What do you get when you combine French New Wave film-making with gritty black and white photography, dystopian science fiction, and time travel? You get “La Jetée”, a slideshow with narration and music that is No. 50 on the British Film Institute’s list of The 100 Greatest Films of All Time. Join Richard and Dave in a wide-ranging discussion that includes Richard’s discovery of a family connection to an iconic Hollywood villain.

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Slide projector image by Berend Van Rossum at Unsplash
Semi-Retired “flipz” theme by tubebackr from SoundCloud
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Microphone image by Macrovector from Vecteezy
Maple Leaf image by Vectoro Artworks from Vecteezy
Perforated steel image by YuriyC from VectorStock