everybody's favorite late january-early february tradition, the year-end list, is back! better late than never, eh? we combined our lists and counted down the podcast's official top ten films of the year. enjoy!

00:00 - 37:20 - Our Daily Bread

37:20 - 1:02:06 - Malcolm in the Middle

1:02:06 - 1:40:15 - Still Life

Our old friend from the Sleazoids podcast Josh Lewis ( @thejoshl ) flew all the way from Toronto to join us on the couch for a heavy-duty double feature. We're talking about King Vidor's independent masterpiece Our Daily Bread. then, a super dense edition of Malcolm in the Middle (37:20) where we cover the films of 1933, 1935, 2005, and 2007. there is a lot to discuss here. then, we jump over to Timeline B for Jia Zhangke's fictional film set against a documentary background, Still Life from 2006 (1:02:06).

we hope you enjoyed leg 2 of the reunion tour. we'll be back for our Best of 2022 episode followed by leg 3 shortly.

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00:00 - 29:44 - Love Me Tonight

29:44 - 50:50 - Malcolm in the Middle

50:50 - 1:33:50 - The Social Network

the reunion tour keeps on rolling on through time, as we enter the sound era in Timeline A and reverse the digital changeover in Timeline B. 1932's Love Me Tonight starring Maurice Chevalier is our first sound feature in Timeline A and we made it count with a swooning, clever, raunchy and swaggering musical comedy. Then, a hefty Malcolm in the Middle (29:44) includes discussion of Morocco, Monkey Business, Public Enemies, & The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Finally, we talk about The Social Network (50:50). How did David Fincher make a freakin' movie about facebook?? The Zuck, The The Digital, The Montage, we hit it all. listen up.

we talk about the cinematic event of the year, James Cameron's Avatar: The Way of Water. we get into Big Jim's Big Preoccupations, the nature-doc vibes, the carnage, the weirdness, and more. extended clip has no beginning and no end.

00:00 - 31:50 - The Passion of Joan of Arc

31:50 - 46:30 - Malcolm in the Middle

46:30 - 1:47:59 - The Master

On this fifth episode of the extended clip reunion tour, we're catching the tail end of the silent era with one of its great masterpieces, and a towering film from one of our contemporary greats. in Timeline A, we discuss The Passion of Joan of Arc (00:00), Dreyer's religious film about the human face and the soul it contains. Then, we fill in the gaps on Malcolm in the Middle (31:50) with 7th Heaven, Man with a Movie Camera, List, and The Wolf of Wall Street. Finally, in Timeline B, it's The Master (46:30). we dive deep into Paul Thomas Anderson's dramatic two-hander starring Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

a day that will live in infamy, the once-in-a-decade poll results from Sight and Sound are in, and a new GOAT has been crowned. we talk about snubs, flops, embarrassments, etc.

00:00 - 45:44 - Greed

45:44 - 1:03:35 - Malcolm in the Middle

1:03:35 - 1:33:58 - Jauja

And we're back, for leg two of the Extended Clip Reunion Tour, with returning champion Ryan Swen ( @swen_ryan )

In Timeline A, it is 1924, and greed is good. that's right, we're talking about Erich von Stroheim's Greed. The big questions of life; money, p*ssy, film preservation, etc. Then, we hop back in the bus for everybody's favorite segment, Malcolm in the Middle (45:44) to talk about Toni Erdmann, The Assassin, Crazy World, and Seven Chances. In Timeline B, it is 2014, but the power of cinema takes us back a bit further than that for Lisandro Alonso's Jauja (1:03:35).

see you next time, for The Passion of Joan of Arc and The Master.

TÁR (Todd Field, 2022)

The second leg of the reunion tour kicks off next week, but in the meantime we decided to stroll over to the multiplex and see... an art film?

TÁR is the talk of the town, so we talked it out with our good friend Ryan Swen. we get into Field's boastful direction, Blanchette's powerhouse performance, going viral, grad school ethics, trouble with classicists, and more.

00:00 - 32:44 - Dr. Mabuse the Gambler

32:44 - 54:45 - Malcolm in the Middle

54:45 - 1:40:45 - Dragged Across Concrete

1:40:45 - 2:01:50 - e-mails, montage

Leg one of the reunion tour comes to a close with this episode, yet another two-hour pod packed with heat and punching above its weight class. in Timeline A, it is 1922. Fritz Lang guides us through the criminal underworld via his ultimate supervillain character; a pulp mythology character we've already discussed twice. the film is Dr. Mabuse the Gambler. then, on Malcolm in the Middle (32:44), we catch up on our gap years with The Goat, Safety Last!, Song to Song, and Godard Mon Amour. in Timeline B, it is 2019. S. Craig Zahler takes the scenic route through Trump era middle America, applying his novelistic approach to a contemporary, "political" cops-and-robbers crime thriller. we have a lot to say about Dragged Across Concrete (54:45). after that (1:40:45), we get to some e-mails and leave you behind for a couple of weeks with a special holiday-themed montage. happy halloween you freaks, see you on leg two of the tour (coming soon!)

00:00 - 6:20 - Intro

06:20 - 34:14 - Within Our Gates

34:14 - 55:23 - Malcolm in the Middle

55:23 - 1:49:00 - City Hall

1:49:00 - 2:00:59 - E-mail / Montage

The reunion tour has now started proper with our first double feature. In timeline A, we discuss the landmark film from 1920 by Oscar Micheaux, Within Our Gates (06:20). we get into anachronistic scoring of silent films, writing history in lightning, and more. on a hefty edition of Malcolm in the Middle (34:14), we catch up on our pre-1920 cinema with Feuillade's Les Vampires, Griffith's A Corner in Wheat, the short films of F. Percy Smith, and Chaplin's The Immigrant. in timeline B, we discuss Frederick Wiseman's City Hall (55:23), an epic 4.5 hour portrait of how beantown operates from 2020. Shawn is the expert here so we differ to his judgement. "oh yeah, Boston".

See you next time as we wrap up leg 1 of the tour with Dr. Mabuse the Gambler & Dragged Across Concrete.

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