This week we talk about Michelangelo Antonioni's existentialist thriller The Passenger, starring Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider.​Plus: What George Plimpton found at the top of the Brooklyn Bridge. LINKS: <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs37dt0VSTI'>Trailer for The Passenger</a> <a href='https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2023-03-20-weather-words-wintry-mix'>The Weather Channel explains "wintry mix"</a> <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Bbgxte4dY'>Trailer for Flesh Gordon (1974; NSFW)</a><a rel="payment" href="https://buymeacoffee.com/alternatesides">Support the show</a>

This week we talk about Michelangelo Antonioni's existentialist thriller The Passenger, starring Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider. ​Plus: What George Plimpton found at the top of the Brooklyn Bridge. LINKS: Trailer for The Passenger The Weather Channel explains "wintry mix" Trailer for Flesh Gordon (1974; NSFW) Support the show

This week we talk about Michelangelo Antonioni's existentialist thriller The Passenger, starring Jack Nicholson and Maria Schneider.​Plus: What George Plimpton found at the top of the Brooklyn Bridge. LINKS: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rs37dt0VSTI" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trailer for The Passenger</a> <a href="https://weather.com/news/weather/news/2023-03-20-weather-words-wintry-mix" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Weather Channel explains "wintry mix"</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9Bbgxte4dY" rel="noopener noreferrer">Trailer for&nbsp;Flesh Gordon&nbsp;(1974; NSFW)</a><a href="https://buymeacoffee.com/alternatesides" rel="noopener noreferrer">Support the show</a>

1975: The Passenger

James and Sam have been friends and collaborators for over 20 years. They’ve worked on films and TV shows and commercials together and have written numerous scripts that lie unproduced in their shared Dropbox folder. But James has a secret: he hasn’t actually seen that many movies. And Sam, who’s a bit of a film snob, has been giving him a hard time about it for years. As James enters undeniable middle age, he has finally promised to catch up on some of the films he’s missed. Every week or so, while Sam has to move his Subaru from one side of a Brooklyn street to the other (to appease the street-cleaning gods), they chat about a classic movie that James has somehow managed to avoid until now. One film from each year of James’s life so far: 1973 to 2026…

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James and Sam have been friends and collaborators for over 20 years. They’ve worked on films and TV shows and commercials together and have written numerous scripts that lie unproduced in their shared Dropbox folder. But James has a secret: he hasn’t actually seen that many movies. And Sam, who’s a bit of a film snob, has been giving him a hard time about it for years. As James enters undeniable middle age, he has finally promised to catch up on some of the films he’s missed. Every week or so, while Sam has to move his Subaru from one side of a Brooklyn street to the other (to appease the street-cleaning gods), they chat about a classic movie that James has somehow managed to avoid until now. One film from each year of James’s life so far: 1973 to 2026…

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