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Two smart guys talk dumb about today's great films

  1. 05/16/2022

    Petit Maman & Where Is The Friend’s House

    This week, it's two films about the vast, unknowable world of children: Petit Maman and Where Is the Friend's House.

    54 min

  2. 05/02/2022

    We’re All Going to the World’s Fair & Unfriended

    This week, it's two films valiantly trying to capture the slippery, universal experience of ~~being online~~. It's We're All Going to the World's Fair (2022), and Unfriended (2014).

    54 min

  3. 04/18/2022

    Apollo 10 1/2 & Dazed and Confused

    It's 420! Zone out to two Linklater films: his latest rotoscope cartoon, the '60s nostalgia fest Apollo 10 1/2, and a film you may have seen on VHS 10,000 times, Dazed and Confused.

    1h 9m

  4. 04/04/2022

    Deep Water& Body Heat

    This week, we're looking at two ~~erotic thrillers~~ !! A much-maligned genre making a small, tentative comeback, in part thanks to this week's movie, Deep Water (2022); we're also talking about one of the genre's foundational texts, 1981's Body Heat.

    1h 13m

  5. 03/21/2022

    Turning Red & Eighth Grade

    This week, it's two extremely different movies about almost exactly the same extreme situation: being a 13-year-old girl. It's Turning Red (2022) and Eighth Grade (2018).

    51 min

  6. 03/07/2022

    After Yang and Alphaville

    This week, we're talking about two philosophical science fiction films made by critics-turned-directors: After Yang (2022, Kogonada), and Alphaville (1965, Jean-Luc Godard).

    1 hr

  7. 02/21/2022

    Flee and Summer of Soul

    This week, it's two films nominated for Best Documentary Feature: Summer of Soul (Amir Questlove Thompson, 2021), and Flee (Jonas Poher Rasmussen, 2021; also nominated for Best Foreign Language Film and Best International Feature, a first!). Like all great documentaries, these movies make you ask what a documentary really is, anyway.

    1h 4m

  8. 02/07/2022

    A Hero & Pickpocket

    This week, we're looking at two films that untangle the messy web of supposedly criminal acts -- A Hero (Asghar Farhadi, 2021) and Pickpocket (Robert Bresson, 1959).

    55 min
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Two smart guys talk dumb about today's great films

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  • Creator
    abcmovies
  • Years Active
    2019 - 2022
  • Episodes
    89
  • Rating
    Explicit
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