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FOCUS ON CANNES 2019: FRANKIE —IRA SACHS

America, Articles Blog, Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Film, Film Criticism, Film Festivals, Filmmaking, Food and Drink, Independent, International Cinema, Media, News, Politics, sex

April 25, 2019

“Frankie” is Sachs’s first film to compete for a Palme d’Or. With a cast that includes the inestimable Isabelle Huppert,…

FOCUS ON CANNES 2019: DYLDA (BEANPOLE) —KANTEMIR BALAGOV

Articles Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Culture, Current Affairs, Directors, Film, Film Criticism, Film Festivals, Filmmaking, Food and Drink, International Cinema, Media, Politics, Religion, sex, War

April 23, 2019

“Kantemir Balagov was born in 1991 in Nalchik, capital of the autonomous Russian Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria. He undertook studies in…

FOCUS ON CANNES 2019: PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU —Céline Sciamma

Art House, Articles Blog, Blog, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Culture, Current Affairs, Film, Film Criticism, Filmmaking, News, Patreon, Podcast, sex

April 19, 2019

If you’ve been fortunate enough to have seen other films by Céline Sciamma, such as “Water Lillies,” “Tomboy,” or “Girlhood,”…

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THE FAVOURITE

Academy Awards, Capsules Blog, Costume Drama, LGBTQ, ONE STAR, sex, Women's Cinema

December 19, 2018

Avant-garde filmmaker Yorgos Lanthimos (“The Lobster”) breaks with making half-baked experimental films (“Dogtooth”) in an attempt to go mainstream. Good…

THE SOURCE — JEREMY WORKMAN

Classic Cinema, Craft Beer, Current Affairs, Documentary, Film, Filmmakers, Media, Netflix, Patreon, Podcast, Podcasts Blog, Politics, sex

November 15, 2018

Returning guest co-host documentarian Jeremy Workman discusses his new film THE WORLD BEFORE YOUR FEET and his dad Chuck Workman’s…

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THE DOUBLE LIFE VERONIQUE — MIKHAIL KARADIMOV

Classic Cinema, Comedy, Craft Beer, Film, Patreon, Podcast, Podcasts Blog, Politics, Religion, sex,

September 21, 2018

Filmmaker and screenwriter Mikhail Karadimov brings TYSKIE Polish Beer straight from Greenpoint Brooklyn to discuss Krzysztof Kieślowski’s THE DOUBLE LIFE…

SWEET MOVIE — JOSH BOGATIN

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September 14, 2018

Film editor and Spectacle Theater curator Josh Bogatin joins Cole to drink a glass of THE TRUTH IPA from FLYING…

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ANDREI RUBLEV — WITH GUEST CO-HOST MARCUS PINN

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August 24, 2018

Cinephile Marcus Pinn brings Andrei Tarkovsky’s indisputable art house classic to the podcast for a fresh going-over to the taste…

BILL SCURRY — WHORE

Classic Cinema, Comedy, Craft Beer, Current Affairs, Film, Podcast, Podcasts Blog, sex

July 3, 2018

“I Don’t Get It!” podcast co-host BILL SCURRY lifts a glass of ARROGANT BASTARD from STONE BREWING to discuss KEN…

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LETHAL WEAPON — TED RALL

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June 15, 2018

Longtime Generation Jones pals Cole Smithey and Ted Rall discuss Richard Donner’s Lethal Weapon over a couple of bottles of…

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THE LAST OF SHEILA —THEODORE BOULOUKOS

Classic Cinema, Comedy, Craft Beer, Film, Filmmakers, FilmStruck, Interviews, Podcast, Podcasts Blog, sex, Travel

June 1, 2018

New York City actor Theodore Bouloukos joins the FEAST to drink a BELLS TWO HEARTED and discuss THE LAST OF…

THE FRENCH CONNECTION / CHIEF ZABU — NEIL COHEN

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May 18, 2018

CHIEF ZABU co-writer & co-director Neil Cohen graces the BIG FEAST to talk about William Friedkin’s THE FRENCH CONNECTION over…

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BERNARDO BERTOLUCCI’S LAST TANGO IN PARIS

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April 20, 2018

Mike broke out Wavy Tropics Guava Pale Ale from Kills Boro Brewing for our discussion of Bertolucci’s LAST TANGO IN…

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CALL ME BY YOUR NAME

Capsules Blog, LGBTQ, sex, TWO STARS

March 16, 2018

Easily the most unintentionally camp movie of 2017, director Luca Guadagnio’s goofy gay romance drama betrays its oh-so-earnest attempts at…

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VIVRE SA VIE — THE CRITERION COLLECTION

Capsules Blog, Criterion Collection, FIVE STARS, Foreign, French Cinema, French New Wave, Podcast, sex, Women's Cinema

February 15, 2018

In 1962 Jean Luc-Godard shifted stylistic filmic gears as lucidly as Miles Davis revolutionized music. For his fourth feature Godard…

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BREAKING THE WAVES — SHOCKTOBER!

Cannes Film Festival, Capsules Blog, Classic Cinema, Criterion Collection, Danish Cinema, Dogme 95, Feminist Cinema, FIVE STARS, Magical Realism, sex, SHOCKTOBER!, Transgressive Cinema, Women's Cinema

February 13, 2018

Lars von Trier makes a clever attack on organized religion that resonates with Bunuel’s famous line, “I’m an atheist, thank…

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DOUBLE LOVER — CANNES 2017

BDSM, Cannes Film Festival, Capsules Blog, FIVE STARS, French Cinema, sex, Women's Cinema

February 9, 2018

France’s ever-reliable and prolific auteur François Ozon (“Swimming Pool”) confirms his place as an inventive filmic storyteller with a precise…

FEBRUARY PROGRAMMING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL ON FILMSTRUCK!

Articles Blog, Cannes Film Festival, Cinema, Comedy, Criterion, Culture, Current Affairs, Film, Filmmaking, FilmStruck, Historical Epic, Horror, Independent, International Cinema, Noir, Patreon, Podcast, Politics, Punk, Religion, Sci-Fi, sex, Streaming, War, Western

January 30, 2018

FEBRUARY PROGRAMMING ON THE CRITERION CHANNEL ON FILMSTRUCK! Cole Smithey.

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GOING PLACES

Capsules Blog, Cult Film, French Cinema, Podcast, sex, Sexploitation, THREE STARS, Transgressive Cinema, Video Essay

January 14, 2018

Although inscrutable to any mainstream reading, “Going Places” succeeds due to the film’s refusal to provide easy answers for its…

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