In part 2 of a 3-part series, Sam and Matt expand on the extremely nuanced review of Bright in part 1.

Post-Bright, Sam and Matt riff about the impact and influence of Netflix’s ongoing disruptive (and admittedly often awesome) content dump into/onto the world of cinema.

Even though Sam provides novel insight into the cultural complexities of Bright (2017) in part 1. We suggest you check out Lindsay Ellis’s video essay, “Bright: The Apotheosis of Lazy Worldbuilding,” for an in-depth review.

Host: Matt Silcock has worked at Facets for a very long time as shipping and receiving manager and as co-manager of the Vidéothèque. He doesn’t watch as much film as he’d like to, but he thinks about them all the time.

Host: Sam Lounsbury is Facets’ official floater, has worked for the organization in one capacity or another since he moved to Chicago in 2015. He can be found sitting silently in any of the theaters or yelling at one of his fellow staff members about cinema in general.

In part 1 of a 3-part series, Sam shares with Matt his all-encompassing review of Netflix’s Will Smith vehicle Bright.

The history of cinema can be divided into three epochs: the establishment of continuity of action, the ascendance of sound, and now, what scholars will only come to describe as the post-Bright quickening.

Host: Sam Lounsbury is Facets’ official floater, has worked for the organization in one capacity or another since he moved to Chicago in 2015. He can be found sitting silently in any of the theaters or yelling at one of his fellow staff members about cinema in general.

Host: Matt Silcock has worked at Facets for a very long time as shipping and receiving manager and as co-manager of the Vidéothèque. He doesn’t watch as much film as he’d like to, but he thinks about them all the time.

Sam is joined by Facets’ chief blog editor Peter Hogenson to share his opinions on a recent Oscar winner.

Before 2017’s sci-fi reboot Blade Runner 2049, prolific cinematographer Roger Deakins had been nominated for an Academy Award 13 times and lost all of them. Sam and Peter take a hard look at all 14 nominations to answer the simple question, should he have won?

Deakins’s many nominations include:

Shawshank Redemption (1994) directed by Frank Darabont

Fargo (1996) directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Kundun (1997) directed by Martin Scorsese

O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

The Man Who Wasn’t There (2001) directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

No Country for Old Men (2007) directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) directed by Andrew Dominik

The Reader (2008) directed by Stephen Daldry

True Grit (2010) directed by Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Skyfall (2012) directed by Sam Mendes

Prisoners (2013) directed by Denis Villeneuve

Unbroken (2014) directed by Angelina Jolie

Sicario (2015) directed by Denis Villeneuve

Other relevant information includes:

An interview with Rachel Morrison

Video essays about black and white and color cinematography.

Host: Sam Lounsbury is Facets’ official floater, has worked for the organization in one capacity or another since he moved to Chicago in 2015. He can be found sitting silently in any of the theaters or yelling at one of his fellow staff members about cinema in general.

Guest: Peter Hogenson has been writing about film for ten years, most recently as a student at the University of Minnesota and as the Chief Blog Editor at Facets.

In our first Live! From the Vidéothèque episode, Matt Silcock and Sam Lounsbury discuss the enigmatic director, Stanley Kubrick.

Every day at the Vidéothèque, we have great off-the-cuff chats about film. So we decided, “Why not record and share these musings as an oh-so fashionable podcast?” Well, we’ve done it.

From here on out, you can expect frequent short episodes that range from deep to irreverent, from beautiful to grotesque, and from topical to timeless.

For the inaugural episode, Matt judges Sam harshly for daring to question the genius of a film titan whose body of work easily overshadows anything either of them hope to achieve with their lives.

Host: Matt Silcock has worked at Facets for a very long time as shipping and receiving manager and as co-manager of the Vidéothèque. He doesn’t watch as much film as he’d like to, but he thinks about them all the time.

Host: Sam Lounsbury is Facets official floater, has worked for the organization in one capacity or another since he moved to Chicago in 2015. He can be found sitting silently in any of the theaters or yelling at one of his fellow staff members about cinema in general.