Floating Weeds (1959) directed by Yasujirō Ozu

The head of a Japanese theatre troupe returns to a small coastal town where he left a son who thinks he is his uncle, and tries to make up for the lost time, but his current mistress grows jealous.

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Episode 165: Floating Weeds

Tampopo (1985) directed by Juzo Itami

Two Japanese milk-truck drivers (Tsutomu Yamazaki, Ken Watanabe) help a restaurant owner (Nobuko Miyamoto) learn how to cook great noodles.

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Episode 166: Tampopo

Mr Klein (1976) directed by  Joseph Losey.

Neglected for decades, this chilling existentialist mystery has reemerged as one of director Joseph Losey’s most virtuosic works. In perhaps the finest performance of his career, Alain Delon stars as the wealthy Robert Klein, an amoral art dealer in Nazi-occupied Paris who exploits the persecution of his Jewish countrymen by buying and selling their paintings. When Klein is mistaken for a Jewish man of the same name, he is plunged into a labyrinthine identity crisis with life-or-death consequences. Through his moody, mesmerizing visual style, Losey weaves a Kafkaesque web of steadily mounting paranoia.

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Episode 173: Mr Klein

Petite Maman (2021) directed by Céline Sciamma.

Nelly, an 8-year-old girl, has just lost her beloved grandmother and is helping her parents clean out her mother's childhood home. One day, her mom abruptly leaves, and Nelly meets a girl her age as she's building a tree house in the woods.

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Episode 183: Petite Maman

The Invisible Life Of Eurídice Gusmão (2021) directed by Karim Aïnouz.

Kept apart by a terrible lie, years pass as two sisters forge their respective paths through their city's teeming bustle, each believing the other to be half a world away.

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Episode 184: The Invisible Life Of Eurídice Gusmão

Claire's Knee (1970) directed by Eric Rohmer.

“Why would I tie myself to one woman?” asks Jerôme in Claire’s Knee, though he plans to marry a diplomat’s daughter by summer’s end. He spends his July at a lakeside boardinghouse, nursing crushes on the sixteen-year-old Laura and, more tantalizingly, her long-legged, blonde, older half sister, Claire. Baring her knee on a ladder under a blooming cherry tree, Claire unwittingly incites a moral crisis for Jerôme while creating an image that is both the iconic emblem of Eric Rohmer’s Six Moral Tales and one of French cinema’s most enduring moments.

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Episode 186: Claire's Knee

Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953) directed by Jacques Tati.

When the ever-hapless Monsieur Hulot (Jacques Tati) decides to vacation at a beautiful seaside resort, rest and relaxation don't last long, given the gangly gent's penchant for ridiculous antics. While simply out to enjoy himself, the well-meaning Hulot inevitably stumbles into numerous misadventures, including an utterly disastrous attempt at playing tennis, as he encounters fellow French vacationers from various social classes, as well as foreign tourists.

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Episode 190: Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

HAPPY HOLIDAAAAYS!!!

Little Women (2019) directed by Great Gerwig.

In the years after the Civil War, Jo March lives in New York and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore, a childhood crush who proposed to Jo but was ultimately rejected. Their oldest sibling, Meg, is married to a schoolteacher, while shy sister Beth develops a devastating illness that brings the family back together.

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Episode 194: Little Women (2019)

The Hole (1998) directed by Ming-liang Tsai

While never-ending rain and a strange disease spread by cockroaches ravage Taiwan, a plumber makes a hole between two apartments and the inhabitants of each form a unique connection, enacted in musical numbers.

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Episode 195: The Hole

Tokyo Story (1953) directed by Yasujirō Ozu

A profoundly stirring evocation of elemental humanity and universal heartbreak, Tokyo Story is the crowning achievement of the unparalleled Yasujiro Ozu. The film, which follows an aging couple’s journey to visit their grown children in bustling postwar Tokyo, surveys the rich and complex world of family life with the director’s customary delicacy and incisive perspective on social mores. Featuring lovely performances from Ozu regulars Chishu Ryu and Setsuko Hara, Tokyo Story plumbs and deepens the director’s recurring theme of generational conflict, creating what is without question one of cinema’s mightiest masterpieces.

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Episode 196: Tokyo Story

Museum Hours (2012) directed by Jem Cohen

A Vienna museum guard befriends a visitor, and the two explore their lives, the city and the ways artwork reflects the world.

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Episode 197: Museum Hours

Top Gun: Maverick (2022) directed by Joseph Kosinski.

After more than 30 years of service as one of the Navy's top aviators, Pete "Maverick" Mitchell is where he belongs, pushing the envelope as a courageous test pilot and dodging the advancement in rank that would ground him. Training a detachment of graduates for a special assignment, Maverick must confront the ghosts of his past and his deepest fears, culminating in a mission that demands the ultimate sacrifice from those who choose to fly it.

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Episode 198: Top Gun: Maverick

After Life (1998) directed by Hirokazu Koreeda

In this acclaimed Japanese film, a group of people who have recently died find themselves in a limbo realm resembling a relatively mundane building. Counselors, including Takashi (Arata) and Shiori (Erika Oda), are on hand to help new arrivals pick one memory from their lives to bring with them into eternity. Once the memories are chosen, the staff makes a short film representing each one, and the films make up a collage of thoughtful cinematic moments.

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Episode 199: After Life

EPISODE 200!!!! HOLY CRAP

Lawrence of Arabia (1962) directed by David Lean.

Due to his knowledge of the native Bedouin tribes, British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole) is sent to Arabia to find Prince Faisal (Alec Guinness) and serve as a liaison between the Arabs and the British in their fight against the Turks. With the aid of native Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif), Lawrence rebels against the orders of his superior officer and strikes out on a daring camel journey across the harsh desert to attack a well-guarded Turkish port.

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Episode 200: Lawrence Of Arabia

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed (2022) directed by Laura Poitras.

From Academy Award winner Laura Poitras comes an epic, emotional and interconnected story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate interviews, ground-breaking photography, and rare footage of her personal fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the opioid crisis. The film interweaves Goldin's past and present, the deeply personal and urgently political, from P.A.I.N.'s (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now) actions.

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Episode 201: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Thief (1981) directed by Michael Mann.

A highly skilled jewel thief, Frank (James Caan) longs to leave his dangerous trade and settle down with his girlfriend, Jessie (Tuesday Weld). Eager to make one last big score in order to begin living a legitimate life, Frank reluctantly associates with Leo (Robert Prosky), a powerful gangster. Unfortunately for Frank, Leo wants to keep him in his employ, resulting in a tense showdown when he finally tries to give up his criminal activities once and for all.

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Episode 202: Thief

Wendy and Lucy (2008) directed by Kelly Reichardt.

Wendy (Michelle Williams), a near-penniless drifter, is traveling to Alaska in search of work, and her only companion is her dog, Lucy. Already perilously close to losing everything, Wendy hits a bigger bump in the road when her old car breaks down and she is arrested for shoplifting dog food. When she posts bail and returns to retrieve Lucy, she finds that the dog is gone, prompting a frantic search for her pet.

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Episode 203: Wendy And Lucy

Robocop (1987) directed by Paul Verhoeven. Basil Poledouris

In a violent, near-apocalyptic Detroit, evil corporation Omni Consumer Products wins a contract from the city government to privatize the police force. To test their crime-eradicating cyborgs, the company leads street cop Alex Murphy (Peter Weller) into an armed confrontation with crime lord Boddicker (Kurtwood Smith) so they can use his body to support their untested RoboCop prototype. But when RoboCop learns of the company's nefarious plans, he turns on his masters.

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Episode 204: Robocop

Psycho 2 (1983) directed by Richard Franklin.

Two decades after the original murders at the Bates Motel, Norman Bates (Anthony Perkins) completes his treatment at a mental institution and returns home to find his hotel run down under the management of Warren Toomey (Dennis Franz). Despite a new friendship with a waitress (Meg Tilly) and a job busing tables at a diner, Norman begins to hear voices once again. No matter how hard he tries, Norman cannot keep "Mother" from returning and coaxing him to unleash the homicidal maniac within.

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Episode 205: Psycho 2

The Count of Monte Cristo (2002) directed by Kevin Reynolds.

Special guest episode!! Eileen joins us for 00's delights. May I steal your wife?... for the DANCE.

The classic story of an innocent man wrongly, but deliberately imprisoned and his brilliant strategy for revenge against those who betrayed him. Dashing young sailor Edmond Dantes (Jim Caviezel) is a guileless and honest young man whose peaceful life and plans to marry the beautiful Mercedes (Dagmara Dominczyk) are abruptly shattered when his best friend Fernand (Guy Pearce), who wants Mercedes for himself, deceives him.

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Episode 206: The Count Of Monte Cristo

The Beasts (2022) directed by Rodrigo Sorogoyen.

A French couple move to a Galician town in search of a closer relationship with nature. However, a conflict with their neighbours, the Anta brothers, causes tensions to grow until the situation reaches a point of no return.

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Episode 207: The Beasts

The Mitchells Vs. The Machines (2021) directed by Michael Rianda

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Episode 208: The Mitchells Vs. The Machines

"The film's not Oedipal enough"

Special episode this week! We're joined by Oisin Murphy-Hall of Totally Dublin to talk about 1982's The Draughtsman's Contract. The gentry of 17th century Wiltshire gets skewered by director Peter Greenaway.
Orla and Ricardo are slightly nicer to his film however 

American Pie: Beta House and Hot Fuzz, yep relevant refferences
HTJI

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Episode 26: The Draughtsman's Contract

"Imagine if this wasn't a musical and how much I would like it"

Ricardo refuses to give up on the musical, and this week it's Jacques Demy's turn to convert Orla with The Umbrellas of Cherbourg from 1964. 

We are on fine hyper form this week! 

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Episode 33: Umbrellas Of Cherbourg

"It felt very true, in a way that's hard to get across in animation"

We can't think of a better film for our first Irish pick, than Song of the Sea. It's Miyazaki meets Pixar with an Irish humor. 

Tom Waits and the Morbegs 

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Episode 41: Song Of The Sea

"Nothing bad happens in Silicon Valley now though"

We don't think we've had a film that's quite as head scratching as 2004's primer. Felipe joins us to sort through the timelines and help make up our lagging Sci-Fi quota.  

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Episode 65: Primer

"Lets embalm Lenin"

Couldn't be a better time for our second Russian movie (never forget Come and See) courtesy of friend of the pod Alex. She joined us for lively chats on 1988's Heart of a Dog. A fascinating and little seen gem, about the start of the soviet union, made at the very end of the soviet union. 

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Episode 71: Heart Of A Dog

Fire breathing beetles! We're excited.

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Episode 106: Starship Troopers

'I think it's a bad title'

Little Murders (1971) directed by Alan Arkin. 

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Episode 123: Little Murders

The Young Girls of Rochefort (Les Demoiselles de Rochefort)1968 directed by Jacques Demy.

Jacques Demy followed up The Umbrellas of Cherbourg with another musical about missed connections and second chances, this one a more effervescent confection. Twins Delphine and Solange, a dance instructor and a music teacher (played by real-life sisters Catherine Deneuve and Françoise Dorléac), dream of big-city life; when a fair comes through their quiet port town, so does the possibility of escape. With its jazzy Michel Legrand score, pastel paradise of costumes, and divine supporting cast (George Chakiris, Grover Dale, Danielle Darrieux, Michel Piccoli, and Gene Kelly), The Young Girls of Rochefort is a tribute to Hollywood optimism from sixties French cinema’s preeminent dreamer.

Why Les Mis is shite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ikqU6G6Xgs&t

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Episode 153: The Young Girls Of Rochefort

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