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BONUS: Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
NO SEARCH OF HUMAN EMOTIONS HAS EVER PROBED SO DEEPLY, SO TRUTHFULLY AS… ANATOMY OF A MURDER.
To celebrate our new host and best friend Sutherland's birthday, we dive headfirst into some legal proceedings with his pick of Otto Preminger's ANATOMY OF A MURDER! We talk how it handles the moral ambiguity of the American court system, Jimmy Stewart's voice, and if this movie was actually made for Sutherland.
Note: so so sorry about some issues with the sound in a couple parts. I did my best to edit it and make everything listenable, but we had some issues in recording that came through. - Josh
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Chapters:
00:00 Happy Birthday Sutherland
02:26 Anatomy of a Murder
36:45 Final Thoughts + Ratings
42:29 Outro
Links:
Jackson on Letterboxd
Joey on Letterboxd
Josh on Letterboxd
Sutherland on Letterboxd
Film Explorers is mixed and edited by Josh :) -
Corpse Bride (2005)
THERE’S BEEN A GRAVE MISUNDERSTANDING.
Potentially the strangest month in the show's short history continues as Sutherland picks for us Tim Burton and Mike Johnson's (not the current Speaker of the House, don't worry we checked) CORPSE BRIDE! We talk all things stop-motion, cinematography and lighting in the world of animated films, and if every movie should be 70 minutes long. We also briefly talk about The Fall Guy, Pink Floyd: The Wall, X-Men '97, Harry Potter, and The Shining.
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Next Week's Roulette Pick
00:03:39 What We Watched
00:16:15 Corpse Bride
00:53:13 Final Thoughts + Ratings
01:00:40 Next Week's Pick + Outro
Links:
Jackson on Letterboxd
Joey on Letterboxd
Josh on Letterboxd
Sutherland on Letterboxd
Film Explorers is mixed and edited by Josh :) -
The Firm (1993)
POWER CAN BE MURDER TO RESIST.
This week, we're going back to last July for another Tom Cruise pick, this time Sydney Pollack's The Firm. We break down our history with John Grisham, ask if 3.4 is the best average rating a movie can have on Letterboxd, and question why Jigsaw can run that fast. Joey talks Chernobyl, Josh sees an all time favorite in theaters for the first time, Jackson keeps rolling through X-Men: The Animated Series, and Sutherland watches a "hit" new Paramount+ show.
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Chapters:
00:00:00 Family Guy impressions for approximately two minutes (i'm sorry)
00:02:26 Next Week's Pick
00:06:19 What We Watched
00:19:59 The Firm
00:56:15 Final Thoughts + Ratings
01:07:42 Outro
Links:
Jackson on Letterboxd
Joey on Letterboxd
Josh on Letterboxd
Sutherland on Letterboxd
Film Explorers is mixed and edited by Josh :) -
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
THEY LEFT FOR WAR AS BOYS NEVER TO RETURN AS MEN.
This week, we're going back to our first ever theme with Sutherland picking one of the first Best Picture winners ever, All Quiet on the Western Front from 1930. We spend a ton of time comparing and contrasting with the 2022 German adaptation that's become rather polarizing between the four of us, break down the Classic Hollywood of it all, and Josh talks about a book for maybe the first time ever? We also talk about Challengers, Family Guy Star Wars, and Josh starts binging Dimension 20 and really wants to play Dungeons and Dragons.
Email us at filmexplorerspod@gmail.com with any feedback, suggestions, or messages that we can read on the show!
Chapters:
00:00:00 Pink Floyd talk for some reason?
00:05:00 Next Week's Pick
00:08:03 What We Watched
00:21:51 All Quiet on the Western Front
00:59:55 Final Thoughts + Ratings
01:05:58 Outro
Links:
Jackson on Letterboxd
Joey on Letterboxd
Josh on Letterboxd
Sutherland on Letterboxd
Film Explorers is mixed and edited by Josh :) -
My Dinner with Andre (1981)
This week, we've got what may be the biggest show in Explorers history as we welcome on previous guest Sutherland as the official fourth Film Explorer! Applaud alongside us as we also dive into a long discussion of the existential conversations of MY DINNER WITH ANDRE, our first Louis Malle and one of the biggies of the time period. We go long on our personal journeys with mundanity, meditation, and spirituality, our perspectives on living a life of chaos, and the semantics of filming Wallace Shawn eating a bowl of potato soup. Also discussed are a theater trip to see Abigail, Jackson reconciling with Avatar, and Josh falling head over heels for Willem Dafoe yet again.
Email us at filmexplorerspod@gmail.com with any feedback, suggestions, or messages that we can read on the show!
Chapters:
00:00:00 BIG NEWS!!!
00:05:37 What We Watched
00:20:54 Next Month's Theme
00:23:55 My Dinner with Andre
01:27:50 Final Thoughts + Ratings
01:33:21 Sutherland's Pick for Next Week
Links:
Jackson on Letterboxd
Joey on Letterboxd
Josh on Letterboxd
Sutherland on Letterboxd
Film Explorers is mixed and edited by Josh :) -
The City of Lost Children (1995)
WHERE HAPPILY EVER AFTER IS JUST A DREAM
This week, we're tapping into the insane fantastical world of THE CITY OF LOST CHILDREN! We talk finding Terry Gilliam vibes where we least expect it, our disappointment at us not getting ten of these movies every year, and maybe Ron Perlman's best performance? We also break down Josh's complicated thoughts on Civil War, some Little Miss Sunshine thoughts, and William Friedkin's Sorcerer.
Email us at filmexplorerspod@gmail.com with any feedback, suggestions, or messages that we can read on the show!
Chapters:
00:00:00 Next Week's Plans
00:04:15 What We Watched
00:29:26 The City of Lost Children
00:49:09 Final Thoughts + Ratings
00:58:52 Outro
Links:
Jackson on Letterboxd
Joey on Letterboxd
Josh on Letterboxd
Film Explorers is mixed and edited by Josh :)
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