Hayden enlists two of his roommates and good friends to join the cause of watching very long and mostly obscure movies. This week it's the five and a half hour silent bio pic Napoleon where director Abel Gance advances film technology about a dozen different ways while barely skimming the surface of his subject's life story. Will fan favorite Sally Burtnick and history enthusiast Gabriel Barab remain friends and roommates with Hayden after this endeavor is over? The answer might surprise you.
Marissa Goldman and Justin Linville talk being Jewish (or what it's like being in a room full of Jews when they won't stop talking about being Jewish) and Alain Resnais's meditation on a shattered world in Hiroshima, mon amour.
Brian Fiddyment completes the podcast long journey of watching another movie from the Three Colors trilogy along with his friends Francesca D'Uva and host Hayden Maxwell and you, dear listener.
Arti Gollapudi and Jessy Morner-Ritt come on to fight about A Star Is Born days before anyone had even seen it and delight in F.W. Murnau's silent masterpiece The Last Laugh.
1 hr 13 min
About Only the Best for Laura Jacoves
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Only the Best for Laura Jacoves is a comedy podcast following the titular host as she goes through Sight and Sound's canonical 2012 list of the Greatest Movies of All Time with a great new guest every…