You Need To See This!

This week, Cozi pitches Lucé and the audience on 1996 neurotic relationship comedy Flirting with Disaster! Will smart funny dialogue and a stellar cast featuring the late George Segal (R.I.P.) be enough to convince her?

Recommendations:

Cozi – Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

Lucé – Ed Wood (1994)

Lucé needs you to see Vanishing Point! This suspenseful anti-cop car chase flick deftly challenges mid-century (and modern) ideas about masculinity and state control between tire squeals. Can we ever break free? Can Kowalski? Listen now to hear if Lucé convinces Cozi to watch this cult classic which inspired Tarantino's Death Proof.

Recommendations

Lucé: Easy Rider

Cozi: Try out your cool ideas!

On this episode of Cozi and Lucé and the Film Podcast, Cozi illuminates the many merits of critically acclaimed quirky coming-of-age indie comedy Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (2015). Will Lucé make friends with this movie about friendship, struggling with emotional vulnerability, and letting people in? Find out by pressing the download button and then the play button!

Plus, a We Saw 'Em for Young Frankenstein and Young Einstein!

Recommendations:

Lucé – The film Nomadland (and also the book)

Cozi – Make food that you think sounds stupid

If you like the off-beat deadpan American Indies of the '90s, you have Hal Hartley to thank. In this episode, Lucé gives you and Cozi 5 spoiler-free reasons why you absolutely MUST see Hartley's second film, Trust, the primogenial modern indie! Honestly just telling you Adrienne Shelly is the star should be enough!

Recommendations

Lucé: Waitress (2007) - Adrienne Shelly's final film

Cozi: A personal S'mores Maker

It's the Battle of the Youngs: Lucé delivers an electric argument for Young Frankenstein(1974), while Cozi makes a scientifically sound case for Young Einstein (1988)! Will Cozi FINALLY watch the revered Mel Brooks horror-comedy he's been avoiding for his whole life? Will Lucé watch this silly Australian '80s slapstick classic? Listen and find out!

Recommendations:

Lucé — The films Certain Women and Night Moves

Cozi — The album Breakup Season by Future Teens

This week, Cozi gets behind the wheel and takes Lucé for a drive on The Road to Wellville (1994)! Will she be captivated enough by the roadside attractions (John Cusack, Matthew Broderick, and an exploration of sexual repression vs. sexual freedom in the early 1900s) to pull over and take a gander?

Recommendations:

Luce – The film Kajillionaire

Cozi – The Kate Berlant episode of The Characters

Whatever walks at Hill House walks alone! This week, Lucé makes a case for the gay gothic classic, The Haunting (1963). Adapted from Shirley Jackson’s novel, The Haunting of Hill House, Lucé insists this chilling black and white version is better than it's counterparts (the 1999 remake & 2019 Netflix miniseries). Will she convince Cozi to climb the spiral staircase, or will he escape down the driveway? How about you, dear listener? Can you survive a night in Hill House?

Recommendations:

Cozi: The Betrayal at House on the Hill, Trader Joe's Strawberry Mochi 

Lucé: Cat People (1942)

This week, Cozi reaches into a cookie jar and pulls out Shane Black's slick '70s neo-noir action comedy The Nice Guys (2016)! Lucé ducks under the table and finds a hidden...um, sense of cautious interest in seeing the film— okay, this metaphor broke down quickly. LOOK, JUST WATCH THE NICE GUYS!

Lucé – The Bill and Ted trilogy

Cozi – Chatterbot Records

On this special Cozi's-birthday episode, beloved Tucsonan painter Gail Marcus-Orlen (Cozi's mom) discusses the merits of French '60s New Wave masterpiece Pierrot Le Fou. Can she and Cozi convince Lucé to watch this cinematic gem full of romance, action, art, and consumerist satire?

Recommendations:

Gail – The film Jules et Jim

Lucé – The Criterion release of David Cronenberg's Crash and the podcast Tenfold More Wicked

Cozi – The podcast Bald Talk

Today Lucé gushes over Black Bear, a brand new comedic thriller she just can't stop thinking about. She divulges very little about the surreal suspenseful plot as she tries to convince you and Cozi to rent it from Alamo On-Demand NOW so we can all have one big conversation about artistic philosophy and intimacy as soon as possible.

Recommendations and Perfect Pairings:

Cozi: Creep

Lucé: I'm Thinking of Ending Things