Faffing About Film

More than just a lump with knobs, corn is the hottest new commodity. It's popping and the children love it! If you got stung by the crypto frenzy a couple of years ago, dont despair. Keep those ears open and listen to Vivian and Andy as they help you navigate the stalk market and get in on the ground floor of the next up and coming crypto, BitCorn! In Part one of our two part seminar about the children of the corn franchise. All 12 of them. Root yourself, its gonna be a long planting season.

06:01 Disciples of the Crow(1983) Dir: John Woodward

13:50 Children of the Corn(1984) Dir: Fritz Kiersch

28:17 COTC2: The Final Sacrifice(1993) Dir: David Price

46:56 COTC3: Urban Harvest (1995) Dir: James D. R. Hickox

57:02 COTC4: The Gathering(1996) Dir: Greg Spence

62:49 COTC5: Fields of Terror(1998) Dir: Ethan Wiley

70:18 Speculating Corn Futures

Recorded 7-15-23

HOT ON THE HEELS OF... nevermind. Here's our chat about some Oscar-nominated movies we watched. Enjoy!

1:00 The Banshees of Inisherin

12:40 Everything Everywhere All At Once

26:20 Elvis

41:50 The Fabelmans

63:38 Tár

Recorded 4/6/2023

...and Andy finally finishes the coverage of the CFF with a 20 movie speed run about their favorite films of the '22 festival in time for the '23 festival.
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00:58 Comedy Films Intro
01:08 Make Popular Movies(2022) Dir:Bryan Connolly
03:06 Chicken House(2022) Dir: Cate Jones
04:56 Animated Films intro
05:10 Interface(2021) Dir: Justin Amit Tomchuk https://tinyurl.com/cwk4dk6f
07:40 Timekeepers of Eternity(2021) Dir:Aristotelis Maragkos
10:22 Zeria(2021) Dir: Henry Clevin
12:56 Foreign Films
12:56 Phantom Project(2022) Dir: Roberto Doveris
15:34 The Attachment Diaries(2021) Dir: Valentin Javier Diment
17:08 Thrilling Bloody Sword(1981) Dir: Hsin-Yi Chang
19:21 Snake Girl and the Silver Haired Witch(1968) Dir: Noriaki Yuasa
21:42 Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes(2021) Dir: Kevin Kopacka
23:14 1000 Dreams(2021) Dir: Marat Sarulu
25:45 Short Films intro
26:19 Every Time We Meet for Ice Cream Your Whole F*cking Face Explodes(2021) Dir: Anthony Cousins
26:36 Cubed Row(2022) Dir: Gonzalo Nosal https://vimeo.com/588355191
27:31 Buddymovie(2022) Dir: Ryan McGlade
27:52 GUTS(2021) Dir: Chris McInroy  https://youtu.be/b_Jal3A5J7I
28:14 Meat Friend(2022) Dir: Izzy Lee  https://youtu.be/e-pHlgcitU4
28:48 Wild Card(2022) Dir: Tipper Newton
29:15 54 Miles to Home(2021) Dir: Claire Haughey https://vimeo.com/591288364
29:48 Break Any Spell(2021) Dir: Anton Josef
30:03 Swole Ghost(2022) Dir: Time Troemner
30:28 Broken Hearts(2022) Dir: Alessandra Lichtenfeld
31:18 Outro
Recorded 5-1-23

Vivian and Andy go on high in blue tomorrows in search of identity, meaning and a way out in David Lynch's Inland Empire.

0:00 Opening and introduction.

6:50 On David Lynch, his 2000s experiments (plus David Bowie). Darkened Room and the genesis of Inland Empire.

18:40 Technical aspects of Inland Empire.

34:30 Plot and themes discussion.

Life happened in the middle of us reviewing the CFF and this episode kind of fell by the wayside even though we had it recorded already. We will be rounding up our CFF (@chattfilmfest #RespectCinema) coverage in an upcoming episode before moving on. This one is short and nasty. Enjoy! -V

Movies covered:

Something in the Dirt (2022) Dir: Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead

The Leech (2022) Dir: Eric Pennycoff

The Creeping (2022) Dir Jamie Hooper

The Outwaters (2022) Dir: Robbie Banfitch

Mystery Spot (2021) Dir: Mel House

Recorded 7-24-22

At long last, Vivian & Andy return with an experimental film grading rubric and set to work evaluating everything they saw at the Chattanooga Film Festival! ( @chattfilmfest #RespectCinema) starting with the genre of movies everyone wants to hear about, The Documentaries!

Movies covered:

One Road to Quartzsite (2022) Dir: Ryan Maxey

Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters (2022) Dir: Kevin Konrad Hanna & Jim Demonakos

The History of Metal and Horror (2021) Dir: Mike Schiff

Self-Portrait (2021) Dir: Joële Walinga

Recorded 7-10-22

Vivian & Andy discuss genre fiction and talk about a handful of movies that are less than the sum of their parts. The 1973 adoption clown thriller The Premonition (1973), The erotic Altman comedy That Cold Day in the Park (1969), and Paul Thomas Anderson's latest grooming-of-age small business drama Licorice Pizza (2021).

06:15 The Premonition. Dir: Robert Allen Schnitzer

23:16 That Cold Day in the Park. Dir: Robert Altman

43:35 Licorice Pizza. Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson

Recorded 5-14-2022

Vivian and Andy return to discuss the newest Batman movie.

00:00 The Batman (dir. Matt Reeves, 2022)

Recorded 3-9-22

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Happy Faffoween! a holiday in Octo-November a tradition going back weeks where one sets out to accomplish many small tasks but ends up completing one so thoroughly, and so late as to seem gauche. we're talking about 2017's woman themed anthology horror film XX Plus a bunch of other things get mentioned and discussed such as:

Ultraviolet

Aeon flux

Coherence

The invitation

Midsommar 

Hereditary

I'm thinking of ending things 

Wonder Woman

Street of Crocodiles

Faust

The Girl Next Door

Pontypool

Junji Ito

Killing of a Sacred Deer

Oedipus rex

AND PROBABLY MORE!

Enjoy it everyone, we wish you a happy Faffoween, and hope you have time after your projects to wish us one back

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Dipping back into their pit of weird old movies you've never heard of, Vivi and Andy talk of horses and their plays with Equus (1977) and then get gritty with that stuff that gets everywhere in a film called Woman in the Dunes (1964). Pardon the coarse language.

00:00 Equus. Dir: Sidney Lumet

33:05 Woman in the Dunes. Dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara

Recorded 5-30-21