We close out Season Two of the podcast with Martin Brest’s drama Scent of a Woman, starring Al Pacino and Chris O’Donnell.

Plus: Alexander Payne’s The Holdovers, and an encounter with a rude traffic warden.

LINKS:
Trailer for Scent of a Woman
Trailer for The Holdovers
Trailer for People I Know

This week week we’re taking a bite out of Jonathan Demme’s classic serial-killer thriller The Silence of the Lambs, starring Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins.

Plus: James comes out of film-scoring retirement.

LINKS:
Trailer for The Silence of the Lambs
"Lotion" by Greenskeepers
Austin Pendleton as a lawyer in My Cousin Vinny

This week we discuss the journey of author Janet Frame in Jane Campion’s biographical drama An Angel at My Table, starring Alexia Keogh, Karen Fergusson, and Kerry Fox.

Plus: Season Two of The Jinx, and the time Stanley Tucci took James to a Yankees game.

LINKS:
Trailer for An Angel at My Table
Trailer for season two of The Jinx
Dr McCoy treats a patient in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home

This week we explore Spike Lee’s comedy-drama Do the Right Thing, starring Spike Lee, Danny Aiello, John Turturro and Rosie Perez.

Plus: James eats a $35 salad, Don Mischer’s “Go balloons”, and 1990 as the year of sequels.

LINKS:
Trailer for Do the Right Thing
Trailer for Thea Sharrock's Wicked Little Letters
Don Mischer at the 2004 Democratic National Convention
An incredible use of film score in In the Mood for Love

This week we discuss Stephen Frears’s film-adapted-from-a-play-adapted-from-a-novel Dangerous Liaisons, starring Glenn Close, John Malkovich, and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Plus: James finally visits the Vanguard!

LINKS:
Trailer for Dangerous Liaisons
Malkovich and Sinise in True West
John Candy in Uncle Buck: "unbreakable"

This week we take a stab at Adrian Lyne’s classic romantic thriller Fatal Attraction, starring Glenn Close and Michael Douglas.

Plus: the two faces of Harrison Ford, and James’s habit of talking to the television.

LINKS:
Trailer for Fatal Attraction
The original ending of Fatal Attraction
Trailer for Running on Empty

It’s a double-feature this week as we riff on two movies about musicians: Bertrand Tavernier’s Round Midnight and Alex Cox’s Sid and Nancy.

Plus: burned-out cars, slow television, and the unhelpful advice Robert Redford used to get.

LINKS:
Trailer for Sid & Nancy
Trailer for Round Midnight
Siskel & Ebert on Round Midnight
"Slow Television": the train in Norway

This week we survey the expanses of Ran, Akira Kurosawa’s epic adaptation of Shakespeare’s King Lear.

Plus: beds in cinemas, Werner Herzog on psychotherapy, and Sam’s aversion to movies set on ships.

LINKS:
Trailer for Ran
"VIP Beds" in UK cinemas
How an 18th-Century Sailing Warship Works
Werner Herzog on psychology as a “catastrophe”