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I'm Reviewing Here!
by Matthew Bussy
Follow unhealthily passionate movie buff/self-proclaimed lunatic/ridiculous weirdo who makes people nervously chuckle most of the time Matthew Bu$$y as he watches and reviews Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time, recently ranked in 2022. Pour yourself a cup of caffeine and learn with him as he (attempts to) interpret the best international films from around planet Earth. New episodes weekly.
Episodes
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WERCKMEISTER HARMONIES (2000) - Free Willy
Wow this movie is a doozy doozy doozy and it's Hungarian and it's very artistic and black and white and poetic and follows this guy living in this unnamed town and everyone becomes very frazzled upon learning that a traveling circus is coming to town and there will be a large whale like obviously...
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ORLANDO (1992) - Queen Tilda
Whattttt this movie is like so weird and whimsical and absurdly out there and nuts and beautiful and it stars Tilda Swinton and she plays a nobleman named Orlando in Elizabethan England and he is immortal and lives for centuries and no I'm not kidding and you see Orlando go to war and fall in…
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A CITY OF SADNESS (1989) - Taiwan. Family. History. Tony Leung.
So veteran actor Tony Leung and a bunch of other actors who I don't recognize star in this big epic family drama set in Taiwan after Japan surrendered and it follows how the new government came in which was called the KMT was very nasty and mean to the Taiwanese people and we follow mainly these...
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ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (1999) - The Movie That Made Me Unhealthily Obsessed with Spanish
Ahhhhhh OK so this is a film by one of my favorite directors and his name is Pedro Almodóvar and he's Spanish and like he's the reason I love the language so much even though I am dreadful at it and sound so disgustingly American when I speak it but anyway like he's one of a kind and ALL ABOUT MY...
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WHERE IS THE FRIEND'S HOUSE? (1987) - Childhood. Innocence. Kindness. Awww.
So there's this sweet adorable cherubic delightfully kind little boy living in Iran and like all the adults around him are so strict and stern and miserable and unhappy and one day he accidentally takes his classmate's school notebook home with him and then for the whole movie he makes it his...
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THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. MATTHEW (1964) - Italian Jesus!
OMG I am STILL in Italy this week and this is ANOTHER Italian movie IT IS FATE like how is this fate IDK guys I'm just being silly and annoying and weird hi welcome so this is a movie by this very famous but kinda controversial and iconoclastic director named Pier Paolo Pasolini and the title…
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ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICA (1984) - Jewish Gangsters and Opium and Noodles
OMG I'm still in Italy at the moment and this is a film by an ITALIAN director wow this is fate so this is a super long gangster epic like at least almost sort of four hours long and it's by Sergio Leone who was the cool guy who did THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY but this one is all set in 1930s...
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AMARCORD (1973) - Fellini the Lover. Fellini the Devil. Fellini the Fantastic.
OMG how serendipitous that I just happen to be in ITALIAAA the exact same time this episode premieres and like meaning that this is also an ITALIANNN movie and yes I obviously love Italian and Italy Italy Italy anyway sorry so this is a very lauded film by the incredible and one-and-only Federico...
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VIVRE SA VIE (1962) - The Passion of Nana (the Christ, I Mean)
So this is a Jean-Luc Godard film and he was like super famous and lived to be 91 and he's considered by many to be the pioneer of French New Wave cinema and this is one of his films and it stars his real-life wife at the time and it's so tragic and sad and poetic and artsy and experimental and...
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OUT OF THE PAST (1947) - What Is with These Loud Punch Sound Effects?
So Robert Mitchum was this super famous actor and he was best known for playing villains in two very spooky films but it turns out I was wrong and he's actually better known for playing leads in film noirs that I had never heard of and in this one he's this guy who's trying to start a new life…
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IKIRU (1952) - In Akira Kurosawa We Trust
Kurosawaaaaaaaaaa UGHHHH this man was such a genius so he usually made big action epics but this movie isn't that at all and it's like this heavy drama that's very sad but also positive but also pessimistic so it's positively pessimistic haha I'm funny no jk OK so in this movie there's this sad...
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THE YOUNG AND THE DAMNED (1950) - Poverty, YIKES
Oh me oh my OK so this film is so intense and depressing but DAY-UM it's by Luis Buñuel who is like super into weird symbolism and imagery and surrealism and meat and animals like chickens and ants and no don't worry this movie isn't trippy I mean it kinda is but it's overall a really powerful...
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LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (1961) - I Think I Know No You Don't Yes I Do No You Don't Yes I Do No You Don't
There's this guy and a girl at this super fancy schmancy hotel with a bunch of rich people and the guy is like hi lady I think we've met before and she's like I think you're mistaken and he's like I think we've met before and she's like I think you're mistaken and he's like I think we've met…
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L'ARGENT (1983) - Money Is BADDDD
Oh sweet merciful Jesus WOW this movie goes totally ape-poop in the third act and it's about a group of characters who are all connected by money somehow and it mainly follows this poor poor father who just wants to live a happy life with his family but gets screwed over and then his whole life...
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UN CHIEN ANDALOU (1929) - It's All About That Eye
HOLY WOWWWW OK so this movie is positively insane and makes no sense but it's not supposed to and Salvador Dalí co-wrote it and we all know he was into surrealism which means this entire movie is like a twisted, crazy, scary, disturbing, hilarious dream/nightmare and there are motifs throughout…
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OUT 1 (1971) - 13 Hours of Theater People Screaming...
It's almost 13 hours long....that's all I have to say. TRAILER: https://youtu.be/CoLRNavAi_8
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SYMBIOPSYCHOTAXIPLASM: TAKE ONE (1968) - A Documentary Inside a Documentary Inside a Documentary
Wowwwww how do I explain/pronounce this movie well first of all it's pronounced like "sim-bee-oh-psycho-tax-eh-plasm" and it's so calming to say and say it 50 times really fast I dare you haha jk I mean no I mean yes OK so this is a very bizarre documentary where the director of the film films...
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HEAT (1995) - Don't Be a Criminal Because Like It's Just So Not Worth It
OMG OK like don't ever mess with Al Pacino or Robert De Niro onscreen and off-screen because they are tough and scary but like so charismatic too and in this movie one of them is a thief and the other a cop and they form this weird relationship because the cop knows he will have to take him out...
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UNDER THE SKIN (2013) - E.T. 2: Black Widow
Podcaster Scrow Tim Tatopoulos joins me today for this super bizarre movie which is an alien sci-fi artsy erotic film and Scarlett Johansson plays this sexy alien in human skin who comes to Glasgow in this big car and picks up horny men and then traps them in this liquid where their skin is…
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THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (1962) - Where You Goin'?! I'm Leavin' You! No You Ain't!
Luis Buñuel did this movie and it's Spanish and so surreal and bizarre and absurd and weird and there are a bunch of rich people having this dinner party and drinking a lot and some people are fooling around and then they suddenly are literally unable to leave the house and they go nuts and it's...
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MEMORIES OF UNDERDEVELOPMENT (1968) - Cuba. A Man. A Woman. Cynicism.
There's this guy living in Cuba and he's bourgeois and wants to be a writer but can't do it and his wife has just left him and the country and he is super negative and cynical about everyone in Cuba and narrates the entire film about how stupid and underdeveloped everyone is around him and he…
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BLACK NARCISSUS (1947) - The Nun III - The Himalayas
Oh me oh my OH ME OH MY wow this movie is B A N A N A S and it's like a dramatic thriller or a thriller drama and it's about a bunch of nuns who open this convent up on this huge mountain in the Himalayas and there's this handsome guy that two of the nuns kinda have the hots for but they know…
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RED DESERT (1964) - Depression Depression Depression Depression Depression Depression
Oh boy OK so this is a very artsy abstract film which makes sense because Michelangelo Antonioni directed it and he loves everything abstract and Monica Vitti plays this very unhappy and depressed and lost wife whose husband works for a big petrochemical plant and then Richard Harris comes into…
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THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY (1966) - The Birth of the Clint Eastwood Snarl
So we all know that famous melody that is like "wooo woo wooo wooooo WAH WAH WAHHHH" but it's phonetically not like that because like I don't know how to spell it out but this is a spaghetti western which means the cowboys eat spaghetti no that was a bad joke this just means that it was a western...
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CHARULATA (1964) - May I Eat This Movie Please?
I say I want to eat this movie because it is so beautiful like every frame is like a piece of cake like literal cake preferably vanilla because I always have loved vanilla more than chocolate but sorry this is a movie by this super famous Indian director named Satyajit Ray and his name is so…
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LETTER FROM AN UNKNOWN WOMAN (1948) - First Love Is Such Sweet Despair...
You know when you first like a person and you think they like you back and so you're like yayyyy but then they totally flake on you and you're like whyyy Godddd whyyyy well this movie is pretty much like that and it's very old-fashioned and black-and-white and follows this pretty and innocent…
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HIROSHIMA MON AMOUR (1959) - Just....SO MUCH Poetry
So Alain Resnais directed this and he was this huge French New Wave director who made super artsy films and this one is like totally beautiful to look at and it's about this young attractive French woman working in Hiroshima after WWII and she has an affair with a married Japanese architect and...
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THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS (1942) - Oh My... I... Oh Wow...
Oy vey oh Lord OK so Orson Welles directed and adapted this movie from a Pulitzer Prize-winning book and he's the dude who did Citizen Kane (1941) and I mean like that's CITIZEN FREAKIN' KANE so this one is very different but it still has its visual style and it's about this messy family in the...
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MAGNOLIA (1999) - It's Raining Frogs, Hallelujah, It's Raining Frogs
Paul Thomas Anderson made this movie when he was in his late 20s and HOLY HELL it's insane and wild and epic and large in scope and long in length and bizarre and moving and poetic and strange and it has this huge cast including Tom Cruise and Julianne Moore and William H. Macy and frogs and it's...
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WINGS OF DESIRE (1987) - Angels with Fear of Missing Out
Oy vey OK so this movie is considered a classic because it's so beautifully filmed and gorgeous and haunting and I get it like the imagery is indeed superb and it's directed by Wim Wenders who also did that movie Paris, Texas but this movie is a lot different because it's a fantasy drama about...
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PYAASA (1957) - When You're Annoyed, SING
This movie is called PYASSA and it's pronounced like "pee-ahs-sah" and it means "thirst" but not like "I'm thirsty" per se and it's about this poor young writer in Calcutta who just wants to do what he's most passionate about but nobody will let him and they're so mean and are like "that's dumb"...
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RAN (1985) - Look at the Blooooooood
So this is a big epic bloody samurai action epic directed by Akira Kurosawa and it was the first Kurosawa movie I ever saw which is like insane because he's considered to be one of the greatest directors and NOT ONCE did I watch any of his films in high school or college or my 20s, 30s, and 40s…
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GREED (1924) - Money and a Creepy Dentist Who Wants....Money
This is a super old silent and like it's so twisted the more I think about it because it follows these three characters and how everything goes to poo poo when one of them wins a $5,000 lottery and there's a creepy dentist and his wife and his wife's former fiancé and a desert and a little bird…
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LOVE STREAMS (1984) - The Dog and the N*ked Man...
John Cassavetes has the coolest-sounding last name ever and he was this super famous indie director and he was an actor too in Rosemary's Baby but like he is more famous for directing and LOVE STREAMS was one of his last films and it stars him and his real-life wife Gena Rowlands and they play...
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AN AUTUMN AFTERNOON (1962) - We All End Up Alone. THE END.
So this was the last movie by this super famous rad director from Japan named Yasujirō Ozu and it's set after the war in Tokyo and there's this sweet old father with three kids and his eldest son is married but he's kind of a douche and he now wants to marry off his daughter and we meet his other...
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THE RIVER (1951) - Don't Play with Cobras or Fall for One-Legged Older Captains If You're Young
Special guest (my FIRST EVER! AHH!) and fellow film buff/podcaster Margaret Picklechips joins me to talk about Jean Renoir's GORGEOUSSSS Technicolor masterpiece, THE RIVER. It's a coming-of-age story by the son of famous French Impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and it's set in British...
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THE BIRDS (1963) - Peck Me with Your Best Beak, Fire Awayyyyyy (Get It?)
So Alfred Hitchcock made this movie about this woman named Melanie who goes to Bodega Bay because she likes this guy but then suddenly all these birds go bananas and start attacking people and we're talking gulls and crows and they make these obnoxious noises like ARHGAJFJFJ but WHYYYYY are they...
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THE YOUNG GIRLS OF ROCHEFORT (1967) - LA LA LAND But Frenchhhhhhh
OMGGGGGG oh my g oh my g OK so this movie will pull you out of a deep sadness if you're having a bad day because it's so visually/aesthetically pleasing that it's almost overwhelming and there's music and it's actually a musical but like HOW is this not talked about more and it's in French and...
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PARIS, TEXAS (1984) - Written by Noah's Dad in THE NOTEBOOK
Harry Dean Stanton plays this guy named Travis who is super quiet and weird but like approachable and not creepy but he never talks or makes any expressions and so his brother picks him up in the desert and he lives with him and Travis's son who is this cute little kid with 80s blonde hair but…
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PARIS IS BURNING (1990) - Vogue, Voguing, Vogued
(ON A SERIOUS NOTE. Before I get weird, I need to admit that near the beginning of this episode, I misspoke. I say that PARIS IS BURNING represents the queer African-American community. That's not what I meant. It represents the queer BLACK community. (And Latinx community, of course.) I spoke…
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THE HEADLESS WOMAN (2008) - Drive Carefully or Else You're Gonna Lose Your Mind...
There's this woman in Argentina who's driving and checks her phone quickly and then accidentally hits something and we don't know what it is but we think it's a dog but she's not convinced and starts to spiral out of control because she starts thinking she hit a kid instead and the movie shows…
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THE TREE OF LIFE (2011) - SHUT UP, It's a GREAT Movie! I'm Right, You're Wrong.
Alrighty, so this is a Terrence Malick movie and people either love or hate Malick because his films' plots are super non-linear and they're super poetic and visually gorgeous and have a lot of repetitive voiceover narrations and shots of leaves and trees and skies and flowers and actors brooding...
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MAD MAX: FURY ROAD (2015) - Cars and Trucks and Fire and Desert and BOOMS and CHARLIZE and UGHHHHHHH
So it's based on a popular western action series starring Mel Gibson and Tina Turner was in one of the films but this is a reboot and it has mostly practical effects and it's basically entirely one large car chase and so freakin' cool and I don't even like action movies but this one makes me want...
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ZAMA (2017) - Colonialism, You S*CK
So there's this Argentinian magistrate and I never know how to pronounce that word and it's a period piece movie and this guy wants to go home back to his family but can't leave this island and there are indigenous people everywhere and people are so mean to them and it's awful and he keeps…
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PAISAN (1946) - Warrrr, HUHHH, Yeahhh....
So this is a series of war vignettes and none of them are really connected and they all take place during the end of World War II in Italy and it features mostly unknown actors and each story is so dark and depressing and sad and emotional but they need to be because war SUCKS and like it…
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NOSFERATU (1922) - Making Vampires SCARY, for Once
UGHHHHH this movie is literally the FIRST vampire movie E V E R and it's not like terrifying in my opinion but it's so gorgeously/hauntingly shot and the lead actor is iconic as Count Orlok who is like a walking talking bat/rat/naked mole rat but he drinks blood and is like...
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DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB (1964) - I'm Reviewing Here! or: How I Try to Laugh at This Movie But Just Can't
It's the Cold War but this is a work of fiction and a bunch of US B-52 bombers are tasked with bombing the USSR because their commander is a lunatic and then Peter Sellers plays three roles - a Brit, an American, and a Nazi - and it's all in black-and-white and it's one of the most famous dark...
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DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) - Just Please Dump Your GF if She Seems Dangerous
So there's a guy who meets a hot girl who's like "I love you, let's make love and kill my husband and become rich" and he does but then she's more twisted than he thinks and this is a noir with one of best screenplays of all time and it's dark and sexy and twisted and sometimes funny and just...
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L'ECLISSE (1962) - Basically, Everyone Sucks on This Planet and Everything Is Boring
It's like The Lizzie McGuire Movie except Monica Vitti walks around moodily and never smiles and has the hots for this handsome young guy in Rome but this isn't a love story at all but a seriously enigmatic, abstract film with images galore and ROMEEEEEE I MUST GO THERE NOWWWWWW. ("This is what...
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I KNOW WHERE I'M GOING! (1945) - Love, Scotland, Curses, and a Sexy-Looking Whirlpool
Wendy Hiller is gonna get married! And she gets stuck on the Isle of Mull! And she falls for a local guy there! And there's a curse! And there's a whirlpool! And she's independent! And she loves exclamation points! Think Outlander meets rom-com. TRAILER: https://youtu.be/EVXs_bUXQ_8
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Follow unhealthily passionate movie buff/self-proclaimed lunatic/ridiculous weirdo who makes people nervously chuckle most of the time Matthew Bu$$y as he watches and reviews Sight and Sound’s Greatest Films of All Time, recently ranked in 2022. Pour yourself a cup of caffeine and learn with him as he (attempts to) interpret the best international films from around planet Earth. New episodes weekly.
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