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Possession (1981)

Breaking up is quite hard to do. Especially when you’re not yourself and controlled by some entity that makes you into a really bad parent. You can’t feel pain, that’s a plus, but poor Bob. Polish director, Andrzej Żuławski pulled directly from his life as a filmmaker and cuckold from Poland and set to make a psychological horror right by the wall of Cold War era Berlin. It’s the only Andrzej Żuławski film made in English.  Isabell Adjani and Sam Neill very intensely star in this cult classic about the cruelty of divorce and expatriotism, the 1981 film “POSSESSION”. This shit is wild. Think “Repulsion” meets “Hellraiser” with a side of “The Thing” and that still barely explains this strange ride of a movie. That subway scene will forever live inside of our brains. Oh, look! Here’s a link to the movie right here!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wexIzvSgMF0 Highly recommended! (hope it still works) We have fun at the end of this video. Hope we don’t get a strike on it but if certain stuff can’t happen on YouTube then you should be able to hear full audio on the podcast version. Links below.
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The Zone of Interest (2023)

Some extra fun this month as we explore the rest of what we haven’t seen amongst the 2024 BEST PICTURE OSCAR NOMINATIONS. Well, we’re skipping the fun for this particular week because we finally get to the disturbing and unsettling Jonathan Glazer film about the Holocaust that centers specifically on its perpetrators. Perpetrators with wives and children and pets. Husbands who seek to rise within the mundane bureaucracy of an ethnostate that administers horror just on the other side of a wall. You can’t see it but you can hear it. Thank god only the characters in the film could smell it but too many seemed rather used to it. Glazer said his new film, “THE ZONE OF INTEREST” starring Christian Friedel & Sandra Hüller, is about the present. Where we find ourselves in the present, drifting along the wake of the holocaust’s legacy, leaves us with plenty to ponder and a surprising amount to observe. The past isn’t so far gone. It has a way of catching up.
 
THE ZONE OF INTEREST’s Oscar Nominations:
Best Picture
Best International Feature
Best Director
Best Writing / Adapted Screenplay
Best Sound
 
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Blonde (2022)

February’s official theme is WOMEN IN CRISIS and people went through a crisis getting this movie made and then people went through a crisis watching it. Our one “biopic” this month and who else could it be about than Norma Jean Baker AKA Marilyn Monroe. There’s a lot of Marilyn Monroe biopics to choose from but our theme is WOMEN IN CRISIS and never has the icon been portrayed in such a damaged way as she was in Andrew Dominik’s controversial NC-17 Netflix release “BLONDE” starring Ana de Armas in a very underrated performance as Norma Jeane. It’s loosely based on a novel of the same name by Joyce Carol Oates. It also stars Bobby Cannavale as Joe DiMaggio & Adrien Brody as Arthur Miller. There’s talking fetuses in this movie, folks. This fever dream was rather divisive amongst audiences, as you can imagine, with it being relentless in ways that feel almost laughably insane. I mean, there’s not much to laugh at unless you’re Bob who would giggle through a funeral. That warped fuck. The talking fetus was funny though. I’m actually watching the movie right now as I type this up. Oh, she’s on her way to meet the President. JFK, one of our most beloved and honored leaders. I wonder what they’re going to talk abou…oh….oh wow….
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Border (2018)

So we’ve being doing special episodes of movies that we randomly generate the titles of from a website and there have been some ups and downs in the process. It broke our seal on Roman Polanski. We watched some suicidal Polish shit. It had Bob watching his first James Bond movie. It had us watching a CGI cartoon dog. Some real ups and downs when you randomly generate movie content to discuss. For this RANDOMLY GENERATED REVIEW episode we stumbled upon our second Swedish movie adapted from a John Ajvide Lindqvist novel. The first one being the S-tiered “Let the Right One In” and this one might even feel more sad and depraved. We’re diving into Ali Abbas’s 2018 film “BORDER” starring Eva Melander and Eero Milonoff. This “Croods-like” lady sniffing bags at the Swedish border is really good at her job but she sure seems different. Then one day a fellow with similar features comes through her station. Who she is and what she is begins to unravel from there. You might chub to this for a second until that goddamn sub-plot blows up. Keep an eye on your baby. Ain’t no belly rubbing big hair wishes around here.  We randomly generate a comedy for April’s upcoming theme at the end.
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Repulsion (1965)

It’s time to go vintage with our theme of WOMEN IN CRISIS and today’s movie discussion involves a certain director who should know a little something about that type of thing. Yes, we are definitely talking about Roman Polanski and his 1965 film, “REPULSION”, is his first English speaking film. It stars Catherine Deneuve as a young and beautiful French woman in London making her way while living with her sister. All the men are drawn to her. Many pine for her. They want to constantly be around her. The problem? She’s disgusted by them. What seeks to keep and “protect” her also repulses her. She might be losing it a bit. That’s one thing you will see a lot of this month. Women losing their mind. We’re not even halfway though and it’s been 90% that. The rest of the week will be no different. Poor Carol. Can’t these men just leave her alone? Polanski is a creep but this movie is quite good and you can watch it for nothing here: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7znfbq
 
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Unsane (2018)

This month’s theme is WOMEN IN CRISIS and crisis is coming in a variety of ways. Sometimes women can go insane and maybe they need to be admitted to a facility but maybe they don’t really need to be in that facility? Perhaps it’s all just a trauma response because she might have a stalker. What kind of crisis is this? An insanity crisis or a stalker crisis? Maybe both? We’re discussing Steven Soderbergh’s somewhat covert 2018 thriller “UNSANE” starring Claire Foy, Jay Pharaoh and and Joshua Leonard. The whole thing is filmed on iPhone because why not? Steve is just out here Soderberghing. We get into the details so you should go watch it if you’re a mood for a mental mystery thriller with a heaping dose of medical care criticism. Who can’t relate? There’s a lot of terrible things you might be able to relate to in this movie.
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American Fiction (2023)

For some extra movie content this month we’re doing extra drops of the Best Picture nominees we missed leading up to the 2024 Academy Awards. It’s the first awards show we will sit and watch in decades. It’s been decades because this kind of award show stuff is boring as shit. The Golden Globes? I’ve never watched more than 5 minutes of that stuff. Movies are great but we take the circle jerking with a grain of salt. I mean, at least 40 percent of the people in this business are monsters and that’s a very polite estimate. But, we’re heading towards a year of MOVIEHUMPERS and maybe we should talk about the biggest award ceremony in film. It’s fun to gripe at a show sometimes and one year a guy walked onto stage and slapped another guy. We need more of that energy at the Oscars from a variety of people. Catty glances are fun too. Today we discuss a pleasant and well cast Best Picture nominee in Cord Jefferson’s feature film debut. The comedy “AMERICAN FICTION” stars Jeffrey Wright, John Ortiz, Issa Rae and Sterling K. Brown. It’s about artistic struggle, cultural expectations and the troubles of family. A funny movie with solid characters that stands alongside “The Holdovers” as another Oscar nominee about a grumpy professor.
 
American Fiction’s Oscar Nominations are:
Best Picture
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Music / Original Score
 
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Cries and Whispers (1972)

All February we’re discussing movies about WOMEN IN CRISIS and we find ourselves in some strange Swedish territory. A mansion with very red interiors and sad women in white. In this big house a woman suffers from cancer and her sisters, one frigid and the other the opposite, must come to terms with their familial relationships and their own mental state. Then you have Anna, whose bosom is ready for the weary. Will the poor suffering Agnes part from her troubled sisters or does she need to hang on just a little bit more? She will love her sisters even if she has to cross a threshold of mortality to do so. We’re speaking on our very first Ingmar Bergman for the show with his 1972 film “CRIES AND WHISPERS” and there’s some great tips on how to avoid consummating with your husband. Oh, look! It would appear that a Bergman Youtube has the movie if you would like to watch it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rxJyl-twOM
 
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3 Women (1977)

February’s theme is WOMEN IN CRISIS and that extends to all measure of crisis including matters of identity and personality and we finally cross the Robert Altman threshold for the show. You want to see some troubled women this month? Well, this surreal cult classic has three of them! Yes, we are discussing Altman’s 1977 film “3 WOMEN” starring Shelley Duvall, Sissy Spacek & Janice Rule. Millie Lammeroux is a modern and fashionable woman even if she doesn’t have the friendships and affection that often go along with something like that. Pinky Rose is a blank slate from nowhere Texas who becomes instantly attached to Millie and soon becomes her roommate and biggest admirer. Then there’s this older pregnant woman named Willie who is painting in pools a mythology of the open desert landscape around them all. Somewhere along the way, after some canned pudding is set out, things get frightened and confused. That’s putting it mildly. A dreamy story of desperation and identity and dresses stuck in car doors. Recommended.
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Perfect Blue (1997)

New month, new theme. For February we will be watching and discussing the dramatic plight of women in certain film. Be is physical, mental, existential or spiritual we will be discussing WOMEN IN CRISIS all month. Things might get intense for our dramatic leads and why not start with our third Anime feature discussion so far with Satoshi Kon’s classic and influential “PERFECT BLUE” from 1997? A pop idol turned actress has her reality discombobulated after diving into a fan site devoted to herself after she learns about this crazy new thing called The Internet. Her past and her performances are also starting to blur together as a strange man seems to be everywhere in her life. Who is Mima? Is she real? A psychedelic thriller an early parable of the modern age of communication. It’s easy to see why Kon’s cult classic manages to remain relevant. Oh shit here’s a dailymotion link for the movie: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8h56a7
 
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