The Talkies

Today, D breaks the rules and suggests a movie that he hasn't seen but Taylor and Kenny have. We discuss surrealism, emotional connection through cinema, and the fingerprint of film directors.

Kenny breaks the rules and chooses a movie that Taylor and D saw but he hasn't! We talk about detailed characters, filmmaking style, and recognition of greatness.

There was a new movie, so we watched it. We talk about directing choices, biopics, and Lakeith Stanfield.

Today, D goes against the rules a bit and picks a movie that he and Taylor have seen but Kenny has not. This is a strange pizza.

Today, Kenny picks a movie for us to watch. Strange Brew by Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas is a bit of a departure from our usual kinds of movies but we still love talking about them. We talk about comedy filmmaking and internal movie logic.

Today is Taylor's turn to pick our movie and he chose Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker. We talk about the cinematography, types of filmmaking, and parallels to Annihilation.

This was our first episode of "Someone picks a movie that the others haven't seen" and it was never released! (we lost the footage, but we found it, so all good now). Taylor brings David Lynch's Blue Velvet for show and tell. 

D suggested that we watch Memories of Murder by Bong Joon-Ho. Listen to us gush for 34 min.

Kenny's pick for D and Taylor to watch is I Am Not Your Negro, a documentary by Raoul Peck covering the various speeches of James Baldwin and comparing them to MLK and Malcom X.

We're ending our coen-quest run prematurely and instead, this week, we take a look at Mank, the first new movie we've seen in a while.