My Favorite Movie is...

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August 29, 2022 "Good double feature: Strange Babies!" (with Alex Calleros) | Episode 18 BONUS ROUND
Bible overtones, CGI babies, and Terrence Malick. All of this and more on this week's edition of the "My Favorite Movie is..." Bonus Round!
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26min
August 22, 2022 Why CHILDREN OF MEN is a Movie With Integrity (with Alex Calleros) | Episode 18
What does it mean for a movie to have integrity?
It’s an interesting question because, before the conversation you are about to hear today, you likely have never heard that word used to describe a movie before.
Maybe you've heard it used to describe characters in a movie, or filmmakers themselves, but never extrapolated to all facets of a movie, and especially not things like production and sound design or extras in the background.
But that’s how Alex Calleros, Senior Video Editor at BioWare and co-host of the film podcast Beyond The Screenplay, describes his all-time favorite movie, Children of Men: a movie with integrity in all aspects of its filmmaking.
How exactly can we see this in every facet of filmmaking, and where can find in every nook and cranny of Alfonso Cuaron’s sci-fi masterwork?
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47min
August 15, 2022 "My notes app is just full of JAWS sh*t for you..." (with Taylor D. Adams) | Episode 17 BONUS ROUND
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Acapella, documentaries, and Jaws: The Board Game. All of this and more on this week's edition of the "My Favorite Movie is..." Bonus Round!
Today's guest is storyteller and host of the Film Nuts Podcast, Taylor D. Adams. Listen to our initial conversation with Taylor and gain brand new insights on Jaws you haven't heard anywhere else!
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Created, Produced, and Hosted by Larry Fried
Assistant Direction by Steven Reyes
Edited by Fernando Queiroz
Graphic Design by Monica Sarmiento
Motion Graphic Design by Elton Greenfield
Original Music by Matt Gordeuk
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23min
August 08, 2022 JAWS Teaches Us How To Confront Our Fear of the Unknown (with Taylor D. Adams) | Episode 17
How do we conquer our fear of the unknown? We’ve discussed a number of horror films on this show and, at the end of the day, almost all of their scariest elements come down to fear of the unknown.
Cannibal families, demonic cults, seeing dead people, they’re all really bizarre and frightening because of it. But sometimes, even things closer to home can be just as elusive. Say, something we share our oceans with?
Spielberg understood this when he ignited his career with Jaws, one of cinema’s first ever blockbusters, but there’s more to it than just fear. In fact, according to today’s guest, it’s a movie about facing your fear.
Taylor D. Adams is a fellow storyteller and podcaster who hosts the Film Nuts Podcast, where he talks to artists of all backgrounds and concentrations about their favorite movies and television shows. Today, the turns have tabled, and now he will be talking about his favorite movie, Jaws, and how it taught him, and can teach us, the key to conquering our fear of the unknown.
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46min
July 13, 2022 "You see how bad the government is??" (with Marlin Williford) | Episode 16 BONUS ROUND
Mars Attacks!, Prometheus, and...Mouse Hunt?? All of this and more on this week's edition of the "My Favorite Movie is..." Bonus Round!
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36min
July 04, 2022 Is INDEPENDENCE DAY actually about colonization?? (with Marlin Williford) | Episode 16
It's the Fourth of July! And yet, it doesn't quite feel like a time to celebrate. Regardless of wherever you stand on whatever issue, our country is just in a really weird place, more divided and isolated than ever. So it might sound weird to suggest that an antidote to all of these feelings might just be...Independence Day.
No, I'm not talking about the holiday this time. I'm talking about Roland Emerick's 1996 landmark blockbuster. The movie is certainly patriotic, but more in a 1996 kind of way, rather than a 2022 kind of way. It was pre-9/11 after all, and that often makes the film feel more like an oddity or a time capsule than a modern masterpiece.
But I recently heard a perspective that had me reconsidering all of that, courtesy of podcaster and educator, Marlin Wilford. He is the host of his own solo podcast, Marlin's Corner, as well as one of the co-hosts on the roundtable podcast, Geek Force. Both shows focus on pop culture, media, and politics through a POC lens.
When Marlin explained his take on sci-fi and aliens and Independence Day, I was floored. It was inspiring to hear that even a movie as massive and as 90s as Independence Day could still speak to the current cultural moment and imbue it with hope. He completely reshaped the way I saw this movie and by the end of this episode, it's gonna do the same for you.
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40min
July 04, 2022 "We need more horror from Toni Collette!" (with Anna Chazelle) | Episode 15 BONUS ROUND
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The Village, The Babadook, and The Mummy. All of this and more on this week's edition of the "My Favorite Movie is..." Bonus Round!
Today's guest is director, actress, and screenwriter, Anna Chazelle. Listen to our initial conversation with Anna and gain brand new insights into The Sixth Sense you haven't heard anywhere else!
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Watch Anna's short film, Narrow, on Short of the Week
Created, Produced, and Hosted by Larry Fried
Assistant Direction by Steven Reyes
Edited by Fernando Queiroz
Graphic Design by Monica Sarmiento
Motion Graphic Design by Elton Greenfield
Original Music by Matt Gordeuk
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29min
June 28, 2022 How M. Night Shyamalan Expertly Portrays Childhood Trauma in THE SIXTH SENSE (with Anna Chazelle) | Episode 15
Very few filmmakers can honestly, and accurately, portray the plight of very young children on screen. But one of those filmmakers has always been M. Night Shyamalan. Despite his divisive reputation, he has often featured young characters at the heart of his stories while always maintaining a sensitivity in how he has them interact with the horror and thriller elements of his movies.
This all started from the jump with The Sixth Sense, M. Night's directorial debut. His fall from grace has shrouded this movie in the past, but its honest portrayal of childhood, not to mention its iconic twist, keeps it just as memorable as it was over twenty years ago.
But how does M. Night place someone so young at the center of something so tragic without turning them into a martyr? Why is he still one of the only filmmakers who can take such a vulnerable age group and treat them with such respect and dignity?
To answer this, I brought in a Sixth Sense superfan and a horror lover through and through: Anna Chazelle. She is an incredibly talented triple threat--an actor, writer, and director--whose directorial debut, Narrow, proved that she knows what goes into making an effective psychological horror story.
Today, she's going to share with us her insight into how the The Sixth Sense's central relationship, gripping performances, and terrifying ghosts make for one of cinema's most effective stories on childhood trauma.
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51min
June 20, 2022 "Aren't Triceratops just beautiful creatures?" (with Tricia Aurand) | Episode 14 BONUS ROUND
Volunteering with the youth, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and acting with tennis balls. All of this and more on this week's edition of the "My Favorite Movie is..." Bonus Round!
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30min
June 06, 2022 We Don't Make Movies Like JURASSIC PARK Anymore...But Could We? (with Tricia Aurand) | Episode 14
Have you ever heard the phrase "they just don’t make ‘em like they used to?" I'm sure you have. Maybe you've even caught yourself saying it once or twice. There are certain creative mindsets that have been abandoned by studios in the franchise era that we’re living through right now.
Back in the 80s and 90s, visionary filmmakers were taking bold story ideas that, on paper, sounded a little bizarre but, in execution, became all-time classics. Nobody did this kind of film better than Steven Spielberg, and one film proves it more than any other--Jurassic Park.
There are plenty of reasons why the film was so successful but, when you break it all down, there’s really only one. And in today's episode, accomplished screenwriter, author, and podcaster, Tricia Aurand, is going to share that one key reason. It uncovers exactly why Jurassic Park remains one of the greatest films of all time and how maybe…just maybe…we can start making them like we used to.
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50min

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