Cody and Peter watch the 2008 Australian horror, Lake Mungo. It's a brooding, melancholic ghost story with one good jump scare.
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This week we're looking right at 1973's Don't Look Now. Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie deliver incredible performances and Peter and Cody roast a rando on LB who gave it a bad rating.
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In 28 days, the world will end. Welcome to the Tangent Universe (and Spooky Season!)
We have a good time correcting Cody's initial reading of Donnie Darko.
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Jamie G. joins us to dissect Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch.
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We went with The French Dispatch to round out our Pulp Fiction month because it brings the opposite energy to an anthology film.
Seth Halley joins to talk about the French New Wave meeting American Crime in Francois Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player ("Tirez sur le pianiste").
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You can feel the French New Wave's influence on Tarantino, especially in the naturalistic and seemingly banal dialogue that adds texture to the film. I found this piece from Images helpful in framing my thoughts about the relationship between Shoot and Pulp Fiction.
Special guest, filmmaker and local theater staffer Freddy Ruiz is on to discuss Black Sabbath ("I tre volti della paura").
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Black Sabbath inspired the triptych structure of Pulp Fiction. Tarantino is quoted in Far Out magazine saying, "What Mario Bava did with the horror film in Black Sabbath, I was gonna do with the crime film.”
On our next episode, we're watching Shoot the Piano Player ("Tirez sur le pianiste") directed by Francois Truffaut, a French New Wave film in conversation with American crime films and novels.
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Welcome to Film Bros Anonymous. We're Cody Owen and Peter DeNicola, each month we take one classic from the Film Bro canon, discuss it and then suggest 3 films that are related that will give you a deeper dive into the world of cinema.
