Henry Griffin and Jonathan Freilich discuss two movies in each episode. This time it's a couple of unusual romps by two iconic and singular British directors, Ken Russell and Peter Greenaway.

This episode covers 'Prenom, Carmen' (Godard, 1983) and 'Conspirators of Pleasure' (Svankmajer, 1996)

Henry Griffin and Jonathan Freilich discuss two fascinating films to take you far away from the immediacies of the pandemic.

Director/Screenwriter/Film professor, Henry Griffin discusses Safe and Silent Running with composer, Jonathan Freilich. Rec. April 2020

Henry and Jonathan discuss the chemistry between Agnes Varda, with Godard the last of the Nouvelle Vague, and JR – a small woman of 89 years and an active, wiry guy of about 35. JR has a short, high, square van decorated as a giant lens equipped with a photo booth and a printer – I think they are called giclée – that makes poster prints about three feet by five feet that roll out through a long slot in the side of the van. There is a lot more to this film than the photo van, of course, but making the process immediate and participatory, it catalyzes the interaction. The people are photographed in the booth or in outside scenes, the posters printed and the pasting up done almost immediately with the participation of the subjects and the village. Not just images, the photos are part of an event.

Morvern Callar is a 2002 film by Glaswegian director Lynne Ramsey, who then did not direct another until We Need to Talk about Kevin in 2011 – an uncomfortable film, now even more so in the wake of Parkland.

From one point of view, it can look like a collection of horse opera clichés. A pace or two to the side to let the light hit it from another angle, and it is Sophocles set against the unfinished clapboard fronts of a prairie pioneer town instead of the columns of a Mycenaean palace. Are the two bath scenes just non-sequitur comedy skits with cowboy song musical accompaniment, or are they choral interludes in a play of destiny?

In this installment, Henry Griffin and Jonathan Freilich discuss Popeye, the incredibly unusual 1980 film, starring Robin Williams and Shelley Duvall. It's art, music, and classic iconography all around.

Examining the beautiful filmm of Wong Kar-Wei.

Talking about Francis Ford Coppola's incredible film, starring Vincent Gallo.