Off-Hollywood

Today on the show- Sean and Omer suggest a Criterion Collection for Television Shows, and later Omer is joined by Ryan Ferris to talk about Yasujiro Ozu’s film EARLY SUMMER and Ryan’s Top Picks from this year’s Brooklyn Film Festival!

Hosts: Omer Afaq and Sean Darr

Guest: Ryan Ferris

Sean and Omer are 27 again in a black & white New York running through the streets listening to ‘Modern Love’ before watching Noah Baumbach and Greta Gerwig’s FRANCES HA!

Hosts: Omer Afaq and Sean Darr

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Newly hired as unpaid interns at Lou Bloom’s Video Production News- Omer and Sean drive around LA at 3AM, critique both modern-day media practices and consumer culture, and discuss writer-director Dan Gilroy’s Neo-noir directorial debut NIGHTCRAWLER starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed, Rene Russo and Bill Paxton!

Hosts: Omer Afaq and Sean Darr

We’re still “reeling” from the Oscars, folks! Omer Afaq and Sean Darr discuss some of the more controversial wins of past and present, shout out Off-Hollywood’s Jamaican fans, before Omer talks about Juzo Itami’s gastronomic tour de force TAMPOPO (1985) and getting ramen in LA, Sean recommends watching Bob Fosse’s ALL THAT JAZZ (1979) and the Kelly/Donen musical extravaganza SINGIN’ IN THE RAIN (1952), and then the boys discuss Whit Stillman’s THE LAST DAYS OF DISCO- the director’s 3rd feature in his Doomed-Bourgeois-in-Love Series!

Hosts: Omer Afaq and Sean Darr

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Today on Off-Hollywood: we’re listening to California Dreamin’ on repeat and talking about Wong Kar-Wai’s indie pop-cinema classic CHUNGKING EXPRESS about two lovesick Hong Kong cops, a mysterious drug-dealing-blonde-wig-wearing femme fatale, a late night fast-food eatery, and the “Original" Manic Pixie Dream Girl in a dreamlike Kowloon of neon signs filled with romantic longing. Also, the Crimean War has nothing to do with Croatia!

Host: Omer Afaq

Guest: Sean Darr

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Today on the show: a discussion with writer/actor Sean Darr about what you call what’s above the subtext, various theories on beauty, salesmanship, sexual freedom, red ants and American foreign policy, as well as Whit Stillman’s 1994 masterpiece BARCELONA starring Taylor Nichols, Chris Eigeman, Mira Sorvino and Tushka Bergen- Stillman’s 2nd in his “Doomed-Bourgeois-in-Love” Series!

Host: Omer Afaq

Guest: Sean Darr

THIS WEEK’S CRITERION CLOSET PICKS:

Pale Flower, 1964 Masahiro Shinoda (Omer)

Bowling for Columbine, 2002 Michael Moore (Sean)

Today on the show: a discussion with writer/actor Sean Darr about Whit Stillman’s 90s indie classic METROPOLITAN, Wes Anderson in the Criterion Collection, Save the Cat and screenwriting beats, the Grammys, and Sean’s pitch for a movie about a kid that gets bullied, can’t swim, and moves to Africa!

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Host: Omer Afaq

Guest: Sean Darr

Today on the show: we continue a conversation on Movies About Going to the Movies with Ryan Ferris and the film in question is Lamberto Bava’s 1985 Italian horror classic ‘DEMONS' about a group of theatergoers that are infected by demonic possession at a movie screening.

Host: Omer Afaq

Guest: Ryan Ferris

Today on the show: writer-comedian Sean Darr and I talk about why we write, creating meaningful art, outlining, writing in sequence, and other topics related to screenwriting. And then later- a conversation about the Coen Brothers’ fourth feature, ‘Barton Fink.’

Host: Omer Afaq

Guest: Sean Darr

Today on the show- I’m joined by Ryan Ferris to discuss the announcement that Ben Affleck will adapt and direct a film based on the making of ‘Chinatown’ before we talk about recreating the theater experience at home and what we expect when theaters do open. Later, Ryan and I have a conversation about the actress Loretta Young, her life, her movies- two of which we watched as a double feature: 'A Night to Remember’ (1942) and ‘Cause for Alarm!’ (1951).

Host: Omer Afaq

Guest: Ryan Ferris