The Gauntlet

Entranced Earth (1967) / Escape from L.A. (1996)

This week we’re raging against the machine as we hit the campaign trail with Glauber Rocha and try to escape from John Carpenter’s theocratic nightmare

Stage Door (1937) / Hell in the Pacific (1968)

This week we’re moving in together, shacking up with the aspiring actresses of Gregory La Cava’s Footlights club and staking out a claim on John Boorman’s contested island beach

THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME ONE

A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET

From Chicago Guys to Take Me Out to the Ballgame

Music and Sounds from Episodes 1-10

Stormy Weather (1943) – Black Book aka Reign of Terror (1949) – Caught (1949) – Calamity Jane (1953) – The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961) – Martha (1974) – 92 in the Shade (1975) – Orca (1977) – Maa Bhoomi (1979) – The Hunter (1980) – A Question of Silence (1982) – The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) – Haunted Honeymoon (1986) – Eight Men Out (1988) – Above the Law (1988) – Rhapsody in August (1991) – Independence Day (1996) – Honeymoon (1998) – Finding Buck McHenry (2000) – Land of the Dead (2005)

News From Home (1977) / Serial Mom (1994)

This week we’re giving our moms a ring after we bear witness to motherly love through Chantal Akerman’s foreign correspondence and John Waters’ display of murderous affection

The Penalty (1920) / Miami Blues (1990)

This week we’re wreaking havoc with charismatic villains as Lon Chaney unleashes a blizzard of crimes on San Francisco and George Armitage shows us how to embrace the criminal-entrepreneurial spirit in Miami

The Family Jewels (1965) / Men & Chicken (2015)

This week we’re sanctioning buffoonery and focusing on fools as we discuss the many jewels of Jerry Lewis and ponder our animal nature with Anders Thomas Jensen

The Pit and the Pendulum (1991) / Death and the Compass (1996)

This week we annotate a pair of short story adaptations and get lost in a Borgesian labyrinth with Alex Cox and try to survive Stuart Gordon’s inquisition

Blood Money (1974) / Take a Hard Ride (1975)

This week we’re wasting away in Margheriti-ville, gorging on spaghetti with a global twist as we search for butts & treasure with Lee Van Cleef & Lo Lieh and take a hard ride with Jim Brown & Fred Williamson

The Mattei Affair (1972) / Gas Pump Girls (1979)

This week we get a crash course on oil from Francesco Rosi, who teaches us how to erect out of Italy’s postwar rubble, while Joel Bender’s Gas Pump Girls show us how to squeeze it for all it’s worth

The Gravy Train (1974) / A Perfect Couple (1979)

This week we’re doubling down on Dooley in roles big and small as we search for the perfect couple with Robert Altman and romp and stomp through D.C. with Jack Starrett and the Dion Brothers