Episode 44: Videodrome and Wavelength

With the Toronto Film festival just ending and the Vancouver Film Festival one week away, Mike and Sean celebrate the Great White North with a pair of the most-acclaimed Canadian films of all-time, David Cronenberg's 1983 mind-bender Videodrome and Michael Snow's experimental classic Wavelength, from 1967. Along they way, they preview VIFF 2014, make their picks for Essential Canadian Film and celebrate the life and work of the Greatest Canadian, Rick Moranis.

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Episode 43: Top Ten Films of All-Time

On this very special episode, Sean and Mike make their third annual Top Ten Films of All-Time selections. Hitchcock, Hawks, Hong and much much more!

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The 2013 Top Ten Episode
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Episode 42: Strike and Matewan

For this year's Labor Day episode, Mike and Sean take a look at a pair of movie about the organization and collective action of workers, Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 debut feature <i>Strike</i> and John Sayles's acclaimed 1987 film <i>Matewan</i>. They also pick their Cinemassential Films About Work, celebrate the career of the hard-working filmmaker Werner Herzog, rail against the travesty that is aspect-ratio cropping and discuss the latest essay from Professor David Bordwell.

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Episode 41: Rock 'N' Roll High School and Pitch Perfect

This week Mike and Sean take on a pair of modern teenage musicals. First up is Roger Corman's Rock 'N' Roll High School, directed by Allan Arkush in 1979 and starring PJ Soles and The Ramones. Then they showdown over 2012's instant classic about the world of competitive collegiate a cappella, Pitch Perfect, starring Anna Kendrick. Also this week: the latest in the Scarecrow Video Kickstarter campaign, a lament for the Leonard Maltin Film Guide, a look at the career of Joe Dante and remembrances of the late Robin Williams and Lauren Bacall.

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Episode 40: The Genius of the System, Hellzapoppin' and The Barefoot Contessa

This week Mike and Sean discuss their summer reading, Thomas Schatz's seminal study of the Hollywood studio era, The Genius of the System. In between rants about misguided and wrong-headed critics of auteurism, they also take a look at a couple examples of the studio system at work: the anarchic 1941 Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson "film" Hellzapoppin' and Joseph L. Mankiewicz's stately 1954 melodrama The Barefoot Contessa, with Humphrey Bogart and Ava Gardner.

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A George Sanders Alternate 100: #25 - 1

This is the fourth and final part of our alternate Top 100 Films of All-Time list. Part One, with films 100-76, an explanation of what this is and why certain movies aren't included, can be found here. Part Two, with films 75-51, can be found here. Part Three, films #50-26, is over here.

25. Eraserhead (David Lynch, 1977)

23. A Touch of Zen (King Hu, 1971)

23. Pennies from Heaven (Herbert Ross, 1981)

21. An Autumn Afternoon (Yasujiro Ozu, 1962)

21. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (David Hand, 1937)

20. Days of Heaven (Terrence Malick, 1978)

19. I am Cuba (Mikhail Kalatozov, 1964)

18. Lola (Jacques Demy, 1961)

17. The Birds (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963)

16. Kiki's Delivery Service (Hayao Miyazaki, 1989)

15. Only Yesterday (Isao Takahata, 1991)

14. Manhattan (Woody Allen, 1979)

13. F for Fake (Orson Welles, 1973)

12. Chungking Express (Wong Kar-wai, 1994)

11. The Big Sleep (Howard Hawks, 1946)

10. Do the Right Thing (Spike Lee, 1989)

8. Ran (Akira Kurosawa, 1985)

8. The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Jacques Demy, 1964)

7. The 36th Chamber of Shaolin (Lau Kar-leung, 1978)

6. Dazed and Confused (Richard Linklater, 1993)

5. The Tree of Life (Terrence Malick, 2011)

4. The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005)

3. Dead Man (Jim Jarmusch, 1995)

2. The Red Shoes (Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, 1948)

1. Duck Soup (Leo McCarey, 1933)

A George Sanders Alternate 100: #50 - 26

This is the third part of our Alternate Top 100 Films of All-Time list. Part One, with an explanation of what this is and why certain movies aren't included, can be found here. Part Two, with films #75-51, can be found here.

50. The Iron Giant (Brad Bird, 1999)

49. Good Men, Good Women (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 1995)

47. The Lion in Winter (Anthony Harvey, 1968)

47. Gremlins (Joe Dante, 1984)

45. Fort Apache (John Ford, 1948)

45. Dumbo (Ben Sharpsteen, 1941)

44. Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, 1946)

43. The Blue Angel (Josef von Sternberg, 1930)

41. The Quiet Man (John Ford, 1952)

41. Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (FW Murnau, 1922)

40. Meet Me in St. Louis (Vincente Minnelli, 1944)

39. Peking Opera Blues (Tsui Hark, 1986)

38. The Docks of New York (Josef von Sternberg, 1928)

37. Double Indemnity (Billy Wilder, 1944)

35. Bringing Up Baby (Howard Hawks, 1938)

35. Ikiru (Akira Kurosawa, 1953)

34. Hard-Boiled (John Woo, 1992)

33. The Shop Around the Corner (Ernst Lubitsch, 1940)

32. Johnny Guitar (Nicholas Ray, 1954)

31. What's Opera Doc? (Chuck Jones, 1957)

30. All that Jazz (Bob Fosse, 1979)

28. Millennium Mambo (Hou Hsiao-hsien, 2001)

28. Safety Last! (Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor, 1923)

26. Oki's Movie (Hong Sangsoo, 2010)

26. King Kong (Merian Cooper & Ernest Schoedsack, 1933)