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