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Despite making $360 million dollars and being loved and reviled in equal measure, sometimes I feel like Christopher Nolan's spy-meets-time-travel hard sci-fi epic TENET doesn't exist. The movie came out in the deepest of COVID, and even among those who saw it, more than half were put off by its (at times) unintelligible dialogue and convoluted plot. It has had a few returns to movie theater since, and is available on physical media and digital media, but isn't among his most celebrated or most visible works. But at this moment, in the summer of 2023, it feels like it exists even more than ever. With OPPENHEIMER in movie theaters and enjoying massive success, more and more people seem to be talking about TENET. I'm a big fan. And I wanted to talk about it with another big fan.On this episode, I'm talking to NYMag film critic Bilge Ebiri. Bilge has spent the summer writing and talking about OPPENHEIMER, and his work really brings us into the world of the making of a new classic.We talk about TENET, and- OPPENHEIMER, and how they are speaking to each other. We also talk about Kenneth Branaugh (the best), the anxiety of parenting, Turkish history, how every scene in TENET is the best scene in the movie, and a lot more. We also reveal the secret agenda of this podcast episode: to get TENET re-released in 70mm iMax.Oh, yea, and DARK KNIGHT RISES. It rules. If you want more Bilge on this feed, scroll back to our episode on Akira Kurosawa's masterful HIGH AND LOW. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the SEASON TWO FINALE of RohmerCast: the podcast about Eric Rohmer, his films, his working methods, and anything else we want to talk about related to Eric Rohmer. In our eighth episode we discuss Rohmer's production methods via LA COLLECTIONNEUSE, PERCEVAL, and THE GREEN RAY. This leads to the following tangents: monster trucks named after Rohmer movies, post-dubbing naturalism, sound recording as a practical AND aesthetic choice, functional light, different approaches to working with actors, and connections to Dogme 95. At the time of this episode's release, La Collectionneuse and The Green Ray are on The Criterion Channel; Perceval is on Tubi. Listen wherever you listen to podcasts (or go to RohmerCast.com). #ericrohmer #frenchnewwave #cinema #nouvellevague #filminstagram #filmtwitter #frenchcinema #cinephile #criterioncollection @criterioncollection @metrograph @mubi #podcast #filmpodcast @filmforum @screenslate #explore #arthouse #filmproduction Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to RohmerCast; the podcast about Eric Rohmer, his films, his working methods, and anything else we want to talk about related to Eric Rohmer. In our seventh episode we discuss Le rayon vert (The Green Ray), his entirely improvised film from 1986. This leads to the following tangents: summertime sadness, different kinds of holidays, traveling alone, the feeling of a documentary, premiering on television, The Worst Person in the World, personal superstitions, others dictating your life choices, tv interviews as the basis for improvisation, weird titles, poetic ideals, feeling invisible, and White Stripes vs Dashboard Confessional. At the time of release, you can stream the movie on The Criterion Channel. Listen wherever you listen to podcasts (or go to RohmerCast.com). #ericrohmer #frenchnewwave #cinema #nouvellevague #filminstagram #filmtwitter #frenchcinema #cinephile #criterioncollection @criterioncollection @metrograph @mubi #podcast #filmpodcast @filmforum @screenslate Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the second episode of season two of RohmerCast, the podcast about Éric Rohmer: his films, his working methods, and anything else we want to talk about related to Éric Rohmer.In this episode, we discuss Perceval, his period adaptation of a 12th century poem. This leads to the following tangents: authenticity to period art and the language of the text, realistic (awkward) battles, theater in the round, artificiality in mise-en-scene, Bressonian acting, and the theme of youth and figuring yourself out.At the time of release, this movie can be streamed on Tubi @tubi.Listen wherever you listen to podcasts (or go to RohmerCast.com).Senses of Cinema article referenced in the episode: https://www.sensesofcinema.com/2017/cteq/perceval-le-gallois/ #ericrohmer #frenchnewwave #cinema #nouvellevague #filminstagram #filmtwitter #frenchcinema #cinephile #criterioncollection @criterioncollection @metrograph @mubi #podcast #filmpodcast @filmforum Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the SEASON TWO PREMIERE of RohmerCast, the podcast about Éric Rohmer: his films, his working methods, and anything else we want to talk about related to Éric Rohmer.In our fifth episode we discuss La Collectionneuse (1967), his (second) first feature. This leads to the following tangents: coming up with a theme song for the show, the idea of a fictionalized documentary, the sound of the birds, direct sound as an aesthetic choice, intentionally with shooting ratio, Rohmer in relation to the Nouvelle Vague, comparisons to Bresson, the cognitive dissonance between image and voiceover, the objectification of Haydee, and achieving perfection in a single bound.At the time of release, this movie can be streamed on the Criterion Channel @criterioncollection (and is generally fairly accessible).Listen wherever you listen to podcasts (or go to RohmerCast.com). #ericrohmer #frenchnewwave #cinema #nouvellevague #filminstagram #filmtwitter #frenchcinema #cinephile #criterioncollection @criterioncollection @metrograph @mubi #podcast #filmpodcast @filmforumClip from 'Magnolia (1999)' property of New Line Cinema. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hello everybody! And welcome to RohmerCast, a podcast about Eric Rohmer: his films, his working methods, and anything else we want to talk about related to Eric Rohmer. Listen to our trailer to hear about the films we're going to talk about in season two!Primary Sources:Eric Rohmer: Interviews edited by Fiona HandysideEric Rohmer: A Biography by Noël Herpe and Antoine De Baecque#ericrohmer #frenchnewwave #cinema #nouvellevague #filminstagram #filmtwitter #frenchcinema #cinephile #criterioncollection @criterioncollection @metrograp Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hi!While you all eagerly await the announcement of our second season, we thought we'd re-share Shaun's appearance on Oeuvre Busters, the podcast that launched this feed and got some fun attention last week.On the ep, Shaun goes into full 'cool teacher' mode, taking us through Manny Farber's theory. It's a fun listen, and we hope you enjoy it!We'll be back in soon with announcements about season 2!--This week, based on a question from a listener, we sat down with filmmaker pal Shaun Seneviratne to talk about Manny Farber's influential theory of White Elephant Art and Termite Art. We talk about what the theory means, whether one type is good or bad, and whether Batman films are an elephant or termite. Finally, we discuss Liam's solo record, Neon Elephant.Shaun Seneviratne is a Sri Lankan-American filmmaker and educator in Brooklyn, NY. His past work has screened at festivals such as Nantucket, Montclair, CAAM, and San Diego Asian Film Festival. Currently, Shaun is developing his first feature film and teaches film production at the Brooklyn STEAM Center, as well as film history and visual storytelling at Pace University.Follow Shaun on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebrownshaun/?hl=enCheck out Shaun's work: https://www.shaunseneviratne.com/Read more about Manny Farber here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny_FarberHere's a link to Farber's essay: http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/mannyfarber-termiteart-annotated.htmlYou can find more OB content at www.oeuvrebusters.com. Also, please feel free to drop us a line, either via email or voicemail, at Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. We are always looking to incorporate feedback from our listeners for the show, so leave us some thoughts and we might share them on the podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review whenever and wherever you can. We appreciate all the love and support."Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Hi everybody!We were thrilled and honored to be included in today's 13 Great Film Podcasts, According to a Film Critic article published by Vulture. On this list, Bilge Ebiri highlighted some of the film podcasts he enjoys and has been on. We are in such wonderful company. Having Bilge on was a real highlight for us, and so we thought we'd re-release the episode for you to check it out. The entire back catalog of Oeuvre Busters is available! Check it out below! Thanks so much for listening, and enjoy this episode about one of the great masterpieces of cinema. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

HI!The films that we talked about this season that are on Metrograph's at home app are leaving September 28, 2022! Though they are available on Archive.org, Metrograph's versions are beautiful! Go watch and listen before we start our second season! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to RohmerCast, the podcast about Rohmer: his films, his working methods, and anything else we want to talk about related to Éric Rohmer. In finale of season one, we ask ourselves, “What is Rohmerian?” and explore the “Rohmer Cinematic Universe” through The Aviator's Wife (1981), Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987), and Boyfriends and Girlfriends (1987) -- the three films programmed by Metrograph in their Summer of Rohmer series. This leads to the following tangents: what makes someone an auteur, the qualities of a Rohmerian performance, “reasonable” characters, testing one's own philosophies and principles, the use of dramatic irony and planting and payoff in his narratives, location setting, his direct visual style, and the role of coincidence in our lives.All the films discussed in this season are available as part of the Metrograph's Summer of Rohmer series and can be streamed via Metrograph at Home (membership required). The films are also available on Archive.org.Music note: the music in this week's episode comes from the Summer of Rohmer trailer on Metrograph's site. You can find Liam Billingham on Twitter @liamgbillingham and Shaun Seneviratne on Instagram and Twitter @thebrownshaun.Primary Sources:Eric Rohmer: Interviews edited by Fiona HandysideEric Rohmer: A Biography by Noël Herpe and Antoine De Baecque#ericrohmer #frenchnewwave #cinema #nouvellevague #filminstagram #filmtwitter #frenchcinema #cinephile #criterioncollection @criterioncollection @metrograph @mubi #podcast #filmpodcast Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to RohmerCast, the podcast about Rohmer: his films, his working methods, and anything else we want to talk about related to Éric Rohmer. In our third episode, hosts Liam Billingham and Shaun Seneviratne discuss Boyfriends & Girlfriends (1987), the final film in his Comedies & Proverbs cycle. This leads to the following tangents: Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, the Screwball Comedy, streamlined production methods, location sound as sound aesthetic, the suburbs as a location, setting up webs of relationships, sympathy for the youth, Blanche as a character, jobs decentered, color blocking, and assessing the most accurate title translation.In this episode, Liam is wearing a ScreenSlate NYC hat and Shaun is drinking absinthe at two in the afternoon. Listen wherever you listen to podcasts! Boyfriends and Girlfriends is screening as part of the Summer of Rohmer series at Metrograph and can be streamed at Metrograph at Home. You can find Liam Billingham on Twitter @liamgbillingham and Shaun Seneviratne on Instagram and Twitter @thebrownshaun. Special thanks to our buddy George Fragopoulos, who you'll hear on the show soon! Primary Sources:Eric Rohmer: Interviews edited by Fiona HandysideEric Rohmer: A Biography by Noël Herpe and Antoine De Baecque#ericrohmer #frenchnewwave #cinema #nouvellevague #filminstagram #filmtwitter #frenchcinema #cinephile #criterioncollection @criterioncollection @metrograph @mubi #podcast #filmpodcast Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to RohmerCast, the podcast about Rohmer: his films, his working methods, and anything else we want to talk about related to Éric Rohmer.In our second episode, hosts Liam Billingham and Shaun Seneviratne discuss Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle (1987), a semi-improvised film made during a production break on The Green Ray (1986). This leads to following tangents: production crews, the difference between improvisation and scripted moments, episodic construction, naïveté vs popular common sense, how we watch things, compression vs expansion, and what we can learn about our own personal philosophies. Listen wherever you listen to podcasts! Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle is screening as part of the Summer of Rohmer series at Metrograph and can be streamed at Metrograph at Home). You can find Liam Billingham on Twitter @liamgbillingham and Shaun Seneviratne on Instagram and Twitter @thebrownshaun. Special thanks to our buddy George Fragopoulos, who you'll hear on the show soon! Sources:Eric Rohmer: Interviews edited by Fiona HandysideEric Rohmer: A Biography by Noël Herpe and Antoine De Baecque Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to RohmerCast, a new podcast from one of the guys who brought you Oeuvre Busters and his much smarter friend! In this inaugural episode, hosts Liam Billingham and Shaun Seneviratne discuss The Aviator's Wife, which marked the beginning of Rohmer's Comedies and Proverbs cycle. This leads to some of the following tangents: growing into Rohmer as an adult; the superficial qualities one associates with Rohmer; the film as Verite Romantic Comedy, an Action Movie, and an Existential Detective Story; desire and reason; seeing someone listen; patterns, plotting, and twists; performance, and more. Though you can't see it, we were “styled” in Human Boy Worldwide and their awesome Rohmer merch. The Aviator's Wife is screening as part of the Summer of Rohmer series at Metrograph (and can be streamed at Metrograph At Home). You can find Liam Billingham on Twitter @liamgbillingham and Shaun Seneviratne on Instagram and Twitter @thebrownshaun.Special thanks to our buddy George Fragopoulos, who you'll hear on the show soon!Sources:Eric Rohmer: Interviews edited by Fiona HandysideEric Rohmer: A Biography by Noël Herpe and Antoine De BaecqueInterview with Marie Rivière (via Metrograph)Interview with Mary Stephan (via Metrograph)Q&A with Marie Riviere, Mary Stephan, and Matias Pineiro (via Metrograph)Meet the Rohmer Guy (via GQ) Our GDPR privacy policy was updated on August 8, 2022. Visit acast.com/privacy for more information.

This month on Patreon, the boys go deep on Thomas Vinterberg's ANOTHER ROUND, which is currently on HULU in the US of A and is pretty damn great. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this reddish episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss Akira Kurosawa's Red Beard (1965), starring Toshiro Mifune, Yūzō Kayama, Tsutomu Yamazaki, Reiko Dan, Miyuki Kuwano and Kyōko Kagawa. Topics discussed: endings and beginnings; Green Day albums; beard dye; Henry Cavill's 'stache; horribly racist James Bond films. Also, the Pacino reset! Topics not discussed? Kierkegaard and the leap of faith. Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get bonus episodes and the occasional film essay by George. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this Learesque episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Jessica Chiba to discuss Akira Kurosawa's Ran (1985), starring Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu and Mieko Harada. We recorded this episode a few months back and were going to release it a little later, but Ran is currently on Amazon Prime, so what better time to celebrate this film than now? Topics discussed: must we mean what we say?; the purpose of fools; utter hopelessness; love. Plus, we briefly imagine what an Akira Kurosawa Shakespearean comedy might look like.Topics not discussed: The films of Alexander Kluge. Sign. Maybe one day . . .Dr. Jessica Chiba is a Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham's Shakespeare Institute. More about her fascinating research on Shakespeare, philosophy and translation (and untranslatability!) can be found here: https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/edacs/departments/shakespeare/staff/profile.aspx?ReferenceId=179549 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this up and down episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Bilge Ebiri to discuss High and Low (1963), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyōko Kagawa and Tatsuya Mihashi. Topics discussed: pink smoke; the Criterion closet, again; Steve Martin, serious actor; Mifune's great cheekbones. Also, utopianism! Topics not discussed? Goethe's Theory of Colors. Bilge Ebiri is an editor and film critic at Vulture. Here's some of his recent writing we discuss in the episode:Bilge's interview with Paul GreengrassBilge's review of Barb and StarHey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get bonus episodes and the occasional film essay by George. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this sequel to our episode on Yojimbo, Liam and George welcome back Jose Rodriguez to discuss Sanjuro (1962), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Keiju Kobayashi and Yūzō Kayama. Topics discussed: Roborat; explosive violence; pounds and pence; keeping your sword sheathed; Demolition Man; ronins with hearts of gold. Also, faxes! Remember those?!Topics not discussed? Terfs! They suck. Jose's wonderful and beautiful Adolescencia and other works can be found here: https://vimeo.com/user5285910Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get bonus episodes and the occasional film essay by George. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this yolo of an episode, Liam and George welcome Bryan Cogman to discuss Yojimbo (1961), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune. Topics discussed: correct samurai slashing techniques; Al Pacino in Star Wars; how to properly hold a gun; Tony Scott; and, of course, capitalism. Plus, Sergio Leone, put that letter down!Topics not discussed: The symbolism of the parrot in Gustave Flaubert’s A Simple Heart.Bryan Cogman is a screenwriter, producer and once and future actor. He spent ten years and eight seasons working on the HBO series Game of Thrones, finishing up its run as co-executive producer and wrote eleven episodes of the series. He is a consulting producer on Amazon’s upcoming Lord of the Rings series and has written the screenplay for Disney’s upcoming live-action remake of The Sword in the Stone. Currently, Bryan is developing a number of new original TV series for eOne including a contemporary reimagining of Akira Kurosawa’s Yojimbo.Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get bonus episodes and the occasional film essay by George. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this well-rested episode, Liam and George invite Inkoo Kang on to discuss The Bad Sleep Well (1960) directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Topics discussed: Hamlet, of course; bustiers; eating cake at the DMV; Halloween traumas; Parasite. Also, as usual, capitalism! Folks, it's still bad. Topics not discussed: Heiner Müller's Hamletmachine. Inkoo's great podcast on Pedro Almodovar can be found here: All About Almovodar Podcast And some of her recent writing can be found here: Inkoo Kang: The 10 Best TV Shows of 2020Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get bonus episodes and the occasional film essay by George. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this hidden (?) episode of Oeuvre Busters, George and Liam welcome back filmmaker and friend of the pod Randy Wilkins to discuss The Hidden Fortress (1958) directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Misa Uehara, Minoru Chiaki, and Kamatari Fujiwara.Topics discussed: NYU, the Star Wars of colleges; obnoxious film professors; working in triangles; burying corpses; the intimate and the epical; sublime poets stealing; Mifune’s legs. Also, please hire us Disney!Topics not discussed: The Spanish Civil War, thankfully.More about Randy and his superlative work can be found here http://www.pamsson.com/about including his most recent Pepsi ad: http://www.pamsson.com/pepsi-bodega-givebackHey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get bonus episodes and the occasional film essay by George. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George plumb the depths to discuss Akira Kurosawa's The Lower Depths, starring, of course, the studly Toshiro Mifune. Topics discussed: Maxim Gorky, wookie lookalike; fuck Richard Crenna; 24-hour TangoMan; Stalin and how he murked a few folks; Maxim Gorky, time traveler. Also, be obnoxious, go ahead!Topics not discussed? Wilson Harris's sublime Guyana Quartet, essential texts of the post-colonial canon. Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get bonus episodes and the occasional film essay by George. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this bloody great episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Isaac Butler on to discuss Throne of Blood (1957), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Isuzu Yamada and Takashi Shimura.Topics discussed: Ghost of Tsushima; doomed prophecies; that one Julius Caesar in the park; Hour of the Wolf; very English things to say; horses eating horses; wonderlands. Also, some lingo from those of us in the critical trade.Topic not discussed: Battlestar Galactica and all those Cylons and shit.Isaac’s show, Real Enemies, can be viewed here: https://secure.calperformances.org/15157Isaac’s podcasts, Lend Me Your Ears and Working, can be found here: http://www.slate.com/articles/slate_plus/shakespeare.htmlhttps://slate.com/podcasts/workingHis co-authored book, The World Only Spins Forward, can be found here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/the-world-only-spins-forward-9781635572988/Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get bonus episodes and the occasional essay by George about the films being discussed on the podcast. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this cancerous episode of Oeuvre Busters, George and Liam discuss Ikiru (1952), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Takashi Shimura. Topics discussed: Squid-and-the-Whale vibes; drunk salarymen; bad dads; Kid A; all the rabbits we made along the way. Also, Tolstoy. Topics not discussed: lobster humanoids.Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get a bonus episodes and the occasional essay by George about the films being discussed on the podcast. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this fearful episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss I Live in Fear (1954), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune. Topics discussed: Vigo the Carpathian; the anxiety of modern life; the late, great James Gandolfini does Shakespeare; radioactive rainstorms; erotic Liam. Also, so many good people are dead!Topics not discussed: The Tarnac 9.Make sure to listen and subscribe to Michael Carroll's excellent podcast, Judgement Day: T2 Vs Cinema! It can be found here: https://shows.acast.com/judgement-day/Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get a bonus episode and an essay from George about the films being discussed on the podcast. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this seventh-heaven of an episode, Liam and George welcome Blake Howard, the hardest-working man in podcasting, to discuss The Seven Samurai (1954), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura and Keio Tsushima.Topics discussed: Michael Mann Google alerts; Pauline Kael; high school Liam, film nerd; living French philosophers. Also, Radioactive Man, the Movie!Topic not discussed? The invention of the number zero.More about Blake Howard and his amazing stable of podcasts can be found here: https://oneheatminute.com/aboutHey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get a bonus episode and an essay from George about the films being discussed on the podcast. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This month we welcome Ben Affleck lover, Bostonian, and Liam's sister-in-law Rebecca Weiss to talk about all things Ben Affleck! It's a fun, chatty episode. Witness Liam and Rebecca's amazing Boston accents! Roll your eyes as George keeps trying to make Tarkovsky jokes. Be mildly annoyed that no one has ever seen the movies we're talking about! Subscribe to the patreon at patreon.com/oeuvrebusters!Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support."Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this non-idiotic episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome A.S. Hamrah to the podcast to discuss Akira Kurosawa’s The Idiot (1951), starring Toshiro Mifune, Setsuko Hara, and Takashi Shimura. Topics discussed: America’s crumbling infrastructure; Draculaesque interiors; snow; human extremes. Also, Christ attacks the money lenders!Topics not discussed: Throwing the I Ching. A.S. Hamrah was n+1’s film critic from 2008 to 2019, and was the editor of the magazine’s film review supplement. He has worked as a movie theater projectionist, a semiotic brand analyst, a political pollster, a football cinematographer, a zine writer, and for the film director Raúl Ruiz. He lives in New York. His book, The Earth Dies Streaming, can be purchased here: https://shop.nplusonemag.com/collections/featured/products/the-earth-dies-streaming-by-a-s-hamrah His recent article for The Baffler, “New Centuries Are Rare,” can be found here: https://thebaffler.com/salvos/new-centuries-are-rare-hamrahHey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get a bonus episode and a essay from George about the films being discussed on the podcast. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this memory-laden episode, Liam and George welcome Alissa Wilkinson on to discuss Rashomon, directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Machiko Kyo and Masayuki Mori. Topics discussed: faith in humanity; deus ex baby; postmodern theories of narrative; deep fakes; the politics of the 60s. Also, you guys should kill each other!Topics not covered? Robert Frost’s genteel New England poetry.Alissa is Vox.com’s film critic and an associate professor of English and humanities at the King’s College in New York City. She’s also a member of the NY Film Critics Circle and the National Society of Film Critics.More about the wonderful Alissa Wilkinson can be found here: http://www.alissawilkinson.com/ And please listen to her amazing podcast, Young Adult Movie Ministry here: https://yammpod.substack.com/They did an episode on The Maltese Falcon that also covers Michael Mann's Miami Vice and Kurosawa's Stray Dog and The Idiot. Perfect episode? Yes.Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get a bonus episode and a essay from George about the films being discussed on the podcast. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this scandalous episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss Scandal (1950) starring Toshiro Mifune and directed, of course, by Akira Kurosawa. Topics discussed: Weezer, as always; amour; old-doddering dudes; Martin Jay’s glasses; snarky booksellers. Also, congrats to Mifune on the wedding!Topic not discussed? The monstrous waves of Nazaré, Portugal, where extreme surfers go to test their mettle.Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get a bonus episode and a essay from George about the films being discussed on the podcast. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A sneak peek look into our episode on the Dirty Dozen. Greek-American action cinema! The lie of Sleepless in Seattle! War sucks, Bronson rules.To listen to the entire episode, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters!Join us. We love you. Well, George does. Liam likes you.Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get a bonus episode and a essay from George about the films being discussed on the podcast. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this doggish episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George invite Joyce Wu to discuss Stray Dog (1949), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring, of course, Toshiro Mifune. Topics discuss? Horniness; isolation, alienation, AND ennui; the shadow-self; people are bad; ACAB, have a beer; sucking popsicles. Also, Kurosawa can direct the shit out of anything.Topics not discussed? The origins of the bicameral mind.Joyce Wu is a writer and director based in Los Angeles. She was an inaugural member of the Made in NY Writers Room, a fellowship developed by the WGA East in partnership with the NYC Mayor’s Office of Media and Entertainment, where she developed and wrote a half-hour comedy pilot based on her web series Mr. Right. Her first feature film She Lights Up Well is currently available on iTunes. Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get a bonus episode and a essay from George about the films being discussed on the podcast. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this not-at-all regrettable episode Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Nancy Schwartzman to discuss Akira Kurosawa’s No Regrets for Our Youth (1946), starring Setsuko Hara.Topics discussed? Swingers; heroic university professors; bending the knee; fast-asleep cops; ignorant villagers. Also, proper farmer etiquette!Topics not discussed? Nothing. This episode is incredibly ambitious, and we pretty much cover everything there is to cover in a tight 1:02:31. You’re welcome!Nancy Schwartzman is a Peabody Award nominated documentary film director, producer, and media strategist who uses storytelling and technology to create safer communities for women and girls. Roll Red Roll is her feature film debut, and goes beyond the headlines of the notorious Steubenville, Ohio high school sexual assault case to uncover the social-media fueled “boys will be boys” culture that let it happen. Roll Red Roll premiered in 2018 at the Tribeca Film Festival and Hot Docs, and has screened at over 40 film festivals worldwide and garnered 7 best documentary awards. The film opened theatrically at the Film Forum in New York City and the Laemmle Monica Film Center in Los Angeles to uniformly positive reviews with 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. It was a Critic’s Pick in The New York Times and reviewed in The New Yorker, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, the Chicago Tribune, the Guardian, and the Los Angeles Times amongst others. Nancy appeared on CNN’s Amanpour, BBC Women’s Hour and People TV. The film opened the 32nd season of the acclaimed PBS documentary series POV, broadcast on BBC Storyville in the U.K., and is now streaming in 190 countries on Netflix.A globally recognized human rights activist, Nancy is a tech founder and created the Obama/Biden’s White House award-winning mobile app Circle of 6 designed to reduce sexual violence among America’s youth and college students. Over 350,000 people in 36 countries use Circle of 6 and it is currently being adapted for journalists working in Mexico in partnership with Article 19 and the Guardian Project. She has presented her work at the White House, the United Nations, TEDxSheffield, CNN, Forbes, Good Pitch, DOCNYC and at over 60 colleges and universities. She is a graduate of Columbia University.Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get a bonus episode and a essay from George about the films being discussed on the podcast. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this dueling-banjos episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss The Quiet Duel (1949), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune. Topics discussed: syphilis; fuck around and find out; Avengers: Endgame; Liam’s wicked sophistry. Also, can’t fuck, wanna fuck.Topics not discussed: The Situationists and the beach beneath the streets.Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get a bonus episode and a essay from George (the first one drops August 17th!) about the films being discussed on the podcast. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Here's a little taste of this month's Patreon on BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD. Our guests are Joe and Michael Ranghelli. For $3 a month, you get one additional episode AND a little essay writen by George.Join us at patreon.com/oeuvrebusters!We appreciate the support. Thank you! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this angelic episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Stuart Galbraith IV, the man who literally wrote the book on the Kurosawa/Mifune relationship, The Emperor and the Wolf. Topics discussed: cynicism and hopefulness; curmudgeonly doctors; Yakuza feudalism; spiritual sickness. Also, Clint Eastwood is just a watered down version of Mifune, really.Topics not discussed: How Vladimir Nabokov’s translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin lead to the ending of his friendship with Edmund Wilson.Stuart Galbraith IV is a Kyoto-based film historian, writer, and publisher-editor of World Cinema Paradise. He is the author of seven books, including The Emperor and the Wolf (Faber & Faber, 2002), the joint-biography of Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune hailed by Martin Scorsese as "a must read." Within the home video field, Galbraith has written essays for Criterion's three-disc Seven Samurai DVD and Blu-ray, Optimum's Rashomon, BCI Eclipse's The Quiet Duel and Subkultur's The Long Good Friday. In 2015, Galbraith recorded an audio commentary and wrote and produced a new short documentary, Rashomon at 65, for the British Film Institute's Blu-ray of Kurosawa's 1950 classic. Concurrently, he served as an consultant on Oscar-winning director Steven Okazaki's documentary feature, Mifune - Last Samurai (2015). Holding a Master's Degree from the University of Southern California's prestigious School of Cinema-Television, Galbraith worked as an archivist and researcher at both Warner Bros. and M-G-M. At Warner Bros., Galbraith implemented preservation projects and procedures at both its USC-Warner Bros. Archives and the Warner Bros. Corporate Image Archives. At M-G-M, Galbraith worked as a "film detective," tracking down the original camera negatives to more than three dozen "lost" films. Since 2003 he has lived in Kyoto, Japan with his wife, Yukiyo, and their daughter, Sadie. He is currently at work on a new act of preservation, which he’ll tell us all about.Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get a bonus episode and a essay from George (the first one drops August 17th!) about the films being discussed on the podcast. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this dialectically-enhanced episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss two films for the price of one: Sanshiro Sugata (1943), directed by Akira Kurosawa, and Snow Trail (1947), starring Toshiro Mifune. Topics discussed on this episode: alpha and beta males; Babar, the colonialist; the shit and the mire; middle-brow literature. Plus, my god, that sandal! So quintessentially Kurosawa.Topics not discussed: anemones.Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get a bonus episode and a essay from George about the films being discussed on the podcast. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. "Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this, the season-four premier of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George return to their art-house roots to discuss the collaborative relationship between Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune! Topics discussed: double-decker VHS tapes; small republican towns; libraries, oases of culture; world cinema; men in crisis. Also, what the fuck is up with Grimace? Seriously?!Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to our new Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters For only $3 dollars a month, you’ll get a bonus episode and a essay from George about the films being discussed on the podcast. (George promises no problematic manifestos about the current state of the world.) Also, we will definitely give you a shout out on the podcast! Your financial support will also help us upgrade our equipment and improve the show in a variety of ways.Please, if you can, rate, review, and subscribe to Oeuvre Busters on Stitcher and iTunes and wherever else you might download your favorite podcasts. Your ratings and reviews help the show reach a wider audience. Please also feel free to send us regular and hate mail at: Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. Again, we appreciate all the support. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

*Note:To celebrate HUSBANDS being available on the Criterion Channel, we’re re-releasing all of our HUSBANDS content. Believe it or not, this show started because of HUSBANDS. The Dick Cavett episode is available below, as well as on the Criterion Channel. Watch, listen, and cringe!*Welcome to this bonus episode (you're welcome, America!) of Oeuvre Busters! On September 18, 1970, Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, and Peter Falk appeared on the Dick Cavett Show to promote Husbands. The recording was, to say the least, rather eventful, what with Cassavetes, Gazzara and Falk more interested in ragin' on stage than in answering Cavett's questions. The encounter needs to be seen to be believed! To commemorate this shitshow, and to further our discussion of Husbands, Liam and George have recorded an audio commentary to accompany the show. Topics covered: How drunk are these guys really? Who does the better pratfall, Cassavetes or Gazzara? Also, feet, feet and more feet! (Links below to the show itself and to Cavett reminiscing about the experience in The New Yorker.) Topics not covered: The serious plot hole in Love Actually (2003): how the hell does that annoyingly precocious kid both learn to play the drums in the span of a week AND find himself playing in the school pageant? We don't even see him try out for the band! Who's running this pageant?! It doesn't make any sense, and the movie, otherwise a masterpiece, suffers greatly for it.YouTube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1UZ6IOJ5ovwDick Cavett's Worst show: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/dick-cavetts-worst-show See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this, the final episode of season three of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George recap and rank ALL the Batman movies and Batmen. Topics discussed: stink lines; silence as the apotheosis of art; the Reagan administration; the funkiest man you've ever seen; RIP Joel Schumacher. Also, lots of Colin Farrell talk.Katie Stebbin's piece on 'Product as Synergy' can be found here: https://cinenthusiast.wordpress.com/2020/06/24/the-product-as-synergy-era-begins-hollywood-in-1990/Topics not discussed? The role of the lightning-scene and its significance in classical Arabic poetry.You can find more OB content at www.oeuvrebusters.com. Also, please feel free to drop us a line, either via email or voicemail, at Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. We are always looking to incorporate feedback from our listeners for the show, so leave us some thoughts and we might share them on the podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review whenever and wherever you can. We appreciate all the love and support."Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this jokers-are-wild episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Mark Pagan and Randy Wilkins to discuss Joker (2019), directed by Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz and Frances Conroy. Topics discussed: Sopranos avatars; cathartic dancing; Thomas Wayne: major asshole; anticomedy. Also, Logan!Topics not discussed: Edward Said’s controversial lecture, Freud and the non-European, a talk actually banned by the Freud institute in Vienna. Those Freudians sure are sensitive. For more info on our amazing guests, please follow the links below: Dear Spike LeeOther Men Need HelpRandy on TwitterMark Pagan on TwitterYou can find more OB content at www.oeuvrebusters.com. Also, please feel free to drop us a line, either via email or voicemail, at Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. We are always looking to incorporate feedback from our listeners for the show, so leave us some thoughts and we might share them on the podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review whenever and wherever you can. We appreciate all the love and support."Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Terrible! Unreal! No passion!Husbands is back, baby! Recently released by Criterion, available TODAY on The Criterion Channel, and selected as Indiewire's streamer of the day, what better time to release our episode on the movie that inspired this entire podcast!Cassavetes' film on toxic men features one of the all-time great performances from Ben Gazzara. This movie is painful, long, incredible, and an essential film. We hope you enjoy this early episode from the show! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this legotastic episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George invite good friend Matthew Krol, from The Only Podcast About Movies, to discuss Lego Batman, starring Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson and Ralph Fiennes, and is directed by Chris McKay.Topics discussed: kissing cousins; Batman: angry dude and tax dodger; Platonic friends; the politics of vigilantism; and fuck Clayface. Also, Dunkirk! Where are the fascists?!?Topics not discussed: Allen Ginsberg’s attempt in 1967 to levitate the Pentagon into space using Tibetan prayer. Matt and Shahir's excellent podcast can be found here: http://www.onlymoviepodcast.com/Places that need your support during these trying times:https://justiceforbreonna.org/https://www.theokraproject.com/You can find more OB content at www.oeuvrebusters.com. Also, please feel free to drop us a line, either via email or voicemail, at Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. We are always looking to incorporate feedback from our listeners for the show, so leave us some thoughts and we might share them on the podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review whenever and wherever you can. We appreciate all the love and support."Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this justifiably awesome episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss 2017’s Justice League, directed by Zack Snyder and starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, and Jason Momoa. Topics discussed: mother boxes; Armond White: to troll or not to troll?; brown cinematic sludge; manly men. And the worse people in the world got what they wanted! Topics not discussed? C.L.R James’s revolutionary reappraisal of the Haitian Revolution, The Black Jacobins. A must read, especially now! Read him!Please consider donating to one of the following funds or signing petitions to help those who are trying to change the world for the better:https://blacklivesmatter.com/https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloydhttps://www.lgbtqfund.org/https://justiceforbreonna.orghttps://www.change.org/p/justice-for-tony-mcdadeBlack Lives Matter. You can find more OB content at www.oeuvrebusters.com. Also, please feel free to drop us a line, either via email or voicemail, at Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. We are always looking to incorporate feedback from our listeners for the show, so leave us some thoughts and we might share them on the podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review whenever and wherever you can. We appreciate all the love and support."Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this very antagonistic episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Michael Carroll to discuss Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), directed by Zach Snyder and starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, and Gal Gadot. Topics discussed: corporate art vs. non-corporate art; Ben Affleck’s body vs. Henry Cavill’s body vs. Gal Gadot's body; visionary style vs. style style; studio product vs. Cassavetes product; Schumacher vs. Snyder. Also, crisis mismanagement!Topics not discussed: The canzoni of Arnaut Daniel, 12th century troubadour.Michael Carroll is the host of the forthcoming podcast "Judgement Day: T2 Vs Cinema." Follow him on Instagram at @judgementdaypod and if you're interested in pitting your favorite films against Terminator 2 email him at judgementdaypod@gmail.comYou can find more OB content at www.oeuvrebusters.com. Also, please feel free to drop us a line, either via email or voicemail, at Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. We are always looking to incorporate feedback from our listeners for the show, so leave us some thoughts and we might share them on the podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review whenever and wherever you can. We appreciate all the love and support."Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week, based on a question from a listener, we sat down with filmmaker pal Shaun Seneviratne to talk about Manny Farber's influential theory of White Elephant Art and Termite Art. We talk about what the theory means, whether one type is good or bad, and whether Batman films are an elephant or termite. Finally, we discuss Liam's solo record, Neon Elephant.Shaun Seneviratne is a Sri Lankan-American filmmaker and educator in Brooklyn, NY. His past work has screened at festivals such as Nantucket, Montclair, CAAM, and San Diego Asian Film Festival. Currently, Shaun is developing his first feature film and teaches film production at the Brooklyn STEAM Center, as well as film history and visual storytelling at Pace University.Follow Shaun on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thebrownshaun/?hl=enCheck out Shaun's work: https://www.shaunseneviratne.com/Read more about Manny Farber here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manny_FarberHere's a link to Farber's essay: http://www.coldbacon.com/writing/mannyfarber-termiteart-annotated.htmlYou can find more OB content at www.oeuvrebusters.com. Also, please feel free to drop us a line, either via email or voicemail, at Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. We are always looking to incorporate feedback from our listeners for the show, so leave us some thoughts and we might share them on the podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review whenever and wherever you can. We appreciate all the love and support."Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this raisable episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome friends Nicole and Shawn to discuss the final instalment of the Nolan trilogy, "The Dark Knight Rises," starring Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, and Gary Oldman. Topics discussed: Marcel Proust, secret fascist; blood transfusions; Bruce Wayne in rehab; the political imaginary. Also, by the grace of god, more show trials and executions! And so many Bane impressions!Topics not discussed? Engels's contributions to theories of evolution in his monumental "The Dialectics of Nature."Nicole Solomon is a filmmaker, educator and Co-Founder of media services company 4MileCircus. Her short film “Small Talk” screened at festivals around the world winning numerous honors including the Golden Kleene Award from the Arse Electronika Festival on Sex and Tech, the first film to do so. Her antifascist vampire allegory “It’s Normal” recently wrapped up its festival run and is now available exclusively through Patreon -- visit patreon.com/4milecircus for information and to see more of her stuff. Please support Nicole's work here:https://www.patreon.com/4milecircusShawn Setaro is an Associate Editor at Complex and the writer and reporter of Infamous: The Tekashi 6ix9ine Story, a Complex and Spotify podcast about the controversial rapper. He is also the former editor-in-chief of Rap Genius and the creator and host of The Cipher, a critically acclaimed hip-hop podcast. He has written about music and culture for Forbes, The Atlantic, Vibe, The Source, GQ, Esquire, The Sondheim Review, and more. Shaw's work can be found here: https://www.complex.com/author/shawn-setaro. Infamous can be heard here: https://open.spotify.com/user/1261155488You can find more OB content at www.oeuvrebusters.com. Also, please feel free to drop us a line, either via email or voicemail, at Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. We are always looking to incorporate feedback from our listeners for the show, so leave us some thoughts and we might share them on the podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review whenever and wherever you can. We appreciate all the love and support."Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

WHAT? ANOTHER EPISODE! YOU GUYS ARE SO PROLIFIC - you, talking to us.Liam and George grace your feeds with a new podcast within a podcast called Message to a Buster! The premise is simple. One of us records a message. The other responds.This week, we've decided to talk about the inaugural issue of the new series, Batman The Adventure Continues. This new series, written by Paul Dini and Alan Burnett, dropped in early April. You can learn more here: https://www.dccomics.com/comics/batman-the-adventures-continue-2020/batman-the-adventures-continue-1If you'd like to be included in a future edition of Message to a Buster, find us on twitter (@OeuvreBusters), Instagram (@OeuvreBusters), or email us at OeuvreBusters@gmail.com. We'd like to hear from someone who knows a bit about the state of the comic industry (George will say more in the episode!).Enjoy! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this knightish episode of Oeuvre Busters, George and Liam invite Blake Howard from the One Heat Minute podcast to discuss 2008’s The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, and Maggie Gyllenhaal.Topics discussed: David Fincher’s movies for children; the three Batmen; 24-hour Zodiac; Jim Gordon is Brutus; Bane tattoos.Plus, who is the better villain: the Joker or Bruce, the shark from Jaws?Topics not discussed: Ezra Pound’s stay at St. Elizabeths hospital directly after World War II and how his time there prevented him from being found guilty for treason.The article Blake mentions regarding Dark Horizons can be found here:https://www.darkhorizons.com/what-re-the-most-acclaimed-comic-book-films/ And Blake’s amazing podcast work can be found here: https://oneheatminute.com/podcastYou can find more OB content at www.oeuvrebusters.com. Also, please feel free to drop us a line, either via email or voicemail, at Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. We are always looking to incorporate feedback from our listeners for the show, so leave us some thoughts and we might share them on the podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review whenever and wherever you can. We appreciate all the love and support."Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

On this beginning-ish (oof, that's terrible, we know) episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss 2005’s Batman Begins, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, and Gary Oldman. (What a cast!)Topics discussed: Tax exemptions; orientalism; flirting with fascism; psychological depth, Batman's slightly-pudgy face. Also, military hardware is bad! Topics not discussed? John Keats’ notion of negative capability and how essential the concept is in understanding Keats’ late odes. Today we have a voicemail from Nicole Solomon and Shawn Setaro.Nicole Solomon is a filmmaker, podcaster, and educator. Her work can be found at www.4milecircus.com. Watch her short film, Small Talk, on Amazon Prime. Fun fact: it features a vocal performance by one the hosts of this podcast!Shawn Setaro is an associate editor at Complex and a podcaster. He recently produced Infamous: The Tekashi 6ix9ine Story now on Spotify.You can find more OB content at www.oeuvrebusters.com. Also, please feel free to drop us a line, either via email or voicemail, at Oeuvrebusters@gmail.com. We are always looking to incorporate feedback from our listeners for the show, so leave us some thoughts and we might share them on the podcast. Please don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review whenever and wherever you can. We appreciate all the love and support."Robobozo" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hello!Tomorrow, March 30 and Tuesday, March 31 @ 330pm EST, we will be hosting a Netflix Party screening for The Dark Knight as we prepare to record our episode. We'll get as far as we can tomorrow and then pick up on Tuesday! You are welcome to join for as much or as little as you want! We'll tweet out, and instagram out, the link, at around 325pm that afternoon.Netflix Party requires a Chrome extension. Learn more here: https://www.netflixparty.com/#landingAlso, please note that once you click the link and it opens, you're going to want to click the NP logo next to your address bar. That's how you can join.We'll see you tomorrow! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.