Episodes

  • 2019 with Noel Murray

    2019 with Noel Murray
    Jul 21 2024
    Film critic and O.G. AV Club member Noel Murray does not usually suffer from recency bias, but he thought it would be fun to glance back just five years to 2019, which gave us the hang-out pleasures of “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” the stinging commentary of “Parasite,” and the shocks and thrills of “Us.”

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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • 1995 with Caden Mark Gardner

    1995 with Caden Mark Gardner
    Jul 14 2024
    This week, we’re joined by the other co-author of the must-read new book “Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema”; film critic Caden Mark Gardner discusses the cinema of 1995, including such now-classics as “Safe,” “Heat,” and “Devil in a Blue Dress.”

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    1 hr and 8 mins
  • 1969 with Willow Catelyn Maclay

    1969 with Willow Catelyn Maclay
    Jul 7 2024
    “Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema” (out Tuesday) is one of our favorite film books of the year, and we’re welcoming both of its authors as consecutive guests. This week, film critic Willow Catelyn Maclay joins us to talk about the movies of 1969, from the ahead-of-its-time freedom of “Funeral Parade of Roses” to the Gotham grime of “Midnight Cowboy” to the delightful silliness of “Gamera vs Guiron.”

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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • 1959 with Phillip Lopate

    1959 with Phillip Lopate
    Jun 30 2024
    The essayist, poet, and film critic Phillip Lopate joins us to discuss his new collection “My Affair with Art House Cinema” and the cinema of 1959, in which one series began with “The 400 Blows,” one series ended with “The World of Apu,” and Otto Preminger hit the courtroom in “Anatomy of a Murder.”

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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • 1924 with Marya E. Gates

    1924 with Marya E. Gates
    Jun 23 2024
    Nobody we know knows more about silent cinema than film critic, historian, and social media mastermind Marya E. Gates. She joins us to talk about movies from literally a century ago, from the brilliance of “Sherlock Jr.” to the sexiness of “Forbidden Paradise” to the surrealism of “Ballet Mécanique.”

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    1 hr and 16 mins
  • 1961 with Larry Karaszewski

    1961 with Larry Karaszewski
    Jun 16 2024
    Larry Karaszewski isn’t just an award-winning screenwriter and producer — he’s also a serious cinephile, as evidenced by the fact that we asked him for a top five for the year of his birth, 1961, and he came back with six double-features. We talk about them all on this super-sized episode, with inspired pairings of American independents, Natalie Wood vehicles, Marcello Mastroianni classics, and more.

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    1 hr and 32 mins
  • 1967 with Mark Harris

    1967 with Mark Harris
    Jun 9 2024
    Mark Harris has written three of the essential film books of our time, and one of them — “Pictures at a Revolution” — tells the story of Hollywood in flux by detailing the making of the five nominees for best picture of 1967. So he joins us to talk about that year, from the groundbreaking “The Graduate” to the nose-thumbing of “Bonnie & Clyde” to the sheer craft of “In the Heat of the Night.”

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    1 hr and 19 mins
  • 1987 with Carrie Courogen

    1987 with Carrie Courogen
    Jun 2 2024
    Writer, editor, and director Carrie Courogen is the author of the breathtakingly good new book “Miss May Does Not Exist,” and since it’s a biography of Elaine May, she joins us to talk about 1987 — not only May’s unjustly maligned “Ishtar,” but the sheer perfection of “Broadcast News” and “Moonstruck.”

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    1 hr and 12 mins