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The Minimum Commitment: Film Theory in Small Doses — 57 episodes
The Proposition - The Cost of Order and the Myth of Civilization
Slow West - The Story That Wasn’t There
Tombstone - The Performance of Heroism
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford - Becoming the Story
The Wrestler – When the Performance Is All That’s Left
F1: The Movie – Control at the Edge of Speed
Friday Night Lights – Under the Weight of the Lights
Hoosiers – Ten Feet and the Right Perspective
Rocky – The Sound of Going the Distance
Lost in Translation – The Distance Between Us
Harold and Maude – Chaos, Control, and the Performance of Rebirth
Punch-Drunk Love – Color, Control, and the Shape of a Man Who Snaps
Silver Linings Playbook – Performing Sanity in an Insane World
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Conan the Barbarian – Steel, Flesh, and the Fire of Becoming
Dragonslayer – The Age of Fire, the Fall of Magic
The Green Knight – Bravery, Performed
Excalibur – The Sword, the Spectacle, and the End of Magic
Beowulf – The Lie That Made the Legend
Us: The Horror in the Mirror
Hereditary – The Shape of Inheritance
The Exorcist – A Crisis of Faith and Flesh
The Shining: Madness in the Method
Jaws – What Lurks Beneath
Halloween – A Knife in the Quiet
Arrival – Language of Tomorrow
2001: A Space Odyssey – Becoming Beyond Reason
Interstellar – Love in the Time of Gravity
Logan’s Run – Faith in the Countdown
Blade Runner – Memories You Can’t Trust
Dark City: Memory Is a Crime Scene
Chinatown – The Lie That Lives
Blue Velvet – Darkness Found Me First
Out of the Past – Shadows You Can’t Escape
Double Indemnity – No Way Out
Ballerina – Violence in Color
John Wick: Chapter 4 – The Long Fall Up
John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum: Becoming the Ghost
John Wick: Chapter 2 – The Debt That Owns You
John Wick: The Trigger Was Never the Dog
The Rise of Skywalker: The Spectacle That Ate the Myth
The Last Jedi: Breaking the Pattern
The Force Awakens: Echoes in the Frame
Return of the Jedi: Designed for Impact
The Empire Strikes Back: Vision in the Shadows
A New Hope: The Pattern Beneath the Stars
The Skywalker Saga: Nine Films. Nine Theories
Revenge of the Sith: The Mind of a Monster
Attack of the Clones: Manufactured Wars, Manufactured Consent
The Phantom Menace: Empire in Disguise
Donnie Brasco: Identity, Performance, and the Cost of Belonging
Scarface: Breaking the Gangster Blueprint
The Irishman: Violence, Time, and the Streaming Gamble
Goodfellas: The Performance of Power
The Godfather: Legacy, Silence, and the Shape of Power
Episode 0 – Welcome to The Minimum Commitment