Split Take Cinema

Chandler updates us on everything he’s been watching during his July quarantine, Jacob gives his thoughts on Luis Buñuel as a director and shares his initial blu-ray purchases during the July 2020 Criterion Barnes and Noble sale.

Chandler & Jacob start with some small talk about Westerns, discuss glaring omissions from the BFI/Sight & Sound list and finally review Casablanca “the most perfect movie ever.”

Chandler is stuck at home with COVID-19, Jacob watched some Buñuel and they both review the Jury Prize winner at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival: Bacurau.

Chandler & Jacob jump right into a review of John Cassavetes Husbands (1970). The pair then discuss the shortcomings of Cassavetes's styles and try to come to terms with their mixed reactions to his work.

Chandler reviews an anime show, Jacob talks Yakuza movies, and then we review and analyze Mike Leigh’s 1993 film, Naked.

The Color of Pomegranates is one of the most avant-garde films of all time and is #84 on the Sight & Sound Greatest Films of All Time list. Chandler & Jacob review the film and pitch the premise to their friend Nick.

Friend of the podcast Nick joins Chandler & Jacob to do a deep dive review of the new Spike Lee joint: Da 5 Bloods (2020). But before that we discuss some of the assorted movies we’ve been watching including the massive mistake that is Artemis Fowl (2020).

Sam Peckinpah’s violent and gritty revisionist western was a sensation when it was first released, now with the proliferation of violence in media does the film still have an impact? We also discuss how The Treasure of the Sierra Madre relates and what movies The Wild Bunch inspired.

Chandler & Jacob chat about new blu-rays and their favorite seasons of Fargo the TV show and then go into a deep-dive review of the classic Hollywood adventure: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre.

Chandler & Jacob watch a strange restoration of Greed (1924), which is considered one of the great epic silent films but will it hold up to our irreverent scrutiny?