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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Kevin B. Lee's Top Films of the Decade Poll
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

Episode 49: Awaara and Sholay

This week, Mike and Sean celebrate Thanksgiving with a pair of Bollywood classics, 1951's Awaara, starring Nargis and Raj Kapoor, who also directed, and 1975's epic Western Sholay starring Amitabh Bachchan and Dharmendra. They also discuss the late Mike Nichols, Busby Berkeley, their Essential movie Buddies and, for some reason, an 80 second commercial for a movie that doesn't open for thirteen months.

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Episode 48: Renaldo & Clara, Masked and Anonymous and Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2

This week's episode is recorded on location at an AMC theatre in downtown Seattle where Johnnie To has crashed Mike and Sean's celebration of cinematic Bob Dylan (on the occasion of the official release of the complete Basement Tapes). Before and after a trip into the movie theatre, they talk about two iterations of post-crash Dylan: his own four hour 1975 concert film/experimental indie drama Renaldo & Clara and his 2003 collaboration with Larry Charles and a cast of dozens, Masked and Anonymous. They also take a few minutes to talk about the To film, Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2, about which there is much excitement and little publicity.

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Sean on Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2
Mike on Don't Go Breaking My Heart 2

Episode 47: Toute la mémoire du monde and Russian Ark

This week, in celebration of the upcoming 100th anniversary of the great film archivist, curator and programmer Henri Langlois, Sean and Mike take a tour of some cinematic libraries and museums with Alain Resnais's 1956 short film Toute la mémoire du mode about the Bibliothèque nationale and Alexander Sokurov's 2002 Russian Ark about the Russian State Hermitage Museum. They'll also talk about Langlois, Orson Welles, Princesses, the Internet and more.

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