Emotional Machines (Back to the Future and Masking Threshold‪)‬ The Celluloid Mirror

Season Finale! Johannes Grenzfurthner joins Sean and Nicole to discuss his horror film Masking Threshold, 1985 scifi comedy classic Back to the Future, and the perils of isolated inquiry.

“How is that a movie?” -Eric Hillis

How does Masking Threshold’s Protagonist fit in with Christopher Lloyd’s Doc and Michael J. Fox’s Marty? Are all their struggles caused by their dads? What do these films say about US America’s decline? All that plus the trouble with squids. Masking Threshold is distributed by Drafthouse Films and will be available to stream in October. Johannes's new feature Razzennest will premiere at Fantastic Fest this September 2022! Transcript

Links

Masking Threshold

Masking Threshold on Letterboxd

Razzennest

Johannes Grenzfurthner

Jasmin Hagendorfer

Eric Hillis on Masking Threshold

Janet Maslin on Back to the Future

Ebert on Back to the Future 

Cucalorus Film Fest

Terror Molins Film Fest

Vienna Porn Film Fest

Transition Queer film Fest

Johannes at HOPE conference

GI Bill + Black Veterans

Wes House on HP Lovecraft’s White Supremacy

Boston makes bus free
MTA spends more on New Cops than Fare Evasion

TV Tropes: Mad Scientist

Buzz Aldrin punches a conspiracy theorist

The Act of Killing

Compliance

Patreon, twitter, IG,  website

Sean IG/Nicole IG, twitter

Music by Kevin MacLeod

License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/




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