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Reviews of classic films and more general thoughts. If you are familiar with my old podcast "So You Want to Be a Filmmaker," this is new material.

Charles Tashiro


    • May 15, 2025 LATEST EPISODE
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    All About Eve

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 3:30


    All the scheming in the New York theatre world

    Cabaret

    Play Episode Listen Later May 13, 2025 3:22


    Kander, Ebb, Fosse, Minnelli

    The Duellists

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2025 3:27


    Ridley Scott's first feature, with Keith Carradine and Harvey Keitel

    Don't Look Now

    Play Episode Listen Later May 6, 2025 3:41


    Nicholas Roeg's paranormal thriller, with Donald Sutherland and Julie Christie

    The Bostonians

    Play Episode Listen Later May 4, 2025 3:46


    Merchant/Ivory drama based on Henry James novel

    The Godfather

    Play Episode Listen Later May 2, 2025 3:38


    The famous, if overrated, first segment

    The Kennel Murder Case

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 30, 2025 3:19


    More high-style whodunnit hijinks from Michael Curtiz

    Shanghai Cobra

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 28, 2025 3:28


    Late Charlie Chan entry from Monogram Studios

    The Lost Continent

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 26, 2025 3:29


    Hammer Studios in the Sargasso Sea. What could go wrong?

    Lady from Shanghai

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 3:37


    Orson Welles's over-the-top thriller, with Rita Hayworth

    Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 22, 2025 3:28


    Tom Stoppard's film of his famous play, with Tim Roth and Gary Oldman

    Zazie dans le métro

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 20, 2025 3:24


    Supposedly delightful , actually unbearable

    Murder on the Orient Express (1974)

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2025 3:33


    All-star adaptation of Agatha Christie's novel, starring Albert Finney

    All the President's Men

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 16, 2025 3:33


    A dramatization of the Watergate break-in based on Bob Woodward's book

    The Untouchables

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 14, 2025 3:34


    Brian DePalma's take on '30s gangsters and G-men

    The Shanghai Gesture

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 12, 2025 3:49


    Von Sternberg without Dietrich

    The Taming of the Shrew

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2025 4:04


    Burton/Taylor, Zeffirelli and Shakespeare

    La Habanera

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 10, 2025 3:47


    A Douglas Sirk melodrama made in Germany

    Blow Up

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 7, 2025 3:42


    A classic that no one talks about

    Cross of Iron

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 3, 2025 4:00


    Little seen Peckinpah WW2 epic

    Quintet

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 1, 2025 4:00


    Robert Altman attempts fantasy

    The Passenger

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 30, 2025 3:32


    Jack Nicholson in an existential mystery directed by Michelangelo Antonioni

    A Man for All Seasons

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 27, 2025 3:44


    Robert Bolt's award winning drama about Sir Thomas More's crisis of conscience

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    The Lion in Winter

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 26, 2025 3:40


    Peter O'Toole and Katherine Hepburn as Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine

    The Bad and the Beautiful

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 3:35


    Hollywood tries to deal with filmmaking

    The Marquise of O...

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 23, 2025 3:22


    Eric Rohmer's adaptation of the novel by Heinrich Kleist

    Lola Montes

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025 3:50


    Max Ophuls's controversial extravaganza about the infamous courtesan

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    Galileo

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 18, 2025 3:36


    Brecht and Losey with the American Film Theatre

    Film Socialisme

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 16, 2025 3:29


    Very weak Godard

    Parsifal

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 14, 2025 3:21


    Hans-Jürgen Syberberg's film of Wagner's opera

    Orphée

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 11, 2025 3:35


    What happens when a poet reimagines an ancient myth

    The Mission

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 9, 2025 3:37


    Jeremy Irons and Robert De Niro amidst colonial outrage

    Dishonored

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 8, 2025 3:30


    The least discussed of the Dietrich/Sternberg collaborations

    The Russian Ark

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 5, 2025 3:23


    Fulfilling the filmmaking dream of a single shot feature

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    Theatre of Blood

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 3, 2025 3:46


    Pure '70s horror with Vincent Price and Shakespeare

    Scorpio

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 1, 2025 3:51


    Sleekly rotten mid-'70s thriller

    The Seventh Seal

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 26, 2025 3:31


    Bergman's famous masterpiece of medieval exploration

    Gilda

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 24, 2025 3:39


    Rita Hayworth in her most famous role

    L'innocente (The Innocent)

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2025 3:54


    Luchino Visconti's last film

    Daisy Miller

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 19, 2025 3:27


    Peter Bogdanavich's adaptation of a novella by Henry James

    Nightwatching

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 17, 2025 3:29


    Peter Greenaway's stylized exploration of the creation of Rembrandt's “Night Watch”

    The Letter

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 14, 2025 3:33


    Bette Davis at her fiery best

    Picnic at Hanging Rock

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 12, 2025 3:40


    Peter Weir's mystery without a mystery

    The Heiress

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 10, 2025 3:41


    William Wyler's sophisticated costume drama starring Olivia de Havilland

    Women in Love

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 8, 2025 3:38


    Ken Russell's famous adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel

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    Cromwell

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 6, 2025 3:40


    Large-scale biopic about Oliver (not Thomas) Cromwell

    The Maltese Falcon

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 4, 2025 3:17


    Patronize at your own peril

    Burn!

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 2, 2025 3:51


    Marlon Brando in a Marxist political epic

    McCabe and Mrs. Miller

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 31, 2025 3:43


    Warren Beatty and Julie Christie in my favorite Altman film

    These Are the Damned

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 29, 2025 3:44


    Joseph Losey's chilling sci-fi feature made at Hammer Studios

    Evil Under the Sun (1982)

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 27, 2025 3:31


    Agatha Christie for the nouveaux riche

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