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The Empathy Machine
by Andrew Ford and Josh Ickes
Roger Ebert once described film as "the most powerful empathy machine of all the arts," and we aim to explore film through that prism. Each week, we'll be deconstructing films from as many angles as possible - from the production history, to the cultural environment in which they were conceived and later released, to the thematic and narrative threads that each film explores - we'll leave no stone unturned. Our tastes are varied, and we're generally receptive to just about any film that comes our way, so we're also open to suggestions and recommendations for episodes as well. Join us on this adventure!
Episodes
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S1E10: Children Of The Corn-A-Thon!
This week, we watched Every Single One of the Children of the Corn Sequels, as well as the Original, and we SURVIVED. There's not much to add here. Keep an eye out for Arrow Video's shockingly comprehensive blu-ray release, coming out on October 3rd, which features Dollar Baby "Disciples of the...
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S1E9: Stephen King's Dollar Babies
This week on the Empathy Machine, we discuss a smattering of Stephen King's Dollar Baby shorts and explore what makes for a successful Stephen King adaptation. What is a Dollar Baby, you ask? Well, since the early-1980s, Stephen King has offered the opportunity for independent and student...
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S1E8: George Romero-In Memoriam
This week, we memorialize George A. Romero by diving deep into his body of work to examine two of his lesser-known films, 1978's Martin and 1981's Knightriders, and go on to discuss the seismic impact he's had on not just the horror genre, but culture as a whole. RIP, George. You will be missed....
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S1E7: Jaws Part 2
This week on the Empathy Machine Podcast, we return to the ocean to talk more about Jaws and mostly advocate for more violence on screen, and for showing Jaws to children as young as you possibly can. Special thanks as always to our Fearless Sound Engineer Drew DeVore, and Extra Special Thanks to...
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S1E6: Jaws Part 1
This week, just when you thought it was safe to go back into the water, we talk about Jaws! Come for a lengthy discussion of the book, stay for the tangential discussions that lead to the film itself, the state of modern big-budget genre filmmaking, and eventually some very focused discussion of...
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S1E5: We Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet Vol. 1
This week, we discuss a pair of 1970s sports films due to the fact that I [Andrew] had not yet seen them. We start in 1977 with George Roy Hill's Slap Shot, and work our way backwards all the way to 1976 to discuss Michael Ritchie's work on the original Bad News Bears. For our advanced studies…
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S1E4: Alien Resurrection
This week, we discuss Alien: Resurrection, the rapid evolution of big-studio filmmaking, the importance of managing tone and how best to translate the tone of a script to the screen, specifically via casting and the direction of said cast. We also make an earnest plea to armchair YouTube film...
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S1E3: Alien 3
In this week's episode, we discuss Alien 3, the career of David Fincher, the struggles that come with helming one's first studio film (we assume), and come up with a pair of companion films that may not spring immediately to mind - Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker and Andrew Dominik's Killing Them...
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S1E2: Aliens
Join us as we continue our journey through the Alien franchise with our discussion of James Cameron's masterwork of sci-fi action cinema, 1986's Aliens. We dive into behind the making of the film, James Cameron's career to-date, and explore the continuum of genre filmmaking that produced this…
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S1E1: Alien
We begin our in depth look at the Alien franchise and talk about some filmmaking lessons you can learn from one of this classic sci-fi/horror film.
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Roger Ebert once described film as "the most powerful empathy machine of all the arts," and we aim to explore film through that prism. Each week, we'll be deconstructing films from as many angles as possible - from the production history, to the cultural environment in which they were conceived and later released, to the thematic and narrative threads that each film explores - we'll leave no stone unturned. Our tastes are varied, and we're generally receptive to just about any film that comes our way, so we're also open to suggestions and recommendations for episodes as well. Join us on this adventure!
HOSTED BY
Andrew Ford and Josh Ickes
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The Empathy Machine currently has 10 episodes available on PodParley. New episodes are automatically indexed when they're published to the podcast feed.
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Roger Ebert once described film as "the most powerful empathy machine of all the arts," and we aim to explore film through that prism. Each week, we'll be deconstructing films from as many angles as possible - from the production history, to the cultural environment in which they were conceived and...
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The Empathy Machine is created and hosted by Andrew Ford and Josh Ickes.
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