The Frances Farmer Show Sean Gilman and Michael Strenski

Sean and Evan and Melissa and Lawrence discuss some of the films they saw at the 2019 Vancouver International Film festival. Movies discussed include: Amanda (Mikhaël Hers), Wet Season (Anthony Chen), I Was at Home, But. . . (Angela Schanelec), Fourteen (Dan Sallitt), The Whistlers (Corneliu Porumboiu), Parasite (Bong Joonho), Young Ahmed (Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne), and A Hidden Life (Terrence Malick).

Sean and Evan discuss some of the films they saw at this year’s Seattle International Film Festival, including neo-giallos from Peter Strickland (In Fabric) and Yann Gonzalez (Knife+Heart), Joan Micklin Silver's shambolic newspaper picture Between the Lines, Radu Jude's I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians, James Mason supercut Invest in Failure (Notes on Film 06-C, Monologue 03), Chuck Smith's doc Barbara Rubin and the Exploding NY Underground, Makoto Tezuka's Legend of the Stardust Brothers and more.

Sean and Evan discuss some of the films they saw at this year's Vancouver International Film Festival, including Christian Petzold's Transit, a variety of Moody Asian Noirs (Manta Ray, Lush Reeds, A Land Imagined), Bi Gan's Long Day's Journey Into Night, Ulrich Köhler's In My Room, Derek Chiu's No. 1 Chung Ying Street and Jodie Mack's The Grand Bizarre.

Looking back at the just-concluded Seattle International Film Festival, Sean, Evan and Ryan discuss Paul Schrader's First Reformed, Claire Denis's Let the Sunshine In, Vivian Qu's Angels Wear White, and more festival highlights.

Sean, Evan and Ryan get together to talk about some of their favorite movies of 2017. Titles include: Baahubali: The Conclusion, The Work, On the Beach at Night Alone, Sleep Has Her House, Good Time, Mother!, Phantom Thread, Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, and Lucky.

We tracked him down and thawed Mike out of his carbonite prison for this special episode all about Star Wars and The Last Jedi. Topics include but are not limited to: Porgs, galactic capitalism and the flaws inherent in the Republic, Ron Howard, wipes, and Mike's dog.