We followed David Cronenberg to 1985's Into the Night, a classic from John Landis. We went a little long, but we could have gone a lot longer just discussing the "rococaine" interiors. Watch before you listen, please!

Chain Reaction Season 1

Into the Night (David Cronenberg)

We followed Jonathan Demme to his 1986 classic Something Wild for the finale of our first season of Chain Reaction! AND we were treated to a very special message from a true legend!

Something Wild (Jonathan Demme)

One of the great concert films, if not the greatest, receives a 4K restoration four decades after its release, and comes to our local IMAX Digital screen. Talking Heads were huge at the time that 1984's Stop Making Sense was released, and José loved their music, but something about the film didn't appeal to him, and he never saw it. Though Mike is familiar with the band, he only knows a couple of Talking Heads songs and didn't expect to ever get around to seeing the film, so what a way to experience it.

The restoration is beautiful and the huge IMAX screen shows it off spectacularly. We discuss the ability of celluloid to capture rich, textured imagery that digital acquisition formats have never matched; David Byrne's captivating presence, handsomeness, and exuberant movement; the film's cinematic style and what puts it above other concert films; the racial composition of the band, both the core members and additional musicians, and what it may or may not reflect about American culture of the time; and more.

We're absolutely sold on Stop Making Sense's greatness, and, even forty years on from its release and the height of the band's popularity, immediately grasp why it's still held in such high esteem. See it at the cinema.

Recorded on 27th September 2023.

397 - Stop Making Sense

Julius en Jasper bespreken twee fameuze jarennegentig-seriemoordenaarfilms: The Silence of the Lambs (1991) van Jonathan Demme en Se7en (1995) van David Fincher. Als er eentje zou moeten verdwijnen, welke mag dan blijven?

Voor de volgende aflevering van Julius vs Jasper zetten we Spawn (1997) tegenover Faust: Love of the Damned (2000).

The Silence of the Lambs vs Se7en - Julius vs Jasper 107

Who Am I This Time? (1982) / The Second Civil War (1997)

This week we’re channel surfing as we tune in to Jonathan Demme’s public television romance and Joe Dante’s war time broadcast

#145 - I Saw the TV Glow

"I have this romantic idea of the movies as a conjunction of place, people and experiences, all different for each of us, a context in which individual and separate beings try to commune, where the individual experience overlaps with the communal and where that overlapping is demarcated by how we measure the differing responses between ourselves and the rest of the audience: do they laugh when we don’t (and what does that mean?); are they moved when we feel like laughing (and what does that say about me or the others) etc. The idea behind this podcast is to satiate the urge I sometimes have when I see a movie alone – to eavesdrop on what others say. What do they think? How does their experience compare to mine? Snippets are overhead as one leaves the cinema and are often food for thought. A longer snippet of such an experience is what I hope to provide: it’s two friends chatting immediately after a movie. It’s unrehearsed, meandering, slightly convoluted, certainly enthusiastic, and well informed, if not necessarily on all aspects a particular work gives rise to, certainly in terms of knowledge of cinema in general and considerable experience of watching different types of movies and watching movies in different types of ways. It’s not a review. It’s a conversation." - José Arroyo.

"I just like the sound of my own voice." - Michael Glass.

Three friends agree to watch every episode and movie of the television hit Hart to Hart to determine once and for all if Hart to Hart is a good show. Join Ellen Ito (the devoted lover) Erik Blood (the nostalgic acquaintance) and Joe Garber (the dubious virgin) on a journey filled with fabulous fashions, furious fistfights, and of course MURDER!

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