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Showbiz: Amateur Adventures in Film Studies
Learning about film through the Criterion Collection
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28. 127: Dat Ass (12 Monkeys / La Jetée)
49:08||Season 4, Ep. 28We do a bit of noticing about time travel tropes with Terry Gilliam's 12 Monkeys and it's inspiration, La Jetée.
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27. 126: Keanu Reeves is SUCH an Important Figure in My Life (The Matrix / Attack the Block)
43:22||Season 4, Ep. 27We do a bit of noticing of SciFi Action, drug dealer etiquette, and ethical betrayal in 1999s's groundbreaking The Matrix and 2011's underrated Attack the Block.
26. 125: Technological Jibber Jabber (Solaris / The Brother From Another Planet)
46:14||Season 4, Ep. 26We do a bit of noticing of how science fiction makes us FEEL through social science fiction in Solaris (1972, not Clooney) and The Brother From Another Planet.25. 124: To Human Misery (2001: A Space Odyssey / Starship Troopers)
41:30||Season 4, Ep. 25We do a bit of noticing of space exploration in film, both the aggressive and perplexing, in 2001: A Space Odyssey directed by Stanley Kubrick and Starship Troopers directed by Paul Verhoeven.
24. 123: Sheep With Their Heads Cut Off (The Day the Earth Stood Still / Close Encounters of the Third Kind)
42:19||Season 4, Ep. 24We do a bit of noticing about men running around in first contact films with The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) and Close Encounters of the Third Kind.
23. 122: Dope as Hell (Stalker / Mad Max: Fury Road)
55:31||Season 4, Ep. 23We do a bit of noticing of the philosophy of post-apocalypses (apocali?) in Stalker directed by Andrei Tarkocsky and Mad Max: Fury Road directed by George Miller.
22. 121: I Feel No Pain Yet I Must Eat (Children of Men / THX 1138)
47:48||Season 4, Ep. 22We do a bit of noticing of dystopian fiction in Alfonso Cuaron's bleak and beautiful Children of Men and George Lucas's confounding THX 1138.