42 episodes
Point 10 Podcast Point 10 Crew
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- TV & Film
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5.0 • 1 Rating
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A show about the awesome movies of the 90s and how they made the world today.
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43. Slacker (1990), with Andy Karlson and Winston Thompson
Winston and Andy return to go all the way back to the Richard Linklater ur-text, in search of the sensibilities that he would elaborate across the rest of his career. Come for the aging anarchist lying about his participation in the Spanish Civil War, stay for the woman tracking trying to get her boyfriend to stop taking Nietzsche so literally!
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42. Everybody Wants Some!! (2016), with Andy Karlson and Winston Thompson
Richard Linklater's "spiritual successor" to Dazed and Confused struggles to inherit the mantle, we think. I can't tell what my favorite part of this episode is. Is it when Andy forgets McReynolds's name and describes him as "jacked up Weird Al with a bowl cut"? Is it when Winston strengthens the connection between Willoughby and Wooderson by noting that Matthew McConaughey also starred in Failure to Launch? Is it when Andy--quite appropriately--reads the poem "Pitcher," by Robert Francis, into the record? Listener, you decide!
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41. Before Midnight (2013), with Andy Karlson and Winston Thompson
Do long-term relationships require foundational lies? Are marital fights inverted versions of Linklater's favorite time-collapse phenomena? Is it possible to look hopefully toward the future from the middle of the journey, bearing forward the burdens of the past? Is this a question about temporality or about perception?
Is it possible to enjoy a film that is an existential trial to watch? -
40. Legally Blonde (2001), with Susan Haarman and Annie Schultz
Annie says that this whole movie is a critique of heteronormativity. Susan: [pause] "You're going to have to sell me on that one, because..."
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39. Before Sunset (2004), with Winston Thompson and Andy Karlson
Is time a lie? Is Jesse selfish? What is the weight of the past that sits between them? Is happiness even possible? Is that the question?
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38. Before Sunrise (1995), with Andy Karlson and Winston Thompson
Julie Delpy's Celine falls for Ethan Hawke's Jesse when Jesse relates a story of his deceased grandmother appearing to him in the mist thrown off my a summertime hose -- His parents told him that death is forever, but, he says, "I know what I saw." The question for the characters throughout the slow movement of the film is similar: What are they seeing, and how sure are they?
What a film to originally encounter in our late adolescence. What a film to revisit now.