The Gauntlet

The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981) / The Blood of Heroes (1989)

This week we’re dipping into short-lived directorial careers as we play formal games with Catherine Binet and gear up for Jugger with David Webb Peoples

Wee Willie Winkie (1937) / Once Upon a Time in China III (1993)

This week we’re rushing headfirst into the 20th century with John Ford and Tsui Hark as we drill with Shirley Temple and Lion-Dance with Jet Li

We’re No Angels (1955) / Fear Strikes Out (1957)

This week we’re loading the camera horizontally as we discuss the vista-less visions of Michael Curtiz’s stagebound comedy and Robert Mulligan’s baseball crack-up

Moving (1993) / The Girl and the Spider (2021)

This week we’re packing up and being left behind as we struggle through divorce and roommate drama with Shinji Sōmai and the Zürcher brothers

The Candy Snatchers (1973) / The Protector (1985)

This week we’re being abducted, shanghaied, and buried in the dirt by exploitation cinema as we discuss the vulgar visions of Guerdon Trueblood and James Glickenhaus

THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME 7

A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET

From Borderlands to Witchcraft

Music and Sounds from Episodes 61-70

Gentleman Jim (1942) | The Passionate Friends (1949) | Kid Galahad (1962) | A Very Curious Girl (1969) | The Unfaithful Wife (1969) | Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) | The Private Eyes (1976) | Southern Comfort (1981) They All Laughed (1981) | 2010 (1984) | The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

The Great Outdoors (1988) | Videograms of a Revolution (1992) | New Jersey Drive (1995) Night and Day (2008) | In the Electric Mist (2009) | Snow on tha Bluff (2011) | Ta’ang (2016) | Moffie (2019) | Rambo: Last Blood (2019)

Gelin aka The Bride (1973) / Eskiya aka The Bandit (1996)

This week we’re talkin’ Turkey as we migrate to Istanbul in Lütfi Akad’s family melodrama and Yavuz Turgul’s bandit fairy tale

157 - Stolen Death (1938) / Lust, Caution (2007)

This week we’re forming resistance cells and sneaking around as we arm ourselves against Tsarist oppression with Nyrki Tapiovaara and plot an assassination with Ang Lee’s patriotic theatre troupe

Wild Side (1995) / Femme Fatale (2002)

This week Brendan Boyle joins us for a roundtable to reminisce about message boards, video stores, and uncles as we take a walk on the wild side with Donald Cammell and get freaky with Brian De Palma

The Burning Moon (1992) / V/H/S/Beyond (2024)

This week we’re talking tapes and short form frights as we go to hell with Olaf Ittenbach’s heroin-fueled SOV triptych and encounter the paranormal in the latest V/H/S