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On the border between earnest tragedy and pseudo-hippie preachiness, there's KOYAANISQATSI, a plotless documentary-slash-visual tone poem about humanity's lopsided relationship with Planet Earth and how there are some things we just can't rebuild.

This episode was recorded in 2018 after a free screening of KOYAANISQATSI at the Trylon, which was put on by the Moving Image & Media Studies Graduate Group at the University of Minnesota. Check them out at mimsgg.org.

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

The only feature-length film by writer/director Barbara Loden before her death in 1980, WANDA follows Wanda Goronski, a divorcee in Pennsylvania coal country whose options for a better life shrink with every man she meets. Content warning: discussions of depression, abuse of women, and attempted sexual assault.

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

What started as a commercial director's fever dream became a genre-blending staple of cult cinema. In this episode, Aaron Grossman (@aarbypls) joins the boys to talk about HAUSU, Nobuhiko Obayashi's feature-length debut, and its surprisingly resonant message about the virtues of peacetime and the echoes of wartime tragedy.

Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.

THE 400 BLOWS (1959) is François Truffaut's first film, based in part on his own life as a ruffian on the streets of Paris. It's also widely regarded as a monument of French New Wave cinema. In our first episode that doesn't sound terrible, Jason, Harry, and John try to figure out what that meant at the time and how we look at it today. Theme: "Raindrops" by Huma-Huma/"No Smoking" PSA by John Waters.