One For You Podcast

Welcome to another episode of the One for You Podcast! Christmas is almost upon us, which is of course super exciting. But before the main event, there is this amazing time called advent, where you get to be excited about Christmas for about 3 weeks.

In my opinion, that’s also the earliest you should put up Christmas decorations or be assaulted by Christmas songs in stores. Advent is also a time to watch Christmas movies!

These days that mostly means Christmas RomComs, a uniquely American genre. My guest Alan Mattli and I have watched a number of these movies, so listen to us be delighted and appalled in equal measure.

We also briefly talk about our favourite Christmas movies of the non RomCom variety

We watched:

HAPPIEST SEASON: More Tragedy than Comedy? (09:08)

LOVE HARD: Topical five years ago. (19:55)

SINGLE ALL THE WAY: When your family ships you and your BFF hard. (31:16)

A CASTLE FOR CHRISTMAS: An American saves the Scottish, who wear a surprising number of kilts. (No, this is not BRAVEHEART) (39:08)

THE PRINCESS SWITCH 3: ROMANCING THE STAR: When you’re royalty, but also moonlight as cat burglars. (49:36)

It’s time for action on the ONE FOR YOU podcast!

Alan Mattli joins me to discuss GUNPOWDER MILKSHAKE and its bubble gum noir aesthetic. We wonder about the empty world of the movie and whether Hollywood has learned the wrong lessons from JOHN WICK.

In our gem session, we talk about V FOR VENDETTA and whether it is as good as teenage Alan thought. We also discuss whether the movie effectively criticises fascist politics or whether it is too enamoured of its own aesthetic slickness to do so.

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In this episode, we travel into the future and into space, hunting criminals across the solar system, while looking unbelievably cool. Yes, we are discussing COWBOY BEBOP, the Netflix remake of the beloved anime.

Before the Netflix remake was announced, I’d never heard of COWBOY BEBOP. Luckily, I am joined by Astrit Abazi, who, to put it mildly, is a fan of the original.

We discuss the first four episodes of the show in great detail, going into spoilers, starting at (8:14). But no worries, we have a spoiler free summary of our thoughts on the show starting at (43:12).

Other topics include a number of other anime, HAWKEYE, and Astrit’s promise to watch TED LASSO.

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It’s another episode in our inadvertent “looking longingly back into the past” series! Mansi Tiwari joins me for a discussion of two films about relationships between mothers and their children. Can they ever truly know and understand each other?

PETITE MAMAN, Céline Sciamma’s follow up to PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU has an unusual solution for this problem, as past and present collide in this wishful movie (5:01).

For the gem 20TH CENTURY WOMEN, director Mike Mills let himself be inspired by his own teenage years in the late 1970s. He tells a story about a mother (Annette Bening) trying to raise her son by drafting in two additional quasi-mothers (Greta Gerwig and Elle Fanning) (17:01).

We also discuss what we’ve been watching and what we’re looking forward too. (Spoilers, it’s LAST NIGHT IN SOHO.)

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This episode’s movies are all about nostalgia, which often is a powerful force for storytelling, as Alan Mattli and I discuss.

THE FRENCH DISPATCH, Wes Anderson’s newest movie, shows us an ironic take on American intellectual’s visions of France during the first half of the 20th century.

The gem, the German movie GOOD BYE LENIN! delves into the thorny issue of nostalgia, when said nostalgia happens to be about living in a socialist dictatorship.

We also briefly discuss Ridley Scott’s THE LAST DUEL and are confused by the title situation of the movie formerly known as EDGE OF TOMORROW.

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The leaves are yellowing and always seems like it’s about to rain; that can mean only one thing: fall is here and with it the Zurich Film Festival.

As the film lovers that we are, we could of course not bypass this opportunity. We went to see all the films, or at least a great portion of them, or you know the ones that sounded interesting and were on when we didn’t have anything else on.

Now, we’re here to discuss some of the most interesting movies we’ve seen, so you know what to watch in cinemas in a few months or a few years time.

As is tradition, I am joined by three guests for this episode: Mansi Tiwari, Astrit Abazi and Alan Mattli.

The films we are discussing are:

THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN by Kaouther Ben Hania (4:21)

MONA LISA AND THE BLOOD MOON by Ana Lily Amirpour (16:55)

RED ROCKET by Sean Baker (25:28)

PLEASURE by Ninja Thyberg(33:16)

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Y: THE LAST MAN is the long-awaited TV adaptation of the graphic novel by the same name. It tells the story of a world, where a plague suddenly and violently kills all mammals with a Y-chromosome, apart from Yorick (Ben Schnetzer) and his monkey Ampersand.

As Yorick tries to figure out, why he of all people survived, his mother (Diane Lane) takes on the presidency, while his sister Hero (Olivia Thirlby) is trying to make her way out of a dying New York.

Mansi Tiwari joins me to review the first three episodes of the show, which, in Switzerland, is available on Disney+. We wonder whether the show manages to adequately display the horror of the situation and what those familiar with the graphic novel might get out of this adaptation.

If you want to avoid spoilers, listen to us setting up the show until (10:31) and then jump to (38:07), when we give a spoiler-free summary of our thoughts on the show.

Naturally, there’s some more talk about my THE X-FILES obsession. And because we’ve both seen DUNE, we take a moment to sing its praises.

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There’s absolutely no drunken podcasting in this episode! And you might be thinking to yourself, that’s a very specific denial and you would be right. Because this episode, we talk about DRUNKEN MASTER II! And one lesson we’ve learned from that film is that heavy drinking leads to great prowess. But we are definitively not doing that. (Or are we?)

We’ve paired this full vintage with a fresh cocktail, SHANG-CHI AND THE LEGEND OF THE TEN RINGS! As you’ll know from last episode, both Astrit Abazi and I were looking forward to this movie, so naturally, we went to see it and are now ready to talk about it in even more length than last time.

There’s also some insight into my continued obsession with THE X-FILES and a lot of excitement about DUNE.

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The One for You Podcast dives into the world of so-called prestige TV with an in-depth discussion of NINE PERFECT STRANGERS, a show about, well nine strangers, their weird so-called therapist, and some really nice smoothies.

The show is set at a very exclusive wellness resort in California. Many people want to visit, but self-help guru Masha (Nicole Kidman) only allows a select few to into her resort, making sure the guests’ problems bounce off each other perfectly. But this time around, it seems as though things might be slipping out of Masha’s control as the groups is more volatile than expected. On top of that, she’s also receiving threats from a mysterious source.

Based on a book with the same name by Liane Moriarty, NINE PERFECT STRANGERS is streaming on Amazon Prime.

Astrit Abazi and I talk about the four available episodes in great spoilerific detail. If you want to avoid spoilers, listen to us setting up the show until (12:43) and then jump to (46:49), when we give a spoiler-free summary of our thoughts on the show.

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Welcome to a very special episode of the One for You Podcast! For the very first time we are dedicating an entire episode to the Locarno Film Festival, which just finished its 74th edition!

For this episode, I am joined not by one, not by two, but by three guests! Mansi Tiwari, Alan Mattli, and making his long-awaited return to the podcast, my co-founder, my original partner in crime Andri Erdin!

We talk about the winner of the Pardo d’Oro VENGEANCE IS MINE, ALL OTHERS PAY CASH, the films on the Piazza Grande, as well as some of our favourite competition films, especially the short films.

And of course, this would not be complete without the films we love to hate, such as THE CASE OF THE VANISHING GODS, which was baffling and yet we cannot stop talking about it. Tears might be involved.

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For more of Alan Mattli’s reviews go to his blog facingthebittertruth.com