Cinephoria!

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Part 1. Inspired by Quentin Tarantino, I begin my journey into my twenty favorite films of the twenty first century so far with the first two picks. An emotional fever-dream from Danny Boyle and a self-reflective character study from Spike Jonze.

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The 2025 Academy Awards are in the rearview as we look back at the winners and the cultural or non-cultural impact of these films. From there is a look at the wave of rape-revenge films that permeated the 1970s from I Spit on Your Grave and The Last House on the Left to Last House on Dead End Street and Night Train Murders.

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Looking at Sex in the Comics from Anthony Spinelli starring Angela Carnon, James Sweeney, Cyndee Summers, Rick Cassidy, Nina Fause and Duke Mitchell (!)

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Continuing the talk of the VHS Forever collection on the Criterion Channel is talk of the remainder of the films seen including The Big Hit, 52 Pick-Up, Re-Wind and Benny's Video. After that, talk of Satyajit Ray's, Apu trilogy and then jumping into the Academy Award straggles. Lynn Ramsey's newest work, Die My Love is discussed and finally, kicking it back to 2000 is the collector centric documentary, Vinyl.

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With the recent VHS festival on the Criterion channel, some films included are talked about including The Ring, Bleeder and Remote Control. Jumping to the recent EPiC: Elvis Presly in Concert film is a brief look at Elvis' acting filmography as well as the directorial filmography of Peter Yates.

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With the recent announcements of Frankenstein (2025) and KPop Demon Hunters, both Netflix titles, coming to Criterion, the talk of other Netflix films like Dolemite is My Name, The Other Side of the Wind and Blonde are brought up. With the talk of the latter is also a look into the seemingly forgotten works of Andrew Dominik including The Assassination of Jesse James By the Coward Robert Ford and Killing Them Softly. Concluding the episode is a look at some older HBO documentaries being not just unreleased physically, but seemingly unavailable.

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Discussing the life and work of the late, great Frederick Wiseman! Films talked about include Titicut Follies, High School and Menus Plaisirs - Les Troisgois.

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Some concluding thoughts on One Battle After Another and comparing it to the earlier 2025 film, Eddington. Brian De Palma's Vietnam film, Casualties of War brings to mind his early works including Greetings, The Wedding Party and Hi Mom!

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Discussing the recent acquisition of titles from VCX of Debbie Does Dallas & High School Memories along with the possibility of future releases like The Devil in Miss Jones. Then some talk about the upcoming meta-sequel of Faces of Death and where these kinds of shockumentaries fit into today.

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Looking at Cecil Howard's film about Eric Edwards as a ghost writer getting involved with a strange family and their mysterious blind daughter. Also starring Kay Parker, Joanna Storm, Sharon Mitchell, George Payne, John Leslie and Rikki Harte.

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