Our love letter to the best movies of 2023. More to come this year!
Our best of list on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/flandangle/list/scene-unseens-best-of-2023/
After a longer than usual hiatus, Ben and Liam return to talk numbers and accidentally picked one of the more depressing doubleheaders on record!
Ben's pick Lilya 4 Ever is dark and painful, while Liam's pick, Anne at 13,000 Feet is sad and painful. Watch at your own discretion, but listen for free right now!
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Despite what you may have heard, we at Scene Unseen are not on strike! Thanks for sticking with us while our lives are busy, we're excited to be back with two movies both centred around unions, both the bad/fictional and good/real.
Liam chose all-timer On The Waterfront while Ben selected should-be-all-timer Matewan. Support your local unions. Join one if you can. Love y'all!
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For this episode of Scene Unseen, Liam and Ben truly embodied the theme by Disappearing for a week. We're back now, chatting movies relating to Ben's theme of DISAPPEAR.
Liam selected 1972's Sleuth, a twisty disappearance mystery/comedy/compilation of racisms against the Italians. Ben selected The Vanishing, which you should watch without learning anything about. Then come back and listen to this :)
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As the Toronto International Film Festival kicks off in just a few days, Liam and Ben wanted to visit some TIFF People's Choice Awards Winners of old, before the true glitz and glamour and gooeyness of today's event.
Ben selected Roeg's 1980 sex pest memorandum Bad Timing and Liam selected Gilliam's 1991 holy grail adventure without Monty Python The Fisher King. Odd movies, odd festival, worthwhile listen! Please invite us to come for free TIFF.
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Howdy folks! Ben and Liam are back with an in-person episode recorded at Scene Unseen Studios on the films of Mike Nichols. After this deep dive into two offbeat films from the director of The Graduate, Ben and Liam take a second (or an hour) to share their thoughts on the summer's second-hottest crave, it's Oppy Time folks. Hear us blather on about Oppenheimer, dolphins, military capitalism, and more!
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There are many movies about trains. We discussed two this week. Thanks for choosing to board with us this week!
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We are very happy to be belatedly celebrating National Indigenous History Month by watching two films from incredible Indigenous women in Canada! Liam selected the maddening documentary Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, directed by Alanis Obomsawin, while Ben selected the debut feature film from Nyla Innuksuk, Slash/Back. Tune in to celebrate and lose your minds with us, as we do in the heat.
Watch Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance for free on NFB: https://www.nfb.ca/film/kanehsatake_270_years_of_resistance/
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How do we handle having children? Or better yet, how do we handle having parents?
This week, Liam and Ben take a look back at the melodramatic masterpiece Ordinary People and the modern meat stick Cha Cha Real Smooth. Two films with sappiness and heart galore. Thanks for tuning in!
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Join us on a journey to the small nations and states of our world, as Ben suggested our theme of films from countries with less than 100,000 residents. Liam went basic, selecting the how-to-los/win-it-all gambling guide Bay of Angels, set and produced in Monaco. Ben went deep, selecting a short film from the small island of Tristan da Cunha in the South Atlantic, the pleasantly devastating 37°4 S. We HIGHLY recommend watching 37°4 S, which you can rent on Vimeo for essentially $1 with the link below. Thanks for joining us again in isolation. See you soon!
Rent or Buy 37°4 S here: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/374s/88459132
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