Cedar Lee Radio - An Art House Film Podcast

On this week's episode: Gasper Noe's Climax, Michael Winterbottom's The Wedding Guest, Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra's Birds of Passage and Miles Lagoze's Combat Obscura.

We also discuss CatVideo Fest 2019, the crazy specific terminology the MPAA uses when rating a film, the one film Dave will never re-gift and our #CedarLee3 picks for great drug films.

Dave also recommends this sub-Reddit thread: Cats Murdering Toddlers

New Films:

Climax

The Wedding Guest

Birds of Passage

Combat Obscura

#CedarLee3:

This week's list of films you should be watching was inspired by Birds of Passage, a film that chronicles the origins of the Colombian drug trade.  So here are our picks for Best Drug Films: Cocaine Cowboys (2006), American Made (2017), Kill the Messenger (2014), Traffic (2000), Gridlock'd (1997) and Cartel Land(2015).

Tell us about your favorites @CedarLeeTheatre using #CedarLee3.

On this week's episode: Todd Douglas Miller's Apollo 11, Asghar Farhadi's Everybody Knows, Claus Räfle's The Invisibles and Michelle Schumacher's I'm Not Here.

We also discuss Dan Reed's Leaving Neverland, actors and directors taking some filmmaking risks, the 43rd Cleveland International Film Festival with special guest Bill Guentzler and our #CedarLee3 picks for most anticipated film of 2019

New Films:

Apollo 11 (Todd Douglas Miller)

Everybody Knows (Asghar Farhadi)

The Invisibles (Claus Räfle)

I'm Not Here (Michelle Schumacher)

#CedarLee3:

We're closing the book on 2018 (except for a few foreign language films that are still coming soon) and looking forward to our most anticipated films of 2019.  

Tell us about your picks @CedarLeeTheatre using #CedarLee3.

On this week's episode: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck's Never Look Away and Neil Jordan's Greta.  We also discuss Carles Torrens' Pet, Alex Lehmann's Paddleton, the Oscar winners, the Oscar snubs, the Independent Spirit Awards and our #CedarLee3 picks for great performers who have yet to feel Oscar gold in their hands.

Also: Watch Shangela's hilarious Independent Spirit Awards performance HERE.

New Film:

Never Look Away (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)

Greta (Neil Jordan)

#CedarLee3:

This week's list of films you should be watching was inspired by yet another Oscar snub for Glenn Close.  We discuss our picks for great performers who have never tasted Oscar victory.

Tell us about your favorites @CedarLeeTheatre using #CedarLee3.

On this week's episode: Joe Penna's Arctic & Shawn Snyder's To Dust.  We also discuss Jonas Åkerlund's Lords of Chaos, Nicolas Winding Refn's Pusher (1996), Oliver Stone's JFK: Directors Cut, Oscar Conspiracy Theories, Oscar Predictions and our #CedarLee3 picks for great feature film debuts.

New Film:

Arctic (Joe Penna)

To Dust (Shawn Snyder)

#CedarLee3:

This week's list of films you should be watching was inspired by both Joe Penna and Shawn Snyder making their feature film debuts this week with Arctic and To Dust (respectively).  We discuss District 9 (2009) Shadows (1958), Fruitvale Station (2013), The Blair Witch Project (1999), Lady Bird (2017) and Primer (2004).

Tell us about your favorites @CedarLeeTheatre using #CedarLee3.

On this week's episode: Nadine Labaki's Capernaum.  We also discuss Carlos López Estrada's Blindspotting, David Gregory's Master of Dark Shadows, movie obsessions, BAFTA Awards, are Oscar campaigns getting dirtier (or more interesting) and our #CedarLee3 picks for great films that use non-professional actors.

New Film:

Capernaum (Nadine Labaki)

#CedarLee3:

This week's list of films you should be watching was inspired by Capernaum and Nadine Labaki's use of non-professional actors.  We discuss Elephant (2003), Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012), Tangerine (2015), City of God (2002), Freaks (1932) and The Best Years of our Lives (1946).

Tell us about your favorites @CedarLeeTheatre using #CedarLee3.

On this week's episode all three Oscar Nominated Shorts programs arrive at the theatre: Live Action / Animated / Documentary.  We also discuss Dan Gilroy's Velvet Buzzsaw, the Directors Guild Awards, film acquisitions at the Sundance Film Festival and filmmakers who started their careers with Oscar nominated short films.

Art House News:

Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old is continuing the 2018 trend of successful documentaries at the Art House.  This weekend the film crossed the $10 million mark at the box office.

New Films:

Oscar Nominated Shorts - Live Action

Oscar Nominated Shorts - Animated

Oscar Nominated Shorts - Documentary

#CedarLee3:

This week's list of films you should be watching was inspired by the Oscar Nominated Shorts programs.  We each pick three filmmakers that started their career with an Oscar nomination for their short film work.

Tell us about your favorites @CedarLeeTheatre using #CedarLee3.

On this week's episode: Pawel Pawlikowski's Cold War and Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old (2D & 3D).

We also discuss the Oscar bump that several film got at the box office this weekend, the SAG awards, the frustration of trying to find classic films on streaming services and Joe Berlinger's new documentary - Conversations with a Killer: The Ted Bundy Tapes.

In the second half of the show we visit with Laura DeMarco.  She's the author of Cleveland: Then and Now and Lost Cleveland as well as the Arts & Culture reporter for the Cleveland Plain Dealer.  We discuss a little bit of Cleveland Movie Theatre history before diving in to the Oscar Nominations and some of her favorite films of 2018.

Visit Laura's Lost Cleveland Facebook for a wonderful trip down memory lane.

New Film

Pawel Pawlikowski's Cold War

Peter Jackson's They Shall Not Grow Old (2D & 3D)

On this week's episode: Jon S. Baird's Stan & Ollie. 

We also discuss the Oscar Nominations, Waterworld gets a director's cut, and Ja Rule's reaction to the dueling Fyre Festival documentaries. 

In the second half of the show we visit with John Ewing (co-founder of the Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque and the Cleveland Museum of Art Film Series) about the Oscar Nominations, best films versus favorite films and his picks for overlooked films of 2018.

New Film

Stan & Ollie (Jon S. Baird)

#CedarLee3

We've got a twist to our usual #CedarLee3 segment for the next few episodes.  We're checking in with friends and colleagues from around the Cleveland film scene to see what they thought of the year of film that was 2018.

This week we sit down with Cinematheque co-founder John Ewing to find out his picks for most overlooked films of 2018.  

Cleveland Institute of Art Cinematheque

Cleveland Museum of Art Film Series

On this week's episode: Hirokazu Kore-eda's Palme d'Or winning new film - Shoplifters.  We also discuss the dueling Fyre Fest documentaries, mid-budget films for grown ups and the Critics Choice winners. In the second half of the show we visit with Mike Wendt of the Greater Cleveland Film Commission about location scouting and his favorite theatrical experiences of 2018.

New Film

Shoplifters (Hirokazu Kore-eda)

#CedarLee3

We've got a twist to our usual #CedarLee3 segment for the next few episodes.  We're checking in with friends and colleagues from around the Cleveland film scene to see what they thought of the year of film that was 2018.

This week we sit down with Greater Cleveland Film Commission Production Coordinator Mike Wendt. You can find him on Twitter (@endmike1), Letterboxd (EndMike1) and  ClevelandFilm.com

On this week's episode we discuss two new films: On the Basis of Sex and The Aspern Papers. We also catch up on If Beale Street Could Talk, the Golden Globe Awards, the filmmaker we can all blame for the Rick Roll phenomenon and we talk film trends of 2018 with our special guest: film critic Dede Crimmins.

New Films

On the Basis of Sex (Mimi Leder)

The Aspern Papers (Julien Landais)

#CedarLee3

We've got a twist to our usual #CedarLee3 segment for the next few episodes.  We're checking in with friends and colleagues from around the Cleveland film scene to see what they thought of the year of film that was 2018.

This week we sit down with film critic Dede Crimmins.  You can find her on Twitter(@dedecrim) and read her articles at:

High Def Digest

Rue Morgue