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This week, Film Comment is reporting from Berlin, where the 2023 Berlinale is currently underway. Throughout the festival, we’ll be sharing daily podcasts, dispatches, and interviews covering all the highlights of this year’s selection. 

A couple days ago, before the festival kicked off, FC co-deputy editor Devika Girish attended the opening conference of the Berlin Critics’ Week—an autonomous sidebar to the Berlinale, organized independently by a collective of German critics, including Amos Borchert, Elena Friedrich, Petra Palmer, and Dennis Vetter. The topic of the conference was “Cinema of Care - Who Looks After Film Culture?” which included a panel discussion moderated by Devika, and featuring a stellar lineup of guests: curators Abby Sun and Marek Hovorka, and the filmmaker Claire Denis. The four had a provocative, in-depth conversation about what care looks like on the level of aesthetics, in filmmaking, and in film programming, and how we might build a sustainable and collective film culture. 

We’re very grateful to Berlin Critics Week for letting us share the conversation on the podcast.

Cinema of Care, with Claire Denis, Abby Sun, and Marek Hovorka

Hosts Josh and Jamie and special returning guest Perry Ruhland discuss Japanese pinku filmmakers applying their graphic, erotic video styles to gory underground snuff film horror with a double feature of Toshiharu Ikeda's EVIL DEAD TRAP (1988) + Hisayasu Satô's CELLULOID NIGHTMARES (1988). Next week's episode is a patron-exclusive bonus episode on PULSE (2001) and DEMONLOVER (2002) you can get access to that episode (and all past + future bonus episodes) by subscribing to our $5 tier on patreon: www.patreon.com/sleazoidspodcast

Intro // 00:00-13:51
EVIL DEAD TRAP // 13:51-1:06:20
CELLULOID NIGHTMARES // 1:06:20-1:59:15
Outro // 1:59:15-2:02:46

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273 - EVIL DEAD TRAP (1988) + CELLULOID NIGHTMARES (1988) ft. Perry Ruhland

Welcome to Movie Mindset! In this inaugural episode, Will and Hesse guide you through two of the collaborations between director Tony Scott and star Denzel Washington, Man on Fire (2004) & Deja Vu (2006). Join us as the ultimate auteur of the action-thriller meets the ultimate American leading man in these two propulsive explorations of justice, time, duty, depression, vengeance, destiny and sick-ass explosions.

This first episode of Movie Mindset is available for free anywhere you get podcasts. Subsequent episodes will be released exclusively for Chapo Trap House subscribers on Patreon at patreon.com/chapotraphouse.

Movie Mindset

Movie Mindset 01 - Tony Vision

Blake Masters (NOT THAT ONE, Blake is the creator of Showtime’s Brotherhood, and writer for Rubicon, Law & Order: LA, and Falling Water among many other shows) joins us to discuss the ongoing WGA writers’ strike. Will and Blake touch on the transforming landscape of Television, fair compensation in the age of streaming, standing creative professionals’ ground against AI, and how entertainment unions fit into the larger world of American organized labor. And also, how all TV writing eventually leads back to Columbo.

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BONUS: What’s at Stake in the WGA Writers’ Strike

This is a live demo of our self titled song and isn’t finished product

Self titled (live demo)

We hope everyone had a nice labor day.. Today, we’ve got and episode of rivalries: Musk vs. the ADL, the Schlapps vs. Demonic possession, Men (all) vs. Houseplants, Diarrhea vs. Air Travel, and Techno-Libertarians vs. Mud.

764 - The Schlapp’s Exorcist (9/5/23)

When Pepsi is purchased at a Naperville Circle K, Coke and his friends go on the adventure of a lifetime to track her down.

E1 on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/e1podcast

Starring Hasan Piker, Felix Biederman, Raina Douris, and Zola Jesus

Featuring Will Menaker, Matt Christman, Nate Ruess, Alex Press, Cameron Fetter, Caleb Pitts, Patrick Doran, Julian Feeld, Alex Nichols, Branson Reese, Dan Boeckner, Titas Antanas Vilkaitis, Michael Hudson, Sweet Palma, John Semley, Alana Branson, Tom, Hesse, Derek, Wererat (Joel, TJ, and Elliott), and a text-to-speech thing

Written by Alex Branson, Charles Austin, Andrew Hudson, and Felix Biederman

Song by Charles Austin, Nate Ruess, and Raina Douris

Artwork by Branson Reese

Edited by Charles Austin

300 - Pixar's Sodas

GROUCHO REVIEWS film critic PETER CANAVESE reviews THE PEOPLE'S JOKER on CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW (4-11-24) SCREEN SCENE with program host TIM SIKA. Produced by LARRY JAKUBECZ for #KSJS (90.5 FM) and #RadioSausalito (1610 AM).

THE PEOPLE'S JOKER Review (PETER CANAVESE) CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW (SCREEN SCENE) 4-11-24

CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW -- 8/15/24

THIS WEEK'S SHOW:  Welcome to the mid-2000s! 

Set in 2008 during the last month of summer before high school begins, DIDI shows us an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese-American boy navigating the awkward, unknown landscape of teenhood, with the added toxic aspects of male peers and racism. Writer/director Sean Wang and Oscar-nominee Joan Chen discuss the drama and cringe comedy of teenage life in the semi-autobiographical DIDI. 

In 2022, actress Lily Tomlin completed a seven-year run on the hit Netflix series GRACE AND FRANKIE. But way back in 2006, she and a brilliant ensemble cast graced Robert Altman's lilting and lovely A PRAIRIE HOME COMPANION: a fictionalized version of Garrison Keillor's iconic radio show facing its final broadcast, which becomes a metaphor for the natural order of life. It's the one-and-only Lily Tomlin!  [2/13/17>Originally broadcast 6/5/06]

Plus, "Screen Scene" movie reviews (in theaters, if not specified) including ﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿﻿BORDERLANDS; ﻿CUCKOO; ﻿﻿IT ENDS WITH US; ﻿DAUGHTERS; ﻿﻿MY PENGUIN FRIEND; ﻿SUGARCANE; CLOSE TO YOU; ﻿FURIOSA: A MAD MAX SAGA [4K][Warner Home Entertainment]; THE BIKERIDERS [4K][Universal Home Entertainment]; ﻿COLLATERAL [4K][Paramount Home Video]; ﻿ALPHAVILLE (1965) [4K][Kino Lorber Studio Classics]; LAST YEAR AT MARIENBAD (1961) [4K][Kino Lorber Studio Classics]; BOB LE FLAMBEUR (1956) [4K][Kino Lorber Studio Classics]; ﻿LE DOULOS (1963) [4K][Kino Lorber Studio Classics]; ﻿PRIME CUT [4K][Kino Lorber Studio Classics]; ﻿KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS [Kino Lorber Studio Classics]; ﻿99 RIVER STREET (1953) [Kino Lorber Studio Classics]; ﻿EZRA [Decal Releasing] and ﻿WILLIAM SHATNER: YOU CAN CALL ME BILL [Decal Releasing]. 
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This week's featured soundtrack: HOUSE OF THE DRAGON - SEASON 2 (music by Ramin Djwada) [WaterTower Music]

SEAN WANG & JOAN CHEN (DIDI) + LILY TOMLIN + MOVIE REVIEWS (CELLULOID DREAMS THE MOVIE SHOW) 8-15-24

My own private radio 09-05-2025 RANTS AHEAD

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LONG LIVE THE MOVIE LOVIN' FLESH!

My own private radio 09-05-2025 RANTS AHEAD

DJ NV OF MY OWN PRIVATE RADIO