This week, the lovely and talented Nicole Vettese is on hand to discuss MOOLAADE (2004), from Senegalese legend Ousmane Sembene. This vibrant, beautiful film is one of the most obscure titles on the list; see why Roger Ebert advocated for it so fiercely! 

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Next week's episode: Chimes at Midnight 

It's the first of many times we're going to be talking about Billy Wilder on this show, and we're starting with a nasty one: ACE IN THE HOLE, a scathing satire and sunlit desert noir featuring Kirk Douglas as a heedlessly ambitious newspaper man. Woody Ciskowski from the Ultra 64 podcast is on hand to talk about this unfortunately prescient and still very relevant film. 

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Next week's episode: Moolaade 

This week we're looking at John Cassavetes' intense family drama A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE, starring Gena Rowlands as a woman in the midst of a severe and disturbing mental breakdown, and Peter Falk as her blue-collar husband desperately trying to keep his family together. It's a searing, actor-driven piece that still resonates today. 

Also, today we say goodbye to Mikayla Nicolson as a permanent co-host! She will definitely return as a guest later on, and we wish her the absolute best with everything! The show will continue on from here with Steve and an amazing rotating cast of co-hosts, so stay tuned for some amazing guests and conversations!

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Next week's episode: Ace In The Hole 

Sadly, there are only four films directed by female directors on the Great Movies list, but luckily, Agnes Varda's CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 made the cut. This concise, inventive, beautiful story of a gorgeous pop star waiting on some bad medical news spearheaded the French New Wave movement and stands today as a feminist masterpiece. 

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Next week's episode: A Woman Under The Influence

This week, we're looking at the ur text for modern science fiction filmmaking, Fritz Lang's 1927 opus METROPOLIS. Despite how influential the film has proven to be, it took nearly 80 years for the film to be released as the director intended it, and viewing the newest restoration is like seeing the film for the first time. 

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Next week's episode: Cleo from 5 to 7  

The loverly Lynsey Pennington joins us this week to talk about the all-time classic musical, MY FAIR LADY! The film's songs are so iconic, as is it's luminous star Audrey Hepburn, that it's shocking this film isn't more available digitally. We reflect on our favorite songs, look back on the history of the great Lerner and Lowe, and discuss how well the film's themes have aged. 

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Next week's episode: Metropolis 

This week, we're taking a look at Oliver Stone's 1991 paranoid opus JFK. The film explores some of the many diverse conspiracy theories behind the assassination of John F. Kennedy, which propulsive plotting and writer and Oscar-winning editing, but how has the film's message aged in the internet age, when conspiracy theories have far more sinister connotations?

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Next week's episode: My Fair Lady 

This week, we become the first-ever podcast to discuss true crime! 

We're watching IN COLD BLOOD, the 1967 Richard Brooks film based on the mega-bestseller by Truman Capote. This stark, beautiful, and unsettling feature has been largely forgotten, but it's worth the effort of tracking it down. We talk about true crime as a genre, discuss the secretly influential body of work of Brooks, and dig into the sordid real-life scandal of star Robert Blake. 

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Next week's episode: JFK

Welcome to the first episode of Roger's List! On this podcast, we're going to be watching and discussing every single film Roger Ebert wrote about in his Great Movies column! For this debut episode, we'll be going into details of our format, looking briefly at the life and work of Roger Ebert, and then discussing our first film, Luis Bunuel and Salvador Dali's seminal surrealistic short film UN CHIEN ANDALOU! 

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Next week's episode: In Cold Blood