We sit down with Rachel Fraser (MIT, Philosophy) to discuss Bong Joon Ho’s Academy Award winning movie PARASITE! What do Freud, Jane Eyre, and Marx have to do with a movie about three families in South Korea? Psychoanalysis, transgression, class consciousness, ideology, ghosts, Hitchcock, and lots more! Dad, today I made a plan – aContinue reading “PARASITE (2019)”
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BODY DOUBLE (1984)
Matt Belenky returns to gush over Brian DePalma’s love letter to mediocre men and the women they fancy themselves saving. We discuss the deep anxieties about inadequacy at the film’s core, and how DePalma creates magic out of a plot that’s somehow both threadbare and unnecessarily complex. Even Pauline Kael, one of DePalma’s great champions,Continue reading “BODY DOUBLE (1984)”
INSIDE MAN (2006)
Who is the INSIDE MAN? We sit down with Roxana Hadadi (Vulture / New York Magazine) to discuss Spike Lee’s twisty bank heist thriller from the early aughts. We consider the film’s central theme, which focuses around conflicts of duty and consequence, and takes a very even-handed look at a morally complex world. We alsoContinue reading “INSIDE MAN (2006)”
NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)
Today we’re joined by friend of the show Adam Kane to discuss Hitchcock’s bombastic spy thriller North By Northwest! We discuss film’s confusing setup, symbolism (and Hitchcock’s refusal to read into this film), the demand not to ask silly questions, how old Cary Grant’s character is supposed to be, the many MacGuffins, the many loveContinue reading “NORTH BY NORTHWEST (1959)”
BASIC INSTINCT (1992)
Join us and Matt Belenky (Movie Talk Podcast) to dive headfirst into Paul Verhoven’s classic 90s erotic thriller! We try to figure out what happened and why, and then explore how the film dissolves boundaries between Sharon Stone / Catherine Trammell and Nick Curran / audience member. We consider the possibility that the film isContinue reading “BASIC INSTINCT (1992)”
THE CONVERSATION (1974)
The cows are visited by longtime San Francisco resident and old friend Robert Pierce to discuss Francis Ford Coppola’s 70s paranoia thriller. Situated in the tumultuous transition period of the mid-1970s, the movie captures the cynicism of a generation slowly being engulfed by the temptations of urban renewal and fears of privacy violations. We considerContinue reading “THE CONVERSATION (1974)”
Cows in the Field 