Satirizing performance while performing, anger with culture, making fun of your audience without them noticing, and the hypocrisy of talking about »
Alex shares a collection of observations from four months spent obsessing over Survivor. »
Robert Altman, Rip Van Marlowe, Elliott Gould, voyeurism, height, cats, and the film’s use of music. Episode 347: The Long »
Mirrors, chessboards, duplicity, the upper class and lower class, shadows, and other aspects of Jean Renoir’s pre-WWII classic. Episode 346: »
Fritz Lang, the serial killer genre, post-WWI Germany, Peter Lorre, and mob mentality. Episode 345: M »
Confronting the myth of the difficult individual genius, Hitchcock, the metaphorical importance of breakfast, and pushing past objects to get a proper view »
Greta Gerwig’s impossibly precise screenplay, dreams, memory, Florence Pugh, creativity as commerce, and so much more. Episode 343 – Little »
Bong Joon-ho’s skills, Song Kang-ho’s charisma, the use of music, levels, and class. Episode 342 – Parasite »
Adam Sandler, the aggressive subtlety of Josh and Ben Safdie, Darius Khondji, Kevin Garnett, The Weeknd, and sweatsuits. Episode 341 »