Flixwise Podcast
181 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 43 ratingsWe're a weekly movie podcast for cineastes, cinephiles, cinema snobs, and you know...everyone else! We're going one by one through the Sight and Sound list of Greatest Movies of All Time. Listen up and find out if agree with Sight and Sound's summation of cinema history. And as a bonus, if you listen to this podcast you are eligible to become a bona fide cinephile.
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FF 24: Babe
July 19, 2016 13:00 - 39 minutes - 27.1 MBFor this episode, Flixwise art director Emma Guerard is here to discuss why she thinks Chris Noonan’s piglet-driven dramedy Babe belongs on the Flixwise Favorites list. In order for Babe to make the prime cut, she’ll have to convince Lady P, Martin Kessler, and Marcus Pinn that there is more to Babe than Oscar-worthy special effects and cinema’s greatest all-mice a capella group. Emma asserts the movie has a lot to say about the farm-fresh milk of human kindness, but will the panel be conv...
Ep. 48: Histoire(s) du Cinema
July 05, 2016 11:00 - 1 hour - 51 MBToday's 48th Sight and Sound entry is Jean-Luc Godard's eight-part essay-style documentary series Histoire(s) du Cinema. A film as sprawling and experimental as Histoire(s) requires both time and patience to parse. For that reason, the majority of this podcast is spent decoding Histoire(s) esoteric text. Joining host, Lady P, to translate the film is a set of panelist with wide array of strong opinions on the film - as befits a figure as polarizing as Godard. First up, in his Flixwise debu...
FF 23 - Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
June 21, 2016 11:00 - 37 minutes - 25.8 MBToday is Canadian National Aboriginal Day. To show our solidarity, we are putting Zacharias Kunuk's 2001 film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner up for consideration in the Flixwise Favorites list. Atanarjuat, the debut feature from Isuma Productions, is a retelling of a centuries-old Inuit legend. It recounts the story of a pair of rival families from Igloolik Village, and the curse that unravels their tenuous peace agreement. Lady P is joined by Emma Guerard and our resident Canuck, Martin Kes...
Ep. 48: The Battle of Algiers & Violence in Movies
June 07, 2016 11:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBOn today's show, Lady P is joined by co-producer, Martin Kessler, and Flixwise regular, Kristen Sales, to talk about the 48th film on the Sight and Sound Critics Poll, Gillo Pontecorvo's 1966 feature: The Battle of Algiers. In the years since its release Algiers has become infamous more for its use as a training video rather than its cinematic legacy. It's been cited by everyone from The Black Panthers to the United States Military as a blueprint for both engaging in and combatting guerrilla...
FF 22: The Cable Guy - Greatest of all Time?
May 24, 2016 11:00 - 40 minutes - 27.6 MBOn today's show, Pinnland Empire editor, Marcus Pinn, tell listeners why he thinks Ben Stiller's 1996 comedy The Cable Guy is one of the greatest films of all time. He's got to convince host Lady P, and panelists Emma Guerard and Martin Kessler that Stiller's widely-dismissed, critically-panned, box-office disappointment, is actually a misunderstood masterpiece. Prior to its releaseThe Cable Guy was already made infamous due to the staggering payday allotted to the film's star Jim Carrey, s...
Ep. 43: Close-Up & The Movies That Made Us
May 10, 2016 11:00On today's show, Lady P is joined by CriterionCast contributor, David Blakeslee, and Professor of Islamic History at Penn University/ Film Blogger, Paul M. Cobb to talk Abbas Kiarostami's 1990 film, Close-Up. The Sight and Sound Critic's Poll is littered with works that are about film and/or making films (see 8 1/2, Les Mepris, Sunset Blvd, etc.) It's no wonder then that Close-Up, a film about an impassioned movie enthusiast who cons a family into believing he's a famous director, found its ...
Ep. 43: Close-Up & The Movies That Made Us
May 10, 2016 11:00 - 1 hour - 51.4 MBOn today's show, Lady P is joined by CriterionCast contributor, David Blakeslee, and Professor of Islamic History at Penn University/ Film Blogger, Paul M. Cobb to talk Abbas Kiarostami's 1990 film, Close-Up. The Sight and Sound Critic's Poll is littered with works that are about film and/or making films (see 8 1/2, Les Mepris, Sunset Blvd, etc.) It's no wonder then that Close-Up, a film about an impassioned movie enthusiast who cons a family into believing he's a famous director, found its ...
Ep. 43: Gertrud & TCM Film Fest 2016
April 26, 2016 11:00 - 1 hour - 43.9 MBOn today's show, Flixwise co-producer Martin Kessler and frequent guest Anne Marie Kelly, join Lady P for a surprisingly light-hearted discussion of the 43rd Sight and Sound entry: Carl Theodor Dreyer's 1964 swan song, GERTRUD. GERTRUD, a film about the ecstasy and heartbreak that comes with devoting one's life to a single all-encompassing ideal, isn't exactly great material for a giggle-fest. Never-the-less, our panel manages to have itself a good time discussing whether or not Dreyer's fil...
FF 21: The End of The World
April 12, 2016 11:00 - 35 minutes - 24.4 MBOn today's show, we have our first Flixwise Favorites entry of 2016! Flixwise Co-Producer, Martin Kessler, is on hand to tell Lady P and Emma Guerard why August Blom's 1916 Danish disaster movie, THE END OF THE WORLD, is one of the greatest films of all time. Blom's work is not as widely seen as the early silent films of the infamous American film pioneer D.W. Griffith. However, Martin thinks that Blom is equally, if not more worthy, than Griffith of critical acclaim. Along the way, they dis...
Ep. 43: Some Like It Hot with Joseph McBride
March 29, 2016 11:00 - 1 hour - 43.5 MBOn today's show, Lady P is joined by screenwriter, author, and film historian Professor Joseph McBride to discuss Billy Wilder's 1959 film, SOME LIKE IT HOT. SOME LIKE IT HOT is the rare comedy that manages to be both uproariously funny and also critically acclaimed. McBride and Lady P talk about how this gangster-genre parody snuck past film snobs' humor filters and nabbed the 43rd spot on the Sight and Sound Greatest of All Time List. They also delve into the film's subversive gender dynam...
Young Orson with Patrick McGilligan
March 15, 2016 11:00 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MBOn today's show, Lady P chats with author, Patrick McGilligan, about his latest biography, Young Orson: The Years of Luck and Genius on the Path to Citizen Kane. According to McGilligan, it was a mixture of fate and pedigree that lead Orson Welles into life of creative endeavor. McGilligan goes into detail about Orson's childhood in Kenosha, Wisconsin - including his early notoriety as "child-genius" and his pre-adolescent enthusiasm for the arts. He also delves into Welles' family lineage,...
Ep. 43: Playtime & Criterion Love
March 08, 2016 12:00 - 1 hour - 48.8 MBOn today's show, we're touring around the dystopic Paris of the future featured in Jacques Tati's 1967 film, PLAYTIME. Joining host, Lady P, and Flixwise co-producer, Martin Kessler, to talk Tati are two stalwarts of the classic film blogosphere: David Blakeslee of Criterion Reflections and The Eclipse Viewer podcast, and Aaron West of Criterion Blues and the Criterion Close-Up podcast. Together, the panel marvels at the immaculately constructed city that Tati had built from scratch, and the...
Ep. 43: Pierrot Le Fou & The 2016 Oscars
February 23, 2016 12:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBOn today's show, Monica Castillo, contributor for RogerEbert.com, IBTimes, and whole host of other prestigious publications, makes her debut appearance on our little podcast. She's joining Lady P and Martin Kessler for a discussion about the 43rd film on the Sight and Sound Critic's Poll, Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 feature PIERROT LE FOU. This is Godard's third appearance on the S&S list - the first two being BREATHLESS (#13) and LE MEPRIS (#21). The panelists discuss the ways in which Godard u...
Ep. 41: Journey to Italy & Favorite Character Actors
February 09, 2016 12:00 - 57 minutes - 39.2 MBWe are very pleased to welcome back to the show author and film historian Professor James Naremore. Naremore joins host, Lady P, for a discussion on Roberto Rossellini's 1954 JOURNEY TO ITALY. Upon its initial release, JOURNEY TO ITALY was generally panned or dismissed by critics. However, in the intervening years, its esteem has risen tremendously, and it now sits comfortably in the Top 50 in the Sight and Sound Critics Poll. Lady P and Professor Naremore discuss the film's post-war trauma ...
Ep. 41: Pather Panchali & Favorite Child Performances
January 26, 2016 12:00 - 1 hour - 46.8 MBOn today's show, Lady P is joined by fellow podcasters, James Hancock and Mikhail Karadimov, to talk about Satyajit Ray's 1955 film PATHER PANCHALI. James and Mikhail are co-hosts of Wrong Reel, one of the most irreverent and profanity-laced film podcasts on the web. So they're a natural fit for a discussion about a sensitive portrait of a poverty stricken family living in rural West Bengali India. In true Wrong Reel style, they celebrate and send-up Ray's masterpiece in equal measure-- whic...
2015 In Review Pt.2 (TV Edition)
January 19, 2016 12:00 - 21 minutes - 14.9 MBToday's minisode is an addendum to our previous 2015 In Review podcast. Lady P, Marya E. Gates, Martin Kessler, Anne Marie Kelly, and Kristen Sales are back to briefly review their favorite television shows of last year. Highlights include some pretty stellar animated shows, the "most jewish show on tv", and some "beautifully sculpted man bodies".
2015 In Review
January 12, 2016 12:00 - 1 hour - 63.9 MBWe're back with a special Flixwise XXL episode. The length of the episode is due in part to our super-sized panel. Lady P is joined by Flixwise regulars Marya E. Gates, Martin Kessler, Anne Marie Kelly, and Kristen Sales for a countdown of each of their Top 5 2015 releases. Plus, they talk about their favorite scenes, the best performances, and also some dishonorable mentions. Expect lots of shout outs to female filmmakers and railing against the patriarchy. Happy 2016, Everyone! Note: We h...
FF: It's A Wonderful Life
December 22, 2015 12:00 - 48 minutes - 33.4 MBOn today's show we're closing out the year with a special Christmas entry to the Flixwise Favorites list. Lady P and Martin Kessler are joined by Lady P's brother, Gary Lampert, to discuss Frank Capra's perennial holiday classic, IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE. The panel talks about the film's reputation as a sentimental tearjerker, how it got that reputation, and the ways in which tearjerker is and isn't an accurate description. They also discuss how Jimmy Stewart is more often remembered as a perso...
Ep 39: La Dolce Vita
December 08, 2015 12:00 - 1 hour - 51.2 MBLady P's partying it up, Italian style, with fellow panelists Martin Kessler and Kristen Sales. Today's 39th Sight and Sound entry is Federico Fellini's LA DOLCE VITA. The film stars Marcello Mastroianni as a young intellectual type also coincidentally (or not) named Marcello. Throughout the course of the film we watch as Marcello attends parties, embarks on ill-fated love affairs, and cruises around the countryside. Fellini allows the viewer to indulge in all the fast car/faster women clich...
Flixwise Favorites: The Hitch-Hiker
November 24, 2015 12:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBLady P, Martin Kessler, and Marya E. Gates continue the "A Year With Women" series with a special "Noirvember" episode. In today's Flixwise Favorites entry, the panel peers into the shadows that line the deserted highways in Ida Lupino's THE HITCH-HIKER. The film takes the viewer on a harrowing ride through the Baja California desert, as a pair of unassuming middle aged men are kidnapped by a wanted murderer and forced to help him flee the authorities. THE HITCH-HIKER is loaded with noir tr...
Ep 39: The 400 Blows
November 16, 2015 12:00 - 1 hour - 46.4 MBOn today's podcast, we are celebrating the 56th anniversary of the seminal French New Wave film, THE 400 BLOWS. The film was lauded upon its original 1959 release and inspired countless other filmmakers around the world to pick up a camera and start shooting. However, this episode focuses primarily on the man behind the film, François Truffaut. We explore his upbringing and his relationship with his family, his decision to cast Jean Pierre Léaud, how THE 400 BLOWS compares with some of Franç...
Ep. 36: Satantango
November 10, 2015 12:00 - 1 hour - 78.6 MBToday's panelists, Lady P, Martin Kessler, and A. Tad Chamberlain, have all danced with the devil and lived to podcast the tale. This is Flixwise's special super-sized episode on the 36th Greatest Movie of All Time, Bela Tarr's 1994 Hungarian classic, SATANTANGO. SATANTANGO has a reputation as a notoriously daunting watch; partially due to its run time (it clocks-in somewhere around 7.5hrs), but also because of it's unsparing pessimism about the nature of humanity and mortality. On top of t...
Flixwise Favorites: Oxhide II
November 03, 2015 12:00 - 32 minutes - 22.3 MBToday is a continuation of our ongoing "Female Filmmaker Extravaganza", a series of podcasts meant to showcase films directed by women. This time we're making an effort to spotlight an under-the-radar, woman-helmed, classic. Martin Kessler lays down the case for why Liu Jiayin's little seen 2009-film, OXHIDE II, is worthy of the Flixwise Favorites List. OXHIDE II boast a cast of three, a crew of one, and has the distinction of having far-and-away the smallest budget of any movie Flixwise ha...
Flixwise Favorites: Clueless
October 20, 2015 11:00 - 43 minutes - 30 MBDid you really think we'd do a series on female directed films and not talk about Amy Heckerling's Clueless? AS IF!! Flixwise regular, Anne Marie Kelly, outlines why she thinks the seminal 1995 teen comedy is worthy of the Flixwise Favorites List. She'll have to convince Lady P, Kristen Sales, and Marya E. Gates that her fondness for the film stems not just from wardrobe envy or a '90s nostalgia trip, but from the film's formal attributes and cultural significance as well. Listen up to see ...
Ep. 36: Metropolis & Starship Troopers
October 06, 2015 11:00 - 1 hour - 48.6 MBLady P and Anne Marie Kelly are joined by Ed Neumeier, the writer and producer of ROBOCOP and STARSHIP TROOPERS, to talk early science fiction films. Their discussion centers primarily on the 36th film on the Sight and Sound Greatest Of All Time List: Fritz Lang's 1927 German Expressionist classic, METROPOLIS. They give a brief overview of the socio-political environment at the time of production (yep, that means Hitler), and talk about how the film co-opts the styles and themes of several e...
Flixwise Favorites: Little Women
September 22, 2015 11:00 - 47 minutes - 54.7 MBFor our 2nd entry in the "Flixwise Favorites: Female Filmmaker" series, Marya E. Gates tries to convince Kristen Sales and Lady P that Gillian Armstrong's 1994 feature, LITTLE WOMEN, is worthy of our canon. Topics include: the film's rendering of Alcott's original text, the gorgeous set and costume design, the ageless beauty of Susan Sarandon, and stupid-Amy and her stupid limes. Plus, they tackle the issue that's been dividing our nation since the film's release: Laurie vs Professor Bhaer.
Flixwise Favorites: Point Break
September 15, 2015 11:00 - 45 minutes - 52.3 MBWelcome back to the show Marya E. Gates and Kristen Sales! Taking a cue from Marya's "A Year With Women" project, we've started running our own "Flixwise Favorites: Female Filmmaker" series. First up, Kristen tells us why she thinks Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 film, POINT BREAK, is totally radical and should be considered one the greatest movies of all time. It turns out the film's tagline, "100% Pure Adrenaline", is a little misleading. According to Kristen, POINT BREAK is not just one of the ...
Ep. 36: Jeanne Dielman
September 01, 2015 11:00 - 1 hour - 71.8 MBIt's a lady filmmaker podcast! With special guests Marya E. Gates of Cinema Fanatic and Kristen Sales of Sales on Film. First, the panel methodically steps through the 36th movie on the Sight and Sound Greatest of All Time list: Chantal Akerman's 1975 feature, Jeanne Dielman 23 quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles. There's a lot to unpack in Akerman's meticulous rendering of the daily rituals of a Belgian housewife-turned-prostitute. For some, the film is a reverent tribute to motherhood and th...
Flixwise Favorites: Watership Down
August 18, 2015 11:00 - 36 minutes - 41.7 MBAaron West of the film blog Criterion Blues joins Lady P and Flixwise co-producer, Martin Kessler, to talk about whether or not the 1978 animated adaptation of Richard Adams' classic novel, WATERSHIP DOWN, is worthy of the Flixwise Favorites list. WATERSHIP DOWN has been favorite of Aaron's since adolescence. Listen up to see if he can convince his fellow panelists that his continued admiration is based on more than childhood nostalgia. Along the way, they discuss religious allegories, fasci...
Ep. 34: Psycho & Hitchcock
August 11, 2015 11:00 - 56 minutes - 64.9 MBOn today's podcast, we're paying tribute to "The Master of the Macabre", Alfred Hitchcock. On-hand to assist Lady P in dissecting Sir Alfred's filmography is renowned film historian, author, and Professor Emeritus from Indiana University, James Naremore. For our first topic, we have the Sight and Sound Critics' Poll's 34th Greatest Film of All Time: PSYCHO (1960). Our guest, James, originally offered up his in-depth take on Hitch's infamous feature in his 1973 book Filmguide to Psycho. Howe...
Ep. 34: The General
July 28, 2015 11:00 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBIn an attempt to disprove the widely-held belief that all film critic's hate fun, the Sight and Sound folks voted Buster Keaton's hilarious silent picture, THE GENERAL(1926) as the 34th entry on the "Greatest Film of All Time" list. But is the film worthy of the 34th spot? Answering that question is your host, Lady P, Classicfilmfan.com editor Carrie Specht, and filmmaker/action-movie-connoisseur Jenna Payne. They take turns offering up takes on the film, and sharing in their admiration for ...
Ep. 33: Bicycle Thieves and Tear Jerkers
July 14, 2015 11:00 - 58 minutes - 66.8 MBLady P is joined today by Flixwise regulars Martin Kessler and Carrie Specht to discuss the 33rd entry on Sight and Sound's "Greatest Film's of All Time" list, Vittorio De Sica's BICYCLE THIEVES. Upon its release in 1948 BICYCLE THIEVES was immediately hailed as a classic and It even managed to snag the number 1 spot on the 1952 Sight and Sound critics poll. While the film has dropped a few rungs on the Sight and Sound list, it is still considered by many to be the high-water mark of Italia...
Flixwise Favorites: Starship Troopers
June 30, 2015 11:00 - 37 minutes - 43.2 MBOur newly appointed co-producer, Martin Kessler, was recently shocked to discover that Paul Verhoeven's 1997 alien invasion film, STARSHIP TROOPERS, did not make the Sight and Sound Critics' Poll. His outrage might seem a little misplaced given STARSHIP TROOPERS' low to mediocre ratings on Rotten Tomatoes and other movie review aggregator sites. After all, this is a "Critics' Poll" we're dealing with. But Martin would not to be deterred by any silly critical consensus. He knew in his heart t...
Ep 31: Taxi Driver
June 16, 2015 11:00 - 1 hour - 43.7 MBLady P is joined by Carrie Specht and Anne Marie Kelly to talk about Martin Scorsese's 1976 feature TAXI DRIVER. TAXI DRIVER is tied for the 31st spot on the Sight and Sound Critics' Poll with another "Golden Age" cornerstone: Francis Ford Coppola's THE GODFATHER PT. II. Yes, two of the darkest entries in the 1970's cinema canon landed side-by-side on the "Greatest Films of All Time" list. A coincidence? Perhaps. But nevertheless, while one may forever be the loneliest number, 31 is now offi...
Flixwise Favorites: Johnny Guitar
June 09, 2015 11:00 - 43 minutes - 29.7 MBIt's the rootinest tootinest hoedown in the west! Filmmaker and friend of the show, Caroline Golum, is on hand to tell us why she thinks Nicholas Ray's JOHNNY GUITAR should be included in the Flixwise Favorites List. She's gotta convince her fellow panelists, Lady P and Anne Marie Kelly, that Joan Crawford's turn as a reluctant gunslinger is more than just campy fodder for the midnight movie crowd. JOHNNY GUITAR wasn't a great commercial or critical success upon its release, but the years h...
Flixwise 31: The Godfather Pt II
May 26, 2015 11:00 - 1 hour - 46.6 MBOn today's show, Anne Marie Kelly and Carrie Specht join Lady P to talk about the 31st feature on the Sight and Sound Critics Poll: Francis Ford Coppola's THE GODFATHER PT II. Regular listeners will recall that Lady P was less than totally ecstatic about the previous GODFATHER entry; and any criticism of THE GODFATHER series qualifies as heresy amongst some cinephiles--movie people have ways of taking care of heretics. Find out if Lady P's changed her tune for Part II, or if she'll soon find...
Flixwise Favorites: AIRPLANE!
May 19, 2015 11:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MB...It's a free radio show that you can download and listen to at your leisure (and all the producers ask in return is that you go and rate it at iTunes)...But that's not important right now! This July marks the 30th anniversary of the release of the Zucker Abrahams Zucker disaster parody AIRPLANE!. We know we're a little early to this party, but we feel it is never too soon to commemorate the great sacrifice of one Lt. George Zip (RIP!). And so we've decided to Striker while the iron is ho...
Happy Birthday Orson Welles
May 05, 2015 14:25 - 34 minutes - 23.8 MBLady P is joined by film historian Professor Joseph McBride to celebrate the centennial birthday of Orson Welles(1915-1985). For some, Welles is known strictly as the man who wrote, directed, and starred in what many consider to be the greatest film ever made: CITIZEN KANE. Others have come into contact with Welles as a television personality with guest appearances on shows like I LOVE LUCY and THE DEAN MARTIN CELEBRITY ROASTS. However, while the popularity of his first feature film--and hi...
Flixwise: Weapons of the Spirit
April 21, 2015 11:00 - 40 minutes - 27.8 MBOur Holocaust Remembrance continues, as we take a look at the 1989 documentary WEAPONS OF THE SPIRIT. Last week, we talked about Claude Lanzmann's 1985 landmark film SHOAH: a film which chronicles, in great detail, the process by which the German Nazis went about planning and executing the horrors of the genocide of the European Jewry. This week's film looks at The Atrocity through a very different, but no less important lens. WEAPONS OF THE SPIRIT focuses largely on the inhabitants of a s...
Flixwise 29: Shoah
April 14, 2015 11:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBThe evening of Wednesday April 15th, 2015 marks the start of Yom HaShoah, or Holocaust Remembrance Day. In recognition of this occasion we thought it would be appropriate to discuss the 29th entry on the Sight and Sound List: Claude Lanzmann's 1985 film, SHOAH. On today's episode, Lady P is joined by her friend, Michael Adams, to talk about Lanzmann's 9 and a half hour documentary, which details the process by which Nazi Germany went about extinguishing the European Jewry. In the discussion ...
Stalker & The Apocalypse
March 31, 2015 11:00 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBOn today's show, worlds have collided and humankind is doomed. It's the long-awaited Wrong Reel/Flixwise collaberation! James Hancock and Mikhail Karadimov, two-thirds of our favorite east coast podcasting team, are on hand to talk about the 29th Greatest Movie of All Time: Andrei Tarkovsky's STALKER aka The Jean Grey Origin Story. And, speaking of X-Men, we will also be discussing the recent proliferation of Apocalyptic entertainment. X-MEN: DAYS OF FUTURE PAST is just one of many contempo...
Mulholland Drive & Charles Burnett
March 17, 2015 11:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MBIt's a cinematic tour through The City of Angels, and Lady P's at the wheel. Riding shotgun is film scholar, and Professor Emeritus from Indiana University, James Naremore. Together they're going to try to navigate the twists and turns of the 28th movie on the Sight and Sound Critics' Poll, David Lynch's MULHOLLAND DRIVE. James wrote about Lynch's nightmare-ish take on the Hollywood fantasy in the most recent edition of his landmark book, More Than Night: Film Noir in Its Contexts. James re...
Andrei Rublev & Mr. Turner
March 03, 2015 12:00 - 56 minutes - 38.7 MBOn today's show, it's two unconventional biopics about two unconventional artists. Lady P is joined by guests, Emma Guerard and Martin Kessler, to talk about the 27th Greatest Movie of all Time, Andrei Tarkovsky's ANDREI RUBLEV. This is the second Tarkovsky entry on the Sight and Sound Critics' Poll (We've talked about MIRROR in a previous episode). But is Tarkovsky worthy of two appearance in the top 30? Next, the panel goes from Tatars to Turners, with Mike Leigh's 2014 feature film, MR. ...
Flixwise's 2015 Oscars Special
February 17, 2015 12:00 - 53 minutes - 37 MBToday, Lady P is joined to by Anne Marie Kelly and Margaret de Larios to talk about the 2015* Academy Awards. Anne Marie and Margaret both write for The Film Experience, which specializes in movie awards coverage. That means you can trust that they've analyzed the spread, and they can tell you approximately who's going to walk away with all the awards this coming Sunday. Will it be BOYHOOD or BIRDMAN? Michael Keaton or Eddie Redmayne? Julianne Moore or... no it's definitely Moore. Have your ...
Ordet & Funny Valentines
February 10, 2015 12:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MBToday, Lady P is joined by Emma Guerard and Tad Chamberlain to talk about the 24th Greatest Movie of All Time, Carl Theodor Dreyer's ORDET. The movie certainly stirred up a lot of existential angst among the panel. Lots of questions arise: What is the meaning of life? Does God exist, and If so, in what capacity? And perhaps the greatest puzzler of them all, what the hell is going on with that ending? Listen up to see if they come up with any satisfying answers. Then the panel takes part in ...
Are You In The Mood For Love...
January 27, 2015 12:00 - 53 minutes - 36.9 MBLady P is joined today by frequent guest, Emma Guerard, and newcomer, GuiltyFilm Podcast host Kevin McKee, to talk about the Sight and Sound Critics' Poll's 24th entry to the Greatest of All Time List: Wong Kar Wei's IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE. Listen up to see if our panel is equally taken with Mr. Chow and Mrs. Chen's tale of love and longing. Then, the panelists take a cue from Mr. Chow and unburden themselves of a few shameful secrets. Unfortunately, airfare to Angkor Wat just wasn't in the b...
Flixwise: Sunset Boulevard & Orson Welles
January 12, 2015 12:00 - 1 hour - 44.1 MBFor our first Sight and Sound entry in the new year, Lady P is joined by film historian Professor Joseph McBride to talk about the 63rd Greatest Movie of All Time, SUNSET BOULEVARD. You may have noted that we've jumped ahead a few spots on the Critics' Poll. That's because we thought it would be nice if the podcast coincided with the BAM/PFA's Wilder retrospective, which kicks off this Thursday(1/15). Also, we just really felt like talking about SUNSET BOULEVARD. 'Nuff Said! Next we move fr...
Flixwise Special: 2014 In Review
January 06, 2015 12:00 - 1 hour - 43.4 MBIt's exactly what it sounds like! Today Lady P is joined by Emma Guerard and Anne Marie Kelly, to talk about the best movies, tv shows, performances, haircuts, etc. from last year. There are top 5 lists, there's Tilda Swinton fawning, there's fist-pumping (Go ORANGE IS THE NEW BLACK!), there's bubble bursting (Looking at you, GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY), and both grave and hopeful predictions for the year ahead.
Flixwise Favorite: The Nightmare Before Christmas
December 23, 2014 12:00 - 28 minutes - 19.5 MB... lock him up real tight, something something something some, laa la la la la la laaa. Alright, now that that song is blasting in a perpetual feedback loop in your brain's audio center (you're welcome!) you are probably in the mood to listen to a trio of nerds talk about Tim Burton's and Henry Selick's modern holiday classic, THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS. This is a special listener submission to the Flixwise Favorites. Alex Keller is on hand to make the case for why he thinks NIGHTMARE...
Rashomon & The Greatest Year In Movie History
December 16, 2014 12:00 - 57 minutes - 39.3 MBYesterday, December 15th 2014, marked the 75th anniversary of the release of the Selznick adaptation of GONE WITH THE WIND; a film that is often cited as the crowning achievement of a year that's brimming with classics. For those who are mathematically challenged (No judgement here. This is movie podcast, not an algebra podcast) that year is 1939, the supposed "Greatest Year in Cinema History." And why, you ask, should anyone give a damn? Well, in this episode Lady P is once again joined by ...