Following recent conversations about the apparent weaknesses of liberal democracies when confronting sudden crises, this week's episode examines Yorgos Lanthimos' newest film, Bugonia, and contemplates the necessity of alarmist sociopolitical rhetoric.
We also briefly discuss:
Save the Green Planet (2003) d. Jang Joon-hwan
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In light of Kathryn Bigelow’s new political thriller A House of Dynamite, this week’s episode explores how Steven Spielberg’s 1975 classic Jaws reveals the inherent weaknesses of democracy in times of crisis.
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A House of Dynamite (2025) d. Kathryn Bigelow
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In this week's special episode we are joined by director Ali Gill and producer Aimie Sullivan to discuss their new short film, Party Animal, an innovative satire exploring the structural absurdities that underpin contemporary communication.
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With LFF 2025 now coming to a close, this week's episode focuses on one of the most highly anticipated and beloved features screened at this year's festival: Joachim Trier's Sentimental Value.
We also briefly discuss:
Jay Kelly (2025) d. Noah Baumbach
Love+War (2025) d. Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi & Jimmy Chin
Hamnet (2025) d. Chloé Zhao
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Building upon many past discussions about the seemingly hopeless pursuit of love in the modern world, this week's episode centres on Andrzej Żuławski's semi-erotic, unhinged horror from 1981, Possession.
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With the release of One Battle After Another, this week's episode revisits recent explorations of performance and false realities through the lens of Paul Thomas Anderson's 2012 psychological drama, The Master.
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One Battle After Another (2025) d. Paul Thomas Anderson
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Consolidating on last week's explorations on blame and pursuing true reality, but through a diametrically opposite aesthetic lens, this week's episode attempts to explore the infinite depth of Satoshi Kon's 1997 anime film, Perfect Blue.
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With the release of the latest Stephen King adaptation, The Long Walk, this week’s episode on a landmark of Hollywood cinema that has held its place in the number 1 spot on IMDb’s Top 250 for 25 years straight: The Shawshank Redemption.
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The Truman Show (1998) d. Peter Weir
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With the release of Ari Aster's highly anticipated intense examination of the contemporary political landscape, Eddington, this week's episode discusses both the justifications for and the potentially detrimental risks of contemporary activism.
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The Sweet East (2023) d. Sean Price Williams
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Following last week's brief mention of the neorealist movement in 1970s Los Angeles, this week's episode focuses on Charles Burnett's Killer of Sheep to explore the multidimensionality of social rebellion.
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Following recent conversations on the importance of creating authentic art, this week's episode switches focus in discussing Thom Andersen's 2003 documentary, Los Angeles Plays Itself, and reflecting on how significantly inactive attention can not only obfuscate reality but impact society.
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Bless Their Little Hearts (1983) d. Billy Woodberry
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In light of current intergenerational divides, mixed in with recent conversations about the ever-haunting burden of existential thinking, this week's episode focused on Nicholas Ray's 1955 classic, Rebel Without a Cause, to contemplate how comforting older generations might be when we face objective uncertainty.
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Featuring friend of the show Christopher Smol, this week's episode focuses on Paul Schrader's 2017 psychological drama, First Reformed, among a few others that similarly explore the burden of moral imperatives felt by alienated individuals confronting wide-scale problems.
We also briefly discuss:
Winter Light (1963) d. Ingmar Bergman
Diary of a Country Priest (1952) d. Robert Bresson
Night Moves (2013) d. Kelly Reichardt
Ordet (1955) d. Carl Theodor Dreyer
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In light of Matthias Glasner's new film, Dying, as well as recent conversations on the potentially transcendent nature of human identity, this week's episode focuses on Alexander Payne's 2004 romantic dramedy, Sideways, to contemplate why creative expression might be crucial to our relationships with others.
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Dying (2024) d. Matthias Glasner
Death in Venice (1971) d. Luchino Visconti
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Following recent conversations on love and the elusiveness of fixed human identities, this week's episode focuses on Krzysztof Kieślowski's highly-acclaimed The Double Life of Veronique to contemplate our seemingly inevitable and dynamic interconnectedness.
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The Conversation (1974) d. Francis Ford Coppola
Black Narcissus (1947) d. Emeric Pressburger & Michael Powell
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Following recent conversations on the prospective emergence of novel formidable entities (namely AI), this week's episode examines John Carpenter's 1983 sci-fi classic The Thing, to contemplate what human societies might do when seamlessly infiltrated by evil.
We also briefly discuss:
Alien (1979) d. Ridley Scott
Videodrome (1983) d. David Cronenberg
Hellraiser (1987) d. Clive Barker
Jurassic Park (1993) d. Steven Spielberg
Oppenheimer (2023) d. Christopher Nolan
Ex Machina (2014) d. Alex Garland
Following numerous references to Babylon on various past episodes, it feels necessary to dive deeper into Damien Chazelle's perceptive epic and contemplate how it may prove to be a masterpiece of tomorrow.
We also briefly discuss:
Singin' in the Rain (1952) d. Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly
Boogie Nights (1997) d. Paul Thomas Anderson
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) d. Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper and Eleanor Coppola
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Following past discussions on confronting modern life through the eyes of children, this week's episode focuses on Michael Haneke's Palme d'Or-winning film, The White Ribbon, to contemplate the sinister art of making false claims to innocence.
We also briefly discuss:
The Innocents (1961) d. Jack Clayton
Remains of the Day (1993) d. James Ivory
The Zone of Interest (2023) d. Jonathan Glazer
The Conference (2022) d. Matti Geschonneck
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Following recent discussions on the lovelessness of modern society, this week's episode examines Jeff Nichols' 2012 coming-of-age drama, Mud, to contemplate how we might be able to overcome the apparent love-forsakenness of the contemporary Western world.
We also briefly discuss:
The Beach (2000) d. Danny Boyle
28 Years Later (2025) d. Danny Boyle
Close (2022) d. Lukas Dhont
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Following some fairly recent episodes on the persistence of subjective experience, this week's episode examines Elia Kazan's 1954 classic, On the Waterfront, to contemplate the interconnectedness of truth and the conscience.
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Jerry Maguire (1996) d. Cameron Crowe
The Insider (1999) d. Michael Mann
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