The Gauntlet

106 - The Sergeant (1968) / The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998)

This week we’re drafting a thesis on novelist screenplays as we take the sergeants uniform out of the closet with Rod Steiger and pick up Ray Bradury’s $100 ice cream suit from the shop

105 - Letter Never Sent (1960) / Quest for Fire (1981)

This week we're searching for the eternal flame with Jean-Jacques Annand’s questing cavemen while Mikhail Kalatozov’s dizzying forest fire has us running for our lives

The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) / Edge of Sanity (1989)

This week we’re smoking on that shit that made Anthony Perkins turn into Jack “The Ripper” Hyde and seeing double [07] as Roger Moore haunts himself

Comrades (1986) / Patty Hearst (1988)

This week we form a union of friendship with Bill Douglas and the Torpuddle Martyrs and get kidnapped by Paul Schrader’s visions of St. Patty Hearst

Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) / Mississippi Masala (1991)

with special guest Alex Sherman

This week it’s ladies night in the deep south as we lose our minds in Louisiana with Bette Davis and fall in love in Mississippi with Mira Nair

The Man Without a Past (2002) / Kannathil Muthamittal (2002)

This week we’re starting fresh as we get amnesia and move into a shipping container with Aki Kaurismaki while Mani Ratnam takes us to Sri Lanka on an adoption odyssey

GAUNTLET 100: A CELEBRATION & RETROSPECTIVE

This week we celebrate ourselves by taking a look back at the first 2 years, 99 episodes, 196 movies, and 177 hours of The Gauntlet with special guest MC Alex Sherman

THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME #4

A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET

From Rivalry Week to Sick Day Movies

Music and Sounds from Episodes #31-40

Ganga Bruta (1933) | Road House (1948) | Some Came Running (1958) | A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (1971) | All the Colors of the Dark (1972) | Breaking Away (1979) | Continental Divide (1981) | Sugar Cane Alley (1983) | The Sisterhood (1988) | Mountains of the Moon (1990) | Vacas (1992) | Archipiélago (1992) | Good Burger (1997) | Futuresport (1998) | Smoke Signals (1998) | Shottas (2002) | Terribly Happy (2008) | The House that Jack Built (2018) | Avengement (2019)

Belly (1998) / Bringing Out the Dead (1999)

with special guest Ryland Walker Knight

This week: apocalyptic visions at the fin de siècle as we hustle through NYC’s underbelly with Hype Williams and cruise its haunted streets in Martin Scorsese’s ambulance

In the White City (1983) / O Fantasma (2000)

This week we’re heading to Lisbon in search of unstructured time as we wander the white city with Alain Tanner and dig through the trash with João Pedro Rodrigues