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The Movie Club Podcast #23: Crash and Crash

Sean — Fri, 25 Nov 2011 04:44:22 +0000

The Movie Club Podcast is an irregular roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. Just in time for Thanksgiving, The Movie Club Podcast crew gathered around the table to discuss two controversial and divisive films that happen to have the same title: David Cronenberg's Crash and Paul Haggis' Crash. While many film gurus out there adamantly refuse to ever revisit either of these despised flicks, we are more than willing to fearlessly charge into the wreckage. Of course, by we, I mean everyone except Jay and I... we both wussed out of this episode for, um, personal reasons. Fortunately, there is still a great line-up of folks on this month's episode including Kurt and Andrew from Row Three, Jim from The Director's Club Podcast and Ryan McNeil from The Matinee. Head over to The Movie Club Podcast to download the episode and join the discussion in the comments. The next episode will be: Wim Wenders' Paris, Texas and Richard Kelly's Southland Tales.

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The Movie Club Podcast Episode #22: Zardoz and Flash Gordon

Sean — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:26:34 +0000

The Movie Club Podcast is an irregular roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. Zardoz is pleased! After an extended six-month wait, we've finally managed to get the crew back together to record a brand new episode of The Movie Club Podcast. This time around we engage in a trippy fantasy / sci-fi discussion involving John Boorman's inimitable Zardoz starring Sean Connery and the cult classic Flash Gordon starring Sam J. Jones, Melody Anderson, Max von Sydow and Timothy Dalton. For the sake of science, of course. This episode is also a reunion of the podcast's original line-up of Kurt, Andrew and Marina from Row Three along with Jay and myself. Head over to MovieClubPodcast.com to download the episode and leave your own thoughts on these two wacky films in the comments. Our next episode will be a high concept double bill: David Cronenberg's Crash and Paul Haggis' Crash.

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The Movie Club Podcast #21: F for Fake, Exit Through the Gift Shop and Catfish

Sean — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:24:51 +0000

The Movie Club Podcast is an irregular roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. After a landmark year full of documentaries that blur the line between fiction and reality, we thought it would be a good idea to do an episode of The Movie Club Podcast dedicated to this very subject. We started with Orson Welles' 1973 film F for Fake, and chased it down with a pair of 2010 documentaries: Banksy's clever street art doc Exit Through the Gift Shop and the hotly debated internet love story gone awry Catfish. Believe it or not, all three proved to be worthy of some serious in-depth discussion! This month's line-up is a repeat of the previous episode, with Sean and Jay being joined by Kurt and Marina from Row Three, and James from the High and Low Brow Podcast. Head on over to MovieClubPodcast.com to download the episode and leave your own thoughts on these divisive films in the comments. Next episode: Zardoz and Flash Gordon!

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The Movie Club Podcast #20: Visitor Q and Irreversible

Sean — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:57:16 +0000

The Movie Club Podcast is an irregular roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. We made it! Episode #20... can you believe it? It's been a long time coming, but we finally have the 20th episode of The Movie Club Podcast recorded and ready for consumption. Clearly there is no better way to celebrate this milestone than with two pretty extreme films: Takashi Miike's Visitor Q and Gaspar Noe's Irreversible. Can you stomach them? Did we stomach them? You have to listen to find out! This time around we are joined by Kurt and Marina from Row Three, in addition to James from Where The Long Tail Ends. Head over to MovieClubPodcast.com to download the episode, and don't forget to add your own thoughts in the comments as well. Your viewing assignment for the next episode is Orson Welles' F for Fake and Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman's Catfish.

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The Movie Club Podcast #19: Wizards and Grave of the Fireflies

Sean — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:48:44 +0000

The Movie Club Podcast is an irregular roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. It's that time again folks. The latest episode of The Movie Club Podcast is now online and ready to be heard, bringing us just one episode away from a miraculous 20 episode milestone! Can you believe it? I can't. This time around, we take a look at two animated films: Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies and Ralph Bakshi's Wizards. In addition to our friends at Row Three and Where The Long Tail Ends, we also invited long-time listener Anthony to sit in as a guest host to join in the discussion. So did Grave of the Fireflies make us cry like little girls, and did Wizards take us on a bad acid trip? You'll have to tune in to find out! Download the new episode and cast your vote for an upcoming episode over at MovieClubPodcast.com. Note: To prepare for the next episode, you'll want to man up and watch Takashi Miike's Visitor Q and Gaspar Noe's Irreversible.

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The Movie Club Podcast #18: The Fall and The Saragossa Manuscript

Sean — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 18:11:47 +0000

The Movie Club Podcast is an irregular roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. After a three month break, we are finally ready to release the latest episode of The Movie Club Podcast into the wild. This time around we have once again reconvened with our friends from Row Three and Where The Long Tail Ends to talk about two movies that feature "stories within a story"... or something like that. The films in question are Tarsem's The Fall and Wojciech Has' The Saragossa Manuscript. The latter is a little bit tricky to track down, but it's important to note that we watched the three-hour version, not one of the edited cuts. Either way, the surreal visions presented by both films make for some spirited discussion; we hope you'll listen and then jump in with your own comments. Download the new episode and cast your vote for an upcoming episode over at MovieClubPodcast.com. Note: Our next episode will be an animated double bill featuring Isao Takahata's Grave of the Fireflies and Ralph Bakshi's Wizards.

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The Movie Club Podcast #17: The Thin Blue Line and Stroszek

Sean — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:27:12 +0000

The Movie Club Podcast is a bi-monthly roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. Will wonders never cease... another episode of The Movie Club Podcast is in the can and on time for once. Clearly this is cause for celebration! As always we have gathered with our friends from Row Three and Twitch to talk about a couple of films by two filmmakers who are quite well-acquainted: Errol Morris and Werner Herzog. In some ways their movies and personalities are polar opposites, but on the other hand they definitely share a lot of common ground. The Thin Blue Line is a 1988 documentary about a murder in Dallas County, Texas that resulted in a conviction being overturned. Stroszek is a 1977 film about a man in Germany who gets out of prison and decides to move to Wisconsin in search of the American dream. To hear the episode, head over to The Movie Club Podcast website right now! On the next episode we will tackle Tarsem's The Fall and Wojciech Has' The Saragossa Manuscript.

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The Movie Club Podcast #16: The Warriors and After Hours

Sean — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:44:43 +0000

The Movie Club Podcast is a monthly roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. It's a rare occasion when we manage to get together to record The Movie Club Podcast exactly two months after the last episode, but the planets aligned and this week Jay and I were able to sit down with our friends from Row Three and Where the Long Tail Ends to talk about Walter Hill's The Warriors and Martin Scorsese's After Hours. To grab the episode, head over to The Movie Club Podcast website (linked below) and download the MP3, or simply update your feed in iTunes. After you listen, we want to hear your thoughts! Leave your comments at MovieClubPodcast.com, and also cast a vote for the next movie to be featured on an upcoming episode. On the next episode we will be discussing Errol Morris' The Thin Blue Line and Werner Herzog's Stroszek.

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The Movie Club Podcast #15: A.I. and Prince of Darkness

Sean — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:12:52 +0000

The Movie Club Podcast is a monthly roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. After four long months of scheduling difficulties, Jay and I finally managed to sit down with Kurt and Andrew from Row Three to record the latest episode of The Movie Club Podcast. This time around, we engage in a pretty lengthy discussion about Steven Spielberg's A.I.: Artificial Intelligence and John Carpenter's Prince of Darkness, two movies that aren't really related in any way, aside from the fact that they're both a lot of fun to talk about! In order to listen, head over to The Movie Club Podcast website (linked below) to grab the MP3, or simply update your feed in iTunes. Don't forget to join in the conversation by leaving your thoughts in the comments over there, and also cast a vote for other movies to feature an upcoming episode. The next episode will be Walter Hill's The Warriors and Martin Scorsese's After Hours.

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The Movie Club Podcast #14: Natural Born Killers and Chopper

Sean — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:28:32 +0000

The Movie Club Podcast is a monthly roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. Somewhere in our busy summer schedule we managed to find time to sit down with our friends from Row Three to talk about two more movies for the latest episode of The Movie Club Podcast. This time around the choices were Oliver Stone's 1994 classic Natural Born Killers and Andrew Dominik's directorial debut Chopper starring Eric Bana. Both movies address the idea of violence in the media, while also providing plenty of on-screen violence themselves. Head over to The Movie Club Podcast website (linked below) to grab the MP3, or simply update your feed in iTunes. Don't forget to leave your own thoughts about these films on the site and cast your vote for next month's poll too. On the next episode we will be discussing A.I. and Prince of Darkness... should be a good one as well.

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The Movie Club Podcast #13: The Alien Quadrilogy

Sean — Fri, 08 May 2009 16:01:18 +0000

The Movie Club Podcast is a monthly roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. This was a pretty big episode of The Movie Club Podcast, but hopefully it's one that a lot of people will be interested in. This month we decided to sit down and go through all four movies in the so-called Alien Quadrilogy (Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 and Alien: Resurrection). They are all distinctly different, and believe it or not, each one had supporters, resulting in some interesting points of view for discussion. Head over to The Movie Club Podcast website (linked below) to grab the entire 2 hour and 47 minute podcast now. Also be sure to leave your own comments over there, and cast your vote in the poll for episode #15. Next month we will be taking on a pair of serial killer flicks: Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers and Andrew Dominik's Chopper.

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The Movie Club Podcast #12: My Own Private Idaho and 10 Things I Hate About You

Sean — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:48:39 +0000

The Movie Club Podcast is a monthly roundtable podcast where we select two movies to dissect, analyze and discuss with a group of fellow movie bloggers and film fans. It took a while, but we finally got around to recording the next episode of The Movie Club Podcast. This time we tackled a duo of films loosely based on the works of William Shakespeare. 10 Things I Hate About You starring Heath Ledger and Julia Stiles was selected in the previous month's poll by listeners like you. We decided to pair it up with Gus Van Sant's independent hit My Own Private Idaho starring Keanu Reeves and River Phoenix. You can listen to the episode now via the link below. Be sure to leave your own comments on these films over at MovieClubPodcast.com. Next month's viewing assignment will be The Alien Quadrilogy... yes even Alien: Resurrection. Why not get a head start and start rewatching them now?

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