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S01E07: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

November 2nd, 2020 No comments

Ethan and Talia discuss Michel Gondry’s 2004 film Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Is Ethan’s love for this film part of the attraction of the manic pixie dream girl trope? How our delight or this film is in part enhanced by Michel Gondry’s obvious delight in the filming process; and is this a romantic comedy that has become a favourite because it avoids the usual sentimentality of the genre?

links to things discussed in this episode
• Michel Gondry solving rubic cube with his feet
Daft Punk’s Around the World
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl trope was first discussed by Nathan Rabin as wikipedia would have told me
• Hyperthymesia – the quality of never forgetting anything was discussed on This American Life podcast
School of life video on art

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S01E06: Boyhood

November 1st, 2020 No comments

Ethan and Talia discuss Richard Linklater’s 2014 film Boyhood. On a melancholy sense of mortality from watching actors age – and the emotional experience of the lead actor watching the film for the first time with their parents; and how the scenes of peril in Boyhood are the opposite of the BBC show Casualty.

links to things discussed in this episode
• Toby Litt’s blog post on the hero’s journey
• Ellar Coltrane discussing how watching the film affected him and his family
• Featurette on making of the film with a rather adorable young Lorelei Linklater
Interview with Ethan Hawke and Patricia Arquette

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S01E05: Under the Skin

November 1st, 2020 No comments

Ethan and Talia discuss Jonathan Glazer’s 2013 film Under the Skin. How beautiful but cold art can still be a favourite film; seeing the human race from a National Geographic perspective; and the strange intensity of a sex scene with Scarlett Johansson by a non-professional actor, only playing the part because he owned the house that was the filming location.

links to things discussed in this episode
• The notes from Michel Faber’s novel
Interesting discussion with Johnathan Glazer in Guardian
• Video that Talia watched to get some of the theories about what is happening in the film
• The Bizarre Story Behind the Scarlett Johansson Falling Down Meme
Casting of ‘bad man’

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S01E04: Local Hero

November 1st, 2020 No comments

Ethan and Talia discuss Bill Forsyth’s 1983 film Local Hero. We wonder if all our favourite films are so because of their nostalgic element; how we still take pleasure in a film with very little conflict; and how Talia is disappointed to find that this film is many other people’s favourite as well as her own.

links to things discussed in this episode
• BBC programme discussing Local Hero including the end of the film
Apparently the belief that in the 1970s a coming ice age was going to happen isn’t quite true
Mark Kermode’s Film Club on Local Hero

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S01E03: Dead Poet’s Society

November 1st, 2020 No comments

Ethan and Talia discuss Peter Weir’s 1989 Dead Poet’s Society. How director Peter Weir captured the natural interactions of schoolboys; we realise that a large number of our favourite films feature Ethan Hawke; and how this film caused Ethan to spend months in India at the age of eighteen.

links to things discussed in this episode
• Reference to the cast living together before filming
Ken Loach told young actor that he has killed the kestrel with whom he had built a relationship
• David Whyte’s poetry is part of the Waking Up app which is paid for but you can here an example of his reading of one of his poems here
• The Rewatchables podcast on Dead Poets Society
• Ethan’s story about Kurtwood Smith watching a family with a father similar to his character comes from trivia on IMDB

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