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Empathy Machines
Eric Abraham, Scott Anderson
42 episodes
1 week ago
Your hosts Scott Anderson and Eric Abraham take turns in choosing four movies from a particular director and sit down for a discussion on the themes, choices and narrative for each chosen work. We encourage you to listen along regardless if you've seen the movie or not, but be warned, each episode contains spoilers from the start.
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Your hosts Scott Anderson and Eric Abraham take turns in choosing four movies from a particular director and sit down for a discussion on the themes, choices and narrative for each chosen work. We encourage you to listen along regardless if you've seen the movie or not, but be warned, each episode contains spoilers from the start.
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Empathy Machines
Night Train (Ye Che)

Wu Hongyan is a young woman working as a prison guard during executions of female convicts. She feels lonely after her husband died, and she takes a night train to another city to visit a dating service. After a series of unsuccessful dates, she meets Li Jun. It quickly becomes obvious that he is hiding a secret: he is the widower of one of the female convicts of which Wu Hongyan assisted in the execution. Li Jun is torn apart by his feelings, as he is both attracted to Wu Hongyan, and having a desire for revenge for his executed wife.

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2 weeks ago
1 hour 7 minutes 3 seconds

Empathy Machines
Uniform (Zhifu)

Economic unrest roils central China's Shaanxi Province: local factories are merging, thugs threaten managers, personnel records get lost, and workers are without protections such as health insurance. The police and much of society are surly. Xiao Jian, a mild young man whose father is ill, works in the family street stall doing pressing and tailoring. A laundered police-officer's shirt goes uncollected, and Xiao Jian puts it on: it opens doors. Wearing it, he chats up a clerk, Zheng Shasha, and takes her out. He extracts fines from drivers who violate traffic laws. In these tough times, he's not the only one with two identities. How long can he sustain it? Diao Yinan. 2003.

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1 month ago
1 hour 23 minutes 6 seconds

Empathy Machines
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

After being snatched from the Green Place of Many Mothers, while the tyrants Dementus and Immortan Joe fight for power and control, the young Furiosa must survive many trials as she puts together the means to find her way home. George Miller. 2024.

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1 month ago
1 hour 20 minutes 35 seconds

Empathy Machines
Mad Max: Fury Road

In a post-apocalyptic wasteland, a woman rebels against a tyrannical ruler in search for her homeland with the aid of a group of female prisoners, a psychotic worshipper and a drifter named Max. 2015. George Miller.

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1 month ago
1 hour 15 minutes 48 seconds

Empathy Machines
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

After being exiled from the most advanced town in post-apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen. 1985. George Miller, George Ogilvie.

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2 months ago
1 hour 15 minutes 37 seconds

Empathy Machines
Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community get rid of a horde of bandits. George Miller. 1981.

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2 months ago
1 hour 8 minutes 7 seconds

Empathy Machines
Mad Max

In a self-destructing world, a vengeful Australian policeman sets out to stop a violent motorcycle gang. George Miller. 1979.

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3 months ago
1 hour 10 minutes 46 seconds

Empathy Machines
Unsane

A young woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution, where she is confronted by her greatest fear - but is it real or a product of her delusion? Steven Soderbergh. 2018.

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3 months ago
1 hour 27 minutes 29 seconds

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Behind the Candelabra

A chronicle of the tempestuous six-year romance between megastar singer Liberace and his young lover Scott Thorson. Steven Soderbergh. 2013.

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4 months ago
1 hour 23 minutes 23 seconds

Empathy Machines
Ocean's Twelve

Daniel Ocean recruits one more team member so he can pull off three major European heists in this sequel to Ocean's Eleven. 2004. Steven Soderbergh.

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5 months ago
1 hour 49 seconds

Empathy Machines
Erin Brockovich

A flamboyant law firm secretary works tirelessly to gain justice for a small town wrecked by a utility company's pollution. Steven Soderbergh. 2000.

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5 months ago
1 hour 3 minutes 54 seconds

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Bird

Bailey lives with her brother Hunter and her father Bug, who raises them alone in a squat in northern Kent. Bug doesn't have much time to devote to them. Bailey looks for attention and adventure elsewhere. Andrea Arnold. 2024.

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5 months ago
1 hour 13 minutes 6 seconds

Empathy Machines
American Honey

A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits. Andrea Arnold. 2016.

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6 months ago
55 minutes 32 seconds

Empathy Machines
Wuthering Heights

A poor boy of unknown origins is rescued from poverty and taken in by the Earnshaw family where he develops an intense relationship with his young foster sister, Cathy.

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7 months ago
50 minutes 32 seconds

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Fishtank

Everything changes for 15-year-old Mia when her mum brings home a new boyfriend. Andrea Arnold. 2009.

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7 months ago
1 hour 3 minutes 37 seconds

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Rust and Bone

Put in charge of his young son, Alain leaves Belgium for Antibes to live with his sister and her husband as a family. Alain's bond with Stephanie, a killer whale trainer, grows deeper after Stephanie suffers a horrible accident. Jacques Audiard. 2012.

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8 months ago
1 hour 4 minutes 36 seconds

Empathy Machines
A Prophet

A delinquent Muslim man struggles to get by in prison until he is taken under the wing of a powerful mob boss. But his gradual rise through the mob's ranks brings him in conflict with his mentor. Jacques Audiard. 2009.

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8 months ago
53 minutes 30 seconds

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The Beat That My Heart Skipped

Will Thomas still lead a life of crime and cruelty, just like his thuggish father, or will he pursue his dream of becoming a pianist? Jacques Audiard. 2005.

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10 months ago
1 hour 8 minutes 17 seconds

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Read My Lips

She is almost deaf and he lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself. Jacques Audiard. 2001.

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10 months ago
1 hour 4 minutes 12 seconds

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Halloween Special - The Thing (1982)

A research team in Antarctica is hunted by a shape-shifting alien that assumes the appearance of its victims. John Carpenter. 1982. Music Credit 'Halloween Long Edit' by Alex-Productions.

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10 months ago
1 hour 14 minutes 56 seconds

Empathy Machines
Your hosts Scott Anderson and Eric Abraham take turns in choosing four movies from a particular director and sit down for a discussion on the themes, choices and narrative for each chosen work. We encourage you to listen along regardless if you've seen the movie or not, but be warned, each episode contains spoilers from the start.