30 episodes
In the Cut Jesse Holden
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- TV & Film
Watch the movie first, then get all armchair-expert with us as we pick apart what we thought worked (or didn't) and why. A no-budget labor of love – more info at www.inthecut.org
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[30] Stalker: The Holy Fool
In our final episode of "Season 2" we enlist Yakov Grinberg to help peel back some of the many layers within Tarkovsky's ponderous, impassioned 1979 masterpiece "Stalker"; a hard to describe — and equally hard to forget — meditation on the human condition, and the broader challenge of expressing the inexpressible.
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[29] Moon: There’s a Fun Zoo
Luke Christensen from Portland’s Hollywood Theatre joins us to talk about 2009’s “Moon” — Sam Rockwell and Kevin Spacey’s performances, Clint Mansell’s score, and the unique plot construction of this the artful, ponderous character study and mutual favorite of the hosts.
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[28] Showgirls: The Robocop of Sex
We welcome the amazing Jenny Benevento to help us wrap our brains around one of the towering cinematic wonders of our age: the anti-erotic madhouse Showgirls, in all of its contradictory, critically loathed, unforgettable glory.
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[27] The Serpent and the Rainbow: Now I Have the Power of the Jaguar
One of the lesser-remembered entries in Wes Craven’s oeuvre, The Serpent and the Rainbow is a bit less than the sum of its parts, sending Bill Pullman stumbling and snarking through Haiti in search of a substance that can turn men into zombies.
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[26] The Evil Dead & Evil Dead 2: You Can’t Not Do That
Eran and Jesse talk about Evil Dead and Evil Dead 2, Sam Raimi and Bruce Campbell’s landmark horror films that set such a high bar for the nascent Splatstick genre that they’ve yet to be dethroned thirty-plus years later. Groovy.
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[25] Lolita (1962 & 1997): Obviously They’re a Bag of Dicks
Eran, Whitney and Jesse sit down for a chat about both the Stanley Kubrick and Adrian Lyne adaptations of Nabokov’s Lolita, and their respective approaches to the challenging source material.
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