Some Like It Unauthorized

Zachary Domes & J Brooks Young
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Two siblings go film by film through cinema history, from the blockbusters to the arthouse, with discussions on what these movies meant then and how we see them now. Using the BFI Sight and Sound list as a starting point, we’ve watched canonical films from the silent era up to the 60’s, and now we examine the decade when the cinema medium exploded. We don’t have film degrees or press passes, we like it unauthorized. Hosted by Zachary Domes and J Brooks Young.

  1. 3天前

    Army of Shadows (1969)

    Jean-Pierre Melville’s look back at the perilous times of France’s occupation during WWII arrived while the French were trying to look forward; protests and workers’ strikes throughout ‘68 had attempted to spur change in de Gaulle’s government, and that man, who had made a political career of his role in the campaign to free France from nazi occupation, was the last person that young audiences wanted to see celebrated. Army of Shadows was a box office failure as a result, but more recent reevaluations have heralded the film as one of Melville’s best. We examine how the genre filmmaker confronted the audience with impossible questions and avoided propagandistic pitfalls, and we lose our minds over some of the more shocking scenes in cinema history. And at the end, Zach shares his top 5 albums to check out from the year 1969! Next week: Easy Rider (1969) by Dennis Hopper UnauthorizedPod.com for more. Hosted by Zachary Domes and J Brooks Young. Music by hetchy

    59 分钟

  2. 9月10日

    Theorem (1968)

    Pier Paolo Pasolini described his 1968 film with young star Terence Stamp as the story of when “a young man, maybe god, maybe the devil, that is to say, authenticity, visits this bourgeois family,” and the aftermath that follows. It’s a boldly provocative work from a gay catholic marxist that never failed to speak his mind, even when it meant defying those whom might otherwise identify with him. It’s also a work that skirts many lines: comic and tragic, flippant and earnest, indulgent and austere. We had to break down the film character by character, and get at the heart of Pasolini’s persona, to decide how we feel about the one and only Teorema! Next week: Army of Shadows (1969) by Jean-Pierre Melville UnauthorizedPod.com for more. Hosted by Zachary Domes and J Brooks Young. Music by hetchy

    1 小时 5 分钟

  3. 9月3日

    if... (1968)

    What do you know about Free Cinema? Not much, Lindsay Anderson would presume, as he and his group of british outsider filmmakers put on screenings of their films in the 50’s and did not set the world on fire like they hoped. Some of his cohorts would make the biggest films of the kitchen-sink genre that followed in the 60’s: gritty, working-class portraits of modern discontentment in Britain. But while those filmmakers left for Hollywood, Anderson stayed in Britain and produced a truly scandalous takedown of the british school system, “if…”. It won the top prize at Cannes whilst being denounced by the UK’s ambassador to France, and it began the career of a young phenom, Malcolm McDowell. We talk about how the film combines the naturalism of 60’s/70’s filmmaking with the surreal, the way real world trends informed how homosexuality is depicted in the film, and other stand-out boarding school films.  Next week: Theorem (1968) by Pier Paolo Pasolini UnauthorizedPod.com for more. Hosted by Zachary Domes and J Brooks Young. Music by hetchy

    57 分钟

  4. 8月27日

    Playtime (1967)

    Jacques Tati enjoyed great critical and commercial success as the director and star of comedies in the 50’s, but like Chaplin or even Fellini, he wouldn’t dare repeat himself twice. He dreamt of going above and beyond, and it would take a decade to finally realize the giant, genre-bending Playtime. The gentle, conservative satire did not capture the attention of the young radicalized french audience that was about to embark on widespread protest throughout ‘68, but Playtime’s reputation has continually risen in the decades since.  We discuss how its pastoral nostalgia is rooted in a worldview that’s less nationalistic and more radically inclusive, and how the film defies cinematic convention and forces you to watch it in a novel way that reorients how you see the wider world altogether.  Next week: if… (1968) by Lindsay Anderson UnauthorizedPod.com for more. Hosted by Zachary Domes and J Brooks Young. Music by hetchy

    56 分钟

  5. 8月20日

    Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)

    Like in hollywood with the bloated roadshow musical, the italian film industry faced a crisis of identity in the 60’s as their investment in huge historical epics drew in smaller and smaller crowds. Sergio Leone had the antidote. The son of a director, Leone worked his way up to that vaunted role and started making westerns that borrowed liberally not just from his favorite Ford or Hawks films, but also samurai films and new bloody, edgy horror films like those of Mario Bava. The resulting films were so fresh and exciting that they reinvigorated the italian box office, and when the Dollars trilogy released in the US over the course of 1967, they made Clint Eastwood a top movie star and made the hollywood studios come calling to Leone. This week we talk about his hollywood western, Once Upon a Time in the West, and what we love about the meticulous production design, seeing Henry Fonda turn heel, and falling for the old gun-in-the-boot trick on a train. Next week: Playtime (1967) by Jacques Tati UnauthorizedPod.com for more. Hosted by Zachary Domes and J Brooks Young. Music by hetchy

    54 分钟

  6. 8月13日

    Belle de Jour (1967)

    They don’t make ‘em like Luis Buñuel anymore, a true blue iconoclast whose career charted across continents and spanned the last days of silent film up to cinema’s heyday in the 70’s. We catch up with the serial offender of catholic and bourgeois sensibilities in his late career team-up with an adventurous movie star, Catherine Deneuve, in this fantastical exploration of taboo sexuality among the Paris elite. We talk about how the Venice Golden Lion winner toes the line between sexual liberation and exploitation, and how it reflects the shifting landscape of european art cinema. Next week: Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) by Sergio Leone UnauthorizedPod.com for more. Hosted by Zachary Domes and J Brooks Young. Music by hetchy

    51 分钟

  7. 8月6日

    Wavelength (1967)

    The only artists Michael Snow wanted to model his career after defied categorization, mixing mediums and blowing out boundaries of what was or wasn’t fine art. Artists like Dalí and Warhol loomed large, and each had also deigned to touch the lowly cinema when it was still thought to be below painting or sculpture. Snow saw the camera as a tool that had not yet been utilized to its full potential, not by conventional narrative cinema nor by the avant-gardists he rubbed elbows with in NYC. His best known film, Wavelength, astounded everyone in that scene, and today in 2025, it hits us just as hard. Its celluloid is seemingly ready to disintegrate before our eyes, and it draws forth nostalgia and makes us ponder the subjectivity of memory, personal and collective. Zach and J Brooks gathered in a Chicago loft beside a busy train yard to watch Wavelength for the first time and record their immediate reactions, and they discuss nuclear destruction, Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage, how the film was personal to Michael Snow, and the greater history of experimental film. Next week: Belle de Jour (1967) by Luis Buñuel UnauthorizedPod.com for more. Hosted by Zachary Domes and J Brooks Young. Music by hetchy

    54 分钟

  8. 7月30日

    In the Heat of the Night (1967)

    Few movie stars enjoyed the laurels or faced the criticisms that Sidney Poitier did, a historic Best Actor winner and a man accused of abetting all of hollywood’s fantasies of easy racial reconciliation. He played many a saintly character on screen before playing hollywood’s first black (and decidedly self-assured) detective in Norman Jewison’s In the Heat of the Night. This novel role would allow him to embody the discontent of being black in late 60’s America, and audiences were more than ready for it — they made him the biggest box office draw of the year. We reflect on how the film has aged, how quickly and dramatically the film landscape was changing with New Hollywood youngsters around the corner, and what it meant to bring together a talented production team that included Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Hal Ashby, and Haskell Wexler. Next week: Wavelength (1967) by Michael Snow UnauthorizedPod.com for more. Hosted by Zachary Domes and J Brooks Young. Music by hetchy

    54 分钟
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Two siblings go film by film through cinema history, from the blockbusters to the arthouse, with discussions on what these movies meant then and how we see them now. Using the BFI Sight and Sound list as a starting point, we’ve watched canonical films from the silent era up to the 60’s, and now we examine the decade when the cinema medium exploded. We don’t have film degrees or press passes, we like it unauthorized. Hosted by Zachary Domes and J Brooks Young.

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  • 创作者
    Zachary Domes & J Brooks Young
  • 活跃年份
    2025年
  • 单集
    22
  • 分级
    儿童适宜
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