against each other for control of a mental hospital. Prompte

Ep10: William Friedkin: Two Sleeper Hits and the End of New Hollywood

This week we're going back a few decades to check out some under appreciated films from a very important era in Hollywood's history. Sorcerer (1977) was a box office bomb

Ep09: Christopher Nolan: Time and the Contemporary Filmmaker

This week, we're talking about five of Christopher Nolan's films to celebrate the release of Tenet, the first theatrical released blockbuster in a long, long time. (No sp

Ep08: The Safdie Brothers - Anti-heroes and the Neon Noir

This week we're talking about the two most recent films by the Safdie Brothers, two of the biggest indie filmmakers of the last few years. Known for their penchant for wr

Ep07: Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things - A “Profoundly, Unutterably, Unfixably Wrong” Life

This week Chris and Zach are discussing our first impressions of I'm Thinking of Ending Things, the newest film by Academy Award winning screenwriter and director Charlie

Ep06: Ari Aster's Hereditary (2018) and Midsommar (2019) - Redefining Modern Horror

This week we are focusing on two feature films by the A24 director Ari Aster. While Hereditary unravels the cryptic ancestry of a family after the death of the grandmothe

Ep05: Bong Joon-ho's Deep-dive - a life before Oscar and a life inside Parasite (2019)

We're hitting the Bong this week. In this episode of auteur deep dive, Chris, Zach and recurring Cinemaniac Vivian discuss the films of  Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho. Ca

Ep04: Bob Fosse's Cabaret (1972) and All that Jazz (1979) - the works of a director who beat Coppola at Oscar Best Director

This week Chris, Zach and new recurring Cinemaniac Vivian Chuang discuss legendary Broadway choreographer Bob Fosse's two most popular films - one a musical set in Weimar

Ep03: Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018) - analyses of the film with the highest score in Screen International's Cannes jury grid

This week Chris and Zach discuss the 2018 thriller/mystery Burning, by South Korean auteur Lee Chang-Dong. It's. a beautiful and haunting treatise on love, loss, and lone

Ep02: Les Misérables (Ladj Ly, 2019) - bad plants and bad cultivators

This week Chris and Zach talk about one of France's most searing looks at the intersections between poverty, racism, and law enforcement, which is only kind of based on t

Episode01: Spike Lee Deep-dive - the best way to redefine film history

For our first monthly auteur deep-dive, we take a look at the work of American icon Spike Lee, starting with his most recent Netflix film Da 5 Bloods, and working through