Korean auteur Park Chan-wook's DECISION TO LEAVE is something of a departure for a director best known for the violent and sexual provocations of films like "Oldboy," "The Handmaiden," and "Stoker." His latest involves a murder, but Park's camera is more attentive to the mounting attraction between Hae-joon's married police detective and the victim's wife, played by Tang Wei. Park's film inspires this week's Top 5: Cops In Love, which gives Adam and Josh a chance to give director Kathryn Bigelow some love, along with titles from Jane Campion, Peter Weir, Martin Scorsese, and Otto Preminger.
1:14 - Top 5: Cops In Love
32:12 - Next Week / Notes
39:58 - Massacre Theatre
44:35 - Review: "Decision to Leave"
58:23 - Top 5, cont.
1:16:17 - Outro
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#894: Top 5 Cops In Love / Decision To Leave

Adam Kempenaar and Josh Larsen review new and classic movies, offering "affable, insightful film analysis since 2005" (NY Times).

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Director and legendary cinematographer Kirsten Johnson is known for nonfiction work that is inventive, artful, expressive, and maximal. The same can be said of the film that blew her mind -- Bob Fosse’s All That Jazz. The semi-autobiographical film brings us Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), a peripatetic creative force working simultaneously to mount a major Broadway production and complete post-production on a feature film, all while maintaining a lifestyle fueled by cigarettes, pills, one-night stands, and Visine, and still finding time for his adoring 12-year old daughter, Michelle. We learn why the iconic film first transfixed Kirsten, and how she continues to be inspired by Fosse’s ingenious use of dance, documentary, theater, music, and more. Host John Cooper shares his personal ties to the film, calling on his days in New York’s theater scene of the 1970s. And co-host Tabitha Jackson (a.k.a. Wife of Kirsten) does her level best to maintain her professional distance as the conversation unfolds.

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Filmspotting Presents: The Film That Blew My Mind - Kristen Johnson on All That Jazz

With Alex Garland’s “Civil War” on the horizon, Adam and Josh take another look at the writer/director’s prescient AI thriller “Ex Machina.” Plus, a spirited debate over 1942’s “Mrs. Miniver” and a finals matchup in Filmspotting Madness—Best of the ‘50s. 
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Open (00:00:00-00:02:19)
Review: “Ex Machina” (00:02:20-00:51:47)
R.I.P. Louis Gossett Jr, M. Emmett Walsh / Dune 2 Feedback (00:51:48-01:03:36)
‘50s Madness Finals (01:03:37-01:13:30)
Wyler #3: “Mrs. Miniver” (01:13:31-01:54:55)
Close, New Releases (01:54:55-01:57:48)
Notes/Links:
Filmspotting Madness
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William Wyler Marathon
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Josh at Ebert Interruptus 2024
https://www.colorado.edu/cwa/
Boulder Meetup w/Josh
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#962: Ex Machina in the Age of AI, Mrs. Miniver (Wyler #3), ‘50s Madness Finals

With the release of a new “Road House” starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Adam and Josh debate the merits of the ‘89 original (there are many merits!), along with recommendations of “Godzilla x Kong” and the doc “Ennio” about composer Ennio Morricone. Plus, the Final 4 round of Filmspotting Madness—Best of the '50s.    
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Open (00:00:00-00:03:40)
Review: “Road House” at 35 (00:03:41-00:45:54)
Review: “Road House” (‘24) (00:45:55-01:01:12)
Review (JL): “Godzilla x Kong” (01:01:13-01:05:04)
Review (AK): “Ennio” (01:05:05-01:09:04)
Next Week / Notes (01:09:05-01:19:36)
‘50s Madness - Final 4 (01:19:37-01:33:20)
Close, New Releases, Outtake (01:33:21-01:36:06)
Notes/Links:
Josh at Ebert Interruptus 2024
4.12 Boulder Meetup
Filmspotting Madness
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-William Wyler Marathon
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#961: Road House at 35, Road House ‘24, Godzilla x Kong, ‘50s Madness Final Four

With "Godzilla x Kong" coming to theaters this weekend, we go to the archives for this 2021 conversation (inspired by "Godzilla v Kong") which has Adam and Josh pitting the two classic monster movies against each other.
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From the Archive: Godzilla ('54) v Kong ('33)

Adam and Josh praise Rose Glass’s nasty new noir “Love Lies Bleeding” and are knocked out by 1946’s “The Best Years of Our Lives,” William Wyler’s incisive and moving Best Picture winner. Plus, the Elite 8 of ‘50s Filmspotting Madness.
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Open (00:00:00-00:04:01)
Review: “Love Lies Bleeding” (00:04:02-00:28:20)
Next Week / Notes (00:28:21-00:33:20)
‘50s Madness - Elite 8 (00:33:21-00:48:28)
Wyler #2: “The Best Years of Our Lives” (00:48:29-01:35:33)
Close, New Releases (01:35:34-01:39:27)
Notes/Links:
Filmspotting Madness
https://www.filmspotting.net/madness
William Wyler Marathon
https://www.filmspotting.net/marathons
Josh at Ebert Interruptus 2024
https://www.colorado.edu/cwa/
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#894: Top 5 Cops In Love / Decision To Leave

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