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Tim's and Jay's good intentions go unrealized, they talk about their favorite films from the festival and what they still want to see, what it's like to be a film festival programmer. They also tell you why you should go to a film festival, and why it's like summer camp.


Some of the films mentioned in this episode: Belfast, Keeping Company, East of Middle West, C'mon, C'mon, Power of the Dog, The Lost Daughter, Redemption of a Rogue, Set!, Mothering Sunday, Electric Jesus, Catch the Fair One, him and her, Tankhouse.


Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot

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Jay and Tim keep the Newport Beach Film Festival episodes rolling with the writer/director of Electric Jesus, Chris White, as well as Contemporary Christian Music historian and music advisor for the film, John J. Thompson. We talk about the film, the unique subculture of CCM, '80s Christian rock, the detailed reconstruction of the musical and period setting for the film, and a lot more.

Tickets for Electric Jesus at the Newport Beach Film Festival (Thursday, October 28, 7:15 PM)

See ELECTRIC JESUS (11/2/21, U.S., Canada, U.K.): https://geni.us/ElectricJesus

Listen to ELECTRIC JESUS (now!): https://lnk.to/ElectricJesus

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John J. Thompson in Newport Beach the night before the Electric Jesus screening

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Raised by Wolves, John J. Thompson's book on Christian rock

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Jay and Tim talk about the film him & her with writer/director/actor Ice Mrozek. We get into a little of how [REDACTED] came about, and what it was like to [REDACTED]. We talk about the filmmaking process, the difference between an idea and the finished product, and look forward to the world premiere screening of him & her at the Newport Beach Film Festival on October 24.

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Tickets to the World Premiere of him & her (with a special surprise!)

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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot

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Unlike our normal, light-hearted content, we turn slightly darker with both the original and the first two episodes of the remake of Scenes From a Marriage.


Tim wrote about one scene in the first episode of the remake here.

Some of the movies we mention in this episode: Scenes From a Marriage, A Marriage Story, and, briefly, The Card Counter and The Godfather.


Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot

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Jay and Tim finally get the Saints and Cinema Nicolas Cage episode done. We talk Pig and about 1 % of the rest of his cinematic output.

And the return of outtakes.

Some of the films we mention in this episode: Pig, Con Air, The Rock, Mandy, Face/Off, Raising Arizona, Bringing Out the Dead, Leaving Las Vegas.




Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot

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Tim and Jay talk with Dr. Scott Stiegemeyer (ethicist, pastor, professor, and co-host of The Blackest Eyes podcast) about George A. Romero's newly released 1973 film The Amusement Park. It is an anti-ageist film commissioned by the Lutheran Service Society of Western Pennysylvania, but rarely, if ever, seen until now.

Aging, religion, churches, horror, and the surreal sense that we end where we begin--all of that and more in this episode.

Some of the movies we mention in this episode: The Amusement Park, Night of the Living Dead, St. Maud, Midsommar.

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Tim wrote something about The Amusement Park here.

Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
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On the two-year anniversary of Saints and Cinema, Tim and Jay have a feature-length conversation with friend and filmmaker Thomas Torrey. We talk The Killing of Two Lovers, Thomas's new podcast, fatherhood, indie filmmaking, and if there's anything so far worth putting on a best-of-2021 list.

Some of the movies we mention in this episode: The Killing of Two Lovers; Fare; Minor Premise; All the Names We Buried; Soul; Take Shelter; Parallel Love; A Quiet Place, Part 2.

Thomas Torrey
Two Friends with a Podcast
Fare
Minor Premise
Parallel Love
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Jay and Tim talk revenge movies, what appeals to us about them, and quoting Dumb and Dumber.

Movies we mention in this episode include: Dumb and Dumber, Taken, Death Wish, I Saw the Devil, Braveheart, In the Bedroom, and Nobody.

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Tim and Jay talk Bill Maher, the Oscars, Promising Young Woman, and mostly mess around and laugh too much. 

Now, more outtakes than ever!

Some movies we discuss in this episode include: Promising Young Woman, Minari, Mank, Taken, The Trial of the Chicago 7, Nomadland, a certain unnamed film from the Berlin International Film Festival.

Bill Maher on the 2021 Oscars

Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
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Jay and Tim talk to friend, erstwhile Newport Beach Film Festival programmer, and current Programming Director for NewFilmmakers LA, Bojana Sandic about all sorts of things: what is NFMLA, what she thinks about the Oscars, what she looks for in films to program, what her quarantine watching has been like, and descriptive words to use other than "unique" or "weird."

Go check out this weekend's NFMLA's program here: NewFilmmakers Los Angeles (NFMLA) Film Festival - March 19th - 20th, 2021

Some of the films we mention in this episode are: To Live, Nomadland, Sound of Metal, The Painter and the Thief, Blood Brothers, Minari, and The Marksman.

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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
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