For Screen and Country

This week, Brendan and Jason go way back to 1947 to discuss the crime/thriller Brighton Rock starring a very young Richard Attenborough. The guys talk about old-timey radio contests, testifying against your spouse, the role that religion plays in the film in regards to the two lead characters, the shockingly brutal violence, they debate if the movie's ending is TOO sad and much more.

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Withnail and I stars Richard Attenborough, Hermione Baddeley, Carol Marsh, William Hartnell, Nigel Stock, Wylie Watson, Harcourt Williams and George Carney; directed by John Boulting.

Is It Streaming?

USA: Kanopy (free) and available to rent everywhere

Canada: N/A

UK: available to rent

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Time to lighten the mood... kinda. Brendan and Jason take on the pitch-black comedy Withnail and I starring Paul McGann and Richard E. Grant. They talk about how the director shaped Grant's performance (and some of the claims by director Bruce Robinson that Grant wrote off as pure fiction), the production design bringing the film's story and characters to life, the influence this movie had on many future buddy flicks, they debate the film's portrayal of homosexuality and whether it is helped by its basis on a real-life incident and much more.

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Withnail and I stars Paul McGann, Richard E. Grant, Richard Griffiths and Ralph Brown; directed by Bruce Robinson.

Is It Streaming?

USA: Criterion Channel and HBO Max

Canada: Criterion Channel

UK: available to rent on BFI Player and Microsoft Store; available to buy everywhere

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It's time to get real weird as this week's movie is something of a gangster flick crossed with an acid trip. Brendan and Jason talk about Performance, a film co-starring Mick Jagger in an impressively strong performance. The guys also discuss the unexpectedly massive influence of the film spanning across multiple genres, the progressive viewpoints on gender fluidity, the avant-garde editing style, the controversy surrounding a rumoured "real sex" scene and much more.

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Performance stars James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg, Michele Breton, John Bindon, Johnny Shannon and Allan Cuthbertson; directed by Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg.

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USA: available to rent

Canada: available to rent

UK: available to rent

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Time for a little break as Brendan and Jason rank the most recent selection of 20 movies from the BFI Top 100 list, hand out some awards and make a few announcements. How many will surprise you? Did their rankings line up at all? And why yes - Fagin IS still the most horrifically racist thing on this podcast so far.

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To cap off another group of 20 movies, Brendan and Jason discuss Alfred Hitchcock's suspense-filled The Lady Vanishes. How well does the movie age? Is it odd that the first 20-30 minutes are essentially a screwball comedy? Is this one of the oldest movies to pass the Bechtel Test? Plus - Jason makes a stand for "up-front credits," the guys discuss the characters of Charters & Caldicott along with their storied film career and much more.

Next week: it's time to rank the previous 20 movies and give out some handy-dandy awards!

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The Lady Vanishes stars Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Dame May Whitty, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Paul Lukas, Cecil Parker and Linden Travers; directed by Alfred Hitchcock.

Is It Streaming?

USA: Prime, HBO Max, Criterion Channel, Pluto TV and Classix

Canada: Criterion Channel and Prime

UK: Prime, Brit Box and available to rent

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This week, the guys return to master filmmaker David Lean to talk about his final film on this list: Oliver Twist. To start off the conversation, they talk about all of the various adaptations of the classic Dickens novel and the only one they watched in full (the one with an animated orange cat) and then they break down the long and problematic history of Fagin, talk about the way in which the camera angles are a part of Oliver's character and much more.

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Oliver Twist stars John Howard Davies, Alec Guinness, Robert Newton, Kay Walsh, Anthony Newley, Francis L. Sullivan and Henry Stephenson; directed by David Lean.

Is It Streaming?

USA: HBO Max, Roku Channel, Criterion Channel, Indie Flix, Flix Fling and available to rent

Canada: Criterion Channel and Flix Fling

UK: Prime, Brit Box and available to rent

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This week, Brendan and Jason discover the darkest side of Michael Caine's personality with the gangster classic Get Carter. They talk about the difficulty in building an entire movie around such a despicable character with no redeemable qualities, the difficulties in overlapping dialogue, the bleak ending and much more.

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Get Carter stars Michael Caine, Ian Hendry, Britt Ekland, John Osborne, Bryan Mosley, Geraldine Moffat, Petra Markham and George Sewell; directed by Mike Hodges.

Is It Streaming?

USA: HBO Max, Hoopla and available to rent

Canada: Hoopla and available to rent

UK: available to rent

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The trek continues with Brendan and Jason talking about Ken Loach's 1998 release about class differences and, more specifically, addiction with My Name is Joe. The guys connect this film to similar techniques found in the work of Mike Leigh and Robert Altman, they discuss the thick Scottish accents, they question the existence of welfare spies, they address the criticism of Ken Loach's dialogue sounding like his own politics coming out of a character's mouth whether it fits the narrative or not and much more.

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My Name is Joe stars Peter Mullan, Louise Goodall, Gary Lewis, David McKay, Lorraine McIntosh, Anne-Marie Kennedy and David Hayman; directed by Ken Loach.

Is It Streaming?

USA: available to rent

Canada: N/A

UK: Brit Box

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Back to the list!

The fellas go back in style by talking about the cultural touchstone Trainspotting. They get into the definition of the 90s Indie Hit and University Movie genres, they analyze the critcism of this movie allegedly glorifying drug use, both guys gasp in horror at all of the content involving the baby, they marvel at the breakneck editing style and much more.

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Trainspotting stars Ewan McGregor, Robert Carlyle, Jonny Lee Miller, Ewen Bremner, Kelly MacDonald, Kevin McKidd, Peter Mullan and Keith Allen; directed by Danny Boyle

Is It Streaming?

USA: Paramount Plus and Pluto TV

Canada: available to rent on Cineplex

UK: All 4 and Brit Box

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To cap off Brit Picks, the guys take a pick from loyal listener Suzy Cuthbert and talk all about I Know Where I'm Going, a Powell and Pressburger movie that is NOT on the BFI Top 100! The dynamic duo talk about the very modern opening credit sequence, the amazing whirlpool special effects, the character of Bellinger never being on-screen and much more. Plus: Jason bemoans the lack of Scottish actors in this film... and should the bartender cut him off?

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I Know Where I'm Going! stars Wendy Hiller, Roger Livesey, Pamela Brown, Finlay Currie, George Carney, John Laurie and Petula Clark; directed by Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger.

Is It Streaming?

USA: Criterion Channel

Canada: Criterion Channel

UK: Brit Box

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