Episode Twenty-Six: I'm No Angel, Dragnet Girl and 1933 in Review

For our last episode of 2013, we celebrate the year in film 1933, with a look at Mae West in I'm No Angel and Yasujiro Ozu's Dragnet Girl. We'll also make our picks for the best performances directors and screenplays of 1933, and name our top five films of the year. We'll also listen to some of the top songs of 1933 and struggle vainly to be coherent when talking about the greatness of Duck Soup.

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Sean's 1933 Film Awards

Episode Twenty-Five: Meet Me in St. Louis and A Christmas Tale

Christmas time is here, and Mike and Sean deck the halls with Judy Garland and Margaret O'Brien in Vincente Minnelli's Meet Me in St. Louis and then take a sleigh ride to France to celebrate family dysfunction with Mathieu Amalric, Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni and Anne Consigny in Arnauld Desplechin's A Christmas Tale. They'll also raise a wassail in salute to the career of Judy Garland and ring some silver bells for their Essential Christmas movies while Mike explains why all he wants for Christmas is Paul Rudd.

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Rupert Pupkin's Sight & Sound Top Ten

Episode Twenty-Four: Crank and The Victim

Taking a look back at some of the older films they saw for the first time in 2013, Mike and Sean revisit Neveldine/Taylor's 2006 Crank and Sammo Hung's 1980 The Victim (aka Lightning Kung-Fu). They also count down their top five movie discoveries of 2013 and listen to some of their favorite songs of the year. And for some reason they spend five minutes arguing about Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers.

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The Summer of Sammo
Vulgar Auteurism Parts One, Two, Three

Episode Twenty-Three: The Hudsucker Proxy and Lady for a Day

Unable to catch their latest movie, Mike and Sean take a look at the Coen Brothers' 1994 film The Hudsucker Proxy and one of its screwball antecedents, Frank Capra's 1933 Lady for a Day. They also discuss the Coens and screwball comedies in general, the nature of critical fogeyism and the sorry state of the Seattle Mariners. Sure sure.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum
Silent Films
The Seattle Mariners

Episode Twenty-Two: Computer Chess and The Chess Players

This week Sean and Mike shut out the rest of the world and get lost in their own infinite loops as they tackle Andrew Bujalski's 2013 film Computer Chess and Satyajit Ray's 1977 The Chess Players. They also run-down their plans for list-making season, make fun of the Independent Spirit Awards and talk about how great Terrence Malick is on the occasion of his 70th birthday.

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