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Words and Movies

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Sean Gallagher and Claude Call find two seemingly different movies and find the common thread between them. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wordsandmovies/support

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Reel 69b: When Icons Meet, Pt.2

March 18, 2024 02:43 - 41 minutes - 38.6 MB

In this half of the show, we jump to the early 1960s as four more icons come together ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI...(2020). This meeting is a little more contentious than in INSIGNIFICANCE, and while this meeting didn't happen, the characters and their reactions have a truthful feel that allows you to believe it would have been exactly like this. COMING ATTRACTIONS: Next time around, we look at love during wartime, as we screen THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING (1988), a story that takes place in...

Reel 69a: When Icons Meet, Pt.1

March 18, 2024 02:43 - 50 minutes - 46.4 MB

We stick with the fantasy thing for one more week, but with a different spin, as we examine a pair of films that have more of a "What If?" thing going on. In the first half of our episode we have INSIGNIFICANCE (1985), based on the play of the same name by Terry Johnson and directed here by Nicolas Roeg. We see four almost-unnamed famous people come together in a very interesting way in the late 1950s. Whether you believe the events here could have happened is up to you, but you'll be entr...

Reel 68b: More Modern Fairy Tales, Pt.2

March 04, 2024 04:10 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MB

In this half of the episode we're talking about Hanna, directed by Joe Wright and starring Saoirse Ronan in the title role. This is truly a modern-day story, with story beats that have fairy-tale aspects to them...and a couple of scenes that are more overtly related to fairy tales. This film was the basis for the Amazon Prime TV series of the same name, and we spend a little time exploring the differences between the two. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho...

Reel 68a: More Modern Fairy Tales, Pt.1

March 04, 2024 04:10 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MB

We continue our series of modern-day fairy tales with The Bride With White Hair, from 1993. It's a Wuxia film with a star-crossed lovers element, and while it might be a little confusing early on, stick with it and you'll be glad you did. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wordsandmovies/support

Reel 67b: Modern Fairy Tales, Pt2

February 12, 2024 04:56 - 54 minutes - 44 MB

In this second half of the episode, we're reviewing Mona Lisa, a film from 1986 directed and co-written by Neil Jordan. Bob Hoskins and Cathy Tyson are an unlikely pair doing unlikely stuff. And if you've noticed that I haven't drawn the specific parallels to the fairy tales involved, you'd be correct. You'll have to listen to the episode for that. COMING ATTRACTIONS: In Reel 68, we'll be checking out another pair of modern fairy tales, but they'll be foreign-based and a little more es...

Reel 67a: Modern Fairy Tales, Pt1

February 12, 2024 04:50 - 46 minutes - 37.8 MB

This is the first of two episodes where we look at fairy tales told through a modern lens. In this half, we start off with Ball of Fire (1941), directed by Howard Hawks and starring Barbara Stanwyck, Gary Cooper and a host of character actors. Stanwyck plays a woman hiding out from the police because she's a material witness to a crime. She finds herself staying with a house full of scholars who are putting together an encyclopedia of all human knowledge. In exchange, she gives them some l...

Reel 66b: The Remake Was Better 2, Part 2

January 23, 2024 05:32 - 56 minutes - 51.9 MB

We conclude our short series with a look at Ocean's Eleven, directed by Steven Soderbergh and starring George Clooney and a Cast of Thousands. In both films everybody seems to be having some breezy fun, but the purpose of that fun is kind of different, and it works better here. Again, that's in our humble opinions. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wordsandmovies/support

Reel 66a: The Remake Was Better 2, Part 1

January 23, 2024 05:32 - 55 minutes - 51 MB

Ordinarily, when we see a film that's a remake of a previous movie, we tend to say that the original was better. But in this second of two episodes, we discuss a pair of films in which the remake was the superior version, at least in our humble opinions. Here in Part One, we're looking at The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), directed by John McTiernan and starring Pierce Brosnan and René Russo. There are several differences between the two, but most noticeable is the chemistry between the two l...

Reel 65b: The Remake Was Better, Pt.2

January 08, 2024 05:36 - 47 minutes - 43.8 MB

In Part 2 of our episode, we go to 1988 and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin, directed by Frank Oz. It's the second of FOUR different versions of this story: the original from 1964, this version, and then two which involved gender flips. Of the four, this is the best one, so say we. COMING ATTRACTIONS:  We continue this remake conceit with another pair of films that worked out better when they were remade. First up, from 1999 it's The Thomas Crown Affair, t...

Reel 65a: The Remake Was Better, Pt.1

January 08, 2024 05:36 - 49 minutes - 45.6 MB

We so often complain that Hollywood has no original ideas, but then we're also forced to concede occasionally that from time to time, the remake actually does a better job of telling the story. We don't enjoy conceding that, but that's the way it goes sometimes. With that in mind, this is the first of two episodes taking a look at films whose remakes surpassed the originals. First one up is The Man Who Knew Too Much, from 1956. This Alfred Hitchcock-directed film leans heavily on weird co...

Reel 64b: Same Title, Different Movie, pt.2

December 14, 2023 03:44 - 50 minutes - 47.1 MB

Here in Part Two, we look at the 2016 edition of Loving. This film, which was directed by Jeff Nichols, stars Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton as Mildred and Richard Loving, the real-life couple who turned their relationship into a Federal case. COMING ATTRACTIONS: Our next episode is the first of two in which we examine remakes that surpassed their originals. And we start with The Man Who Knew Too Much, from 1956, and Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, from 1988. See you soon! --- Support this pod...

Reel 64a: Same Title, Different Movie pt.1

December 14, 2023 03:44 - 46 minutes - 43 MB

We return to the well of two films whose only commonality is their title. In this episode we look at Loving, from 1970 and 2016. The first half of our episode stars George Segal and Eva Marie Saint, and was directed by Irvin Kershner. Segal stars as a freelance artist who's attempting to revitalize his career just as his marriage to Eva Marie Saint begins to fall apart. It's a serious story with a comic overlay and you'll wonder why it doesn't get more attention these days. In Part 2 we'...

Reel 63b: Same Title, Different Movie

November 11, 2023 04:43 - 1 hour - 64.8 MB

Our conversation jumps to 1987. This No Way Out stars Kevin Costner, Gene Hackman and Sean Young in a story of Cold War intrigue. We practically guarantee that you'll be caught off-guard by the way everything resolves. Strap yourself in; we had a LOT to say. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wordsandmovies/support

Reel 63a: Same Title, Different Movie

November 11, 2023 04:43 - 45 minutes - 42.3 MB

For the next two episodes, we'll be looking at films whose only commonality is their title. In this episode we're screening two films titled No Way Out. In the first half, it's the 1950 version starring Sidney Poitier in his feature film debut, along with Richard Widmark, Linda Darnell and Stephen McNally. Poitier is a doctor who runs into race issues and a medical complication during his first night in a new assignment. The issue snowballs until there's a full race riot going  on. Poitier...

Reel 62b: Subversive Adaptations, pt.2

October 18, 2023 02:14 - 49 minutes - 45.4 MB

In Part Two of our episode, it's Starship Troopers, from 1997. Paul Verhoeven takes us to a far future society in which everyone is free so long as you're a Fascist. There are a lot of elements of Robert A. Heinlein's original story in there, but it's definitely a different plot line and a different mentality that, in hindsight, may have been more prescient than anyone suspected at the time. COMING ATTRACTIONS: In our next episode, we take a peek at a pair of films where the only thing t...

Reel 62a: Subversive Adaptations, pt.1

October 18, 2023 02:14 - 51 minutes - 47.7 MB

We've covered several different kinds of adaptations, and the one thing that they have in common is that they're in some way faithful to their source material. This time around, not so much. And that's why this episode is titled "Subversive Adaptations." In these two films, the intent of some portion of the original story has been turned on its head to give you a similar story, but perhaps with a different point of view, or to present a different message from the source. We begin with Ki...

Reel 61b: We May Be Done With the Past... pt.2

September 27, 2023 03:40 - 1 hour - 50 MB

...nope, still ain't done. From Texas we come to Boston and 2003's Mystic River, directed by Clint Eastwood. It's a powerful film about a trio of boys, one of whom is caught up in a bad situation. Many years later, this event still haunts all three of them. COMING ATTRACTIONS: Join us as we take on a couple of subversive adaptations. First up is Kiss Me Deadly, from 1955. Then we jump to 1997 or, if you prefer, the far future, with Starship Troopers. Were they good? Bad? Weird? Or did ...

Reel 61a: We May Be Done With the Past... pt.1

September 27, 2023 03:40 - 51 minutes - 41.7 MB

...but it sure ain't done with us. And that's what's going on with this week's extra-packed episode. We have a couple of films wherein the characters are trying to deal with events in the distant past. We start it off with Lone Star, from 1996. John Sayles directed this film about a sheriff who's living in his father's shadow in a small Texas border town, and a murder from many years ago. In Part Two, we head to Boston for a dip in the Mystic River. --- Support this podcast: https:/...

Reel 59b: TANSTAAFL, Pt2

September 04, 2023 04:21 - 46 minutes - 37.8 MB

In the second half of our episode, we're looking at the Oscar-winning film PARASITE, co-written and directed by Bong Joon Ho. In this film, a poor Korean family slowly infiltrates themselves into the lives of a wealthy family. That they do so isn't necessarily bad; how they do it is a little on the questionable side. But there are a lot of twists and turns in this dark comedy, and every time you think you know what's going to happen next, you'll find yourself surprised. COMING ATTRACTIONS:...

Reel 59a: TANSTAAFL, pt1

September 04, 2023 04:21 - 41 minutes - 33.3 MB

TANSTAAFL: There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch As we get back on track with our episode counts, we discover the downside of capitalism, specifically that there are people who need to take advantages of cracks in the system to get along. In the first half of our episode we take a peek at SHOPLIFTERS, from 2018 and directed by Hirokazu Koreeda. It's a look at a very unusual family in Tokyo and the steps they take to keep themselves together. In Part 2 we jump to Korea and look at PA...

Reel 60b: Hail Oceania, Pt.2

August 16, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MB

In Part 2 of this episode, we look at the 2002 film Rabbit-Proof Fence, directed by Philip Noyce. In this film the characters aren't confronting their sins, but it's a modern-day reckoning of events that have taken place within the lifetimes of some people who are still alive today. You'll find yourself running through a gamut of emotions as you trail three young girls as they make their way across hundreds of miles of Australia on foot. COMING ATTRACTIONS: As I noted, Episode 59 actually...

Reel 60a: Hail Oceania, Pt.1

August 16, 2023 04:00 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MB

What happened to Episode 59? I hear you saying. Well...I explain it at the start of the episode, but the short answer is that I had a post-production issue, so the episode will be delayed. So because Episode 60 is the last of the Around the World in 20 Films series, we decided to release this one and give you a brand-new Episode 59 next time around. And just temporarily ignore the previews for Episode 61, although in that respect they'll be accurate. So we take a brief detour to New Zealan...

Reel 58b: This Woman's Work, Pt.2

August 09, 2023 03:01 - 52 minutes - 48.2 MB

In Part 2 of this week's episode, we move to Spain, for Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988), directed by Pedro Almodovar. It's a movie that takes some serious subject matters and plays them for comedy, but despite that there are no false notes among all the weird coincidences we bump into. COMING ATTRACTIONS: We return to Asia for our next episode. Our first entry is the Japanese film Shoplifters (2018), which also has some serious moments in it, but overall it's a truly ador...

Reel 58a: This Woman's Work, Pt.1

August 09, 2023 03:01 - 48 minutes - 44.8 MB

Films featuring women as the central character often have depressingly similar threads moving through them, as though women in general were monolithic beings. This time around, we continue our trip Around the World in Twenty Films with a look at two films centered on women who are affected by their jobs, but who aren't defined by them. In Part One we have When A Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960), directed by Mikio Naruse. It's a Japanese film that takes a glance askance at the Geisha life. I...

Reel 57b: Wedding Blues, pt. 2

July 14, 2023 20:42 - 51 minutes - 47.7 MB

In the second half of our episode we're looking at events After the Wedding, from 2006. As with most big events, people learn things about themselves--and each other--and this is no exception. But the revelation that takes place this time around has some strange implications for someone who'd come to the event for another reason altogether. COMING ATTRACTIONS: Our journey Around the World in Twenty Films continues with visits to Japan and Spain. First up is When a Woman Ascends the Stair...

Reel 57a: Wedding Blues, pt1

July 14, 2023 20:42 - 49 minutes - 46.3 MB

Weddings are funny things, but mostly if you're not directly involved with them. They're typically big and with that bigness comes the big drama that comes with large numbers of people coming together in one place. But there's also a commonality to these events, even if the specific rituals are different. In this episode we continue our Around the World in Twenty Films series, first with a stop in India, to check out 2001's Monsoon Wedding, directed by Mira Nair. It's a comedy that nonet...

Short Subject: Changes at TCM

July 07, 2023 02:53 - 23 minutes - 18.8 MB

In this mini-episode recorded on June 27, Sean and Claude talk about the recent staffing changes over at Turner Classic Movies and the impact it's having on people, not only the viewers but the people who are so intimately involved with the medium, such as Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg. Listen in, and worry along with us. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wordsandmovies/support

Reel 56b: Only Connect, Pt.2

June 26, 2023 04:32 - 53 minutes - 49.1 MB

In the second half of today's episode, we'll be reviewing The Edge of Heaven from 2007, directed by Fatih Akim. It's a film entirely about missed connections that will frustrate you, but eventually you manage to settle in and accept what happens (or doesn't). COMING ATTRACTIONS: Put on your rented tuxedo, because we're going to a couple of weddings. First, from 2001, it's Monsoon Wedding, an Indian comedy-drama directed by Mira Nair. Although it takes place in India, you'll recognize most...

Reel 56a: Only Connect, Pt.1

June 26, 2023 04:32 - 51 minutes - 48 MB

This week we're focusing on a pair of films that feature many missed connections, giving our title a touch of irony. In this first half we're featuring Exotica, from 1994, directed by Atom Egoyan. It's a film where two parallel storylines are tied together by a third one which, oddly enough, isn't concurrent with the other two. Egoyan plays fair, though: he leaves the clues there for you; it's up to you to pick them up and put the pieces together. In Part Two, we'll travel from Canada to...

Reel 55b: Another Brick in the Berlin Wall, Part 2

June 11, 2023 05:02 - 57 minutes - 46 MB

As noted previously, this half of the episode focuses on 2008's The Baader-Meinhof Complex, directed by Uli Edel. It's a true-story thriller that depicts the activities of a terrorist group in West Germany over a ten-year period beginning in the late 1960s. There are times when you're drawn into the story enough that you find yourself leaning toward rooting for the bad guys, but ultimately you'll come to your senses and see that there's no other way this story could end. COMING ATTRACTIONS...

Reel 55a: Another Brick in the Berlin Wall, Part 1

June 11, 2023 05:02 - 53 minutes - 43.3 MB

Or, Claude Writes Another Too-Clever Title Prompting Sean to Send Perplexed DMs. In this episode of our Around the World in Twenty Films series, we look at a pair of films in which German citizens are forced to confront their own past. This isn't in a whole "The Nazis were us the entire time!" kind of attitude but rather in the way that some of the tactics that were employed in the past are coming back in subtle ways to haunt their present. And we start with The Lives of Others, from 200...

Reel 54b: Les Crimes Francais, pt.2

May 07, 2023 21:24 - 54 minutes - 50.7 MB

In the second half of our show, we look at Le Cercle Rouge, from 1970 and directed by Jean-Pierre Melville. It's an epic-length film about a jewelry heist that will keep you guessing up until the very end. COMING ATTRACTIONS:  We reach the halfway mark with our world tour as we go to Germany. The films we're screening show different ways that the Germans confront their past. First up is The Lives of Others, a 2006 drama that takes place on the other side of the Berlin wall. Then we move f...

Reel 54a: Les Crimes Français, part 1

May 07, 2023 21:24 - 45 minutes - 42.3 MB

We continue our trip Around the World in Twenty Films with a stop in France, where we look at a couple of films largely from the criminals' point of view. We start with 1960's Breathless, Jean-Luc Godard's innovative film starring Jean-Paul Belmondo and Jean Sebring. Belmondo plays a criminal on the run who spends some time hiding out with an old girlfriend. Some of the foreign posters kind of give away the ending to this film, but it's doubtful that this conclusion would come as a big sur...

Reel 53b: Only Disconnect, pt2

April 23, 2023 04:05 - 44 minutes - 36.1 MB

In this half of the episode, we take a hard look at Performance, the 1970 film starring James Fox and Mick Jagger. They, along with Michele Breton and Anita Pallenberg, create a quartet that gets mixed up in drugs and sex to the point where minds are shattered. Most of the last 15 minutes of the film, we guarantee you will not see coming. COMING ATTRACTIONS:  In Episode 54 we go to France and review two movies that have crime at their center. From 1960, it's Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless, ...

Reel 53a: Only Disconnect, pt1

April 23, 2023 04:04 - 35 minutes - 28.3 MB

In this episode Sean and Claude look at a pair of films involving people and their personalities, and how they can disassociate from themselves and each other, and manage to come back together in unusual ways. First on the slate is Ingmar Bergman's Persona, from 1966. It stars Bibi Andersson and Liv Ullman as a nurse and her patient who have been isolated in a beach house for several weeks. By the end of the film, it's unclear who has cured whom...and of what. In Reel 53b, we continue th...

Reel 52b: South American Way, Pt2

April 06, 2023 18:01 - 44 minutes - 35.5 MB

In the second half of our episode, we look at The Secret in Their Eyes, a 2009 crime-drama that comes from director Juan José Campanella, which is far superior to the 2015 American remake. It's about a mystery that takes many years to solve, and features an ending that will literally have you gasping out loud, maybe all the way through the credits. COMING ATTRACTIONS: From South America we go to Europe, for a look at a couple of movies where peoples' minds and personalities are somehow mo...

Reel 52a: South American Way, Pt1

April 06, 2023 18:01 - 43 minutes - 35.4 MB

Continuing our trip Around the World in Twenty Films, in this episode we're stopping off in South America. We begin in an unnamed country that's almost certainly Uruguay, with the based-on-a-true-story State of Siege, directed by Juan José Campanella. It's a film whose ending you already know, but you quickly forget about as you get pulled into the storyline. In Part 2, we'll be jumping to Chile for the crime drama The Secret In Their Eyes. --- Support this podcast: https://podcaster...

Reel 51b: Alfonso Cuaron's Mexico, Pt 2

March 24, 2023 03:20 - 47 minutes - 38 MB

In this second half of our episode, we take a look at 2018's Roma, a film set largely in Mexico City, despite the title. Roma has the distinction among Cuarón's films to be released on a very limited basis in theaters, and since then exclusively on Netflix. They've done this a couple of times (see also: The Irishman), but whether this turns into a larger model remains to be seen. COMING ATTRACTIONS: We continue south on our world tour with 1972's State of Siege, directed by Costa-Gavra...

Reel 51a: Alfonso Cuaron's Mexico, Pt1

March 24, 2023 03:20 - 42 minutes - 34 MB

Alfonso Cuarón does know his Mexico, and it shows in these two films as we begin our trip around the world. We start with Y Tu Mama Tambien, certainly one of the horniest movies we've ever reviewed. This 2001 effort involves a pair of teenagers taking a road trip with a much older, quite attractive, married woman. There are sexy moments and there are sad moments, and there are other moments when you think you know what a character is doing, but are you ever so wrong in your guess. In Par...

Short Subject: Around the World in 20 Films

March 15, 2023 00:49 - 15 minutes - 12.6 MB

Hey, folks: The next ten episodes are going to cover a variety of foreign films from all over the world. Sean went through a very meticulous process to curate this particular list, and in this mini-episode, we're going to chat a little bit about what first got us interested in foreign films, and the criteria that he used to select these titles.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wordsandmovies/support

Reel 50b: Inspired TV, pt 2

March 06, 2023 05:04 - 55 minutes - 51.4 MB

In the second half of our episode, we spend some time with Singles, from 1992 and directed by Cameron Crowe. This film is about the lives and loves of a half-dozen young adults, most of whom live in the same apartment complex. But, of course, this has nothing to do with the NBC hit comedy Friends, which ran from 1994 to 2004. Cameron Crowe himself has said that he was approached about adapting Singles to a TV series but he turned the studio down; only a few months later, Friends gets the gre...

Reel 50a: Inspired TV, pt 1

March 06, 2023 05:03 - 1 hour - 49.2 MB

Holy moley, we've made it to 50 episodes!  This time around we're checking out a pair of films that were likely the basis of television shows, even though the official story is that there's no connection.  We start off with Stalag 17, directed and co-written by Billy Wilder. This 1953 film stars William Holden in an Oscar-winning performance, along with Don Taylor, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Peter Graves, Neville Brand, Richard Erdman, Michael Moore, Sig Ruman, and Otto Preminger. Its...

Reel 49b: Female Thieves, Part 2

February 10, 2023 03:54 - 43 minutes - 40.2 MB

In Part 2 of our episode, we jump to 2018 and the film Widows, directed by Steve McQueen and adapted from a British TV series.  --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wordsandmovies/support

Reel 49a: Female Thieves, Part 1

February 10, 2023 03:53 - 48 minutes - 39.3 MB

Claude really wanted to call this episode "Girls Kicking Ass," but he chickened out and didn't try to talk Sean into changing it, so "Female Thieves" it was and "Female Thieves" it remained. (Yes, we've used a few of Claude's titles, and Sean is kind enough not to roll his eyes too hard as he acquiesces.)  But the fact is, the girls do kick ass in these two films, and they don't even bother taking names, 'cause that's just going to slow them down in their pursuit of whatever they're pursuin...

Reel 48b: A Fan's-Eye View, pt 2

January 24, 2023 06:18 - 39 minutes - 32.1 MB

In this (more reasonable-length) half of our episode, we take a look at Michael Winterbottom's 24 Hour Party People, a story about the rise of a specific slice of the New Wave era of music in the early 1980s. It's a mostly-true story (we talk about that a little bit) told from the point of view of someone who was in the middle of it all. And again, we're getting it from a fan who's managed to inject himself into the story. It's a lot of fun and has a bit of a documentary feel because of the ...

Reel 48a: A Fan's-Eye View, pt1

January 24, 2023 06:17 - 1 hour - 51 MB

This may be the longest segment of an episode we've ever done, because Almost Famous is probably one of our favorite films ever, and it's kind of amazing that it took us this long to get to it. As a result we spend just a little bit over an hour talking about it.  In this episode we look at a pair of films in which the main character is a fan of the music being discussed throughout the film, and in this half, as noted above, we're starting with Almost Famous, from 2000. Cameron Crowe direct...

Reel 47b: Concept Album Musicals, part 2

December 29, 2022 07:17 - 1 hour - 48.8 MB

In this half of the show, we spend nearly an hour talking about Pink Floyd—The Wall, based on the 1979 album The Wall, by Pink Floyd. It was directed by Alan Parker, with animated segments produced by Gerald Scarfe, based on his artwork for the original album.  COMING ATTRACTIONS: Next time, we wrap up the musical films with a view from the fan's perspective. First we start with Almost Famous, a film we've wanted to discuss almost since Episode One. Then it's on to 24-Hour Party People, a...

Reel 47a: Concept Album Musicals, part 1

December 29, 2022 07:17 - 39 minutes - 32 MB

It's the last of the "lost" episodes and the second-to-last of the series of musical episodes. In this half we look at 1979's Quadrophenia, based on the 1973 album of the same name by The Who. It's a period piece set in 1964 and it outlines the days leading up to a wild weekend for both the Mods and the Rockers as they descend upon Brighton Beach.  This part of the episode also features my 11-month-old grandson, who sat on my lap for most of the time, so you can hear him banging about on st...

SHORT SUBJECT: The BFI 100 Greatest Films Ever, 2022

December 14, 2022 05:13 - 15 minutes - 13 MB

Hey, gang:  What we've got here is a brief piece on the British Film Institute's 100 Greatest Films Ever (2022 edition). The BFI has compiled this list every ten years since 1942, drawing on the opinions of film critics worldwide, and the list gets published in their magazine Sight and Sound.  Given that the film chosen for the top of the list was rather an unusual one, Sean wanted to take a few minutes to react to that, and to some of the process involved, and Claude, as usual, worked har...

Reel 46b: Bowie Musicals, part 2

December 07, 2022 06:30 - 47 minutes - 43.9 MB

In this second half of the show, we take a look at Labyrinth, starring Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie. It's directed by Jim Henson, so you know the bulk of the remaining cast is wearing a lot of felt.  COMING ATTRACTIONS:  It's the last of the Lost Episodes as we present films that are based on concept albums. First, from 1979 it's Quadrophenia, and then we look at Pink Floyd: The Wall from 1982. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/wordsandmovies/support