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30 years later, Richard Linklater’s “Dazed and Confused” is even better than you remember. Plus, 2017’s “I Am Not A Witch” from Zambian-Welsh director Rungano Nyoni, and the African Cinema Marathon Awards.
-Sacred Cow Review: “Dazed and Confused” (04:29)
-Next Week / Notes (39:06)
-Polls (Linklater, John Carney) (43:05)
-African Cinema Marathon #5: “I Am Not A Witch” (56:21)
-African Cinema Marathon Awards (01:23:49)
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-"Black Girl" Is a Ghost Story
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The Filmspotting Pantheon contains distinguished titles like “Vertigo,” “Do The Right Thing,” and “The Godfather.” Also? The 1988 action comedy “Midnight Run.” Adam and Josh investigate with a revisit.
-Sacred Cow Review: “Midnight Run” (03:42)
-Next Week / Notes (53:42)
-Massacre Theatre (49:03)
-African Cinema Marathon #4: “Yeelen” (01:06:03)
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Jonathan Rosenbaum’s A Few Ways of Looking at Midnight Run
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As they consider the fall movie slate, Adam and Josh look past some of the bigger releases for questions about the season’s potential hidden gems.
-Fall Movie Preview (05:08)
-Next Week / Notes / Polls (47:39)
-African Cinema Marathon: “Touki Bouki” (01:01:51)
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Beyond the Canon: Touki Bouki + Breathless
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Emma Seligman (“Shiva Baby”) wields satirical feminism in her raunchy, violent, and hilarious new high school comedy BOTTOMS; and Josh and guest host Marya E. Gates discover surprising depths in RISKY BUSINESS, which turns 40 this year.
-Review: “Bottoms” (02:23)
-Next Week / Notes (24:30)
-Massacre Theatre (30:13)
-Sacred Cow Review: “Risky Business” (38:03)
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Roger Ebert reviews “Risky Business”
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Not the most acclaimed film of ‘93, but maybe the most surprisingly acclaimed. Josh and guest Michael Phillips on the lasting appeal of Harrison Ford, Tommy Lee Jones, and one of the great Chicago-set movies. And from the archive, the Top 5 Movies of 1993, recorded in 2013.
-Review: “The Fugitive” at 30 (03:02)
-Next Week / Notes (28:55)
-Polls (31:45)
-Top 5 of 1993 (40:47)
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Michael Phillips interviews “Fugitive” director Andrew Davis
Rolling Stone’s Oral History of “The Fugitive”
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It’s an old-school Listener Feedback segment as Adam and Josh respond to recent emails. Plus, a tribute to William Friedkin, the second African Cinema Marathon installment, and Adam shares some personal and professional news.
-RIP William Friedkin (07:23)
-Mailbag (16:01)
-Adam’s Announcements (44:26)
-Next Week / Notes / Giveaway (58:05)
-Massacre Theatre (01:01:29)
-African Cinema Marathon #2: “Black Girl (01:10:38)
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Joe George on Christopher Nolan’s “Wordless Humanism”
African Cinema Marathon
African Cinema in The Film Foundation's Restoration Screening Room
Film Forum's SEMBÈNE Series Starts Sept. 8
UNESCO African Film Heritage Project Teaser
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The Top 5 Jump Scares that messed Adam and Josh up. Also, thoughts on the new horror film “Talk To Me,” Ira Sachs’s “Passages,” and a marathon review of 1958’s “Cairo Station.”
-Top 5: Jump Scares (09:15)
-Review (JL): “Talk To Me” (1:02:27)
-Review (AK): “Passages” (1:08:26)
-Next Week / Notes / Poll (1:12:40)
-African Cinema Marathon #1: “Cairo Station” (1:24:36)
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-Josh’s Fear Not: A Christian Appreciation of Horror Movies
-“Venomous, Sexy, Queer Romance Passages Lives in the Fallout of a Narcissist’s Dalliance”
-Cairo Station on YouTube
-African Cinema Marathon
-The Filmspotting Guide to the Archives
-Filmspotting Pantheon
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For the most anticipated double feature in years - Greta Gerwig's BARBIE and Christopher Nolan's OPPENHEIMER - Adam and Josh praise two very different films for treating their subjects with similar complexity.
-Review: “Barbie” (03:20)
-Brickspotting (JL): “Earth Mama” (30:27)
-Next Week / Notes / Massacre Theatre (36:02)
-Review: “Oppenheimer” (52:03)
-”Oppenheimer” Spoiler Talk (01:09:37)
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With its show-stopping stunts, the long-awaited seventh film in the “Mission: Impossible” series - DEAD RECKONING PART ONE - delivers the goods. But has the series - and its star - become too meta for their own good?
-Review: M:I Dead Reckoning Part One (02:40)
-Mission: Impossible Ranked (24:55)
-Next Week / Notes / Poll (39:00)
-Christopher Nolan Oeuvre-view Awards [2020] (50:31)
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Lots of directors have favorite actors. But for their Top 5 Actor-Director Duos since 2000, Adam and Josh choose the definitive collaborations of the last 20-plus years.
-Top 5: Actor-Director Duos (02:37)
-Next Week/Notes (45:56)
-Massacre Theatre (51:31)
-Top 5, cont. (57:01)
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Adam and Josh praise Harrison Ford’s farewell to Indy with their review of DIAL OF DESTINY and narrow down their favorite scenes in the franchise with their Top 5 Indiana Jones Moments.
-Top 5: Indiana Jones Moments (01:52)
-Next Week/Notes/Poll (48:52)
-Review: “Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny” (01:03:20)
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The space race and method acting collide in Wes Anderson’s '50s-set ASTEROID CITY, and former sweethearts reunite in Celine Song’s acclaimed debut PAST LIVES.
-Review: “Asteroid City” (01:42)
-Notes (38:21)
-Massacre Theatre (40:30)
-Review: “Past Lives” (47:42)
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Aisha Harris’s new book - “Wannabe: Reckoning With the Pop Culture that Shapes Me” - inspires this week’s show. Adam, Josh, and Aisha share the Top 5 Movie Characters Who Shaped Us. Plus, Josh’s take on Pixar’s ELEMENTAL.
-Interview: Aisha Harris (02:01)
-Top 5: Characters Who Shaped Us (10:13)
-Review (JL): Pixar’s “Elemental” (56:40)
-Notes/Polls (1:00:45)
-Top 5, cont. (1:17:35)
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“Wannabe: Reckonings with the Pop Culture that Shapes Me”
https://www.harpercollins.com/products/wannabe-aisha-harris?variant=40679574437922
Upcoming in-person events with Aisha Harris
https://twitter.com/craftingmystyle/status/1658526875629797376?s=20
"There was no one better to watch a movie with than Casey Tourangeau"
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1dq56B-YAhI41dBCSXgaA_9JRXDY6KF83/view
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Adam and Josh celebrate Pride Month with the Top 5 LGBTQ+ Movies that were formative in shaping their understanding of queer life. Plus, ‘The BFIs’ recognize the best of the Sight & Sound Top 100 Marathon.
-Pride Top 5: LGBTQ+ Movies (02:01)
-Next Week/Notes (31:28)
-Review (AK): “Close To Vermeer” (39:42)
-Massacre Theatre (44:42)
-Top 5, cont. (56:18)
-Sight & Sound Top 100 Awards (1:16:00)
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-”All That Heaven Allows” made the Sight & Sound Critcs’ Top 250 – not the Top 100.
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“Garp, Forty Years Later”
https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/08/23/garp-forty-years-later/
“The Top 175 Essential Films of All Time for LGBT Viewers”
https://www.advocate.com/arts-entertainment/film/2014/06/23/top-175-essential-films-all-time-lgbt-viewers
“Kenneth Anger Never Cooled Off”
https://www.vulture.com/2023/05/kenneth-anger-filmmaker-obituary-appreciation.html
826CHI: A Nonprofit Creative Writing, Tutoring, and Publishing Center
https://www.826chi.org/
“The Grace of Keanu Reeves”
https://www.rogerebert.com/features/bright-walldark-room-february-2016-the-grace-of-keanu-reeves-by-angelica-jade-basti%C3%A9n
“Oscar Nominee Chris Sarandon Remembers His Groundbreaking Role in Dog Day Afternoon”
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This week, a pair of very different, but also surprisingly similar, coming-of-age stories: the electrifying new “Across the Spider-Verse” and Edward Yang’s ‘91 masterpiece “A Brighter Summer Day.” Plus Adam on the new doc “Lynch/Oz.”
-Review: “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (02:28)
-Review (AK): “Lynch/Oz” (29:29)
-Next Week/Notes (38:14)
-Polls (45:19)
-Marathon Review: “A Brighter Summer Day” (55:26)
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Michael Phillips drops in for a look back at the first half of the year in film, including praise for "Showing Up," Nicole Holofcener's "You Hurt My Feelings," "Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret" and more.
-Top 5 Films of 2023 (So Far) (03:29)
-Next Week/Notes (46:16)
-Massacre Theatre (55:30)
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-”Living With the Men of Paul Schrader’s ‘Man in a Room’ Trilogy”
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/21/movies/master-gardener-paul-schrader-joel-edgerton-oscar-isaac-ethan-hawke.html
-”Showing Up: A Masterwork About an Artist’s Life”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-front-row/showing-up-reviewed-a-masterwork-about-an-artists-life
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What seemed like a one-off, late-career masterpiece from ‘70s icon Paul Schrader (2017’s “First Reformed”) has now become a loose series of films about solitary men struggling with past sins. Where does the new MASTER GARDENER rank among the director’s “Man in a Room” trilogy?
-Review: “Master Gardener” (04:49)
-Review (AK): “BlackBerry” (30:46)
-Next Week/Notes (39:03)
-Marathon Review: “Sans Soleil” (42:41)
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-"Cinematographer Kirsten Johnson discovers what it means to examine the world as she reflects on her profession”
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New films from Christopher Nolan, Greta Gerwig, and Wes Anderson may be the auteur-driven must-sees of the summer, but Adam and Josh go deeper for their Top 5 Summer Movie Questions.
-Summer Movie Preview (02:51)
-Next Week/Notes, Polls (43:43)
-Marathon Review: “Mirror” (56:15)
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Resources/Links:
-“Greta Lee Couldn’t Touch Teo Yoo While Filming Past Lives”
https://www.vulture.com/2023/01/sundance-2023-vulture-spot-greta-lee-celine-song.html
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It's been six years since the last "Guardians of the Galaxy" movie, and while Josh finds VOL. 3 wildly misguided, Adam will slow-motion strut with the crew. Plus, Draft Day for Killmonger and Thanos.
-Draft: MCU Villains (02:16)
-Review: “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 3” (50:13)
-Massacre Theatre (01:10:24)
-Chicago Critics Film Fest w/Steve Prokopy (01:13:01)
-Doc10 Film Festival / AK on “Subject” (01:20:29)
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-Who won the MCU Villains Draft?
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-MCU Ranked, Adam
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-MCU Ranked, Josh
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Enigmatic, tortured, funny. It’s the Oscar-winning actor’s best from his '90s breakthrough to his partnerships with Shyamalan, Gray, PTA—and Todd Phillips.
-Top 5: Joaquin Phoenix Performances (03:21)
-R.I.P. Harry Belafonte (28:00)
-Review (JL): “R.M.N.” (30:53)
-Review: “Beau Is Afraid” (50:59)
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https://slate.com/culture/2023/04/beau-is-afraid-movie-ending-explained-maybe.html
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Daniel Goldhaber's "How to Blow Up a Pipeline" shows impressive craft and is fueled by real generational anxiety about the climate crisis, but does his approach answer any questions or just raise new ones?
-Review: "How To Blow Up A Pipeline" (03:48)
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Michael Phillips (Chicago Tribune) joins Adam for reviews of Ben Affleck’s “Air” and more new releases. Plus Adam’s conversation with Kelly Reichardt about her latest starring Michelle Williams, “Showing Up.”
-Review: "Air: Courting a Legend" (04:14)
-Review: “Paint” (17:32)
-Review: “Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields” (30:37)
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John Wick 4's 169-minute run time could be seen as a betrayal of its lean and mean origins or a welcome embrace of its byzantine mythology and increasingly ambitious action set pieces. And maybe a little of both.
-Review: "John Wick: Chapter 4" (02:33)
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The new book from film writer Kristen Lopez asks, “But Have You Read The Book?” Kristen joins Adam and Josh for a conversation about books they have read—that they also want to see adapted for the big screen.
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Top 5: Books That Should Be Adapted Into Movies (13:51)
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25 years ago, the Coen Brothers followed up their Oscar-winning "Fargo" with a stoned shaggy dog riff on film noir. It bombed at the box office only to become a beloved cult film. Also like their best, everything matters.
'Sacred Cow' Review: "The Big Lebowski" (05:04)
'Brickspotting' Review (JL): "Rodeo" (47:39)
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It takes a star of great confidence to play opposite the electrifying Jonathan Majors. And while CREED III's Michael B. Jordan is up to the challenge of his rival, can the same be said about the movie itself?
Review: "Creed III" (03:02)
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Adam and Josh compare Oscar ballots with the Chicago Tribune's Michael Phillips, sharing picks for who will win, who should win, and who should have been nominated in the Supporting and Lead Actor and Actress categories (02:49). Then they introduce some of the Rd. 1 matchups in Filmspotting Madness 2023: Best of the 1960s (01:06:34) and announce the lineup for the year's first Filmspotting Marathon - Sight & Sound Top 100 Blind Spots (01:30:33) - before making their choices for Best Director and Best Picture (01:36:49). Time codes may not be precise due to dynamically-inserted ads.
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Coming on the heels of the era-defining “The Godfather” in ’72, the 1973 movie year had a lot to live up to. But if Adam and Josh’s Top 5 of 1973 (02:56) is any indication, it more than delivered. Featuring early-career masterpieces from Terrence Malick, Martin Scorsese and, yes, George Lucas, plus the decade’s most terrifying horror film, influential films from abroad, and so much more, ’73 not only met the standard set a year earlier, but makes a claim as one of the best of the decade. Also on the show, the return of Filmspotting Madness (47:53), which this year has us determining the best film of the ’60s. Then, Adam and Josh share Best of ’73 poll results (01:08:14), before returning to the Top 5 for their final two picks (01:14:18). Time codes may not be precise due to dynamically-inserted ads.
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With Steven Soderbergh's sly, sexy, and exuberant contribution to the musical genre coming to a close with the release of the third and, presumably, final film in the Magic Mike trilogy, Adam and Josh see the series off with the Top 5 Magic-est Mike Moments (01:15), a celebration of the films' many memorable dance sequences. Plus Josh's review of the new "Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania" (21:47), and Adam's thoughts on "The Integrity of Joseph Chambers (28:15)," the latest from former Brick nominee Robert Machoian ("The Killing of Two Lovers"). They also play some Massacre Theatre (39:50) and weigh in on "Magic Mike's Last Dance" (45:57) – with one considering it a worthy, if lightweight, follow-up to 2015's XXL; the other declaring it quite possibly the worst film Soderbergh has ever made – before sharing their final two Magic-est Mike Moments (59:26). Time codes may not be precise due to dynamically-inserted ads.
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After a string of lush, star-filled productions in the ‘50s, Alfred Hitchcock went small(er) and sinister with Psycho, which went on to become Hitchcock's best-known film and one of the most influential films of the last sixty years. For this Sacred Cow deep dive (02:04)—reviewed in anticipation of the upcoming Best of the '60s edition of Filmspotting Madness—Filmspotting considers a picture that remains unnerving and full of mystery even after a half-century of critical analysis. Plus, listeners weigh in on M. Night Shyamalan's hit-and-miss career (52:33), and Adam and Josh turn in their Oscars homework (1:02:08) with thoughts on ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, Andrea Riseborough in TO LESLIE, and Best Documentary Feature nominee NAVALNY. Time codes may not be precise due to dynamically-inserted ads.
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M. Night Shyamalan is on the short list of big-budget filmmakers who reliably bring original stories to the multiplex, which means that enthusiasm for his new work can be somewhat out of step with his recent track record. But with their Top 5 Shyamalan Moments (01:13), Adam and Josh prove that the director's best work is deserving of close attention. Working with ace collaborators like cinematographers Roger Deakins and Tak Fujimoto, composer James Newton Howard, and actors such as Bruce Willis and Toni Collette, Shyamalan exhibits a gift for patience and craft that - at his best - distinguishes him from his peers. Along with that Top 5, Adam and Josh have an on-air production meeting about next week's Madness '23-inspired show (40:26), shake the dust off for their first Massacre Theatre of the new year (46:21), and share some thoughts on Shyamalan's latest, KNOCK AT THE CABIN (48:59), before returning to the Top 5 (01:07:40). Time codes may not be precise due to dynamically-inserted ads.
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Gerwig, Nolan, Wes, Scorsese. The new movie year is full of promise. For their 2023 MOVIE PREVIEW, Adam and Josh look to avoid getting burned by the promise of films that disappear from the movie schedule like desert mirages (will we finally see you this year, Kelly Reichardt's "Showing Up"?) and try to keep their hopes afloat for a year that appears even more IP-heavy than normal (Barbie! Wonka! Spidey! Indy!). Per tradition, the preview takes the form of the Top 5 Questions About the 2023 Movie Year. Plus, Josh submits the new SKINAMARINK for Golden Brick consideration.
1:08 - 2023 Movie Preview
31:58 - Brickspotting (JL): "Skinamarink"
37:09 - Next Week / Notes / Polls
45:17 - 2023 Movie Preview, cont.
1:09:29 - Outro
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Pleasant surprises, notable snubs, and some conflicted feelings about diversity and representation were all part of the conversation for this "Reaction Shot" to the 2023 Oscar nominations. Note: Michelle Yeoh is the first person who identifies as Asian to ever be nominated for best actress; some previously nominated actresses may have hidden their Asian ancestry.
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Delayed nearly three years by the pandemic, but, in many ways, 18 years in the making, the show's live NYC debut was worth all the waiting. Joined by Slate's Dana Stevens and Griffin Newman from the Blank Check podcast, plus Matt Singer (ScreenCrush) and Alison Willmore (Vulture), formerly of Filmspotting: SVU, Adam and Josh brought the year-end Wrap Party to the stage at Brooklyn's Bell House in front of a packed house. In addition to their picks for opening scene, funniest and most moving moment, best music moment, and scene of the year, the show also features Matt breaking into song, a provocative "Top Gun: Maverick" theory from Alison, and Dana Stevens directing Griffin Newman and "Wicked"'s Jeff Heimbrock in a very special edition of Massacre Theatre.
1:08 - Intro
12:41 - Opening Scenes
28:02 - Moving Scenes
43:09 - Funniest Scenes w/Griffin Newman
1:05:33 - Music Moments w/Alison Willmore and Matt Singer
1:37:48 - 2022 Golden Brick Award
1:41:45 - Scenes of the Year w/Dana Stevens
2:08:16 - Outro
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With the help of regular collaborators Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, Noah Baumbach leaves the big city - and reality - behind for his ambitious adaptation of Don DeLillo's WHITE NOISE. An absurdist meditation on death nested in a consumerist satire (or vice versa?) that riffs on Elvis, Hitler, car crashes, pharmaceuticals, marriage, and family life, Adam and Josh agree that Baumbach's big swing is a mostly successful one. Also on the show, a revisit of 2017's Top 5 Noah Baumbach Characters (originally paired with "The Meyerowitz Stories") and thoughts on the passing of five-time Oscar-nominated cinematographer Owen Roizman.
1:08 - Review: "White Noise"
34:58 - Polls / Notes / Owen Roizman
49:44 - Top 5 Noah Baumbach Characters (2017)
1:23:56 - Outro
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In 2005, Filmspotting established an elite list of the top films of the year. Its purpose was to teach the lost art of filmmaking and to ensure that the handful of films that made the list were the best in the world.
They succeeded.
Today, Filmspotting calls it the films of the year roundtable.
Listeners call it:
TOP TEN.
This year, guest critics Michael "Fiddlesticks" Phillips and Marya "Zig Zag" Gates join Adam and Josh to name the best of the best: the Top 10 Films of 2022. In addition to ten consensus picks that appeared on two or more lists, the roundtable shares their outlier picks, and stumbles into a longer-than-planned conversation about Damien Chazelle's new "Babylon." Plus, the finalists for the 2022 Golden Brick Award.
1:23 - Top 10 of 2022: Consensus Picks
1:07:42 - Golden Brick Finalists
1:13:07 - Top 10 Consensus, cont.
2:15:49 - "Babylon"
2:34:06 - Poll Results: Best of '22
2:37:45 - Top 10 of 2022: Outliers
3:03:00 - Outro
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It's been so long since the first "Avatar" that it came out two years before Josh was even on the show. But back in 2009, Josh was a fan of James Cameron's 3D game-changer. And he wasn't alone. The film, despite its lack of cultural cache a dozen years later, was a critical as well as a box office success. Adam, on the other hand, was one of the film's harshest critics. Will Cameron's return to Pandora have Adam seeing the error of his ways? Or will Josh start to question his loyalty to the Na'vi?
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With Adam and Josh facing a deadline for submitting their Chicago Film Critics Association best of the year ballots, they use this episode to hash out their picks for the best supporting and lead performances of the year—from heavy hitters like Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, and Michelle Yeoh to the stars of lesser-seen films like “Aftersun,” “Causeway,” and “Decision to Leave.” Plus reviews of Guillermo del Toro’s stop-motion PINOCCHIO adaption, and Sam Mendes’ 80s-set ode to movies and movie theaters, EMPIRE OF LIGHT. Adam and Josh also weigh in on the recent publication of Sight & Sound’s once-a-decade Greatest Films of All Time list.
0:56 - Best Performances of 2022 (Supporting)
33:33 - Sight & Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time
55:44 - Review: “Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio”
1:06:19 - Review: “Empire of Light”
1:27:31 - Next Week / Notes / Massacre Theatre
1:35:15 - Best Performances of 2022 (Lead)
1:52:46 - Outro
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Greatest film of all time? You better believe it belongs in the conversation. From Sept. 2020, Adam and Josh discuss their first experience with Chantal Akerman's masterpiece as part of their Overlooked Auteurs Marathon.
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With THE FABLEMANS, what appeared to be Steven Spielberg’s portrait of the filmmaker as a young man turns out to be a more complicated autopsy of a family coming apart at the seams—that happens to have a budding filmmaker there to document it. Adam and Josh have lots of praise for Spielberg, his co-conspirator/co-screenwriter Tony Kushner, and the film’s cast, but a few minor issues may reflect a weakness that appears more broadly in the director’s work. Director Joanna Hogg has worked almost exclusively in an autobiographical vein: her acclaimed 2019 film “The Souvenir” and last year’s sequel “The Souvenir, Part II,” had Hogg revisiting and re-examining her film student days. Her latest, THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER, continues the director’s audacious self-reflexivity, this time casting Tilda Swinton in a double role as Hogg surrogate Julie and also as Julie’s mother, Rosalind. Hogg’s film is both a meta-meditation on what it means to be an artist—and a ghost story. Plus, Adam recommends Sr., a new doc about filmmaker - and Robert Downey Jr.’s dad - Robert Downey, Sr.
1:06 - Review: "The Fablemans"
36:35 - Next Week / Notes
43:44 - Polls
51:22 - Review: “The Eternal Daughter"
1:03:01 - Review (AK): “Sr.”
1:08:41 - Outro
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Luca Guadagnino's BONES AND ALL is a coming-of-age story with an unusual twist: cannibalism. Starring Timothée Chalamet and Taylor Russell, the film was adapted by writer David Kajganich from a 2015 novel by Camille DeAngelis. Kajganich had previously written adaptations for Guadagnino's "A Bigger Splash" (based on the 1969 Jacques Deray film "La Piscine") and his 2018 remake of Dario Argento's cult horror film "Suspiria." In his conversation with Adam, Kajganich talks about how his background as a novelist made him uniquely qualified for adaptation work; how to write (and how not to write) exposition; and the surprising subtext of "Bones and All" that the book's author asked him to preserve. And producer Sam Van Hallgren joins Adam for a conversation – recorded live at Iowa City FilmScene's Refocus Film Festival – about some of the best recent book-to-screen adaptations.
1:05 - Interview: David Kajganich ("Bones and All")
41:02 - Next Week / Notes
42:44 - Book-to-Screen Adaptations w/Sam Van Hallgren (Live)
1:41:55 - Outro
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For the second installment in his "Knives Out" series, Rian Johnson leaves the family squabbling behind for a trip to a luxury island where murder most foul befalls the filthy rich. GLASS ONION: A KNIVES OUT MYSTERY shows Johnson hasn't lost his ability to pair social commentary with crackerjack entertainment. Unfortunately, director Ryan Coogler’s return to the “Black Panther” franchise is a less successful venture. While Coogler does right by the late Chadwick Boseman, his WAKANDA FOREVER is over-burdened by the demands of the MCU and let down by uninspiring and occasionally indecipherable effects work. Also on the show, Golden Brick nominations for Nikyatu Jusu's Sundance-winning NANNY and David Siev's BAD AXE, a documentary about the director's immigrant family's life in small-town Michigan. Plus reviews of Zoe Kazan and Carey Mulligan in SHE SAID and the new doc LOVE, CHARLIE: THE RISE AND FALL OF CHARLIE TROTTER.
1:08 - Reviews: "Glass Onion," "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever"
34:13 - Brickspotting: “Nanny," "Bad Axe"
49:53 - Next Week / Notes
1:02:52 - Massacre Theatre
1:10:08 - Reviews: "She Said," "Love, Charlie"
1:18:57 - New Releases / Credits
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Director Charlotte Wells's AFTERSUN documents a holiday that 11-year-old Sophie takes with her loving but troubled father (played by Paul Mescal). The debut feature is one of the best and most sneakily heart-rending films of the year. It also inspires this week's Top 5: Father-Daughter Duos, with Adam and Josh sharing picks from Ozu, Nolan, Bogdanovich, and Spike Lee, along with a pair of inventive docs made by daughters about their dads. Plus Adam's review of WEIRD: THE AL YANKOVIC STORY.
1:22 - Top 5 Father-Daughter Duos
30:26 - Review (AK): “Weird: The Al Yankovic Story"
36:29 - Next Week / Notes
46:38 - Polls
55:08 - Review: “Aftersun"
1:19:12 - Top 5 Father-Daughter Duos, cont.
1:39:12 - Outro
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Adam and Josh cover lots of new releases on this week's show, including James Gray's guilt-ridden coming-of-age film ARMAGEDDON TIME and Ruben Östlund's eat-the-rich Palme d'Or-winner TRIANGLE OF SADNESS, along with a return to form from Jennifer Lawrence in CAUSEWAY (with Brian Tyree Henry); Henry Selick's new stop-motion collaboration with Jordan Peele WENDELL & WILD; and new docs about the secret history of Africatown, Alabama (the not-to-miss DESCENDANT), the early 2000s indie rock scene (MEET ME IN THE BATHROOM), and jazz great "Satchmo" (LOUIS ARMSTRONG'S BLACK & BLUES).
1:06 - Review: "Armageddon Time"
28:04 - Reviews (AK): “Causeway," "Descendant"
40:29 - Review (JL): “Wendell & Wild"
44:02 - New doc recs (AK): “Meet Me in the Bathroom," "Louis Armstrong's Black & Blues"
48:56 - Next Week / Notes
59:31 - Massacre Theatre
1:05:31 - Review: “Triangle of Sadness"
1:16:59 - Outro
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In Martin McDonagh's new THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN, Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson play a couple of longtime friends whose relationship takes a sudden and mysterious turn. Along with their review of the film - one of the year's best - Adam and Josh consider the long history of Movie Bromances, from classic noirs and westerns to a beloved fantasy epic to a couple of notable (but possibly forgotten?) comedies from the early 2000s. Josh also has a report from his TICKET TO PARADISE date night.
0:58 - Top 5: Movie Bromances
Mike Schank, "Mr. Bojanges"
34:27 - Next Week / Notes / R.I.P. Robbie Coltrane
39:09 - Polls
48:44 - Review: "The Banshees of Inisherin"
1:02:46 - Top 5, cont.
1:37:10 - Outro / Outtake
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Korean auteur Park Chan-wook's DECISION TO LEAVE is something of a departure for a director best known for the violent and sexual provocations of films like "Oldboy," "The Handmaiden," and "Stoker." His latest involves a murder, but Park's camera is more attentive to the mounting attraction between Hae-joon's married police detective and the victim's wife, played by Tang Wei. Park's film inspires this week's Top 5: Cops In Love, which gives Adam and Josh a chance to give director Kathryn Bigelow some love, along with titles from Jane Campion, Peter Weir, Martin Scorsese, and Otto Preminger.
1:14 - Top 5: Cops In Love
32:12 - Next Week / Notes
39:58 - Massacre Theatre
44:35 - Review: "Decision to Leave"
58:23 - Top 5, cont.
1:16:17 - Outro
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Director Todd Field ("In The Bedroom," "Little Children") returns after a sixteen-year hiatus with TÁR, the most acclaimed film of his career and possibly of the year. Cate Blanchett stars as an accomplished composer and conductor who faces a personal crisis that could derail her career. Gender politics, identity politics, the "Me Too" movement, cancel culture: the movie circles around these issues without necessarily being about any of them. In their review, Adam and Josh praise the film's complexity and intelligence along with what may be the definitive Blanchett performance. Plus, a review of David O. Russell's latest, AMSTERDAM, a film that is "very wobbly right from the start, regains its balance but is still teetering, and then? Things absolutely collapse." Plus, Blanchett v Swinton and the battle of the seasonably appropriate stop-motion features.
1:20 - Review: "TÁR"
42:03 - Next Week / Notes / Angela Lansbury
48:31 - Polls
57:07 - Review: “Amsterdam"
1:09:19 - Outro

With ‘Tár,’ Todd Field Returns to Directing. Where Has He Been?

Sam smartly points out that TÁR is also an anagram for ART.

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