This Movie Saved My Life

Miles and I explore difficult and "unwatchable" movies from different angles. Some movies are too dated. Some movies are too wedded to the subcultures they depict. Some movies are too violent, risqué, or exploitative. And others are stylistically or aesthetically inaccessible to some. What do we think? 

Join us in a conversation on Kings Row (Sam Wood, 1942), Suburbia (Penelope Spheeris, 1983), Celine and Julie Go Boating (Jacques Rivette, 1974), and Kuroneko (Kaneto Shindo, 1968).

John and Miles are joined by Seattle restauranteur Monica Dimas to talk about their favorite foodie films (from fine dining to fast food): Moonlight (Barry Jenkins, 2016), Like Water for Chocolate (Alfonso Arau, 1992), Tampopo (Juzo Itami, 1985), Chunking Express (Wong Kar Wai, 1995), La Ricotta (Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1962), and Big Night (Stanley Tucci, 1996).

John and Miles talk about some of their favorite films with vibrant and intense color palettes: Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979), The Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome (Kenneth Anger, 1954), Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa, 1980), Samadhi (Jordan Belson, 1968), The Holy Mountain (Alejandro Jodorosky, 1973), and La Chinoise (Jean-Luc Godard, 1967)