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Douglas Sirk Films Ranked: The Master of Melodrama, From Taza to Imitation of Life

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It Don't Worry Us, Ep. 5 — Minutes 5:10–6: Opal from the BBC

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John Carpenter Goes West: Vampires, Village of the Damned and the End of a Hot Streak

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It Don't Worry Us, Ep. 4 — Minutes 4–5:10: "200 Years" in Haven's Studio

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A Time to Love and A Time to Die: Douglas Sirk's Most Personal Film

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It Don't Worry Us, Ep. 3 — Minutes 2:30–4: Welcome to Haven's Studio

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Theater Troupes and a Heist Gone Wrong: Early Shohei Imamura

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IT DON'T WORRY US EPISODE 2: Walker, Talker, Sleeper

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THE NASHVILLE MINUTE EPISODE 1 — K-TEL, CHAOS & ROBERT ALTMAN

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Douglas Sirk: Hollywood Glamour, Secret Tragedies & Imitation of Life

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Obey, Consume, Conform: Rewatching John Carpenter's "They Live"

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Douglas Sirk's Melodramas of Desire: Written on the Wind & The Tarnished Angels

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Prince of Darkness & In the Mouth of Madness: Carpenter's Apocalypse Trilogy Pt. 2

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Spider-Man: Brand New Day: Peanut Butter and Teriyaki Sauce

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The Great Douglas Sirk: There's Always Tomorrow and All That Heaven Allows

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Shohei Imamura-cast: The Sublime Pigs and Battleships and Intentions of Murder

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John Carpeter-cast: Big Trouble in Little China and Memoirs of an Invisible Man

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Shōhei Imamura-cast: Women at Drift Through Japanese History

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Douglas Sirk: the Melodrama Before the Melodrama

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John Carpenter Goes Commercial: Christine and Starman

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Alan Rudolph's Historical Dramas: Mrs Parker and The Moderns

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Douglas Sirk: the Noirs

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'Backrooms' and the surprisingly great state of movies these days

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Carlos Didn't Love Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood

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John Carpenter's The Thing: How Could the Critics Be So Wrong in 1982?

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Ranking Billy Wilder's Films!

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The Great Ozu: Green Tea and What Did the Lady Forget?

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Billy Wilder-cast: The Apartment

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Two Amazing Japanese Noirs: Black Test Car and Giants and Toys

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John Carpenter's Escape from New York and Escape from L.A.

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Billy Wilder: The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes and Avanti!

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Jason and Paul Talk "THX-1138" and "Silent Running"

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Jason and Eric Talk "The Man Who Knew Too Much" (1934) and Other Classic Hitchcock

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John Carpenter's TV Movies Are His Proving Ground for Halloween

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Japanese Crime Drama: Vengeance is Mine and A Fugitive from the Past

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Billy Wilder: the Matthau and Lemmon Films

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Shōhei Imamura: The Eel and The Pornographers

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John Carpenter's Halloween and The Fog

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John Carpenter-cast: Dark Star and Assault on Precinct 13

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Billy Wildercast: Major & Minor Films...

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The Smart, Intense Films of Peter Watkins

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Jason's Top 10 of 2026!

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Jason and Eric Talk Jacques Tati Movies

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Billy Wilder-cast: Ace in the Hole and Witness for the Prosecution

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Diving deep into Shōhei Imamura's Profound Desires of the Gods

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Two Versions of the Same Story: The Different Approaches to The Ballad of Narayama

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Saving the Best for Last? Alien: Romulus and Predator: Badlands

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Billy Wilder at His Wackiest: Irma La Douce and Kill Me, Stupid!

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Jason and Paul Talk "Rollerball" and "Logan's Run"

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Jason and Eric Talk "The Crazies" and "No Blade of Grass"

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Billy Wilder: The Great (Stalag 17) and the Obscure But Great (One, Two, Three)

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Is Alien: Earth A Classic or a Failure?

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Orcas Island Film Festival Wrapup!

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The Mysterious Robert Altman Female Dramas: 3 Women, Images and That Cold Day in the Park

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Billy Wilder: the Marilyn Monroe Films

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Are AvP and AvP Requiem really as bad as people say they are?

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Purple Rose of Cairo and Zelig

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Billy Wilder-cast: The Audrey Hepburn films

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Kinoshita - cast: Twenty Four Eyes and The River Fuefuki

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Predator: Prey and Killer of Killers

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Billy Wilder-cast: Double Indemnity and The Lost Weekend

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Wrapping up our watch of every Masahiro Shinoda film

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Predators and The Predator: Are they actually pretty decent?

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Irma Vep, Personal Shopper, Summer Hours and More Great Olivier Assayas films

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The best and worst of 90s action films: Predator and Predator 2

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Jason and Paul Talk "The Parallax View" and "All the President's Men"

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Billy Wilder: The Brilliant (Sunset Boulevard) and the Flawed (Fedora)

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Shinoda-cast: Spy Sorge and Moonlight Serenade

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The Great Alien Rewatch: How Good is Prometheus? Is Alien Covenant A Good Movie?

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Paul Schrader Directed Movies Rated: His Top 11

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Rating Every Film Directed by Paul Schrader, Part One

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Aliens3 and Aliens Resurrection: How Good Are They, Actually?

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Billy Wilder Part 2: Five Graves to Cairo and A Foreign Affair

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Alien and Aliens: Greatest Ever Sci Fi Films

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Teshigahara Again: His Late Films

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The Great Billy Wilder! Part One: Collaborations

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Teshigahara's Brilliant Short Films

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Powell & Pressburger Rated! Plus A Matter of Life and Death and Thief of Bagdad

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Lost Highway and Natural Born Killers: The Movies Which Examine OJ

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Twin Peaks the Return: Finale

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Twin Peaks the Return Episodes 13, 14 and 15

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Schradercast: Master Gardener and The Card Counter

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Shinoda-cast: Island of the Evil Spirits and Captive's Island

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'Wolfs' Gives Carlos Hope He Can Love Movies Again

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Powell Without Pressburger: Peeping Tom and Age of Consent

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Powell & Pressburger: The Red Shoes, The Tales of Hoffmann and Bluebeard's Ghost

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RIP David Lynch: Twin Peaks the Return Episode 10, 11 and 12

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Emergency Podcast: A Complete Unknown and I Walk the Line

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Existential Japanese Police: A Man Vanishes and the Man without a Map

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Powell & Pressburger: 49th Parallel, Col. Blimp and The Small Back Room

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Twin Peaks the Return Episodes 7, 8 and 9

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Schradercast: Dog Eat Dog and First Reformed

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Teshigahara: The Face of Another and Ako

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Lynchcast: Twin Peaks the Return Episodes 4, 5 and 6

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Lynchcast: Twin Peaks the Return Episodes 1, 2 and 3

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Teshigahara-cast: Pitfall and Woman in the Dunes

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Powell and Pressburger Knew Where They Were Going!

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A long, smart discussion of "The Shining"

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Our Criterion 40 Box Set

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Paul Schrader Gets Weird in a New Way...