Tortellini at Noon

This week Don makes an appearance for Zach’s pick of the 2019 film The Farewell. Written and directed by LuLu Wang and stars Awkwafina, Tzi Ma, Diana Lin, and Zhao Shuzhen. The film follows a Chinese-American family who, upon learning their grandmother has only a short while left to live, decide not to tell her and schedule a family gathering before she dies. The film is based in part on director Wang’s life experiences, which she first publicly discussed as part of her radio story What You Don’t Know, which appeared as part of an episode of This American Life. Come join us for this discussion!!

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This week Conor picked the so bad it’s good Chinese-Russian fantasy adventure film Viy 2: Journey to China, also known as Iron Mask and The Mystery of the Dragon Seal. The sequel to Viy, the 2014 film loosely based on the Nikolai Gogol story of the same name, is directed by Oleg Stepchenko, and tells the tale of a Cartographer Jonathan Green who is tasked by Peter the Great to map the Russian Far East but is forced on to China when he takes on an assistant, there he confronts the Dragon Master and is held captive while the real Peter the Great is tasked to recue him with the help of his wife Miss Dudley. The film stars Jason Flemyng and Charles Dance (who reprise their roles from the first film), Rutger Hauer (in one of his final films before his death), Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Helen Yao.  

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This week Mark didn’t pick a film about the famous magician but instead one based on the famous Charles Dickens character, it’s the 2019 film The Personal History of  David Copperfield. Written and directed by Armando Iannucci, the film is a modern take on Charles Dickens’s classic tale of a young orphan who is able to triumph over many obstacles. It stars Dev Patel as David Copperfield, and Aneurin Barnard, Peter Capaldi, Morfydd Clark, Daisy May Cooper, Rosalind Eleazar, Hugh Laurie, Benedict Wong and Tilda Swinton. Come join us using the links below!!

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Wow we actually made it to 200 episodes, thank you to any listeners out there and to celebrate we watched a classic film that just had a big milestone of  its 40th anniversary, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Directed by Steven Spielberg and based on a story by George Lucas and Philip Kaufman, it stars Harrison Ford, Karen Allen, Paul Freeman, Ronald Lacey, John Rhys-Davies, and Denholm Elliott. Ford portrays Indiana Jones, a globe-trotting archaeologist vying with Nazi German forces in 1936 to recover the long-lost Ark of the Covenant, a relic said to make an army invincible. Come join us and thank you for listening, here’s to 200 more!!!

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This week we actually went to a theater for the first time in over a year to watch the latest main entry in the Conjuring Universe, The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It. Directed by Michael Chaves, who takes over directing duties from James Wan, the film tells the tale of Ed and Lorraine Warren as they investigate a murder that may have been committed under the influence of demonic possession. It is based on the trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson, a murder trial that took place in 1981 Connecticut. Patrick Wilson and Vera Farmiga reprise their roles as paranormal investigators and authors Ed and Lorraine Warren, with Ruairi O’Connor, Sarah Catherine Hook, and Julian Hilliard also starring. Come join us for this discussion!!

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For the final entry of Foreign Film Month and Ian’s first ever pick for the podcast, we watched the 1954 Japanese epic samurai drama film Seven Samurai. Co-written, edited, and directed by Akira Kurosawa, the story takes place in 1586 during the Sengoku period of Japanese history. It follows the story of a village of farmers that hire seven rōnin (masterless samurai) to combat bandits who will return after the harvest to steal their crops. Come join us using the links below!!!

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This week for our fourth entry of foreign film month, Donald picked the 2020 comedy-drama film Another Round. Directed by Thomas Vinterberg, the film stars Mads Mikkelsen, Thomas Bo Larsen, Magnus Millang, and Lars Ranthe and tells the story of four high school teachers who consume alcohol on a daily basis to see how it affects their social and professional lives. Come join our discussion using the links below!

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For the third entry in our foreign film month Zach picked the 1985 Soviet era anti-war film Come and See. Directed by Elem Klimov and starring Aleksei Kravchenko, its screenplay, written by Klimov and Ales Adamovich, is based on the 1978 book I Am from the Fiery Village of which Adamovich was a co-author. The film’s plot focuses on the Nazi German occupation of Belarus, and the events as witnessed by a young Belarusian partisan teenager named Flyora, who—against his mother’s wishes—joins the Belarusian resistance movement, and thereafter depicts the Nazi atrocities and human suffering inflicted upon the Eastern European villages’ populace. Come join us for this discussion using the links below!!

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For the second entry in our annual foreign film month Conor picked the 2015 horror musical film The Lure. Directed by Agnieszka Smoczyńska. It tells of two mermaids who emerge from the waters and perform in a nightclub and one falls in love with a man, and gives up her tail, but loses her voice in the process. The story is a reworking of the 1837 fairy tale “The Little Mermaid” by Hans Christian Andersen, with inspiration from Smoczyńska’s experiences. Come join us using the links below!!!

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Another year brings another foreign film month and this year we’re kicking it off with another Godzilla film, the 2016 ToHo production Shin Godzilla. Directed by Hideaki Anno and Shinji Higuchi, with a screenplay by Anno, it is the 31st installment in the Godzilla franchise, Toho’s third reboot of the franchise, and the first film in the franchise’s Reiwa period. The film stars Hiroki Hasegawa, Yutaka Takenouchi, and Satomi Ishihara and has politicians struggling with bureaucratic red tape in order to deal with the sudden appearance of a giant monster that evolves whenever it is attacked. Come join us using the links below!!!

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