Tod and Cullen make their triumphant return to podcasting with the first half of their 2017 Virginia Film Festival coverage!

Part 1 includes general comments on the festival, plus discussion of the following screenings:

Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967)

Magnum Opus (Elliott, 2017)

Lighthouse Studio Shorts

Shadowman (Jacoby, 2017)

Downsizing (Payne, 2017)

Shelter (Riklis, 2017)

Tonsler Park (Everson, 2017)

Birth of a Movement (Gray & Cram, 2017)

Word is Bond (Jenkins, 2017)

Krystal (Macy, 2017)

Ismael's Ghosts (Desplechin, 2017)

The Lodger (Hitchcock, 1927)

Stay tuned for episode 19B, featuring discussion of the second half of the festival!

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Tod and Cullen round out their Virginia Film Festival coverage with in-depth discussion of two films from the fest: Cullen assigned Tod The Wave (Uthaug, 2015), and Tod assigned Cullen The Forbidden Room (Maddin & Johnson, 2015). The guys discuss the Scandinavian genre renaissance, the difference between disaster movies and horror movies, and what to do when you can't get a jumbo pizza. Subscribe on iTunes and leave us a review! https://archive.org/download/ArtsCrassEp.14TheWaveAndTheForbiddenRoom/Arts&Crass%20Ep.%2014%20-%20The%20Wave%20and%20The%20Forbidden%20Room.mp3

It's ladies' night once again at Arts & Crass headquarters! In episode 15, Tod assigns Cullen All About My Mother (Almodóvar, 1999) and Cullen subjects Tod to Alucarda (Moctezuma, 1977). Tune in for chat about naughty nuns, whether a man can truly make a feminist film, and why Hollywood can't seem to get its shit together when it comes to trans characters.

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Tod and Cullen round out their Virginia Film Festival coverage with in-depth discussion of two films from the fest: Cullen assigned Tod The Wave (Uthaug, 2015), and Tod assigned Cullen The Forbidden Room (Maddin & Johnson, 2015). The guys discuss the Scandinavian genre renaissance, the difference between disaster movies and horror movies, and what to do when you can't get a jumbo pizza.

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In Episode 3, Tod and Cullen discuss Cannibal Holocaust (Deodato, 1980), The 400 Blows (Truffaut, 1959), European fascism, and Truffaut's obsession with Hitchcock. Subscribe on iTunes and leave us a review! https://archive.org/download/ArtsCrassEp.2CannibalHolocaustAndThe400Blows/Arts&Crass%20Ep.%202%20-%20Cannibal%20Holocaust%20and%20The%20400%20Blows.mp3

Tod and Cullen return from their hiatus just in time for Halloween with Episode 12! (What happened to episodes 7 through 11? Find out inside!) Cullen honors the spirit of the season and shows Tod Trick 'r Treat (Dougherty, 2007), Tod's pick is Down By Law (Jarmusch, 1986), and the boys discuss comic books, artifice, and what made the '90s such a golden time for independent film. Subscribe on iTunes and leave us a review! Happy Halloween! https://archive.org/download/ArtsCrassEp.12TrickrTreatAndDownByLaw/Arts&Crass%20Ep.%2012%20-%20Trick%20'r%20Treat%20and%20Down%20By%20Law.mp3

Tod and Cullen are back with the second half of their coverage of this year's Virginia Film Festival! Part 2 includes the following films:

Last Days in the Desert (García, 2015)

Mully (Haze, 2015)

Night of the Living Deb (Rankin, 2015)

In the Basement (Seidl, 2014)

Employees' Entrance (del Ruth, 1933)

Cemetery of Splendour (Weerasethakul, 2015)

Sembene! (Gadjigo & Silverman, 2015)

Mekko (Harjo, 2015)

Also best of fest, biggest surprise, biggest disappointment, and a word about next time!

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Tod and Cullen are fresh from this year's Virginia Film Festival and ready to give you the lowdown on every film they watched. Part 1 includes the following films:

I Saw the Light (Abraham, 2015)

They Look Like People (Blackshear, 2015)

Projections of America (Miller, 2015)

Buskin' Blues (Derham, 2015)

H8RZ (Borte, 2015)

Black Panthers: The Vanguard of the Revolution (Nelson, 2015)

Krisha (Shults, 2015)

Lucifer (Van Den Berghe, 2014)

Eight more films in Part 2, coming soon!

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Tod and Cullen return from their hiatus just in time for Halloween with Episode 12! (What happened to episodes 7 through 11? Find out inside!)

Cullen honors the spirit of the season and shows Tod Trick 'r Treat (Dougherty, 2007), Tod's pick is Down By Law (Jarmusch, 1986), and the boys discuss comic books, artifice, and what made the '90s such a golden time for independent film.

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Happy Halloween!

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In Episode 6, Tod and Cullen discuss Hong Kong exploitation with The Ebola Syndrome (Yau, 1996), American avant-garde with the films of Stan Brakhage, the disease of colonialism, and personal grooming standards of the 1950s!

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