In the distant past of April 2020, Chris and I dove deep into an episode of our podcast Cinema Dual on the films of French filmmaker Agnès Varda. Though technically not my first experience with Varda, that week of watching Varda's movies was eye-opening, to such an extent that when Criterion announced they were going... Continue Reading →
On this episode of Cinema Dual, Jon and Chris celebrate the season with more horror. Movies Discussed: Rabid, The Witch Who Came From The Sea Content Warning: This episode features discussion of depictions of child abuse. Recommendations : Happy Death Day, Happy Death Day 2 U, Sputnik (Chris), Little Monsters, Color Out of Space(Jon) GREAT... Continue Reading →
I suspect many of us knew Metropolis before we ever had a chance to actually see it. My first exposure to it as a complete (or as close as it was considered to be then) film came in the early 90s with the color tinted Giorgio Moroder version, edited (severely) and scored by the electronic music pioneer. But the images - those stark, expressionistic cityscapes rising to the heavens, the iconic "Other" Maria... those images echo and reverberate within my movie memory far longer than I have any right to claim to them.
In the distant past of April 2020, Chris and I dove deep into an episode of our podcast Cinema Dual on the films of French filmmaker Agnès Varda. Though technically not my first experience with Varda, that week of watching Varda's movies was eye-opening, to such an extent that when Criterion announced they were going... Continue Reading →
The movie opens. A man stands in the foreground, his back to the camera. We don't know him yet, but the camera tells us everything. The mountains in the background are positively diminutive, telling us this man is larger than life, and over the course of the next two hours he's going to prove that perception correct...
Hi there. My name is Jon and for the last year, my friend Chris and I have been doing a monthly movie podcast called Cinema Dual, where we talk about a pair of movies around a theme of our choosing. Nice and simple. Well, we watch movies more often than we can talk about movies... Continue Reading →
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