Reuben, Patrick, and Basil gather to talk Auteur Theory, how it came to be and what it really means for film and film criticism as a whole. Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 25 Spitball #2 Auteurs

"August" Auteur Month continues, this time with an old podcast format. Basil hosts with Ilya, Patrick, and Reuben as he questions their knowledge of auteurs and other famous directors. Listen in to learn new games and hear how bad we all are at them (except for Ilya)! Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 24 Film Flam #2 Auteurs

August Auteur Month continues, this time with another new podcast format. This time, Revisitation Rights! We go back to movies we saw and didn't like when we were younger, but have a feeling we might like more now that we're older. Ilya picked Southland Tales (2007), directed by Richard Kelly. Patrick picked Le Samourai (1967), directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, and Reuben picked Beauty & The Beast (1946), directed by Jean Cocteau. Basil was going to pick Unforgiven (1992), directed by Clint Eastwood, but a terrible confluence of sleep deprivation and no half & half for his morning coffee made him miss the episode. How did the other three feel about these revisits? Listen in to find out! Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 23 Revisitation Rights #1 Auteurs

August is Auteur Month here at Fancy Film Fellows! Basil, Patrick, and Reuben discuss movies they loved as children but haven’t seen since they were children. The theme this time is auteurs! So we picked three movies by well-regarded directors that we considered childhood favorites and decided to revisit them with adult eyes. Reuben picked Manhattan, Basil picked Forrest Gump, and Patrick picked O Brother, Where Art Thou? Do these movies still hold up? Or were they better left to the vestiges of memory? Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 22 Is That All There Is... To My Childhood? #3: Auteurs

Heralds:Basil: Mumblecore (Megan Boyle & Tao Lin, 2011) Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese, 1991) Ilya: Alien 3 (Assembly Cut) (David Fincher, 1992/2003) Harlan County, U.S.A. (Barbara Kopple, 1976) Mindhunter: Season 2 (David Fincher, 2019) Patrick: The Big Space Travel (Valentin Selivanov, 1975) Crawl (Alexandre Aja, 2019) Reuben: The Terminator (James Cameron, 1984) Darkman (Sam Raimi, 1990) Denouncements:Basil: Zombieland (Ruben Fleischer, 2009) Night Moves (Kelly Reichardt, 2013) Ilya: No denouncements this month! Patrick: Bone Tomahawk (S. Craig Zahler, 2015) Under The Silver Lake (David Robert Mitchell, 2018) Reuben: The Mummy (Stephen Sommers, 1999) Wanted (Timur Bekmambetov, 2008) Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 21: Heralds & Denouncements August 2019

Basil and Hayley drink too much then take a nosedive into the ennui-laden waters of '60s upper-middle class literature/cinema. We discuss John Cheever's short story, "The Swimmer" and compare it to the movie of the same name, directed by Frank Perry. Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 20 Readin' N Watchin' #3: The Swimmer

This week Patrick, Ilya, and Reuben bring a bunch of food to their Slumber Party! Dinner and a movie, what could be more '90s cable television than that? So gather 'round the dining table and listen in as they discuss 1994's Eat, Drink, Man, Woman directed by Ang Lee. Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 19 Slumber Party Cinema #5: Eat, Drink, Man, Woman

We return with another miniature episode about a new release. Continuing a tradition we started on Loose Canons with Furious 7 we are here to review the new Fast & Furious movie. This time our whole core four was able to join us, making this mini episode a mini in name only. Neither the cast nor the running time was very miniature. We answer all the important questions about this new spin-off, such as “Should The Rock have sex?” and “What’s the deal with Jason Statham’s sister-daughter?” and “When did it seem like this movie would end?” Fancy Film Fellows Mini-Sode 3 Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw

Patrick couldn’t make it this week, so it’s just three of the core four: Basil, Ilya, and Reuben. Heralds:Basil: The Thing (John Carpenter, 1982) Inglourious Basterds (Quentin Tarantino, 2009)Ilya: Erin Brockovich (Steven Soderbergh, 2000) The Matrix Reloaded (Lana & Lilly Wachowski, 2003) Denouncements:Basil: As Good As It Gets (James L. Brooks, 1997) Privacy Settings (Joe Swanberg, 2013)Ilya: The Dead Don’t Die (Jim Jarmusch, 2019)Reuben: (500) Days Of Summer (Marc Webb, 2009) The Fifth Element (Luc Besson, 1997) Child’s Play 2 (John Lafia, 1990) Non-Fiction (Olivier Assayas, 2019) Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 18 Heralds & Denouncements: July 2019

This week we introduce another new format: Pitch Sesh! For this segment one of the hosts pitches a movie idea and the other hosts step into their Producer Shoes to help them finesse their dream project. For this episode Patrick pitches a movie chomping at the bit to get some Oscar love, a film about a small-town gun store owner who has to call his entire life into question after his son is killed in a school shooting. Bucky Barnett, who longtime listeners may remember from our Loose Canons days, returns to help Basil and Reuben decide on a star-studded cast and crew to propel this movie to thirsty Academy Award glory. Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 17 Pitch Sesh #1