Ribbon of Memes is a podcast about film.
Nick and Roger continue our highly selective werewolf season with two films from 1981 noted for their transformation sequences: The Howling and An American Werewolf in London. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Werewolf films arguably began with 1935's Werewolf of London, but Roger and Nick choose to begin our werewolf mini-season a little later, with The Wolf Man (1941) and Cat People (1942). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
It was intended as a tax write-off, but ended up winning four Academy Awards and the first ever Palme d'Or. Nick and Rger look at Ernest Borgnine's big break in Marty (1955). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download The story about the tax write-off isn't well documented, and we relied heavily on the "Lights, Camera, Tax Break" epispde of Tim Harford's Cautionary Tales audio production.
Time to don our red-silk-lined capes and listen to the creatures of the night ("meow") as Roger and Nick take a look at the 1980s vampire boom, in particular The Lost Boys (1987) and Near Dark (1987). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
In part two of this double episode, Nick and Rger look at more parodies of Hitler on film, with Look Who's Back (2015) and Jojo Rabbit (2019). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
In part one of a double episode, Roger and Nick look at parodies of Hitler on film, with The Great Dictator (1940) and The Producers (1967). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger are glad to be out, er, back, as we drive headlong into The Italian Job (1963) with a brief mention of its not-as-bad-as-expected remake The Italian Job (20033) Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick look at the state of the art in big-budget SF in the years just before Star Wars, with the serious doom-mongering of Silent Running (1972) Soylent Green (1973) and Logan's Run (1976). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger fire up the old ukuleles and wonder if this will finally be the comedy Roger likes, with 1959's Some Like It Hot. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick watch that classic of misdirection Rashomon⦠or do we? Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger get our leather and spikes back on to look at the latest Mad Max film, 2024's Furiosa. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick preen our beards to indulge in Scandi Disaster with The Wave (Bølgen) and The Quake (Skjelvet). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger look at some earlier Hitchcock, with 1951's Strangers on a Train and 1948's Rope. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick are joined by Michael Cule to consider what Orson Welles did to Shakespeare in 1965's Chimes at Midnight. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger, with special guest MaryAnn Johanson, ask whether 2019's Midsommar is the "smart horror" we've been waiting for. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick are invited to get all male-gazey again, in 1960's Psycho and 1954's Rear Window. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger cross off the boxes on the family tree as we consider 1949's Kind Hearts and Coronets. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick put on the sunglasses and drink the Flavor Aid, in 1989's They Live. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger, joined once again by special guest MaryAnn Johanson, look at Kieslowski's final and most successful work: Three Colours Blue, Three Colours White and Three Colours Red. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick know enough to follow the stream downhill, in 1999's The Blair Witch Project. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger get wet and steamy as we consider 1972's The Poseidon Adventure. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick celebrate our third anniversary doing this podcast. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger look at the sort of Epic! film that just doesn't get made any more, 1962's Lawrence of Arabia. (Actual historica accuracy can wait by the back door in case we need you.) Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick won't last long enough on the streets to starve, in 2002's Cidade de Deus. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
This Orson Welles guy may be fine on the radio, but can he make a movie? Nick and Roger look at his directorial debut, 1941's Citizen Kane. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick get hot in the dust once more in 2007's No Country For Old Men (2007). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger continue our efforts to become a John Carpenter podcast with a look at his second film, 1976's Assault on Precinct 13. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick don our trenchcoats and explore the sewers with The Third Man (1949). We also commend to your attention the Orson Welles Findus outtakes. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger take on our first banned film (not certified in the UK until 1954, "X"/"18" certificate until 1987) with 1925's Battleship Potemkin) . Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick continue our exploration of the world of finance with The Big Short (2015). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger take on our first documentary (arguably, not a film at all) with 2011's All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace) . If you haven't watched it, we recommend the Wikipedia summary of the subject matter. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick try not to worry our pretty little heads about the Gaslight (1940) and Gaslight (1944). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger are heading back to the pig farm as we discuss A Simple Plan (1998). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick are living in faded glory as we invite you to visit us in Sunset Boulevard (1950). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger hide in the lighthouse and try to stay safe from zombie pirates (or is it ghost pirates?) in The Fog (1980). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
It's a dinosaur movie. We know this. Roger and Nick take a trip to Jurassic Park (1993). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger strap on our pairs of pistols and embrace each other in a brotherly (and manly) manner as we consider John Woo's breakout film A Better Tomorrow (1986). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick have twenty seconds to comply with RoboCop (1987). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger discuss Halloween (1978): another Carpenter masterpiece, or the opening of the floodgates of cheap spam-in-a-can slasher horror? Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick grunt in a manly and honourable way as we look back at The Seven Samurai (1954), The Magnificent Seven (1970) and Battle Beyond the Stars (1980). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick discuss The Craft. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick don our tights and feathered hats to consider Douglas Fairbanks in Robin Hood (1922), The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938), Robin Hood (1973), Robin and Marian (1976), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991) and Robin Hood: Men in Tights (1993). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger discuss Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and It's a Wonderful Life (1946). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick pick two foreign-language fruits from the zombie tree, with [â¢REC] and Train to Busan. Featuring Roger's Railway Corner! Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger get distorted with our earliest film yet, 1920's The Cabinet of Dr Caligari. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick confront questions of their own identity in Moon (2009). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger get into cool crime and smooth jazz with The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) and its remake The Thomas Crown Affair (1999). Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Roger and Nick attempt to avoid time paradoxes as we look at 1962's La Jetée and the film it inspired, 1995's 12 Monkeys Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
Nick and Roger practice their truck drivin' songs for 1953's The Wages of Fear. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
By request of listener Aqi Draco, Roger and Nick get all Dark Ages, and ask: was 1999's The 13th Warrior John McTiernan's last great film? Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
By request of listener Gus, Nick and Roger dive back into noir and come out dirty, in 1957's Sweet Smell of Success. Your browser isn't showing you an HTML5 audio player. Download
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