A podcast exploring a movie about making a movie of an unfilmable novel about a man's life and all of his opinions, and everything else there involved.
Leaving #StandByMe and the bracket behind. What movies mean. And, my final 28. Yes, 28. Brackets are stupid.
Novel vs film. Losing friends. Memory. And picking winners.
the future of this show, the differences in the adaptation, Jonathan Safran Foer, what is left behind, duo interpretation, and picking a favorite.
Gordie Lachance, magazine subscriptions, being a writer, being invisible, channeling real life, and enjoying silence.
Groundhog Day Project Day 1384, Veteran fathers, dead brothers, Stephen King's childhood, and clinging to friends to survive.
Groundhog Day Project Day 1383, Groundhog Minute, Movies by Minutes, Ex Machina, Jurassic Park, Top Gun, Great Balls of Fire, making connections, and making peace.
Groundhog Day Project Day 1382, Castle Rock, childhood, Worldwide Church of God, sneaking around, jumping off rooftops, and the end of the world.
Laurence Sterne, Tristram Shandy; Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey; Mark Danielewski, House of Leaves, Only Revolutions, The Familiar; Stephen King, The Dark Tower, Cell, The Dome; Groundhog Day, Benesh, Izod, Jung, Nietzsche, and my last movie in a theater.
narrowed down to 23-ish.
Silliness, pacifism, being too Christian, and obscure movies.
Movie narration, Elijah Wood's early film career, Roger Ebert's review, and showing versus telling.
Christian reviews, empathy, religion, the Jedi code, nuclear holocaust, and award season.
Roger Ebert, empathy, small towns, deep wounds, and musical adaptations.
All You Need Is Kill, identifying with awful characters, gen x rom coms, Popeye, rewatchability, Dark Star, and confident filmmaking.
Raggedy Ann, Amish clothing, James Ensor, Halloween comics, sequels, and the novelization, Friday the 13th, and camp.
Long shots, sisters, Uncut Gems, Kubrick's fake moon landing, The Master, the romance of Halloween, and The Room.
Jennie talks about a film, the men don't listen, and Ingoldsby has his first bad idea. Plus, a look at the novel's Jenny, and our film within a film of the week: Coed Frenzy from Blow Out.
In which I explain why-- --Sing Street-- --Say Anything-- --Groundhog Day-- --Happy Death Day-- --Birdman-- --Synecdoche, New York-- --is my favorite film.
Theater, Olive's diary, Olive's tattoos, Adele's tiny paintings, immediacy, solipsism, simulacra, and the meaning of names.
Death of a Salesman, the American Dream, toxic productivity, chronemics, mortality, making choices and living with them, and I'm Thinking of Ending Things.
Apologies, ego, daughters, Virgo to Libra, summer to fall, memory versus reality, Charlie Kaufman, Cotard delusions, character names, and bodily functions.
Self concept, manic pixie dream girls, raging men, and the problematic portrayal of women.
midlife crises, death of a salesman, raymond carver, symbolic interactionism, what is said of a thing, what we think of our self, what we talk about when we talk about love
#GroundhogDay vs #HappyDeathDay. Mentioned: Groundhog Minute, Kevin Smith, Phil's motivation, paranoid writing, Richard Curtis, sequels, Stork Day, and When We First Met.
#GroundhogDay vs #HappyDeathDay. Mentioned: Tree's mom's killer, angel Rowan Atkinson... then there's a Two Minutes About Time cohost meeting or a bit... 80s sex comedies, Bill & Ted, "Groundhog Day", World's Greatest Dad, and Robin Williams.
#GroundhogDay vs #HappyDeathDay. Mentioned: American horror films, ratings, partial nudity, Page 3, Peter Kay's Car Share, Chicago Hope, This Morning, Karen, Crocs, and Cock 'n Bull Ginger Beer (#sponsortheshow)
#GroundhogDay vs #HappyDeathDay. Mentioned: ostriches, geese, peacocks, Unstable, Mamma Mia!, Les Miserables, Love Actually, profanity, blasphemy, The Ricky Gervais Show, Karl Pilkington, and Bill Murray.
#GroundhogDay vs #HappyDeathDay. Mentioned: About Time, bottle episodes, Les Miserables, Simon Fisher-Becker, Judi Dench, IMDb, John Paul Kelly, Lemming Drops Studio Tour, Facebook groups, and travelling to America.
#SingStreet vs #SayAnything. Mentioned: abusive priests, character ages, having no plot and being okay with it, and being happy sad.
#SayAnything vs #SingStreet. Mentioned: love letters and love songs, why Alice hated Once and why she is wrong about that, the stage version of Sing Street, and being happy sad.
#SayAnything vs #SingStreet. Mentioned: romance, trust, honesty, virginity, tax evasion, and The Fuck It List.
As Tristram sits upside down in the womb, a full-grown man, I explain why-- --Ex Machina-- --Eternal Sunhine of the Spotless Mind-- --S.F.W.-- --Ruby Sparks-- --Life as a House-- --Mother!-- --is my favorite film.
#Mother! vs #LifeAsAHouse. Mentioned: creation, art, the male ego, the domestic goddess, destruction, forgiveness, symbolism, Tree of Life, Cube, and Midsommar.
#Mother! vs #LifeAsAHouse. Mentioned: the Bechdel Test, the Mako Mori Test, female subservience, and separate spheres.
#LifeAsAHouse vs #Mother! Mentioned: facing mortality, childhood trauma, Two Minutes About Time, and relationship building.
#LifeAsAHouse vs #Mother! Mentioned: late-stage capitalism, Wuthering Heights, dehumanization, intergenerational trauma, addiction, creation/destruction.
#RubySparks vs #SFW. Mentioned: patreon, Shark Exorcist, Suburban Sasquatch, Neil Breen films, The Batman, the Riddler, 500 Days of Summer, fictional psychiatrists, Steve Coogan, and Tara from Buffy.
#SFW vs #RubySparks. Mentioned: Purple Rain, Danny Rubin, Hear No Evil, celebrity, Ingrid Goes West, the Saw series, Life of Brian, Being There, comedy, Gen X vs Gen Y, Reality Bites, Swimming with Sharks, and Mandy.
#EternalSunshineoftheSpotlessMind vs #ExMachina. Mentioned: our D&D characters, relationships, Total Recall, Hearts Beat Loud, and parasocial relationships.
#ExMachina vs #EternalSunhineoftheSpotlessMind. Mentioned: DMing D&D, CritStorm Cast, The Lobster, IMDb app, Annihilation Minute, Eugene Goostman, and Replika.
I take a look at Minute 24 of Tristram Shandy, I explore what kind of movies I like, and I explain why Brigsby Bear, Dave Made a Maze, Across the Universe, Adaptation, About Time, and The Fisher King are each my favorite film.
#AboutTime vs #TheFisherKing. Mentioned: Fathers & Daughters, The Blue Lagoon, Across the Universe, Emo the Musical, Rat Race, letterboxd, IMDb ratings, The Aberdeen County Conjuror, Aladdin, High School Musical The Musical The Series, Phil Connoring, Love Actually, Yesterday, The Godfather, and Fast Times at Ridgemont High
#AcrosstheUniverse vs #Adaptation. Mentioned: The Beatles, Band Aids, 2001, Noah, mother!, Tree of Life, The Fountain, and Weezer.
#BrigsbyBear vs #DaveMadeaMaze. Mentioned: Little Rascals, Breakin 2, Rochelle Rochelle, Mighty Ducks, Little Giants, Black Mirror, Wilder Ride.
In which we compare and contrast #BrigsbyBear and #DaveMadeaMaze, with mentions of Born into Mafia, Bosch, mandalas, and talk of the creative process.
It did not take long for my bracket to break me and for me to break my bracket. So, now, narrowed down to 36 films, I recombine them for some upcoming conversations with guests rather than necessarily force them into battle. Enjoy.
From 64 down to 32. With far less pressure but still a few kinks.
It's not as if I can never watch one of these movies once it is removed from the bracket, but it kinda feels like that... or worse. Like I'm choosing among my 128 favorite children. This is not a process I am comfortable with.
In preparation for my top film bracket to begin A) I have backslid to 280 films and will have to redo some of the process, 2) am discussing a little more of the process (with talk of Boy and the World, Her, Pi, Annihilation, Everything Is Illuminated, Romper Room, The Fisher King, Sing Street, and Brigsby Bear), and D) we all know I'm gonna cheat to keep certain films from being gone in round 1, right?
Narrowed my favorite films to a list of 369. Here, I describe the process of that list narrowed further.
Is this episode just a list of movies? Yep.
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