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 since 2019 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 together, so... Continue Reading →
On this episode of Cinema Dual, Jon and Chris talk about a pair of animated films. Movies Discussed: Rango, The Triplets of Belleville Recommendations : The Illusionist, Playtime, Mon Oncle, Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (Chris), Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Tale of Princess Kaguya (Jon) Follow us on Twitter: @jonmichaelnoise @cmvoss042 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/9jyzpx/Cinema_Dual_-Episode_12-_Animated_Films9ffkg.mp3
On this episode of Cinema Dual, Jon and Chris talk about French filmmaker Jean-Pierre Melville. Movies Discussed: Le Samourai, Army of Shadows Recommendations : The Good Thief, Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (Chris), Un Flic, Heat, Ronin (Jon) Follow us on Twitter: @jonmichaelnoise @cmvoss042 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/vr7qka/Cinema_Dual_-Episode_11-_Melvilleamndu.mp3
On this episode of Cinema Dual, Jon and Chris talk about Spike Lee. Movies Discussed: Da 5 Bloods, School Daze Recommendations : The Old Guard (Chris), The Watermelon Woman, Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance (Jon) Follow us on Twitter: @jonmichaelnoise @cmvoss042 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/9qx7q7/Cinema_Dual_-Episode_10-_Spike_Lee_8hcgs.mp3
On this episode of Cinema Dual, Jon and Chris talk documentaries. Movies Discussed: Dont Look Back, Leviathan Recommendations : Gates of Heaven, In Search of Darkness, Rolling Thunder Revue (Chris), The Lesser Lights of Heaven, Harlan County USA, Cameraperson (Jon) Additional recommendations: 13th, When They See Us, Four Little Girls, I'm Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made... Continue Reading →
On this episode of Cinema Dual, Jon and Chris talk about a pair of comfort movies for these hellscape times we live in. Movies Discussed: Rio Bravo, The Princess Bride Recommendations : Condorman (Jon), Mission Impossibles 1 & 3-6 (Chris) Follow us on Twitter: @jonmichaelnoise @cmvoss042 https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/6t0ma8/CinemaDual-Episode8-ComfortMovies9zfli.mp3
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