Episode 56: Where Danger Lives and Farewell, My Lovely

As Mike is embroiled in a month-long marathon of films noir, he drags Sean along this week to discuss a pair of Robert Mitchum's lesser-known efforts, 1950's Where Danger Lives, with Faith Domergue and Claude Rains and direction by John Farrow, and 1975's Raymond Chandler-adaptation Farewell, My Lovely, with Charlotte Rampling, John Ireland and Harry Dean Stanton. They also pick their Essential Noirs and talk about the long, great acting career of Robert Mitchum and appreciate his all-too-brief singing career.

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The Hou Hsiao-hsien Retrospective in Seattle

Episode 55: Doctor Zhivago and Darling

This Oscar weekend, Mike and Sean count down their favorite films of 2014 and make their picks for the various Acting, Writing and Directing Awards. They also take a look back at two of the Best Picture nominees of 1965, both of which star Julie Christie: David Lean's epic romance Doctor Zhivago, with Omar Sharif, Alec Guiness and the always-menacing Rod Steiger and John Schlesinger's Swingin' 60s-set Darling, with Dirk Bogarde and Laurence Harvey.

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Sean's 2014 Endy Awards

Episode 54: Alphaville and A Separation

This week, as the annual film festival is on-going in Berlin, Mike and Sean take a look at a pair of past winners of the prestigious Golden Bear award, Jean-Luc Godard's 1965 neo-noir Alphaville and Asghar Farhadi's highly acclaimed domestic/courtroom drama A Separation, from 2011. They also discuss Godard's career in general, pick their Essential Golden Bear Winners and complain about everything in the news, from Birth of a Nation to the Dissolve, the new Varsity Theatre and martial arts movies at the Cinerama.

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Godfrey Cheshire on Birth of a Nation
The Dissolve's Top 50 of the Decade So Far
Kevin B. Lee's Top 50 of the Decade So Far
Sean's Top 50 East Asian Films of the Decade So Far
The Cinerama's Fists and Fury Series

Episode 53: Selma and Malcolm X

This week Sean and Mike discuss a pair of historical dramas: Ava DuVernay's leading 2014 Oscar contender Selma along with Spike Lee's 1992 biopic Malcolm X. They also discuss the career of Spike Lee, choose their Essential Biopics, make shameful admissions of ignorance regarding Oprah and Denzel Washington and unveil a new project about Seattle-area film.

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Episode 52: The Shopworn Angel and The Cheyenne Social Club

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This week, on the occasion of a double feature of The Philadelphia Story and The Shop Around the Corner at the Grand Illusion Cinema in Seattle, Mike and Sean devote the show to their love of James Stewart, the greatest movie actor of all-time. They'll talk about his 1938 film The Shopworn Angel, with Margaret Sullavan, and his 1970 film The Cheyenne Social Club, with Henry Fonda. In addition, they'll lament the latest Seattle movie theatre closures and discuss their picks for the Top Ten Films of the Decade So Far.

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Sean's James Stewart List

Episode 51: Love Streams, Streets of Fire and the Best of 1984

Continuing an annual tradition, Mike and Sean step away from the end of 2014 festivities to take a look at the best in film from 30 years ago, with Top Ten lists and Fake Awards for the movies of 1984. Alongside that, they discuss John Cassavetes's Love Streams with Gena Rowlands and Walter Hill's gangland rock epic Streets of Fire.

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We forgot to mention the amazing wipes in Streets of Fire, a Best Editing contender for sure.
Mike's Complete 1984 List
Sean's complete Fake Awards for 1984

Episode 50: Coffy, Golden Chicken and 2014 Discoveries

This week Mike and Sean take a look back at their favorites among the older movies they saw for the first time in the past year, highlighting Pam Grier in 1973's blaxploitation classic Coffy and Sandra Ng in the Hong Kong comedy-drama Golden Chicken, from 2002.

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Sean's Big 2014 Discoveries List