The Celluloid Mirror

4MileCircus
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Filmmakers Nicole Solomon and Sean Mannion of 4MileCircus take two disparate films and discuss what they reflect about one another, and the audience watching.

  1. Sep 1

    Remembering Dolly Parton, Tim Curry and Peter Cullen

    Welcome to The Celluloid Mirror! In this episode hosts Nicole and Sean reflect on the recent passing of Dolly Parton, Tim Curry, and Peter Cullen. We reminisce about our own experiences with their work as well as the wide range of good things and films these three were a part of. We also discuss responses to our last episode on Distributor Censorship, and share a little bit about shooting a new short film over the weekend. To see former guest Che's full comment on the Distributor Censorship episode you can go to: https://www.patreon.com/4milecircus/posts/distributor-167230475 The post about Disney suing the FCC that Claire emailed us is here: https://michaeldsellers.substack.com/p/disney-sues-the-fcc-is-it-were-mad Coming up real soon: an episode discussing Pascal Plante's Red Rooms and Harmony Korrine's Spring Breakers! Subscribe to the audio-only version of The Celluloid Mirror on your podcast platform of choice or subscribe to our YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/@4milecircusprod and turn on reminders to catch our livestreams. Find The Celluloid Mirror (including bonus episodes) at its home on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/4milecircus Regular episodes (as well as some other posts) are free to all. Most posts are free if you subscribe, and there are even more if you wanna pay. Join us! Learn more about our work in general at http://www.4milecircus.com Music "Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"

    Remembering Dolly Parton, Tim Curry and Peter Cullen

  2. Aug 20

    Distributor Censorship

    Welcome to The Celluloid Mirror! In this episode we discuss a recent 4K release of Pleasantville which omits dialogue and other instances of censorship in the distribution of films. We talk about how this is reflective of media (il)literacy and consumption more broadly, and social media's influence specifically. Also discussed: seeing Jane Schoenbrun's new film Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma at the Alamo Drafthouse in Brooklyn, and our feelings about changes at that theater. Plus: why you should get porn in person, book recs, and letting go of released work. A lot covered here! Referenced during the episode: Pleasantville 4K Removes Line: https://ew.com/pleasantville-4k-release-removes-key-line-about-characters-sex-life-12060517 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGTz6fzjgVA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI7Lfx5k41g Blockbuster Censorship: https://screenrant.com/blockbuster-video-store-censorship-problems-controversy-explained/ Disney Plus Censorship: https://ptoneto.wordpress.com/2020/06/07/everything-censored-on-disney/ https://www.newsweek.com/disney-plus-censorship-movies-series-edited-splash-racist-nudity-censored-1498006 https://insidethemagic.net/2025/05/disney-accused-censoring-old-content-rewriting-cinematic-history-cj1/ Jane Schoenbrun's Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dimCiC_hdoA Our episode on Splash and The Lure in which we discuss Splash's Disney+ censorship: https://www.patreon.com/4milecircus/posts/just-go-live-and-148042909?collection=1938721 Subscribe to the audio-only version of The Celluloid Mirror on your podcast platform of choice or subscribe to our YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/@4milecircusprod and turn on reminders to catch our livestreams. Find The Celluloid Mirror (including bonus episodes) at its home on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/4milecircus Regular episodes (as well as some other posts) are free to all. Most posts are free if you subscribe, and there are even more if you wanna pay. Join us! Learn more about our work in general at http://www.4milecircus.com Music "Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"

    Distributor Censorship

  3. Aug 13

    Ice Cream Man and A.I. Artificial Intelligence

    Welcome to The Celluloid Mirror! In this episode we discuss Paul Norman's 1995 film Ice Cream Man starring Clint Howard and Steven Spielberg's 2001 film A.I. Artificial Intelligence starring Haley Joel Osment. Did we do this episode partly to comment on a certain other Ice Cream Man film that is currently getting torn apart by horror fans and uses generative A.I.? Yup. We briefly discuss Eli Roth's latest "efforts." We also discuss how the 1995 Ice Cream Man is a whole lot of fun, A.I. was mis-marketed leading to poor audience reactions, read some listener/viewer comments, and spend some time on the internet. Ice Cream Man Reviews: Stefan Birgir Stefans: https://www.sbs.is/movie-review/ice-cream-man-1995/ Robert Scucci: https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/horror/ice-cream-man-review.html Critic Quotes about A.I. Artificial Intelligence: “By the end A.I. exhibits all its creators' bad traits and none of the good. So we end up with the structureless, meandering, slow-motion endlessness of Kubrick combined with the fuzzy, cuddly mindlessness of Spielberg.” - Mick Lasalle, SF Chronicle “There aren't many at all like Spielberg and Kubrick, directors willing to lasso dreams (that's Steven) and nightmares (that's Stanley) or die trying. A.I. is a clash of the titans, a jumble, an oedipal drama, a carny act. I want to see it again.” - Lisa Schwazbaum, EW Subscribe to the audio-only version of The Celluloid Mirror on your podcast platform of choice or subscribe to our YouTube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/@4milecircusprod and turn on reminders to catch our livestreams. Find The Celluloid Mirror (including bonus episodes) at its home on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/4milecircus Regular episodes (as well as some other posts) are free to all. Most posts are free if you subscribe, and there are even more if you wanna pay. Join us! Learn more about our work in general at http://www.4milecircus.com Music "Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"

    Ice Cream Man and A.I. Artificial Intelligence

  4. Aug 7

    The Legacy of 1970s Independent Animation

    Welcome to The Celluloid Mirror! We're presenting something a little bit different in this episode. Sean is currently in a Screen Studies Masters program and made a video essay about 1970s Independent American Animation for class. We are sharing with you a slightly edited version of that assignment! This essay discusses American filmmakers of the 1970s who worked in animation including Ralph Bakshi, Sally Cruikshank, Eli Noyes, Don Bluth, Lillian Schwartz, and Will Vinton. Subscribe to our channel and make sure you set the reminders up, so you'll know when the next episode is coming. Find The Celluloid Mirror (including bonus episodes) at its home on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/4milecircus Regular episodes (as well as some other posts) are free to all. Most posts are free if you subscribe, and there are even more if you wanna pay. Join us! Learn more about our work in general at http://www.4milecircus.com Subscribe to the audio-only version of the show here on YouTube or search for The Celluloid Mirror on your favorite podcast platform. Watch the original essay made for class with works cited and list of clips used at: https://www.patreon.com/4milecircus/posts/legacy-of-1970s-159235250 Music "Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" "Black Afghan" by Yellow Omm Free Music Archive licensed under CC BY 4.0 "Good Ol Days" by JMHBM Free Music Archive licensed under CC BY 4.0 "Nights Like This" by JMHBM Free Music Archive licensed under CC BY 4.0 "Same Old Story" by JMHBM Free Music Archive licensed under CC BY 4.0

    The Legacy of 1970s Independent Animation

  5. Jul 31

    Nowhere and Spider-Man Homecoming

    Welcome to The Celluloid Mirror! With Gregg Araki's I Want Your Sex and Destin Daniel Cretton's Spider-Man: Brand New Day both like totally hitting theaters this weekend, we decided to discuss Araki's 1997 surreal teen comedy (with a bit of sci-fi) Nowhere and Jon Watts' 2017 sci-fi teen comedy Spider-Man: Homecoming. We discuss teen movies, sex in movies, teens, them darn kids these days, Gregg Araki's films, Spider-Man in High School, Nicole also having the Free People kittens shirt that Christina Applegate sports in the film and Bikini Kill's Kathleen Hanna wore onstage in the '90s, sci-fi as a metaphor for the issues kids face growing up, and cats in movies in general. Follow Sean and Nicole on Letterboxd: @Unclesean and @NicoleWitte Subscribe to our YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/@4milecircusprod ) and make sure to set up reminders, so you'll know when the next livestream is coming. Find The Celluloid Mirror (including bonus episodes) at its home on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/4milecircus Regular episodes (as well as some other posts) are free to the public, we also have posts for free subscribers, and plenty for paid subscribers. Join us! Learn more about our work in general at http://www.4milecircus.com Subscribe to the audio only version of the show by searching The Celluloid Mirror on your favorite podcast platform. Music "Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"

    Nowhere and Spider-Man Homecoming

  6. Jul 25

    Until the End of the World and In the Mouth of Madness (Remembering Sam Neill)

    Do YOU read Sutter Kane? In this episode we reflect on the work of the recently departed Sam Neill through our discussion of Wim Wenders' Until the End of the World and John Carpenter's In the Mouth of Madness. We discuss the similarities between the films as road movies, Wim Wenders sort-of predicting screen addiction, TV mini series, Stephen King, culture war, voiceovers in movies, and Sean makes disparaging comments about The Lord of the Rings movies that he probably doesn't mean. Join us here again in one week for another episode ... but on what? And leave us a comment about your favorite Sam Neill films! Jordan Hoffman's Review of Until the End of the World on The Guardian - https://www.theguardian.com/film/2015/aug/27/until-the-end-of-the-world-review-wim-wenders Roger Ebert's Review of Until the End of the World - https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/until-the-end-of-the-world-1992 Roger Ebert's Review of In the Mouth of Madness - https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/in-the-mouth-of-madness-1995 Variety's Review of In the Mouth of Madness - https://variety.com/1994/film/reviews/in-the-mouth-of-madness-2-1200440408/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel ( http://www.youtube.com/@4milecircusprod ) and make sure you set the reminders up, so you'll know when the next livestream episode is coming. Find The Celluloid Mirror (including bonus episodes) at its home on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/4milecircus Regular episodes (as well as some other posts) are free to the public, we also have posts for free subscribers, and plenty for paid subscribers. Join us! Learn more about our work in general at http://www.4milecircus.com Subscribe to the audio only version of the show by searching The Celluloid Mirror on your favorite podcast platform. Music "Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"

    Until the End of the World and In the Mouth of Madness (Remembering Sam Neill)

  7. Mar 13

    March 13, 2026 - Nicole's Super Bowl

    Welcome to The Celluloid Mirror! In the latest of our new shorter episode Nicole and Sean will be discussing what they've been watching lately and the Academy Awards on March 15th. Watch We Were the Scenery, the short documentary recommended by Nicole: https://www.wewerethesceneryfilm.com Watch The Fits, the indie film recommended by Sean and Nicole: https://letterboxd.com/film/the-fits/ Subscribe to our YouTube channel and make sure you set the reminders up, so you'll know when we are live and you can join the conversation. http://www.youtube.com/@4milecircusprod Find The Celluloid Mirror (including bonus episodes) at its home on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/4milecircus Regular episodes (as well as some other posts) are free to the public, we also have posts for free subscribers, and plenty for paid subscribers. Join us! Learn more about our work in general at http://www.4milecircus.com Subscribe to the audio only version of the show on your favorite podcast platform. Just search for The Celluloid Mirror Music "Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"

    March 13, 2026 - Nicole's Super Bowl

  8. Feb 2

    January 30, 2026

    Welcome to The Celluloid Mirror! In the latest of our new, shorter episodes Nicole and Sean discuss what they've been watching lately. Television and films discussed in this episode: Project Runway, How I Met Your Mother, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Wonder Man, Dinner in America, Chris Claremont's X-Men, The Wedding Banquet (2025), Tommy Boy, Breillat's The Last Mistress, First Cow, Singapore Sling, and The Cat. Subscribe to our YouTube channel and make sure you set the reminders up, so you'll know when we are live and you can join the conversation. Find The Celluloid Mirror (including bonus episodes) at its home on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/4milecircus Regular episodes (as well as some other posts) are free to the public, we also have posts for free subscribers, and plenty for paid subscribers. Join us! Learn more about our work in general at http://www.4milecircus.com Subscribe to the audio only version of the show on your favorite podcast platform. Just search for The Celluloid Mirror Music "Twisted" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"

    January 30, 2026
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Filmmakers Nicole Solomon and Sean Mannion of 4MileCircus take two disparate films and discuss what they reflect about one another, and the audience watching.

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