The Recommendation Game

On the Record (2020) directed by Amy Ziering and Kirby Dick.

**Warning for the episode! We discuss some tough topics in depth including sexual assault**

Filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering examine the sexual assault allegations against hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons.

This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given.

We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla McNelis, two filmy types who love waffling extensively about movies.

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I am Not Your Negro (2016) directed by Raoul Peck.

In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, "Remember This House." The book was to be a revolutionary, personal account of the lives and assassinations of three of his close friends: Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. At the time of Baldwin's death in 1987, he left behind only 30 completed pages of this manuscript. Filmmaker Raoul Peck envisions the book James Baldwin never finished.

This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given.

We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla Mc Nelis, two filmy types who love waffling extensively about movies.

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Pain and Glory (2019) directed by Pedro Almodovar.

A film director reflects on the choices he's made in life as the past and present come crashing down around him.

This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given.

We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla Mc Nelis, two filmy types who love waffling extensively about movies.

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The Bad Sleep Well (1960) directed by Akira Kurosawa

In order to avenge his father's death, Koichi Nishi marries Yoshiko, the daughter of an evil industrialist, Iwabuchi.

This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given.

We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla Mc Nelis, two filmy types who love waffling extensively about movies.

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Portrait Of A Lady On Fire (2019) directed by Céline Sciamma.

France, 1770. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day, to paint her secretly.

This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given.

We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla Mc Nelis, two filmy types who love waffling extensively about movies.

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Heaven's Gate (1980) directed by Michael Cimino.

James Averill, the sheriff of Jackson County in Wyoming, is involved in a class war against the mercenary Nathan Champion who backs the area's rich cattle farmers over its impoverished immigrants.

This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given.

We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla Mc Nelis, two filmy types who love waffling extensively about movies.

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O.J. Made in America (2016) directed by Ezra Edelman.

Through interviews, news footage, and archival audio and video, O.J.: Made in America traces the life and career of O. J. Simpson, starting with his arrival at the University of Southern California as an emerging football superstar and ending with his incarceration in 2007 for robbery.

This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given.

We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla Mc Nelis, two filmy types who love waffling extensively about movies.

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The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp(1943) directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger.

General Candy (Roger Livesey), who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women (all played by Deborah Kerr), and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

Godard is Candy.

This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given.

We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla Mc Nelis, two filmy types who love waffling extensively about movies.

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Parasite (2019) directed by Bong Joon-ho.

Greed and class discrimination threaten the newly formed symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan.

We did it, we sold out, we went electric, we picked an oscar winner. Like a giant bowl of beef and noodles, some things are too good to resist.

This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given.

We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla Mc Nelis, two filmy types who love waffling extensively about movies.

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Anatomy of a Murder (1959) directed by Otto Preminger.

Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler (James Stewart) takes the case of Army Lt. Manion (Ben Gazzara), who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife (Lee Remick) claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick (Brooks West) and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer (George C. Scott) to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner (Kathryn Grant), who's hiding a dark secret.

Damn you Otto!! Orla is conflicted. Some films need an 18 minute intro from Ricardo. We have clips this week!

This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given.

We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla Mc Nelis, two filmy types who love waffling extensively about movies.

Catch us on Dublin Digital Radio on every second Monday: https://listen.dublindigitalradio.com/home

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