Corbin and Matt and SPECIAL GUEST RYDER (not famous) talk about 'Ferrari,' Michael Mann's 2023 movie about fast cars and human suffering. Corbin also reads from the futurist manifesto in public, which gets a little awkward. 

Next Week, the movie that single handedly destroyed American cinema: HEAVEN'S GATE. The version we are watching is available on HOOPLA! (Probably: your library might differ in this matter.) See you then!

This week on the show, Corbin and Matt talk about THE MAGICIAN, a 1958 Bergman Bangern about performence, trickery, and the eternal enemy of fun, scientific rationalism. You can watch the movie here, on Criterion. Next week's movie is FERRARI, by Michael Mann. I think it's streaming somewhere but I have already given too much to this blurb. 

Oh, our new cover art is by SPENCER STANLEY GROSHONG, a wonderful designer known for his work at TRILLBLAZIN. We thank Spencer for rescuing us from Corbin Smith's graphic design instincts, which are not so good. 

Hey! Sorry about the break its been a little crazy around here and there lately. THis week Corbs and Ellis talk LIVE AT WORKERS TAP in PORTLAND, OREGON, about 'Night of the Comet,' a sort-of-zombie movie that mixes a bunch of 1980's stuff in a big ol' bowl and serves it to you, the viewer. Topics include: Star Trek First officers, automation's ghost living on in the ruins of human civilization, how great it would be to work as a projectionist in the early 80's, and a maybe-repeat of a conversation about film vs. digital. We also talk at length about 'The Thing,' a famous movie that Corbin just saw for the first time.

Next week's episode is about "THE MAGICIAN," by friend of the program Ingmar Bergman. You can watch it here, on Criterion. 

Corbin and Dr. Matt talk about 'CURE,' ‎Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 J-Horror classic. Topics: horror or pyshcological thriller (Genre distinctions being the main thing men talk about), pushing pyshcology back through premodernity, Corbin's new book on NYU Press, Mothra, and Naruto's pal the nine-tailed beast. 

We're not sure what next week's episode is about yet. 

In a special Christmas Episode, Corbin and Matt talk about MEET JOHN DOE, a 1941 Frank Capra Christmas Joint, staring screen goddess Barbara Stanwyck and the thinking man's John Wayne, Gary Cooper. We talk about Capra's worldview, where soceiry can fix all its problens so long as it doesn't dip intonthe morass of "Politics" or whatever. "Meet John Doe" can be seen here on Criterion, or here, on the Internet Archive, because someone forgot to renew the copyright in the seventies.

Coming up next week: Cure, a horror masterpiece about Carl Jung. 

France was hoping for a better future in 1968. When that didn't happen, Robert Bresson was there to ask a very important question: "What if the icy embrace of death is all that life has to offer?" A real Live/Laugh/Love episode of the show, lemme tell ya.

This movie can be seen here, on Criterion. Next week's episode is MEET JOHN DOE, by Frank Capra, which can be seen here on Criterion, or here, on the Internet Archive, because someone forgot to renew the copyright in the seventies. Also coming up: Cure. 

On paper, Afire seems like it is an alegory for climate change. It is actually a movie about Corbin irritating himself to death. Whoops!

Next week's movie, part of a VERY SPECIAL CHRISTMAS PNWICMFP is MEET JOHN DOE, by Frank Capra. You can watch it here, on Criterion, or here, on the Internet Archive, because a long time ago someone forgot to renew the copyright. 

Did anyone see the new Miyazaki movie, aside from me? My man is operating heavy in an allegorical space right now. Also the use of blues and greens... very cool. No one uses color better in the history of the medium, you ask me. 

Godard episode bwah bwah bwah bwaaaaaaah. Jean-Luc Corbard and Jean-Ellis Godard talk about MASCULIN FÉMININ, a bog standard Godard movie about... I honestly don't remember. Topics include: The Boy from The 400 Blows, all grown up, two specific dogs, if modern man can really get Godard, and other stuff, I presume. 

Next week's movie is AFIRE, by Christian Petzold. Watch it here. 

On this episode, Corbin and Mattbin talk about THE EYES OF LAURA MARS, a movie about violent images and Tommy Lee Jones's nipples. Topics include: images of violence and how we process them as individuals and as a society, Haneke, the difficulty in seeing prolific character actor René Auberjonois as anyone but Odo, and Helmut Newton. Corbin says next week's episode will be about "The Devil, Probably," by Robert Bresson, but he called an audible and we went with Jean-Luc Godard's 'Masculin Feminin' instead. So be aware of that.

Matthew and Corbthew speak on Canadian God Sicko David Cronenberg's eXistenZ, a movie about video games, guns made of chicken bones, teeth bullets, the unnerving creep of virtual reality onto reality reality. Topics include: the Mandela Effect fuel that is Willem Dafoe one being in one Cronenberg movie, video games in their moral panic era, and Cronenberg as a kind of non-savant Lynch. You can watch the movie for free here, with ads.