The Gauntlet

24 Hour Party People (2002) / The Forest for the Trees (2003)

This week we’re rolling the tape back to the MiniDV era as we get lost in the proverbial forest with Maren Ade and fly high in Madchester with Michael Winterbottom

THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME 3

A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET

From A Date with Doris to The Long Cinema Club

Music and Sounds from Episodes 21-30

Barabbas (1961) – Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965) – Marat/Sade (1967) – Dirkie (1969) – White Sun of the Desert (1970) – Deadly Weapons (1974) – Summerfield (1977) – Missing (1982) – Suspicion (1982) – Quicksilver (1986) – The Beast of War (1988) – The Cyclist (1989) – Color of Night (1994) – Waiting to Exhale (1995) – Now and Then (1995) – The Island of St. Matthews (2013) – Court (2014) – I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018) – The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)(2020)

Weather Diary 1 (1986) / White Squall (1996)

This week we’ve got some severe weather on the forecast as we batten down the hatches in Tornado Alley with George Kuchar and set sail on the high seas with Sir Ridley

Fear Over The City (1975) / The Hunter Will Get You (1976)

This week we’re savoring the post-new wave star vehicles of Jean-Paul Belmondo, with death defying stunt work arranged by Henri Verneuil and a fake mustache provided by Philippe Labro

Cruel Tale of Bushido (1963) / The Quince Tree Sun (1992)

This week we’re going for gold and exploring past winners of CIFF as we try to paint a tree with Victor Erice and traverse generations of cursed samurai with Tadashi Imai

EO (2022) / Dead for a Dollar (2022)

This week we’re taking a look at new works from octogenarians as we saddle up once more with Walter Hill and go inside the mind of a donkey with Jerzy Skolimowski

Three Seconds (2017) / AK-47 (2020)

This week we go inside the twisted mind of Russian state cinema as we go for gold with the 1972 Soviet Men’s Olympic basketball team and pull a shift at the weapons factory with Mikhail Kalashnikov

Assassination (1987) / Bulworth (1998)

This week we’re dodging bullets in the halls of power as we join Senator Jay Bulworth’s doomed campaign and try to protect the first lady with Charles Bronson

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) / The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

This week we’re casting deadly spells as we conjure the perfect man with George Miller’s coven and take a psychedelic joyride thru WW2 on Angela Lansbury’s bed

A Very Curious Girl (1969) / The Unfaithful Wife (1969)

This week we’re tripping on a double dose of 1969 as we explore the sexual revolution and its consequences with Nelly Kaplan and Claude Chabrol