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Imogen Sara Smith joins to talk about her plans regarding the upcoming Powell & Pressburger Online Class she is teaching. She also touches on some exciting topics she wants to cover later, and what types of film topics she finds interesting.

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Becky D’Anna joins to talk about Alex Garland, and specifically the films that have been released by A24 — Ex Machina, Men, and Civil War. We talk about the sense of dread that he creates and how he’s such an excellent writer. Becky compares his work to Ingmar Bergman. He uses sound and photography to accomplish this, and there are parallels to Hour of the Wolf, Shame, and others.

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Zach Bryant from They Live By Film joins to talk about Osgood Perkins, who has one film with A24 — The Blackcoat’s Daughter. He has since achieved acclaim thanks to Longlegs and has an upcoming film called The Monkey that looks to be yet another breakthrough in his career. We get into his other films, and also Bryan Bertino’s The Monster, which Perkins produced.

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Derek Smith talks about his film experience and the Online Classes he plans to teach, beginning with Japanese New Wave and eventually David Lynch.

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Jill and Aaron are back after a little bit of an unintentional break. We talk about Aaron’s upcoming new book. We pay tribute to the loss of one of our favorite filmmakers, David Lynch. Finally we talk about the April 2025 Announcements, which include seven titles, with two from Sean Baker. We have a brief digression about Gerard Depardieu’s airplane behavior.

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Aaron is writing an A24 book with Jill Blake editing. There is a Kickstarter campaign that is in progress right now, and this is the second episode of the accompanying podcast. Jill and Aaron talk about David Lynch first and foremost, as he is omnipresent with any conversation about modern cinema. We then get into the book and how we are approaching this topic, and where this could lead.

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Aaron is writing an A24 book. There is a Kickstarter campaign that is in progress right now, and this is the first episode of the accompanying podcast. This episode will appear in all podcast player apps soon, and is always available here on the website and on our YouTube channel. We are very excited about the book and looking forward to your support!

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We visited with Daniela Taplin Lundberg, the owner of Stay Gold Productions and host of the Hollywood Gold Podcast. She has produced films such as Harriet, Honey Boy, Beasts of No Nation, The Kids Are All Right, Under the Silver Lake, Nanny, and several more. Her podcast is focused on showcasing producers with stories of the blood, sweat and tears that go into making Hollywood Gold. After the discussion with Daniela, Jill Blake discusses her trip to Los Angeles where she caught the Robbie Robertson Tribute show, which could become a Scorsese documentary, and also seeing Joni Mitchell at the Hollywood Bowl.

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Celeste de la Cabra is a horror expert, at least in Aaron’s opinion. They spent some time going through Aaron’s Top 100 Horror Films of the 21st century. Celeste had not looked at the list beforehand, and it turned out she had seen 63 of the films. She had some great takes, as expected.

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Derek Smith joins Aaron to talk about the Slant list for best horror films of the 21st century. Derek writes for Slant and is going to be a guide for CineJourneys, so he had some great insights. Of course we quibbled about some of the results, but that’s kind of the point with lists.

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