Entranced Earth (1967) / Escape from L.A. (1996)

This week we’re raging against the machine as we hit the campaign trail with Glauber Rocha and try to escape from John Carpenter’s theocratic nightmare

#49 - Misrepresentation

The Hidden (1987) / Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs (2005)

This week we’re putting on our tinfoil hats as we try to track down materialistic and murderous aliens with Jack Sholder while a sweaty Dan Aykroyd tells us the damage is already done

#51 - The Truth is Out There

Lancelot du Lac (1974) / The 13th Warrior (1999)

This week we explore Medieval tomes of spiritual agony, listening carefully to Robert Bresson’s clanking armor and filling in the gaps of John McTiernan’s massacred Viking epic

#53 - Medieval Times

58 - Anatomy of Hell (2004) / How I Ended This Summer (2010)

This week we locked ourselves in for a two-hander, as Catherine Breillat helps us get under each other's skin and Alexei Popogrebski cools us down with a bucket of Russian Arctic water.

#58 - Just the Two of Us

The Passionate Friends (1949) / The Great Outdoors (1988)

This week we’re kicking it lakeside as David Lean takes us on an emotional speedboat ride through time and we invade Wisconsin’s Northwoods with Howard Deutch’s Chicago jagoffs

#62 - At The Lake

The Private Eyes (1976) / They All Laughed (1981)

This week we investigate two private detective agencies and get swept up in the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong with the Hui brothers and look for love on the streets of NYC with Peter Bogdanovich

#63 - Private Dicks

Night and Day (2008) / Moffie (2019)

This week the summer breeze has us feeling so fine as we get drunk and confused in Paris with Hong Sang-soo and find a sliver of humanity in a South African barracks with Oliver Hermanus

#64 - Summer Lovin'

New Jersey Drive (1995) / Snow on Tha Bluff (2011)

This week we’re just trying to survive as we get carjacked in Atlanta by Curtis Snow and go joyriding in Newark with Nick Gomez

#65 - Tales from the Hood

Gentleman Jim (1942) / Kid Galahad (1962)

This week we’re rolling with the punches as we bob and weave through the origins of boxing with Raoul Walsh and take one on the chin with Elvis in Phil Karlson’s gruff musical

#66 - The Sweet Science

THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME TWO
A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET 
From No Escape to All Creatures Great and Small
Music and Sounds from Episodes 11-20

La fin du monde (1930) – No Greater Glory (1934) – The Lusty Men (1957) – The Incredible Journey (1963) – Salto (1965) – My Little Loves (1974) – McQ (1974) – First Graders (1984) – Three O’Clock High (1987) – Exorcist II: Heretic (1977) – Knightriders (1981) – An Autumn’s Tale (1987) – Clearcut (1991) – Stalin (1992) – Most Valuable Primate 2 (2001) – Police Beat (2005) – Far From Heaven (2002) – Halloween: Resurrection (2002) – Stemple Pass (2012) – Yakuza Apocalypse (2015)

The Gauntlet Movie Mixtape Volume #2

Southern Comfort (1981) / In the Electric Mist (2009)

This week we’re trudging through the bayou with The National Guard and Dave Robicheaux as we try to solve murders with Bertrand Tavernier and hope to survive with Walter Hill

#67 - Marshlands

2010 (1984) / Videograms of a Revolution (1992)

This week we’re calibrating our monitors as we probe a space odyssey with Peter Hyams and sift through images of revolution with Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică

#68 - Technical Difficulties

A Very Curious Girl (1969) / The Unfaithful Wife (1969)

This week we’re tripping on a double dose of 1969 as we explore the sexual revolution and its consequences with Nelly Kaplan and Claude Chabrol

#69 - 69: A Very Good Year

Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) / The Witches of Eastwick (1987)

This week we’re casting deadly spells as we conjure the perfect man with George Miller’s coven and take a psychedelic joyride thru WW2 on Angela Lansbury’s bed

#70 - Witchcraft

Assassination (1987) / Bulworth (1998)

This week we’re dodging bullets in the halls of power as we join Senator Jay Bulworth’s doomed campaign and try to protect the first lady with Charles Bronson

#71 - Assassination

Three Seconds (2017) / AK-47 (2020)

This week we go inside the twisted mind of Russian state cinema as we go for gold with the 1972 Soviet Men’s Olympic basketball team and pull a shift at the weapons factory with Mikhail Kalashnikov

#72 - Putin's Picks

EO (2022) / Dead for a Dollar (2022)

This week we’re taking a look at new works from octogenarians as we saddle up once more with Walter Hill and go inside the mind of a donkey with Jerzy Skolimowski

#73 - The Old & The New

Cruel Tale of Bushido (1963) / The Quince Tree Sun (1992)

This week we’re going for gold and exploring past winners of CIFF as we try to paint a tree with Victor Erice and traverse generations of cursed samurai with Tadashi Imai

#74 - Gold Hugo Fever

Fear Over The City (1975) / The Hunter Will Get You (1976)

This week we’re savoring the post-new wave star vehicles of Jean-Paul Belmondo, with death defying stunt work arranged by Henri Verneuil and a fake mustache provided by Philippe Labro

#75 - Mondo Belmondo

Weather Diary 1 (1986) / White Squall (1996)

This week we’ve got some severe weather on the forecast as we batten down the hatches in Tornado Alley with George Kuchar and set sail on the high seas with Sir Ridley

#76 - A Storm is Coming

THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME 3
A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET 
From A Date with Doris to The Long Cinema Club
Music and Sounds from Episodes 21-30

Barabbas (1961) – Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965) – Marat/Sade (1967) – Dirkie (1969) – White Sun of the Desert (1970) – Deadly Weapons (1974) – Summerfield (1977) – Missing (1982) – Suspicion (1982) – Quicksilver (1986) – The Beast of War (1988) – The Cyclist (1989) – Color of Night (1994) – Waiting to Exhale (1995) – Now and Then (1995) – The Island of St. Matthews (2013) – Court (2014) – I Do Not Care If We Go Down in History as Barbarians (2018) – The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin)(2020)

The Gauntlet Movie Mixtape Volume #3

24 Hour Party People (2002) / The Forest for the Trees (2003)

This week we’re rolling the tape back to the MiniDV era as we get lost in the proverbial forest with Maren Ade and fly high in Madchester with Michael Winterbottom

#77 - Let's Get Digital

Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) / Timestalkers (1987)

This week we zap through time like a bolt of lightning, landing in a plague-ravaged future with Edgar G. Ulmer while a tintype zips us back to the Wild West with Michael Schultz

#78 - Time Travel

Body and Soul (1925) / Elmer Gantry (1960)

This week we’re being led astray by opportunistic preachers as we put our faith in Oscar Micheaux’s melodrama and hit the revival tour to repent with Burt Lancaster’s traveling salesman

#79 - False Prophets

The White Reindeer (1952) / The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

This week we summon some fresh powder from the Finnish stone gods, unearthing our inner assassin with Renny Harlin and using our new antlers to gore hunters with Erik Blomberg

#80 - Let it Snow

On the Silver Globe (1988) / Highlander II (1991) 

This week we’re sifting through the wreckage of troubled productions as we crash land on the silver globe with Andrzej Żuławski and battle insurance companies for immortality with Russell Mulcahey

#81 - Double Trouble

Potop aka The Deluge (1974)

This week we don our fuzzy hats, load up on pierogies, and charge forward in our polar bear sleigh as we join Jerzy Hoffman in defending the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against short movies and Swedish invaders

#82 - A Very Happy Long Cinema Club New Year

Young Einstein (1988) / C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004)

This week we’re rewriting history as Yahoo Serious has Tasmanian apple farmer Albert Einstein split the beer atom and Kevin Willmott’s mock doc asks how different America would be had the Confederates won the civil war

#83 - Alternate History

The Last Wagon (1956) / The Gauntlet (1977)

This week we fight our way through the grand canyon state as we hitch a ride on the last wagon with Delmer Daves’ and run the gauntlet with Clint Eastwood

#84 - Arizona Dreams

The World’s Greatest Sinner (1962) / This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (1967)

God is dead this week as we get swept up in a whirlwind of sin and join the vainglorious crusades of Timothy Carey and José Mojica Marins

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