The Gauntlet

Crazy Thunder Road (1980) / His Motorbike, Her Island (1986)

This week we get our motors running and head out on the highway as we terrorize Tokyo with Sogo Ishii’s biker gangs and fall in love with Nobuhiko Obayashi’s romantic riders

This week we’re crosschecking polite society and battling beer barons as Vikram Murthi joins us for a drinking session with Paul Newman and the Mackenzie Brothers, listen up hosers!

Paint Your Wagon (1969) / Play Dirty (1969)

This week we’re closing out careers as we play dirty with Joshua Logan’s gold rush ménage à trois and paint the desert red with Andre de Toth

I Was a Male War Bride (1949) / Late Autumn (1960)

This week we’ll do anything for love as we crossdress with Howard Hawks and try to arrange a marriage with Yasujirō Ozu

Runaway (1984) / Class of 1999 (1990)

This week we’re fighting the future as we chase down busted bots with Michael Crichton and dodge killer teachers with Mark L. Lester

Up in Smoke (1978) / Withnail & I (1986)

This week we’re giving the middle finger to polite society as we smoke a giant joint and hit the road with Cheech & Chong and end up on holiday by mistake with Withnail & I

I Am Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) / Queimada aka Burn! (1969)

This week villainous schemes go according to plan as we’re shackled to a chain gang by Mervyn Leroy and Gillo Pontecorvo feeds us to the bloody revolution

Requiescant (1967) / Attenberg (2010)

This week the directors are on the screen as we wander into a spaghetti western to preach liberation with Pier Paolo Pasolini and get naked and listen to Suicide with Yorgos Lanthimos

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) / To Live (1994)

This week we’re capturing a whole life as we tour a time-bending sanatorium with Wojciech Has and try to survive the people’s republic with Zhang Yimou

House of Bamboo (1955) / Tempting Heart (1999)

This week we’re center framing cinematographers as we take a trip to Japan with Joe MacDonald and interrogate love through time and space with Mark Lee Ping-Bing