The Gauntlet

Breaking Away (1979) / Good Burger (1997)

This week we’re taking a sick day and prescribing some cinematic medicine: burger flipping and strawberry jacuzzis with Kenan & Kel and a long bike ride through Indiana with Peter Yates

Archipiélago (1992) / The House that Jack Built (2018)

This week we’re taking a seat at the drafting table as we construct a house of corpses with Lars von Trier and try to restore a church – and Chile’s collective memory – with Pablo Perelman

Watch Archipiélago for FREE via Cineteca Nacional de Chile: https://www.cclm.cl/cineteca-online/archipielago/

Road House (1948) / Terribly Happy (2008)

This week we’re taking the crime out of the city as we go bowling at the road house with Jean Negulesco and get reassigned to oblivion in the boggy lowlands with Henrik Ruben Genz

A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (1971) / All the Colors of the Dark (1972)

This week we’re having bad dreams with Lucio Fulci and Sergio Martino as we attend black mass and trip with debauched hippies in swinging London

Sugar Cane Alley (1983) / Shottas (2002)

This week we’re island hopping in the Caribbean as Euzhan Palcy transports us to the sugar cane fields of 1930s Martinique and we get blazed from Kingston to Miami with Cess Silveira’s shottas

Waxworks (1924) / Ganga Bruta (1933)

This week we explore the universal language of silent cinema and love triangles as we tour Paul Leni’s nightmarish waxworks and flee to the Brazilian countryside to erect a factory with Humberto Mauro

Continental Divide (1981) / Smoke Signals (1998)

This week venture into the Dream Life with two films screened by US presidents: first we help Michael Apted lug Belushi up the rockies then we hit the road with Chris Eyre’s indigenous buddy comedy

The Sisterhood (1988) / Futuresport (1998)

This week the future is now as we hoverboard through a geopolitical crisis with Ernest R. Dickerson and try to survive Cirio H. Santiago’s post-apocalyptic wasteland with a band of women warriors

Some Came Running (1958) / Avengement (2019)

Join us this week for two fraught homecomings as Frank Sinatra drinks his troubles away in a Minnelli-drama and Scott Adkins guzzles pints and holds court in a Jesse V. Johnson beat-em-up

Mountains of the Moon (1990) / Vacas (1992)

It’s rivalry week as we head to Basque country with Julio Medem for some log cutting and generational conflict and then set out to find the source of the Nile with Bob Rafelson’s adventurous duo Burton & Speke