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Films for Today — 243 episodes

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Can we break free of deviance? | "Catch Me if You Can" (2002) d. Steven Spielberg

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Should storytellers strive for authenticity? | "Blue Heron" (2025) d. Sophy Romvari w/ Sophy Romvari

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What does evolution have in store for modern man? | "Jurassic Park" (1993) d. Steven Spielberg

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Can you outgrow evil? | "Forbidden Planet" (1956) d. Fred M. Wilcox

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What does it take to be a real man? | "Little Shop of Horrors" (1986) d. Frank Oz

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Is violence ever justifiable? | "Tyrannosaur" (2011) d. Paddy Considine

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What is the truest form of love? | "Breaking the Waves" (1996) d. Lars von Trier

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Does personal ambition have a limit? | "We Need to Talk About Kevin" (2011) d. Lynne Ramsay

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Who triggers societal collapse? | "Escape from New York" (1981) d. John Carpenter

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How can we get what we want? | "Groundhog Day" (1993) d. Harold Ramis

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Does everything need to be solved? | "Under the Silver Lake" (2018) d. David Robert Mitchell

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Where might overthinking lead us? | "The End of the Tour" (2015) d. James Ponsoldt

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Who should we listen to? | "Donnie Darko" (2001) d. Richard Kelly

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Are you The One? | "The Fisher King" (1991) d. Terry Gilliam

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What is the participatory aspect of cinema and reality itself? | "Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One" (1968) d. William Greaves w/ Bhenn Tonks

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How do you overcome the alpha male? | "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story" (2004) d. Rawson Marshall Thurber

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What is the fate of the basic man? | "The Man Who Wasn't There" (2001) d. Joel Coen

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How might we respond to an uninspiring world? | "The Shining" (1980) d. Stanley Kubrick

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2025: A Year in Review

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What is the fate of the exceptional? | "Edward Scissorhands" (1990) d. Tim Burton

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Do we truly see what we already have? | "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999) d. Stanley Kubrick

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Can a lot come from a little? | "Fantasia" (1940) d. Various

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What is the paradoxical nature of rebellion? | "Patterns" (1956) d. Fielder Cook

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Is happiness more available than most of us think? | "Little Miss Sunshine" (2006) d. Valerie Faris & Jonathan Dayton

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Is it possible to outrun a timeless sense of duty? | "The Wild Bunch" (1969) d. Sam Peckinpah

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Are we getting too crazy? | "Bugonia" (2025) d. Yorgos Lanthimos

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What are the vulnerabilities of democracy? | "Jaws" (1975) d. Steven Spielberg

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What are the effects of modern discourse? | "Party Animal" (2025) d. Ali Gill w/ Ali Gill and Aimie Sullivan

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Can worn-out relationships be renovated? | "Sentimental Value" (2025) d. Joachim Trier | LFF 2025 Special

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Why do healthy relationships feel impossible to achieve? | "Possession" (1981) d. Andrzej Żuławski

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What is the power of performed intellect? | "The Master" (2012) d. Paul Thomas Anderson

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Can we trust our ordinary senses of self and reality? | "Perfect Blue" (1997) d. Satoshi Kon

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How might we liberate ourselves from oppressive regimes? | "The Shawshank Redemption" (1994) d. Frank Darabont

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How political are we qualified to be? | "Eddington" (2025) d. Ari Aster

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Is there such a thing as dignified rebellion? | "Killer of Sheep" (1978) d. Charles Burnett

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How might passive attention impact the world? | "Los Angeles Plays Itself" (2003) d. Thom Andersen

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Will anyone ever understand your existential plight? | "Rebel Without a Cause" (1955) d. Nicholas Ray

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How powerless are we as individuals in the face of existential threats? | "First Reformed" (2017) d. Paul Schrader w/ Christopher Smol

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Why make art? | "Sideways" (2004) d. Alexander Payne

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How deep can human connections go? | "The Double Life of Veronique" (1991) d. Krzysztof Kieślowski

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Is trust between people doomed in a world of imitations? | 'The Thing' (1982) d. John Carpenter

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What is truly at stake in the cinema? | 'Babylon' (2022) d. Damien Chazelle

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How should we view claims to innocence? | 'The White Ribbon' (2009) d. Michael Haneke

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Can love actually be found in a hopeless place? | 'Mud' (2012) d. Jeff Nichols

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How can we know when to speak the truth? | "On the Waterfront" (1954) d. Elia Kazan

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What is the ultimate consequence of integrating the shadow? | "Youth in Revolt" (2009) d. Miguel Arteta

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Are there stages of true toughness? | "Good Will Hunting" (1997) d. Gus Van Sant

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What does criticism look like in a postmodern world? | 'Ratatouille' (2007) d. Brad Bird & Jan Pinkava

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Are we content with our treatment of beauty? | "Parthenope" (2024) d. Paolo Sorrentino

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How available are our deepest emotions? | "American Beauty" (1999) d. Sam Mendes

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How should we navigate subjective experience in a world of "objects"? | "Withnail & I" (1987) d. Bruce Robinson

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What might be the antidote to fascism? | "Hot Fuzz" (2007) d. Edgar Wright

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How are we to make sense of artistic ambition? | "Paterson" (2016) d. Jim Jarmusch

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What does it mean to give our true selves to those we love? | "Wings of Desire" (1987) d. Wim Wenders

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Are we on track to see the end of cinema? | "The Second Act" (2024) d. Quentin Dupieux

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How dangerous is the romanticisation of modern life? | "The End" (2024) d. Joshua Oppenheimer

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How might a simple life constrain us more than we think? | "Pather Panchali" (1955) d. Satyajit Ray

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What is the value of privacy? | "The Conversation" (1974) d. Francis Ford Coppola

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What does noble desire look like? | "Malena" (2000) d. Giuseppe Tornatore

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Why should we care about the end of humanity? | "On the Beach" (1959) d. Stanley Kramer

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How far away are we from transformative experiences? | "Night on Earth" (1991) d. Jim Jarmusch

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Does anyone have chance at a decent life? | "Stand By Me" (1986) d. Rob Reiner

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What do we desire in an ideal companion? | "Wallace and Gromit" (Various) d. Nick Park et al

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How can we transcend life's inevitable tragedies? | "The Elephant Man" (1980) d. David Lynch

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What kinds of people should we open up to? | "Leave Her to Heaven" (1945) d. John M. Stahl

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What does a true commitment to science really look like? | "I Origins" (2014) d. Mike Cahill

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'Big Fish' (2003) d. Tim Burton

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'The Innocents' (1961) d. Jack Clayton

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'A Complete Unknown' (2024) d. James Mangold

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2024: A Year in Review

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'The Day of the Beast' (1995) d. Álex de la Iglesia

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'Bad Santa' (2003) d. Terry Zwigoff w/ Eddie Bernasconi

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'Anora' (2024) d. Sean Baker w/ Henry Bretz

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'The Remains of the Day' (1993) d. James Ivory w/ Christopher Smol

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'The Taste of Mango' (2023) d. Chloe Abrahams w/ Chloe Abrahams

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'Like My Brother' (2024) d. Sal Balharrie w/ Archie Chew

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'Sofa, So Good' (2024) d. The Thiele Brothers w/ The Thiele Brothers

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'Joker: Folie à Deux' (2024) d. Todd Phillips

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Special Early Release - 'Halloween' (1978) d. John Carpenter w/ Matthew T. Price

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'Crocodile Tears' (2024) d. Tumpal Tampubolon w/ Tumpal Tampubolon

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'Trainspotting' (1996) d. Danny Boyle

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'A Real Pain' (2024) d. Jesse Eisenberg

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'When the Wind Blows' (1986) d. Jimmy T. Murakami

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'Watership Down' (1978) d. Martin Rosen & John Hubley

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'The Leopard' (1963) d. Luchino Visconti

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'Amadeus' (1984) d. Miloš Forman

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'The Browning Version' (1951) d. Anthony Asquith

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'2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968) d. Stanley Kubrick

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'The Purple Rose of Cairo' (1985) d. Woody Allen

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The End of Sacred Cinema...

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The Formidable-Facing Feminine - 'The Birds' (1963) d. Alfred Hitchcock, 'Contact' (1997) d. Robert Zemeckis & 'Twisters' (2024) d. Lee Isaac Chung

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F(eminine) B(udding) I(nvestigator)s - 'The Silence of the Lambs' (1991) d. Jonathan Demme, 'Wind River' (2017) d. Taylor Sheridan & 'Longlegs' (2024) d. Oz Perkins

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Adult Entertainers - 'Showgirls' (1995) d. Paul Verhoeven, 'Boogie Nights' (1997) d. Paul Thomas Anderson & 'MaXXXine' (2024) d. Ti West

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Dreams - 'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) d. Victor Fleming & King Vidor, 'Waking Life' (2001) d. Richard Linklater & 'Kinds of Kindness' (2024) d. Yorgos Lanthimos

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Modern Japan - 'Tokyo Story' (1953) d. Yasujirô Ozu, 'Sans Soleil' (1983) d. Chris Marker & 'Godzilla Minus One' (2023) d. Takashi Yamazaki

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Primates - 'King Kong' (1933) d. Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack, 'Twelve Monkeys' (1995) d. Terry Gilliam & 'Sasquatch Sunset' (2024) d. David Zellner & Nathan Zellner

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Buried Treasure - 'The Treasure of the Sierra Madre' (1948) d. John Huston, 'National Treasure' (2004) d. Jon Turteltaub & 'La Chimera' (2023) d. Alice Rohrwacher

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Seductive Alter Egos - 'The Nutty Professor' (1963) d. Jerry Lewis, 'The Mask' (1994) d. Chuck Russell & 'Hit Man' (2024) d. Richard Linklater

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Fall Guys - 'Angels with Dirty Faces' (1938) d. Michael Curtiz, 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit' (1988) d. Robert Zemeckis & 'The Fall Guy' (2024) d. David Leitch

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Avenging the Feminine - 'Lady Snowblood' (1973) d. Toshiya Fujita, 'Irreversible' (2002) d. Gaspar Noé & 'Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga' (2024) d. George Miller

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Clingers - 'Play Misty for Me' (1971) d. Clint Eastwood, 'The Cable Guy' (1996) d. Ben Stiller & 'The Piano Teacher' (2001) d. Michael Haneke

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Private Investigators - 'The Long Goodbye' (1973) d. Robert Altman, 'Ace Ventura: Pet Detective' (1994) d. Tom Shadyac & 'I Heart Huckabees' (2004) d. David O. Russell

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Side-Switchers - 'The Bridges of Madison County' (1995) d. Clint Eastwood, 'Match Point' (2005) d. Woody Allen, 'Challengers' (2024) d. Luca Guadagnino

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Shooting Violence - 'Peeping Tom' (1960) d. Michael Powell, 'Nightcrawler' (2014) d. Dan Gilroy & 'Civil War' (2024) d. Alex Garland

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Bohemian Triangles - 'Jules and Jim' (1962) d. François Truffaut, 'The Dreamers' (2003) d. Bernardo Bertolucci & 'Vicky Cristina Barcelona' (2008) d. Woody Allen

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All Roads Lead to Rome - 'Rome, Open City' (1945) d. Roberto Rossellini, 'La Dolce Vita' (1960) d. Federico Fellini & 'Il Divo' (2008) d. Paolo Sorrentino

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Vengeful Street Fighters - 'Old Boy' (2003) d. Park Chan-wook, 'John Wick' (2014) d. Chad Stahelski & David Leitch & 'Monkey Man' (2024) d. Dev Patel

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Missing Persons - 'The Vanishing' (1988) d. George Sluizer, 'Prisoners' (2013) d. Denis Villeneuve & 'The Sweet East' (2023) d. Sean Price Williams

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Accidental Love Bots - 'Metropolis' (1927) d. Fritz Lang, 'Her' (2013) d. Spike Jonze & 'Robot Dreams' (2023) d. Pablo Berger

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Monsters in the Forest - 'Predator' (1987) d. John McTiernan, 'Monsters' (2010) d. Gareth Edwards & 'Monster' (2023) d. Kore-eda Hirokazu

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Kidnapped - 'The Searchers' (1956) d. John Ford, 'Funny Games' (1997/2007) d. Michael Haneke & 'Gone Baby Gone' (2007) d. Ben Affleck

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Heroes in the Sand - 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962) d. David Lean, 'Black Hawk Down' (2001) d. Ridley Scott & 'Dune: Part Two' (2024) d. Denis Villeneuve

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Limited Resources - 'Modern Times' (1936) d. Charles Chaplin, 'Cléo from 5 to 7' (1962) d. Agnès Varda & 'Perfect Days' (2023) d. Wim Wenders

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Cooks and Cannibals - 'Babette's Feast' (1987) d. Gabriel Axel, 'The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover' (1989) d. Peter Greenaway & 'The Taste of Things' (2023) d. Anh Hung Tran

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Suffocating Authority - 'Rope' (1948) d. Alfred Hitchcock, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' (1975) d. Milos Forman & 'The Iron Claw' (2023) d. Sean Durkin

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Fictitious Figures - 'Meet John Doe' (1941) d. Frank Capra, 'The Talented Mr. Ripley' (1999) d. Anthony Minghella & 'American Fiction' (2023) d. Cord Jefferson

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Mundane Malevolence - 'Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles' (1975) d. Chantal Akerman, 'Little Children' (2006) d. Todd Field & 'The Zone of Interest' (2023) d. Jonathan Glazer

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Under the Wing - 'The Last Detail' (1973) d. Hal Ashby, 'Malcolm' (1986) d. Nadia Tass & 'The Holdovers' (2023) d. Alexander Payne

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Motherhood Now - 'The End We Start From' (2023) d. Mahalia Belo, 'Poor Things' (2023) d. Yorgos Lanthimos & 'The Boy and the Heron' (2023) d. Hayao Miyazaki

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Fight For Your Life - 'A Matter of Life and Death' (1946) d. Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 'A Hidden Life' (2019) d. Terrence Malick & 'One Life' (2023) d. James Hawes

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Salvation by Sedation - 'Life is Beautiful' (1997) d. Roberto Benigni, 'Shutter Island' (2010) d. Martin Scorsese & 'Leave the World Behind' (2023) d. Sam Esmail

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2023: A Year in Review

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Home for the Holidays (Early Release) - 'It's a Wonderful Life' (1946) d. Frank Capra, 'Black Christmas' (1974) d. Bob Clark & 'Home Alone' (1990) d. Chris Columbus

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Requesting Your Favourite Films of 2023

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Final Solutions - 'Toy Story' (1995) d. John Lasseter, 'Inglourious Basterds' (2009) d. Quentin Tarantino, 'How to Have Sex' (2023) d. Molly Manning Walker

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Delayed Anonymous Romance - 'The 40 Year-Old Virgin' (2005) d. Judd Apatow, 'Last Tango in Paris' (1972) d. Bernardo Bertolucci & 'Fallen Leaves' (2023) d. Aki Kaurismäki

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Napoleonic Weakness - 'Napoleon Dynamite' (2004) d. Jared Hess, 'Napoleon' (2023) d. Ridley Scott & 'A Streetcar Named Desire' (1951) d. Elia Kazan

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Eat the Rich - 'Delicatessen' (1991) d. Marc Caro & Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie' (1972) d. Luis Buñuel & 'Saltburn' (2023) d. Emerald Fennell

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Ends of Eras - 'Falling Down' (1993) d. Joel Schumacher, 'Anatomy of a Fall' (2023) d. Justine Triet & 'The Last Emperor' (1987) d. Bernardo Bertolucci

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Been There, Done That - 'The Worst Person in the World' (2021) d. Joachim Trier, 'Passages' (2023) d. Ira Sachs & 'The Great Beauty' (2013) d. Paolo Sorrentino

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Romantic - 'Bright Star' (2009) d. Jane Campion, 'Grizzly Man' (2005) d. Werner Herzog & ' Before Midnight' (2013) d. Richard Linklater

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Heroes of the Past - 'Killers of the Flower Moon' (2023) d. Martin Scorsese, 'Akira' (1988) d. Katsuhiro Otomo & 'The Manchurian Candidate' (1962) d. John Frankenheimer

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Pair Bonding - 'Nebraska' (2013) d. Alexander Payne, 'Thelma & Louise' (1991) d. Ridley Scott & 'Before Sunset' (2004) d. Richard Linklater

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No Man Is an Island (LFF/Radiothon Special) - 'The Bikeriders' (2023) d. Jeff Nichols, 'Maestro' (2023) d. Bradley Cooper & 'The Killer' (2023) d. David Fincher

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Discussing Life - 'Naked' (1992) d. Mike Leigh, 'Before Sunrise' (1995) d. Richard Linklater & 'Mindwalk' (1990) d. Bernt Amadeus Capra

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Realising the Fantasy - 'La La Land' (2016) d. Damien Chazelle

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Lost Love - 'Brief Encounter' (1945) d. David Lean, 'Past Lives' (2023) d. Celine Song & 'Casablanca' (1942) d. Michael Curtiz

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From Naught to Naughty - 'Talk to Me' (2022) d. Danny and Michael Philippou, 'Kids' (1995) d. Larry Clark & 'E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial' (1982) d. Steven Spielberg

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Alien Encounters - 'Close Encounters of the Third Kind' (1977) d. Steven Spielberg, 'Godland' (2022) d. Hlynur Pálmason & 'Asteroid City' (2023) d. Wes Anderson

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About Parents - 'About My Father' (2023) d. Laura Terruso, 'All About My Mother' (1999) d. Pedro Almodóvar & 'About Time' (2013) d. Richard Curtis

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Iconic/Demonic - 'Mazey Day' (2023) d. Uta Briesewitz, 'Demon 79' (2023) d. Toby Haynes & 'Loch Henry' (2023) d. Sam Miller

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Barbenheimer (Special Early Episode) - 'Barbie' (2023) d. Greta Gerwig, 'Oppenheimer' (2023) d. Christopher Nolan & 'Melancholia' (2011) d. Lars von Trier

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Politics on the Plain - 'Sweet Home Alabama' (2002) d. Andy Tennant, 'Alcarràs' (2022) d. Carla Simón & Sonia Castelo & 'Blazing Saddles' (1974) d. Mel Brooks

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Phantasmic Figures - 'He's Just Not That Into You' (2009) d. Ken Kwapis, 'Run Rabbit Run' (2023) d. Daina Reid & 'Mr. Nobody' (2009) d. Jaco Van Dormael

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Excavating Germans - 'Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny' (2023) d. James Mangold, 'Blind Spot' (1981) d. Claudia von Alemann & 'The Tin Drum' (1979) d. Volker Schlöndorff

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The Love Horse - 'American Pie' (1999) d. Paul Weitz & Chris Weitz, 'No Hard Feelings' (2023) d. Gene Stupnitsky & 'Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' (2004) d. Michel Gondry

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Honour Thy Family - 'Omen' (2023) d. Baloji, 'You Hurt My Feelings' (2023) d. Nicole Holofcener & 'Ordinary People' (1980) d. Robert Redford

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The Multiverse, NY - 'Annie Hall' (1977) d. Woody Allen, 'Synecdoche, New York' (2008) d. Charlie Kaufman & 'Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse' (2023) d. J. Dos Santos, K. Powers & J. K. Thompson

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Trouble in Paradise - 'L'Avventura' (1960) d. Michelangelo Antonioni, 'Forgetting Sarah Marshall' (2008) d. Nicholas Stoller & 'Infinity Pool' (2023) d. Brandon Cronenberg

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A Single Mother's Burden - 'As Good as It Gets' (1997) d. James L. Brooks, 'Erin Brockovich' (2000) d. Steven Soderbergh & 'One Fine Morning' (2022) d. Mia Hansen-Løve

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Conservative/Progressive - 'The Blue Caftan' (2022) d. Maryam Touzani, 'Princess Mononoke' (1997) d. Hayao Miyazaki & 'The Sound of Music' (1965) d. Robert Wise

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The Church of Sport - 'Any Given Sunday' (1999) d. Oliver Stone, 'Raging Bull' (1980) d. Martin Scorsese & 'Moneyball' (2011) d. Bennett Miller

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The Monstrous Feminine - 'Shrek' (2001) d. Andrew Adamson & Vicky Jenson, 'Monster' (2003) d. Patty Jenkins & 'Saint Omer' (2022) d. Alice Diop

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Masculine Cowardice - 'The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford' (2007) d. Andrew Dominik, 'Beau is Afraid' (2023) d. Ari Aster & 'Nocturnal Animals' (2016) d. Tom Ford

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Senses of Security - 'November' (2022) d. Cédric Jimenez, 'Children of Men' (2006) d. Alfonso Cuarón & 'Ex Machina' (2014) d. Alex Garland

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The Simulate 90s - 'Dark City' (1998) d. Alex Proyas, 'The Matrix' (1999) d. the Wachowski Sisters & 'The Thirteenth Floor' (1999) d. Josef Rusnak

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Lifting Off - 'Gattaca' (1997) d. Andrew Niccol, 'Sunshine' (2007) d. Danny Boyle & 'Interstellar' (2014) d. Christopher Nolan

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The Dance of Romance - 'Dirty Dancing' (1987) d. Emile Ardolino, 'Gentlemen Prefer Blondes' (1953) d. Howard Hawks & 'Pearl' (2022) d. Ti West

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The Seeds of War - 'City of God' (2002) d. Fernando Meirelles & Kátia Lund, 'All Quiet on the Western Front' (2022) d. Edward Berger & 'Wag the Dog' (1997) d. Barry Levinson

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Escape to the Seaside - 'Two Tickets to Greece' (2022) d. Marc Fitoussi, 'Pierrot le Fou' (1965) d. Jean-Luc Godard & 'The Green Ray' (1986) d. Éric Rohmer

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The Enemy Within - 'Face/Off' (1997) d. John Woo, 'To Leslie' (2022) d. Michael Morris & 'Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb' (1964) d. Stanley Kubrick

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Princes, Prowlers and Progenitrices - 'Harold and Maude' (1971) d. Hal Ashby, 'Empire of Light' (2022) d. Sam Mendes & 'In the Bedroom' (2001) d. Todd Field

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Princesses, Predators and Protectors - 'Leon' (1994) d. Luc Besson, 'An Education' (2009) d. Lone Scherfig & 'Aftersun' (2022) d. Charlotte Wells

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Consolidating Competence - 'Tár' (2022) d. Todd Field, 'Being There' (1979) d. Hal Ashby & 'Armaggedon' (1998) d. Michael Bay

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Coming of Age at Work - 'Caddyshack' (1980) d. Harold Ramis, 'Mystic Pizza' (1988) d. Donald Petrie & 'Adventureland' (2009) d. Greg Mottola

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The Roaring (20)20s - 'Babylon' (2022) d. Damien Chazelle, 'The Whale' (2022) d. Darren Aronofsky & 'Triangle of Sadness' (2022) d. Ruben Östlund

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Listening to Your Conscience - 'Pinocchio' (2022) d. Guillermo del Toro & Mark Gustafson, 'Heathers' (1988) d. Michael Lehmann & 'Donnie Darko' (2001) d. Richard Kelly

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Going Undercover - 'Mean Girls' (2004) d. Mark Waters, 'The Departed' d. Martin Scorsese & 'Le Doulos' (1962) d. Jean-Pierre Melville

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Dark Knights - 'Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone' (2001) d. Chris Columbus, '12 Angry Men' (1957) d. Sidney Lumet & 'Ladybird' (2017) d. Greta Gerwig

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21st Century Vigilance - 'Saw' (2004) d. James Wan, 'V for Vendetta' (2005) d. James McTeigue & 'The Dark Knight' (2008) d. Christopher Nolan

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Containing the Year - 'The Apartment' (1960) d. Billy Wilder, 'My Night at Maud's' (1969) d. Éric Rohmer & 'When Harry Met Sally' (1989) d. Rob Reiner

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A Kafkaesque Christmas - 'Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life' (1993) d. Peter Capaldi, 'Brazil' (1985) d. Terry Gilliam & 'Eyes Wide Shut' (1999) d. Stanley Kubrick

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Russia, Part II - 'Battleship Potemkin' (1925) d. Sergei Eisenstein, 'Mirror' (1975) d. Andrei Tarkovsky & 'The Sacrifice' (1986) d. Andrei Tarkovsky

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Russia, Part I - 'Kompromat' (2022) d. Jérôme Salle, 'Andrei Rublev' (1966) d. Andrei Tarkovsky & 'Ivan the Terrible Parts, I & II' d. Sergei Eisenstein

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Ruling Over the Dominion - 'Willow' (1988) d. Ron Howard, 'Margrete - Queen of the North' (2021) d. Charlotte Sieling & 'Moonrise Kingdom' (2012) d. Wes Anderson

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Raising Hell, Raising Heaven - 'Hellraiser' (1987) d. Clive Barker, 'Armageddon Time' (2022) d. James Gray & 'Gladiator' (2000) d. Ridley Scott

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Adam McKay's Apex - 'Anchorman' (2004), 'Talladega Nights' (2006), 'Step Brothers' (2008), 'The Other Guys' (2010), 'The Big Short' (2015), 'Vice' (2018) & 'Don't Look Up' (2021)

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Canberra Short Film Festival Special w/ Stephanie Begg and Josh Mawer

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The Home Ground Advantage - 'The Texas Chain Saw Massacre' (1974) d. Tobe Hooper, 'Barbarian' (2022) d. Zach Cregger & 'Blood Diamond' (2006) d. Edward Zwick

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College Boys - 'Old School' (2003) d. Todd Phillips, 'Liberal Arts' (2012) d. Josh Radnor & 'Brad's Status' (2017) d. Mike White

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Robert Altman's America - 'Nashville' (1975), 'The Player' (1992) & 'Short Cuts' (1993)

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Blending Art Forms w/ Terry Zwigoff - 'Louie Bluie' (1985), 'Crumb' (1994), 'Ghost World' (2001), 'Bad Santa' (2004) & 'Art School Confidential' (2006)

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Secular Faith - 'The Hunt' (2012) d. Thomas Vinterberg, 'Ghost World' (2001) d. Terry Zwigoff & 'Sideways' (2004) d. Alexander Payne

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Intro to Infidelity - 'The Postman Always Rings Twice' (1946) d. Tay Garnett, 'Closer' (2004) d. Mike Nichols & 'Both Sides of the Blade' (2022) d. Claire Denis

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Double-Edged Talent - 'What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?' (1962) d. Robert Aldrich, 'All About Eve' (1950) d. Joseph L. Mankiewicz & 'The Pianist' (2002) d. Roman Polanski

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(K)nowhere to Look - 'Nope' (2022) d. Jordan Peele, 'Don't Look Up' (2021) d. Adam McKay & 'Network' (1976) d. Sidney Lumet

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Middle Eastern Cinema w/ Sarah Barrie - 'About Elly' (2009) d. Asghar Farhadi, 'Women Without Men' (2009) d. Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari & 'Incendies (2010) d. Denis Villeneuve

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Enemies of the State - 'Cool Hand Luke' (1967), 'The Conference' (2022) & 'The People vs. Larry Flynt' (1996)

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Existopmotionalism - 'Anomalisa' (2015), 'Harvie Krumpet' (2003) & '$9.99' (2008)

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Stressful Sequences - 'After Hours' (1985), 'Uncut Gems' (2019) & 'Full Time' (2021)

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The Turning Tides in Taiwanese Cinema w/ Benson Wu, Helen Stenbeck & Yi-Tsun Chen - 'Homebound' (2022), 'Goddamned Asura' (2021) & 'Yi Yi' (2000)

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Playing with Murder w/ Nicolas Pleskof - 'Murder Party' (2022)

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High Art, Low Art - 'Sullivan's Travels' (1941), 'In Bruges' (2008) & 'Compartment Number 6' (2021)

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The Odyssey of Brotherhood - 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' (2000), 'About Schmidt' (2002) & 'The Straight Story' (1999)

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Descendants and Ancestors - 'Hereditary' (2018), 'Once Were Warriors' (1994) & 'The Descendants' (2011)

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Decisiveness, Discipline and Dexter - 'Cold War' (2018), 'Whiplash' (2014) & ''Round Midnight' (1986)

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Weeping Widows - 'Midsommar' (2019), 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore' (1974) & 'Good Luck to You, Leo Grande' (2022)

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Blow-ins, Bravado & Beliefs - 'Straw Dogs' (1971), 'Wake in Fright' (1971) & 'The Wicker Man' (1973)

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Killers - 'Snowtown' (2011), 'Killer Joe' (2011) & 'Sling Blade' (1996)

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Boys Gone Wild - 'Taxi Driver' (1976), 'La Haine' (1995) & 'This Sporting Life' (1963)

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Eliminating the Enemy - 'Dial M for Murder' (1954), 'Zulu' (1964) & 'Suspiria' (1977)

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False Prophets - 'La Ricotta' (1962), 'The Night of the Hunter' (1955) & 'Martha Marcy May Marlene' (2011)

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Rosebud - 'Citizen Kane' (1941), 'Midnight in Paris' (2011) & 'Be Kind Rewind' (2008)

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Making Fun of Actors - 'Tropic Thunder' (2008), 'Waiting for Guffman' (1996) & 'Team America' (2004)

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Cops - 'Beverley Hills Cop' (1984), 'RoboCop' (1987) & 'Supercop' (1992)

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Scary Stalkers II: The Final Girl - 'Scream' (1996), 'It Follows' (2014) & 'X' (2022)

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Modern Relationships - 'The Last Days of Disco' (1998), 'The Virgin Suicides' (1999) & 'Licorice Pizza' (2021)

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Divergent Roads - 'I Know What You Did Last Summer' (1997), 'Force Majeure' (2014) & 'The Daytrippers' (1997)

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Sex, Desire and Videotape - 'To Die For' (1995), 'Crash' (1996) & 'Sex, Lies and Videotape' (1989)

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The Dark Side of Fatherhood - 'Dogtooth' (2009), 'Take Shelter' (2011) & 'Distant Voices, Still Lives' (1988)

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The Pains of Motherhood - 'Quo Vadis, Aida?' (2020), 'Secrets & Lies' (1996) & 'Autumn Sonata' (1978)

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Scary Stalkers - 'Halloween' (1978), 'Friday the 13th' (1980) & 'A Nightmare on Elm Street' (1984)

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The Deep Blue Sea - 'Deep Blue Sea' (1998), 'The Big Blue' (1988) & 'The Deep Blue Sea' (2011)

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World War II - 'The Thin Red Line' (1998), 'Das Boot' (1981) & 'Schindler's List' (1993)

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The Power of Nature in the Films of Peter Weir - 'The Cars That Ate Paris' (1974), 'Picnic at Hanging Rock' (1975), 'The Mosquito Coast' (1986), 'Master and Commander' (2003) & 'The Way Back' (2010)

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Maturity in the Films of Sean Baker - 'Starlet' (2012), 'The Florida Project' (2017) & 'Red Rocket' (2021)

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Modern Variations of Santa Claus - 'Die Hard' (1988), 'Bad Santa' (2003) & 'Krampus' (2015)

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Prostitution - 'Vivre Sa Vie' (1962), 'Tangerine' (2015) & 'Nights of Cabiria' (1957)

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The Ick - 'Contempt' (1963), 'The Fly' (1986) & 'Another Year' (2010)

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The Power of Silence - 'Silence' (2016), 'Good Morning' (1959) & 'Lost in Translation' (2003)

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Cyborgs - 'Tetsuo: The Iron Man' (1989), 'Aliens' (1986) & '2001: A Space Odyssey' (1968)

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Bodily Autonomy - 'Alien' (1979), 'Swallow' (2019) & 'Invasion of the Body Snatchers' (1956)

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Breaking Free - 'The Rock' (1996), 'Pickpocket' (1959) & 'Ace in the Hole' (1951)

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Masks - 'Eyes Without a Face' (1960), 'Goodnight Mommy' (2014) & 'The Mask of Zorro' (1920)

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Loving Powerful Women - 'Roman Holiday' (1953), 'Chocolat' (1983) & 'Notting HIll' (1999)

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Young Love - 'Fish Tank' (2009), 'It Felt Like Love' (2013) & 'Pauline at the Beach' (1983)

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Beauties & Beasts - 'Beauty and the Beast' (1946), 'The Beast' (1975) & 'The Babadook' (2014)

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Werewolves - 'The Wolf Man' (1941), 'The Wolfman' (2010) & 'An American Werewolf in London' (1981)

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Manhunting - 'Manhunter' (1986), 'The Fugitive' (1993) & 'The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari' (1920)

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Hollywood - 'Swingers' (1996), 'Under the Silver Lake' (2018) & 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood' (2019)

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Creation - 'The Golem' (1920), '8½' (1963) & 'Ed Wood' (1994)

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Men with Gravity - 'Fatal Attraction' (1987), 'Misery' (1990) & 'Cape Fear' (1991)

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The Modern Quest - 'Aguirre, the Wrath of God' (1972), 'Stalker' (1979) & 'Old Joy' (2006)

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Women with Gravity - 'The Collector' (1967), 'Shiva Baby' (2020) & 'Ema' (2019)

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Female Victimhood - 'La Strada' (1954), 'Requiem for a Dream' (2000) & 'Rashomon' (1950)

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Mortality - 'The Seventh Seal' (1957), 'The Fountain' (2006) & 'Ikiru' (1952)

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The Duality of Man - 'Apocalypse Now' (1979), 'Persona' (1966) & 'Mulholland Drive' (2001)

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Confronting Reality - 'The Truman Show' (1998), 'Come and See' (1985) & 'Blue Velvet' (1986)

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Drifters - 'What's Eating Gilbert Grape' (1993), 'Five Easy Pieces' (1970) & 'Paris, Texas' (1984)

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Male Victimhood - 'Kes' (1969), 'Saturday Night and Sunday Morning' (1960), 'If....' (1968) & 'Look Back in Anger' (1959)

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Freedom and Relationships - 'The Piano' (1993), 'Portrait of a Lady on Fire' (2019) & 'Phantom Thread' (2017)

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Authority Figures - 'There Will Be Blood' (2007), 'Cabaret' (1972) & 'The Master' (2012)