Only the Best for Hayden Maxwell

This is the final episode of the podcast. We go long explaining why it's time to put this thing to rest and debate the title of the greatest movie of all time: Is it Citizen Kane or Vertigo? There has to be an answer and it has to be one of those two movies. This is it. And it's not going to be here forever so you should listen now.

Felipe Di Poi joins us on the final episode of Hollywood's Choice which is usually a Patreon show but this one is not. This episode is about Fight Club.

Director Jane Schoenbrun talks her upcoming film We're All Going to the World's Fair and Chris Marker's landmark elusive travelogue Sans Soleil.

Cassie Grimaldi joins an unique text thread and talks David Lean's large format epic Lawrence of Arabia.

George Civeris talks Chinatown, a movie directed by someone.

Julia Claire and I talk about our tits. Also the male form in Claire Denis' homoerotic masterpiece Beau Travail.

The duo behind Inspector Ike, Graham Mason and Ikechukwu Ufomadu, come on the podcast to talk about their buoyantly funny movie. And also Casablanca!

Emma Rogers joins us to talk Robert Altman's expansive country music filled American epic Nashville.

Ross Wallace Chait comes on to rank liquids and talk Ingmar Bergman's otherworldly and intimate Fanny and Alexander.

Julia Mounsey talks untapped potential, lost eras, and bratty heirs with Orson Welles's The Magnificent Ambersons.

Sydney Hirsch joins our team of misfits to talk the sun setting on the West in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch.

Sofia Dobrushin talks to us about haunting childhood memories and Victor Erice's meditative exploration of a suicidal five year old in The Spirit of the Beehive.

Sarah Wilson comes on the podcast to talk the future of the show, her fear of death, and the great non-movie Greed by Erich von Stroheim.

Alex Ptak talks the life and loves of Colonel Candy in Powell and Pressburger's The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

Olivia Kaplan joins us to talk our youth and the youth gangs of Taiwan in Edward Yang's A Brighter Summer Day.

Lily Napach joins us on a rainy day to talk Jean Renoir's lovely jaunt A Day in the Country.

It Girl Theory's Kaitlin Eleanor Gleason talks the looks and the lyricism of The Color of Pomegranates.

Allison O'Conor takes us through Heaven and earth, love and loss, life and death in Powell and Pressburger's A Matter of Life and Death.

It's our annual Best of the Year ep! Nick and Clare join us yet again to talk about the state of cinema, sanity, and Chloé Zhao's Nomadland. Unlike the previous contemporary episodes, this one is a bit of a debate!

The boys of my favorite film podcast Extended Clip come on for a talk about D.W. Griffith's century spanning epic INTOLERANCE: LOVE'S STRUGGLE THROUGHOUT THE AGES, amongst other things (it's a podcast so you know it's kind of a wandering conversation that goes off on tangents).

Alyssa Stonoha returns in a sequel episode to the one she did maybe five years ago where we covered All That Heaven Allows. You remember that? Now we're talking Rainer Werner Fassbinder's reworking of that in Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Little bonus episode this week for Valentine's Day: Lauren Greenhall comes on to talk classic razor in the eye short film Un Chien Andalou.

We reminisce with Martha Fearnley about growing up in LA and Douglas Sirk's melodrama that tackles race and domesticity: Imitation of Life

We have a wide reaching conversation with Michael Fails about pop v. folk, trans YouTube drama, and Djibril Diop Mambéty's iconoclastic TOUKI BOUKI.

Rajat Suresh goes on a journey of madness talking Werner Herzog's AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD.

Andy Ward explains Ingmar Bergman's The Seventh Seal.

Welcome to Season 2!!!!! We're going through the top 100 films of all time (according to Sight & Sound's 2012 list) this season! We start with Edward Yang's multi generational epic YI YI with Kady Ruth Ashcraft!

UNLOCKED!!!!! For my birthday, I am giving you all free access to exclusive behind the paywall content. Here is an episode of HOLLYWOOD'S CHOICE where we discuss the Amy Heckerling classic CLUELESS. HOLLYWOOD'S CHOICE is one of two Patreon exclusive shows available on our Patreon: patreon.com/laurajacoves You should definitely consider joining because there's even more episodes that you'll enjoy on there. They're just there. Waiting for you.

In the Season 1 finale, Jimmy and Laura go through what would be their Sight & Sound ballots before starting Season 2 and covering the top 100 movies of all time.

Reed Anderson, Laura's live in boyfriend, finishes off the last of the films before we enter the top 100 - THE TRAVELLING PLAYERS, Theo Angelopoulos's 4 hr misery filled memory poem.

Newman Wolf braved the nearly thirteen hour opus that is Jacques Rivette's OUT 1. Have you seen it? Well there's probably not that many podcasts that have covered it and you probably can't talk about it with too many people so listen to us talk about it. Are you probably never gonna watch it? Listen to us talk about it so you can fake it at a post-COVID cocktail party. It's a win-win.

EP 185: The Earrings of Madame De... (1953) with Steve Girard by Hayden Maxwell

The Cafe Forgot girls come on the podcast to talk the avant garde New York of yesteryear with the landmark experimental short WAVELENGTH.

Max Wittert makes his triumphant return contemplating the creation of the universe, God, and Terrence Malick's homosexuality in our discussion of THE TREE OF LIFE.

We make a triumphant return back to the regular show with this long-in-the-works episode spotlighting the magical CELINE AND JULIE GO BOATING with return guests Spike Einbinder and Amy Zimmer.

Maggie Crane joins us for the finale of Only the Quar. We talk Ingmar Bergman's demons which he puts on full display in the horror film HOUR OF THE WOLF.

Connor Ratliff revisits the counter culture classic ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST with Laura and Jimmy.

Bernie bros Dan Fox and Betsy Kenny do a quar check-in to talk Sergio Leone's iconic spaghetti Western THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY.

EP 181: Ivan the Terrible, Pt. I (1945) with Rachel Coster and Rebecca Weiser by Hayden Maxwell

We're closing the book on actor-director John Cassavetes with special guest actor-director Bridey Elliott! We discuss maybe the most meta and personal film about his and Gena Rowlands's relationship to their craft with the backstage drama OPENING NIGHT.

Colin Burgess, Lucas Gardner, and Mikey Heller all meet each other for the first time and discuss Jaws - a film by Steven Spielberg.

Guy Montgomery, the little stinker, comes on the podcast and talks little French stinkers in Jean Vigo's short revolutionary comedy ZERO FOR CONDUCT.

Anna Seregina discusses all the movies she's watching in quar (a lot!) and Michael Cimino's Best Picture winning epic The Deer Hunter.

Only the Quar continues on with TV's John Reynolds (television) talking COVID-19, Italian food, and I Am Cuba.

Only the Best for Hayden Maxwell continues on in this brave new COVID-19 infected world with a new mini-series Only the Quarantine where we will be watching the movies off of the 2012 Sight & Sound Directors's Top 100 list that is *not* featured on the Critic's Top 250 list. First up, Eastman Presser calls in from the UK to talk John Cassavetes's The Killing of a Chinese Bookie.

Recorded pre-All This but post-All That (90s kids will remember), Andrew Tisher and Danny Groh (Selfish Green Men) grace us with their presence to delight in Preston Sturges's The Lady Eve. This recording is a delightful relic of a simpler time.

Devon Walker watches and discusses a perverted Italian movie called The Conformist.

Manolo returns and meets Natalie Price and they end up watching a landmark experimental short.

2 or 3 first time guests (two - Jane Harrison and Eitan Levine) watch 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her which is kind of about a prostitute and capitalism.

Brett Davis and Casey James Salengo form a gang with Jimmy and Hayden and watch Luis Bunuel's socially realist melodramatic youth in peril classic Los olvidados.

Tim Platt comes back on to follow up his episode of The Puppetmaster with another chapter of Hou Hsiao-Hsien's Taiwanese History trilogy, the beloved A City of Sadness.