Content Disclaimer: This episode examines a film with extremely challenging subject matter.  Exceptionally graphic depictions of violence, murder, racism, and brutal sexual assault are both celebrated and trivialized in Remy Belvaux's Man Bites Dog.  Listeners who are sensitive to such content and the frank discussion of it are strongly encouraged not to listen to this episode.  The hosts disliked the film and disliked talking about the film.

Nevertheless, Man Bites Dog is a documentary-style film wherein the director and crew follow - and are slowly drawn into the world of - serial killer Ben (played by Benoit Poelvoorde.)  Realist film techniques amplify the alternating fantastic and all-to-real sequences that attempt to use humor and brutality to offer commentary on film-viewers' and movie-makers' complicity in violent entertainment.  We are joined this week by filmmaker Scott Sawitz.

If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Kon Ichikawa's The Makioka Sisters (1983).