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Empathy Machines
Eric Abraham, Scott Anderson
44 episodes
4 days 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
Halloween Special Part One - The Shining (1980)

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter, where a sinister presence influences the father into violence. At the same time, his psychic son sees horrifying forebodings from both the past and the future.


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6 days ago
1 hour 33 minutes 24 seconds

Empathy Machines
Bonus Episode - One Battle After Another

When their evil enemy resurfaces after 16 years, a group of ex-revolutionaries reunite to rescue the daughter of one of their own. Paul Thomas Anderson. 2025.

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3 weeks ago
1 hour 53 minutes 13 seconds

Empathy Machines
Wild Goose Lake (Nanfang Chezhan De Juhui)

A gangster on the run sacrifices everything for his family and a woman he meets while on the lam. Diao Yinan. 2019.


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1 month ago
1 hour 13 minutes 30 seconds

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Black Coal, Thin Ice (Bai Ri Yan Huo)

An ex cop and his ex partner decide to follow up on investigation of a series of murders that ended their careers and shamed them, when identical murders begin again. Diao Yinan. 2014.

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1 month ago
1 hour 12 minutes 18 seconds

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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 months ago
1 hour 7 minutes 3 seconds

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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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2 months ago
1 hour 23 minutes 6 seconds

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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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3 months ago
1 hour 20 minutes 35 seconds

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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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3 months ago
1 hour 15 minutes 48 seconds

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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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3 months ago
1 hour 15 minutes 37 seconds

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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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4 months ago
1 hour 8 minutes 7 seconds

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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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4 months ago
1 hour 10 minutes 46 seconds

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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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5 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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6 months ago
1 hour 23 minutes 23 seconds

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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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6 months ago
1 hour 49 seconds

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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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6 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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7 months ago
1 hour 13 minutes 6 seconds

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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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8 months ago
55 minutes 32 seconds

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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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8 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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9 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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9 months ago
1 hour 4 minutes 36 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.