You’re Tall but I’m Standing in Front of You

We watched Sphere.

Ethan and Devin continue The Wooder Series with Wes Anderson's The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004), joined by resident Wes and water experts Mary Alcaro and Aylin Malcolm. They discuss daddy issues, twee, the universal relatability of water, and experience one of the greatest moments in You're Tall game history.

Ethan and Devin kick off a new miniseries, The Water (Wooder) Series, by watching James Cameron's Titanic (1997).  They discuss how James Cameron is everyone's dad, the emergence of Leo as a movie star, and why you shouldn'twith water.

We wade into the discourse yet again to discussion Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer (2023). Featuring guest editing by Devin.

We conclude our WWII miniseries with a discussion of Jean-Jacques Annaud's Enemy at the Gates (2001). We talk about the Britishness of the Soviet Union, the superheroics of sniping, and why if communism really worked you'd have a girlfriend.

We continue our WWII miniseries with a discussion of Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998) with guest Mike Opal. We talk about the film's meticulous construction, ambiguous moralism, and weirdly direct connection to video games. 

We interrupt our WWII miniseries to discuss the Succession finale and the series as a whole, while testing out ChatGPT's screenwriting chops.

This episode, we head under the water for the second entry in our WWII miniseries. We're joined by friend of the show/non-listener Mike Beaupre to discuss Wolfgang Petersen's Das Boot (1981). We explore the film's ambivalent anti-war stance, get quizzed on movies where everybody dies, and consider, at length, the pineapple.

Welcome to season 3 of You're Tall but I'm Standing in Front of You! We're celebrating V-E Day with a miniseries of episodes on World War II, the event through which the 20th century so often understood and misunderstood itself. We begin on the Eastern Front by discussing Elem Klimov's Come and See (1985) with film critic, professor, musician, and friend of the show Matt Ellis. We talk about Matt's very reel history with Come and See, the IMDB top 100, and how the victory in Europe might not have been that victorious.

It's the final episode of season 2! We return from our hiatus by bringing a lost episode out from the You're Tall vault: our timely discussion of the Lumière Brothers' L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat (1896).  Enjoy this vintage episode and we'll see you in May for season three!