We're back and accidentally falling ass backward into a lil Noirvember double feature. And, while our main event this week isn't exactly a noir - it is part noir, part melodrama, part dance picture, part crime story. We're discussing the undefinable and absolutely stunning Victims of Sin (1951) directed by Emilio Fernández and starring the phenomenal Ninón Sevilla.

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Chapters

(00:02:48) What we've been watching

(00:16:40) Victims of Sin

(00:46:05) Final thoughts

(00:49:40) Next week

We continue our Spooky Season double feature and this time it's a little bit back to basics with a stripped down ghost story on a shoe-string budget with Herk Harvey's only narrative feature film, Carnival of Souls (1962). We also chat Criterion Collection and channel additions for January 2025 and November 2024 respectively.

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(00:02:50) What we've been watching

(00:15:40) Criterion Collection Announcements for January 2025

(00:25:34) Criterion Channel Additions for November 2024

(00:35:30) Carnival of Souls

(01:06:00) Final thoughts

(01:12:40) Next week

Happy Spooky Season to all who celebrate! This week we're getting scared white as a sheet as we talk about TRAUMA (or was it actually ghosts?) with Jack Clayton's incredibly atmospheric adaptation of Henry James' The Turn of the Screw ~ The Innocents (1961).

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(00:01:57) What we've been watching

(00:22:41) The Innocents

(01:00:35) Final thoughts

(01:06:41) Listener Messages

(01:08:18) Next week

This week we pick back up talking about the pioneering female filmmaker and hot butch, Dorothy Arzner with her second to last film, Dance, Girl, Dance (1940).

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(00:02:03) What we've been watching

(00:26:40) Dance, Girl, Dance

(00:58:36) Final thoughts

(01:04:40) Listener Messages

(01:07:03) Next week

Journey back with us, to the era before the infamous Hollywood Hayes Code where debauchery was the norm. Men drank and married couples would have sex with other people! This week we talk pioneering female filmmaker and hot butch, Dorothy Arzner's Merrily We Go to Hell (1932). We also chat briefly about what is coming to Janus Contemporaries in December 2024.

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(00:02:38) What we've been watching

(00:17:00) Janus Contemporaries Additions for December 2024

(00:23:07) Merrily We Go to Hell

(00:51:14) Final thoughts

(00:57:16) Next week

Highly lauded by historians, the cult that is Letterboxd, and critics alike. But did we like Jules Dassin's Rififi, the seminal 50s heist classic of French cinema? There's only one way to find out. Grab your foam canister, umbrella, and chisel! Join us as we dig through the floor of the upstairs apartment and into this film as well as discuss whats coming to the Criterion Collection in December 2024.

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(00:03:37) What we've been watching

(00:19:09) Criterion Channel Additions for October 2024

(00:24:54) Criterion Collection Additions for December 2024

(00:31:28) Rififi

(00:55:14) Final thoughts

(00:59:51) Next week

What if there was a thief? Michael Mann answers that questions with all the style he possibly could summon in his debut feature starring the late great James Caan in what can only be described as the Citizen Kane of debuts that arent Citizen Kane. This week we chat neon noir and moog synths as we tackle Thief (1983).

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(00:02:32) What we've been watching

(00:26:28) Thief

(01:00:05) Final thoughts

(01:10:41) Next week

Join us this week as we journey back into Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project! Its Picture No. 2 from Vol. 2 of the fantastic Criterion boxset series in collaboration with ⁠The Film Foundation⁠. This week we are going all the way back to the dawn of cinema with our first silent feature and the only film from Brazilian socialite, Mário Peixoto, Spine #877 ~ Limite (1931).

Thanks to our friend Scott for his email!

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(00:02:40) What we've been watching

(00:28:26) Limite

(00:55:07) Final thoughts

(01:00:49) Listener Messages

(01:03:28) Next week

It's our first time diving into Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project! Join us as we crack open Vol. 2 of the stellar Criterion boxset series in collaboration with The Film Foundation and queue up Spine #875, Apichatpong Weerasethakul's debut mashup of narrative and documentary filmmaking: Mysterious Object at Noon (2000).

Thanks to our friend Conan for his email!

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(00:03:06) What we've been watching

(00:22:05) Mysterious Object at Noon

(00:51:25) Final thoughts

(00:59:30) Listener Messages

(01:01:28) Next week

This week we welcome back the patron saint of Hong Kong cinema with arguably his most beloved film, Chungking Express (1994). We also chat November 2024 Criterion Collection Additions and September 2024 Channel Highlights.

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(00:02:45) What we've been watching

(00:19:00) Criterion Channel highlights for Sept. 2024

(00:25:50) Criterion Collection additions for Nov. 2024

(00:35:00) Chungking Express

(01:03:30) Final thoughts

(01:09:31) Next week