You're Missing Out: A National Film Registry Podcast

Mike, Tom and Kyle reflect on the second class of 25 films inducted into the registry, the past 25+ episodes of the series, and the many films that lay ahead.

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"Big as the men who faced this challenge! Bold as the women who loved them!"

For the final film of Season 2, we circle our wagons and wind down, with our producer Kyle Lampar coming on mic to talk about Howard Hawks' celebrated Western, Red River. We'll talk John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, subtext, sunsets, and special belt buckles.

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Our Season Finale

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Michael Natale

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"Wonderful news...about wonderful people!...in a wonderful picture! It's a wonderful love! It's a wonderful laugh!"

Culture critic and Queen of Christmas Cinema Emily St. James joins us to talk about what is arguably the ultimate Christmas movie, Frank Capra's It's A Wonderful Life. We'll talk the film's inherent sadness, its overstated "failure", and...Bicentennial Man?

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Red River w/ Kyle Lampar

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Emily St. James

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" War Is Swell ...when the Marx Brothers are in it. They'll be out of the trenches by Christmas...if the food doesn't improve!"

Comedian Mark Levy joins the show to talk all things Marx, as we look at their most celebrated Paramount comedy, Duck Soup. We'll talk political satire, Ruritanian romance, and of course, the Wu-Tang Clan.

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It's A Wonderful Life w/ Emily St. James

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Michael Natale

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"Mabel is not crazy, she's unusual. She's not crazy, so don't say she's crazy."

Youtuber and John Cassavetes aficionado Robert Bellissimo joins the show to talk about the aformentioned director's most celebrated independent film, A Woman Under the Influence. We talk Gena Rowlands, Peter Falk, and what's Mike's take on Cassavetes.

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Duck Soup w/ Mark Levy

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Robert Bellissimo

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"You are not a child anymore. You soon will be a goddam man."

Photographer and founder of Black Women Directors Danielle A. Scruggs joins us to tackle Charles Burnett's long locked-away neo-realist masterpiece Killer of Sheep. We'll tackle the film's impact, its influence, and the many, many layers hidden beneath its seemingly "slice of life" structure.

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A Woman Under the Influence w/ Robert Bellissimo

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Danielle A. Scrugs

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"The Best American Movie Of The Year!"

Critic and author Richard Newby stops by to dissect arguably the murkiest, most unrelenting film in Martin Scorsese's oeuvre, Raging Bull. We'll step into the ring with the complex tale of Jake LaMotta, touching on boxing, film editing, and what the film's cryptic ending quote means to us.

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Killer of Sheep w/ Danielle Scruggs

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We Make Monsters Here

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“Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.”

Dr. Sabina Stent joins us to discuss one of the most influential surrealist films, and the radical creative figures who both made and championed it, in particular Maya Deren. We'll talk horror imagery, avant garde art, and Beavis and Butthead.

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Raging Bull w/ Richard Newby (rent it here)

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Michael Natale

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Dr. Sabina Stent

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"Beautiful! Stirring! Dramatic!"

Just who was Pare Lorentz? What does it mean to be "FDR's Filmmaker"? And how did government film with a covertly conservationist bent end up alongside The Godfather and Raging Bull in the second class of Registry inductees?

Our guest, Dr. Robert J. Snyder, joins us to answer those questions and more. We'll talk Lorentz's career, what it's like writing an essay for the National Film Registry, and even touch on our favorite cuss words.

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Meshes of the Afternoon w/ Dr. Sabina Stent (watch it here for free)

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Michael Natale

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Kyle Lampar

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Dr. Robert J. Snyder

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Pare Lorentz Center

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"From the Secrets of WOMAN'S LOVE-LIFE comes this Heart-stopping story of DEVOTION! SACRIFICE! SHAME! "

Comet Over Hollywood creator Jessica Pickens joins the show to discuss a stirring drama about the loss of love, the passage of time, and whether we ever really know who we are. We'll talk Walter Huston, William Wyler, Ruth Chatterton, and David Niven in full stuffy scumbag mode.

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The River w/ Dr. Robert J. Snyder (watch it here for free)

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Michael Natale

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