In this teeny-tiny Twittersode, I look at Charlie Chaplin’s “City Lights!” Did it influence Guillermo del Toro? Uhhhhhhhhhhh, maybe?

https://ia601005.us.archive.org/27/items/DelToroCityLights/DelToro-CityLights.mp3

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This week, Ollie and I cover the beautiful and ethereal “La Belle et la Bête” from 1946. Jean Cocteau’s fairy tale masterpiece has captivated audiences for generations. Will it captivate us? Yes. I’ll just go ahead and say that, yes, it does.

https://ia800105.us.archive.org/2/items/DelToro034BelleBete/DelToro%20-%20034%20BelleBete.mp3

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Ollie and I do a hot wash recap of the movies we’ve explored so far in The Ecstasy of Influence!

https://ia903107.us.archive.org/14/items/DelToro033HotWash/DelToro-%20033%20Hot%20Wash.mp3

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Slotting in nicely bertween “Greed” and “Frankenstein” it’s Buster Keaton’s “The General!” It’s also only me talking about it! It’s also only 15-minutes long!

Here is the link to Guillermo del Toro’s twitter film recommendations

https://ia801000.us.archive.org/29/items/DelToroMini01/DelToro-Mini01.mp3

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That a ghost! Ollie and I are back with the Ecstasy of Influence to talk about 1944’s “The Uninvited!” We’re also getting increasingly frustrated at movies about women in which the women the movie is about have no voice but are assumed to be bad and also maybe lesbians and also young women are given to older men. It’s a thing and we’re . . . kinda tired of it?

https://ia903107.us.archive.org/5/items/DelToroUninvited/DelToro-Uninvited.mp3

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