The Matineecast

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0:00 Introduction

2:42 Know Your Enemy: Rachel West

17:50 The New Slang: LEAVE NO TRACE

43:42 The Other Side: Rachel and Ryan talk further reading after Brett Haley’s new film

Thoughts from your host…

This weekend was dominated by podcasting – both with the recording and posting of this show, but also with an epic guest spot on another show that will be posting in a week or so. What I’m saying is, if you happen upon me this week and I look ‘talked-out’, that’s why.

Meanwhile, indie Summer continues here on the podcast, with the splashy fare being tucked aside for a while longer in the name of titles you might not have heard of…or might not be playing close by…or both! Hopefully y’all are alright with that – hell, hopefully my guests and I talk you into a movie you might not otherwise have thought about seeing! There will be plenty of time for the big guns later, right now our attention is a bit more focused on films that feature people who look like us ordinary folk.

To that end, I am both super-stoked that this film has arrived and super-stoked that today’s guest could drop by! I’ve been looking super-forward to seeing another fictional film by Debra Granik, and I’d also been looking super-forward to getting today’s guest back on the show. It’s taken FAR too long to sit down with her again, and considering how close we are, I really have no excuse.

So pack your dry socks, fill your pockets with provisions, and get ready to go off the grid – a new Matineecast is ready for your listening enjoyment.

Links Mentioned on Episode 203:

Little White Lies interview with director Debra Granik, where she discusses the difference between want and need.

Thanks for tuning into episode two-hundred-three.

Rachel’s Twitter feed can be found here. Comments and feedback are welcome, and thank-you very much for listening.

Enjoy!

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0:00 Introduction

2:08 Know Your Enemy: Dave Voigt

15:39 The New Slang: HEARTS BEAT LOUD

44:31 The Other Side: Dave and Ryan talk further reading after Brett Haley’s new film

Thoughts from your host…

It’s a holiday weekend here in the great white north, and there’s nothing I enjoy more on a holiday weekend than spending time with people I care about. That includes both spending time with today’s guest (who was nice enough to sit down with me during the holiday weekend), and with you fine folks…assuming you are listening to this little creation the day it drops.

Today we continue on with our march of podcasts dedicated to films a teeny bit under the radar. I know this might make listening uninteresting for those who haven’t seen the films – or even impossible if you skip episodes for films you haven’t seen. For the short term though, I want to keep the focus on these smaller titles. The great big offerings filled with loud noises and great big heroes sure are fun…but at this stage of the game, it’s films about the horrors of grief, or the challenges of parenting, or the joy of music that just strike me as so much more interesting to talk about.

Hopefully that keeps you fine folks along for the ride.

As it happens, today’s film has found a place amongst my very favorites of the year so far…so if it’s not on your radar, I do hope my guest and I can take thirty minutes of your time and perhaps put it on your radar.

Regardless, during this holiday weekend, I do hope you wonderful listeners are staying safe, staying cool, and staying surrounded by happy, fun, and supportive people in your lives.

Links Mentioned on Episode 202:

Matineecast 116 discussion of BEGIN AGAIN

Matineecast 59 discussion of HIGH FIDELITY

Thanks for tuning into episode two-hundred-two.

Dave’s Twitter feed can be found here. Comments and feedback are welcome, and thank-you very much for listening.

Enjoy!

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0:00 Introduction

2:51 Know Your Enemy: Carolyn Hinds

18:26 The New Slang: HEREDITARY

52:11 The Other Side: Carolyn and Ryan talk further reading after Ari Aster’s new film

Thoughts from your host…

First things first – after one hundred episodes or so with The White Stripes announcing the charge, the third century of Matineecasts begins with The National announcing their arrival. I do so enjoy the wonderful places my brain takes me while sitting in a pitch black cinema watching a bright screen, so a mantra like “the system only dreams in total darkness” seems apt right now.

Likewise, this episode finds me grateful both that this guest drifted into my orbit and that she recommended a freaky film that will likely go down as one of the very best movies I’ve seen in the year’s first half. Sometimes the search for films and guests takes a whole lot of doing, other times it falls right into my lap.

The editing of this show is deliberately loose, largely because the conversation very much reflected what it’s like to speak with Carolyn without agenda. So while things might seem a tad more rustic than usual for The Matineecast, I wanted to get closer to the genuine article for once.

Enough perfecting the miniature. Sit down, slip on the headphones, and please throw this on the fire for me…

Links Mentioned on Episode 201:

Matineecast 197 discussion of A QUIET PLACE

Thanks for tuning into episode two-hundred-one.

Carolyn’s Twitter feed can be found here. Comments and feedback are welcome, and thank-you very much for listening.

Enjoy!

So here we are again.

Eight and a half after I began it, my show lays down two bills. Part of me can’t believe I’ve posted so many episodes…part of me wishes he’d posted more. Gotta the love the push-and-pull of podcasting life. Some days you wonder where your next episode will come from, other days you want to record for the third time in four days.

Marking this occasion felt a bit more challenging that marking occasions past. On the one hand, I knew I wanted to do something special, but on the other hand I also didn’t want to repeat myself. It’s not easy to keep mixing it up when you’ve said “Welcome to Wherever You Are” over two hundred times! Happily though, the universe provided a solution, and it’s one I couldn’t be more thrilled to have been handed.

The occasion was a bit more intimate than the number might demand, but I’m quite happy with that. For some time now, I have made my birthday a small and personal affair, and that has suited me perfectly. Some see occasion as a reason to celebrate: I am growing deeper and deeper in love with calling it a moment to reflect.

In the name of reflection, I hit the road and brought together a small table of guests. I asked them all – in the name of one of my cinema-loving heroes – to tell stories about their film and empathy. I wasn’t sure where the conversations would go, or even if the question would spark much conversation. Happily though, the results are wonderful and warm in a way that befits 200.

The people you hear on this show are but a few of the wonderful people in The UK and around the world my love of film has brought into my orbit over the years. I’m a lucky person to call them my friends…and in a perfect world, I could have stretched my stay longer to visit them all and sit down with them all. Perhaps for 300.

But enough dreaming – two centuries await. It’s not a terribly long episode, but every guest gets their own chapter stop…so don’t be afraid to pause, skip, and shuffle around.

If this is the first time you’ve tuned in, or the two hundredth, thank you so much for supporting what I do.

Here’s what’s in store in episode two hundred…

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Enjoy – and thanks for tuning into episode two-hundred!

Katie’s Twitter feed can be found here. 

Simon’s Twitter feed can be found here. 

Lindsay’s Twitter feed can be found here. 

Comments and feedback are welcome, and thank-you very much for listening.

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0:00 Introduction

3:49 Know Your Enemy: Vanessa Buttino

22:00 The New Slang: TULLY

46:03 SPOILER Discussion of TULLY

56:06 The Other Side: Vanessa and Ryan talk further reading after Jason Reitman’s new film

It’s a holiday weekend here in the great white north; time for friends, fresh air, and fun times marked with much consumption. Sometimes, at such gatherings you even make a new friend! You find out you have things in-common, went to the same high school, read the same YA series, take your latte the same way, or…some…other common interest.

Imperfect metaphors aside, that feeling of newfound kinship is very much my takeaway on this episode of The Matineecast. Today’s guest and I have a lot of little things in common, but just never managed to get to the same bonfire at the same time. Making things even more amusing, she and I live pretty darned close together. So if I seem excited that she and I finally managed to gather around the same virtual bonfire…well…I am.

On the precipice of my two hundredth episode, I’m feeling somewhat reflective. When I think to myself about how many people I’ve managed to meet as a result of this show (like Vanessa!), I’m truly thankful that I decided to start it and stuck with it. A lot of what they’ve said about film – and about life – has stuck with me. Heck sometimes it’s even stuck with me well after my guest and I go our seperate ways.

So as I get some much-needed rest today, and spend some quality time with the people closest to me, Allow me to thank Vanessa and everyone like her who have taken time to talk to someone they sometimes don’t know all that well…and give him some new perspectives on film…

…and life.

Thanks for tuning into episode one-hundred-ninety-nine.

Vanessa’s Twitter feed can be found here. Comments and feedback are welcome, and thank-you very much for listening.

Enjoy!

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0:00 Introduction

3:24 Know Your Enemy: Bob Turnbull

23:13 The New Slang: THE RIDER

56:42 The Other Side: BOB and Ryan talk further reading after Chloe Zhao’s latest film

Thoughts from your host…

Sometimes, this show provides a space to seek perspective in the big event movies that are taking over the multiplex. Sometimes, these little exchanges I record add a little context or criticism to the pieces of pop culture that you seem to hear about from the moment the rights are secured.

This isn’t one of those times.

There are no Infinity Stones in this podcast…no capes…no cowls. Nobody is fast or furious. Life doesn’t find a way. I hope y’all are alright with that. Nothing against that sort of film (I enjoy them as much as the next bloke), just not what’s on the menu today.

You see, today’s episode leans heavily on what I truly love doing most with this podcast. Today I’m going to sit down with a friend whose perspective on life I truly cherish and discuss a small piece of art that we happened to watch together. It left us both thinking about life, about loss, about who we are and who we want to be. All of these thoughts are draped over a movie I bet few of you have seen…but I do hope that after seventy-five minutes of sitting at our table, you might be inspired to seek it out.

In moments like this, I’m thankful to find friends who want to discuss these sorts of stories with me. In moments like these, I’m also thankful to find listeners who want to listen-in on those discussions.

So even though phrases like “Thanos”, “gauntlet”, and “Wakanda” are nowhere to be heard on this episode, I hope you enjoy what you do hear…since I certainly enjoyed recording it.

Links Mentioned on Episode 198:

Peter Finch’s monologue from NETWORK:

Thanks for tuning into episode one-hundred-ninety-eight.

Bob’s Twitter feed can be found here. Comments and feedback are welcome, and thank-you very much for listening.

Enjoy!