The Recommendation Game

The Wild Bunch (1969) directed by Sam Peckinpah.

A troop of aging outlaws plot a grand heist, before they could retire from the criminal world. They ride into a Texas border town in order to rob a local railroad office.

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The Wailing (2016) directed by Na Hong-jin

Suspicion leads to hysteria when rural villagers link a series of brutal murders to the arrival of a mysterious stranger (Kunimura Jun).

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Mr Klein (1976) directed by Joseph Losey.

Neglected for decades, this chilling existentialist mystery has reemerged as one of director Joseph Losey’s most virtuosic works. In perhaps the finest performance of his career, Alain Delon stars as the wealthy Robert Klein, an amoral art dealer in Nazi-occupied Paris who exploits the persecution of his Jewish countrymen by buying and selling their paintings. When Klein is mistaken for a Jewish man of the same name, he is plunged into a labyrinthine identity crisis with life-or-death consequences. Through his moody, mesmerizing visual style, Losey weaves a Kafkaesque web of steadily mounting paranoia.

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.

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Sisters with Transistors (2020) directed by Lisa Rovner.

Filmmaker Lisa Rovner follows the story of electronic music's female pioneers, composers who embraced machines and their liberating technologies to transform how we produce and listen to music today.

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.

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The Leopard (1963) directed by Luchino Visconti

As Garibaldi's troops begin the unification of Italy in the 1860s, an aristocratic Sicilian family grudgingly adapts to the sweeping social changes undermining their way of life. Proud but pragmatic Prince Don Fabrizio Salina (Burt Lancaster) allows his war hero nephew, Tancredi (Alain Delon), to marry Angelica (Claudia Cardinale), the beautiful daughter of gauche, bourgeois Don Calogero, in order to maintain the family's accustomed level of comfort and political clout.

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.

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Summer of Soul (2021) directed by Questlove

Over the course of six weeks during the summer of 1969, thousands of people attend the Harlem Cultural Festival to celebrate Black history, culture, music and fashion.

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

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974) directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Emmi, a sixty-year-old German woman, falls in love with Ali, a Moroccan immigrant, twenty-five years her junior. The couple faces rejection from friends and this puts a strain on their relationship.

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

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Certain Women (2016) directed by Kelly Reichardt

An unhappy client constantly troubles Laura, a small-town lawyer; an unhappy Gina feels her husband constantly undermines her; Jamie, who lives alone on a ranch, is attracted to Beth, a lawyer.

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

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La Grande Illusion (1937) directed by Jean Renoir.

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay) and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal (Jean Gabin), grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein (Erich von Stroheim), who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

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.

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Tampopo (1985) directed by Juzo Itami

Two Japanese milk-truck drivers (Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken Watanabe) help a restaurant owner (Nobuko Miyamoto) learn how to cook great noodles.

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.

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