Foxfire Farmhouse: the Podcast

With Josh flying solo, this week's episode focuses on the Zion International Film Festival and why Josh loves this particular event. If you love movies, consider attending this year's festival at the Blue Mouse Theatre in Tacoma, Washington. You can buy tickets at www.ZionFilmFest.com and receive a 20% discount using the code "FOXFIRE" at checkout.

For more movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www.FoxfireFarmhouse.com. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for future episode topics, reach out to us on Facebook or Instagram or email us at [email protected]. Cheers!

It's time to visit a classic movie; the sort of movie that everyone wants to have seen but somehow don't find time to watch it. Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey" lies at the intersection of incredible and incredibly boring. Those who start it wish they hadn't and those who finish it are glad they did. Thanks to some prompting from a fellow film nerd, Sean de Moura, Josh and Elijah have begun to catch up on some of these cinema-defining movies starting with this one. Listen in as Josh, Elijah, and Sean think together about the meaning of "2001: A Space Odyssey". 

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Stories shape our souls. So what do we do with pagan myth? This week Elijah guides us through some of the old myths and helps us understand how to best enjoy them as Christians. He and Josh also explore how mythologies shape culture and tease out the implications of this for Christian storytellers in our time.

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Every movie consists of thousands of individual images flashed in front of your eyes at varying frame rates. Sometimes, those images give the illusion of motion because they are captured by a camera, and sometimes, they give the illusion of motion because an animator drew images on the page. In other cases though, the illusion of motion comes from the meticulous moving of real objects on the screen frame by frame. This technique is called stop-motion animation. 

In this week's episode, Josh and Elijah discuss the art of stop-motion animation and discuss what makes it so visually distinct. Along the way, they also talk through some of their favorite stop-motion movies, so be sure to listen for some new recommendations. 

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Another aftershow episode! We turned the mics back on to bring you a bonus show picking up the conversation where we left off last week. We dive deeper this time into what it means to care about your work. We even wind up talking about how "Up" and insulting vegans.

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The movie "Office Space" deals with the frustration of working in overly managed corporations. In this week's show, Elijah introduces us to this quirky comedy and helps us think through how we should engage with our workplaces.

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For the first time in Foxfire Farmhouse Podcast history, we have a guest on the show. Meet Brian Du, a Tulsa-based filmmaker who writes and directs absurdist comedy short films. Listen to Josh and Brian tell about how they met and the projects they worked on together. Then hear about Brian's most recent projects - one of which landed him at the West Sound Film Festival here in Bremerton, Washington.

If you would like to check out Brian's work, you can find him here: 

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Welcome to the Aftershow! A fresh new episode one week early! Here's the thing. We usually sit around and talk movies and culture long after the recorder has been shut down. This time, we decided to let the recorder roll and provide bonus content for the podcast. 

This time, our conversation explored Lewis and Tolkien's thoughts about Walt Disney and his classic animated feature "Snow White." You probably won't be surprised to know that Lewis and Tolkien didn't like it. However, you might be surprised at what G.K. Chesterton had to say about it.

"But wait!" you shout at your phone's screen. "Chesterton wasn't even alive when Snow White was released!" You are correct! Let me first assure you that we have no evil necromancy happening today. Rather, we consult his immortal words in his short essay called, "A Defense of Penny Dreadfuls" to imagine what he might have had to say to Lewis and Tolkien as they walked out of the theater.

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If you've ever tried to create something--an innovative technology, a small business, a movie script, a sermon (you get the idea)--you know it can take an enormous amount of energy and attention and still not be any good. So how did literary giants like C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien manage to produce so much and so great literature through their lifetime. Aside from their natural gifts and particular upbringings, they also had something else: each other.

Thanks to the work of Diana Pavlac Gyler, the collaboration of the the literary group known as the "Inklings" has been laid out for us to examine. In this episode, Josh and Elijah explore her takeaways from years of studying this group and consider how we can apply this to our own creative endeavors today.

The book is called "Bandersnatch: C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings" by Diana Pavlac Gyler.

Here are some links to the movie and book Josh and Elijah recommended in today's show.

Machine Gun Preacher

Watership Down

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If you smashed "The Fox and the Hound", "Ip Man", and "Braveheart" together in a blender and threw in a musical dance number for good measure, you might just get "RRR" one of Josh and Elijah's favorite films from 2022. Aside from gaining recognition for being the most expensive movie production in India at the time of its release, it also caught the attention of the Motion Picture Academy, achieving them an Oscar for best original song. Listen in to this week's episode to hear Josh and Elijah's thoughts on the movie and how it encourages virtuous brotherhood across cultures.

For more movie recommendations and commentary, go to our website, www.FoxfireFarmhouse.com. If you have any comments, questions, or suggestions for future episode topics, reach out to us on Facebook or Instagram or email us at [email protected]. Cheers!