The Gauntlet

Woman Basketball Player No. 5 (1957) / Edge of America (2004) This week we're hitting the hardwood as we dunk on the past and look to the future with Xie Jin while Chris Eyre teaches us how to run-and-gun on the reservation

A Canterbury Tale (1944) / Three the Hard Way (1974) This week we're talking threesomes as we make a propaganda pilgrimage with Powell & Pressburger and try to stop a genocidal plot with Gordon Parks Jr.'s action supergroup

Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998) / The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) This week we're not feeling so good as we try to survive the doctor's plot with Aleksei German and go from bellyache to the grave with Cristi Puiu

Message from Space (1978) / Vegas in Space (1991) This week we're floating through the cosmos as we're conscripted into Kinji Fukasaku's star war and take a much needed vacation at Phillip Ford and Doris Fish's Vegas in Space

Mighty Peking Man (1977) / Pulgasari (1985) This week it's go big or go home as Alyssa Heflin joins us as to track down a giant ape in the jungle and battle imperialists with a mythical metal-eating monster

Phenomena (1985) / The Decay of Fiction (2002) This week we're dozing off into a deep dark slumber as we sleepwalk through the Swiss Alps with Dario Argento and haunt the Ambassador Hotel with Pat O'Neill

The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981) / The Blood of Heroes (1989) This week we're dipping into short-lived directorial careers as we play formal games with Catherine Binet and gear up for Jugger with David Webb Peoples

Wee Willie Winkie (1937) / Once Upon a Time in China III (1993) This week we're rushing headfirst into the 20th century with John Ford and Tsui Hark as we drill with Shirley Temple and Lion-Dance with Jet Li

We're No Angels (1955) / Fear Strikes Out (1957) This week we're loading the camera horizontally as we discuss the vista-less visions of Michael Curtiz's stagebound comedy and Robert Mulligan's baseball crack-up

Moving (1993) / The Girl and the Spider (2021) This week we're packing up and being left behind as we struggle through divorce and roommate drama with Shinji Sōmai and the Zürcher brothers

The Candy Snatchers (1973) / The Protector (1985) This week we're being abducted, shanghaied, and buried in the dirt by exploitation cinema as we discuss the vulgar visions of Guerdon Trueblood and James Glickenhaus

THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME 7 A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET From Borderlands to Witchcraft Music and Sounds from Episodes 61-70 Gentleman Jim (1942) | The Passionate Friends (1949) | Kid Galahad (1962) | A Very Curious Girl (1969) | The Unfaithful Wife (1969) | Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) | The Private Eyes (1976) | Southern Comfort (1981) They All Laughed (1981) | 2010 (1984) | The Witches of Eastwick (1987) The Great Outdoors (1988) | Videograms of a Revolution (1992) | New Jersey Drive (1995) Night and Day (2008) | In the Electric Mist (2009) | Snow on tha Bluff (2011) | Ta'ang (2016) | Moffie (2019) | Rambo: Last Blood (2019)

Gelin aka The Bride (1973) / Eskiya aka The Bandit (1996) This week we're talkin' Turkey as we migrate to Istanbul in Lütfi Akad's family melodrama and Yavuz Turgul's bandit fairy tale

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Wild Side (1995) / Femme Fatale (2002) This week Brendan Boyle joins us for a roundtable to reminisce about message boards, video stores, and uncles as we take a walk on the wild side with Donald Cammell and get freaky with Brian De Palma

The Burning Moon (1992) / V/H/S/Beyond (2024) This week we're talking tapes and short form frights as we go to hell with Olaf Ittenbach's heroin-fueled SOV triptych and encounter the paranormal in the latest V/H/S

The Island (1980) / Humanoids from the Deep (1980) This week we're diving in to aquatic horror as we're kidnapped by Michael Ritchie's anachronistic pirates and battle sea monsters and Roger Corman with Barbara Steele

The Secret (1979) / Lone Star (1996) This week we're looking for clues as we try to solve a southern fried cold case with John Sayles and get to the bottom of a shocking murder with Ann Hui

A Bigger Splash (1974) / The Mill & The Cross (2011) This week we're living the lives of artists as we dive in to David Hockney's bad breakup and join Pieter Bruegel the Elder's procession

How High (2001) / D.E.B.S. (2004) This week we're going back to school for some higher learning as we enroll some joints with Method Man and Redman and conduct field work at Angela Robinson's sexy spy academy

The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) / Workingman's Death (2005) This week we're saluting the workers as we labor under extreme conditions with Michael Glawogger and lose our finger and minds on the factory floor with Elio Petri

149 - La Religieuse aka The Nun (1966) / L'altro Inferno aka The Other Hell (1981) This week we're taking our vows and entering convent life as we descend into madness with Bruno Mattei and try to escape with Jacques Rivette and Anna Karina

Ilya Muromets aka The Sword and the Dragon (1956) / Laserblast (1978) This week we're taking a spin on the Satellite of Love as we do our own riffs on MST3K, Charles Band's laser cannon, and the epic fantasy of Aleksandr Ptushko

How The West Was Won (1962) / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) This week we're hitching our wagons to the epic visions of MGM and Kevin Costner as we explore two sprawling takes on westward expansion

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) / Documentarian (2012) This week Arlin Golden joins us for a doc swap as we confront a hostile subject with Ivars Zviedris & Inese Klava and journey to Lithuania with Jonas Mekas

Who Am I This Time? (1982) / The Second Civil War (1997) This week we're channel surfing as we tune in to Jonathan Demme's public television romance and Joe Dante's war time broadcast

Crazy Thunder Road (1980) / His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) This week we get our motors running and head out on the highway as we terrorize Tokyo with Sogo Ishii's biker gangs and fall in love with Nobuhiko Obayashi's romantic riders

This week we're crosschecking polite society and battling beer barons as Vikram Murthi joins us for a drinking session with Paul Newman and the Mackenzie Brothers, listen up hosers!

Paint Your Wagon (1969) / Play Dirty (1969) This week we're closing out careers as we play dirty with Joshua Logan's gold rush ménage à trois and paint the desert red with Andre de Toth

I Was a Male War Bride (1949) / Late Autumn (1960) This week we'll do anything for love as we crossdress with Howard Hawks and try to arrange a marriage with Yasujirō Ozu

Runaway (1984) / Class of 1999 (1990) This week we're fighting the future as we chase down busted bots with Michael Crichton and dodge killer teachers with Mark L. Lester

Up in Smoke (1978) / Withnail & I (1986) This week we're giving the middle finger to polite society as we smoke a giant joint and hit the road with Cheech & Chong and end up on holiday by mistake with Withnail & I

I Am Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) / Queimada aka Burn! (1969) This week villainous schemes go according to plan as we're shackled to a chain gang by Mervyn Leroy and Gillo Pontecorvo feeds us to the bloody revolution

Requiescant (1967) / Attenberg (2010) This week the directors are on the screen as we wander into a spaghetti western to preach liberation with Pier Paolo Pasolini and get naked and listen to Suicide with Yorgos Lanthimos

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) / To Live (1994) This week we're capturing a whole life as we tour a time-bending sanatorium with Wojciech Has and try to survive the people's republic with Zhang Yimou

House of Bamboo (1955) / Tempting Heart (1999) This week we're center framing cinematographers as we take a trip to Japan with Joe MacDonald and interrogate love through time and space with Mark Lee Ping-Bing

Filibus (1915) / Hudson Hawk (1991) This week we're stealing with style as we play a game of cat and mouse with Mario Roncoroni's genderbending sky pirate and try to crack the Da Vinci code with Bruce Willis' singing burglar

133 - Duvidha (1973) / Anantaram (1987) This week we explore parallel cinema as we are hypnotized by Mani Kaul's mythopoetic ghost story and deconstruct storytelling with Adoor Gopalkrishnan's unreliable monologue

THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME 6 A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET From The Truth is Out There to Gettin' Animated Music and Sounds from Episodes 51-60 Thunder Birds (1942) | Come Back, Africa (1959) | Lancelot du Lac (1974) | Ici et Ailleurs (1974) | Simone Barbès or Virtue (1980) | Times Square (1980) | Night Witches in the Sky (1981) | Lookin' to Get Out (1982) | Der Fan (1982) | Vampires in Havana (1985) | The Hidden (1987) | The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991) | Love and Death on Long Island (1997) | The Apple (1998) | The 13th Warrior (1999) | Fat Choi Spirit (2002) | Anatomy of Hell (2004) | Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs (2005) | How I Ended This Summer (2010) | The Grand Bizarre (2018)

Little Buddha (1993) / I Come with the Rain (2009) This week we're getting outside of our comfort zones as we seek enlightenment in Nepal with Keanu Reeves and try to find a missing person in Hong Kong with Josh Hartnett

131 - Metal Detector Maniac (2021) / Earth Mama (2023) This week it's out with the old and in with the new as we take a suspicious sabbatical with Matt Farley and fight for our children's future with Savanah Leaf PLUS! Year-end favorites with special guest Ryland Walker Knight

Tough Guys (1986) / Children of Nature (1991) This week we're making way for tomorrow as we saunter out of prison and into the 80s with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas and break out of the retirement home with Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

La Guerre des Tuques (1984) / Tenement (1985) This week we're under attack as we defend a Quebecois snow fort with André Melançon's little soldiers and try to fight off a murderous gang in the South Bronx with Roberta Findlay

Duel of the Titans (1961) / Sebastiane (1976) This week all roads lead to Rome as we fight to found a city with Sergio Corbucci's beefcakes and lounge in exile with St. Derek Jarman's shimmering soldiers

Invention for Destruction (1958) / Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970) This week we're getting a Czech stamp in our cinema passports as we sail through the fantastical world of Karel Zeman and stumble through the looking glass with Pavel Juráček

Vai~E~Vem aka Come and Go (2003) / The New World (2006) This week we're giving thanks as we feast on the mythopoetics of Terrence Malick and stuff ourselves with the perverse philosophies of João César Monteiro

125 - It's Always Fair Weather (1955) / Passing Strangers (1974) This week we're embracing male relationships as we dance through the ups and downs of friendship with Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen and fly kites in the bay with Arthur J. Bressan Jr.'s young lovers

Hell Drivers (1957) / High-Ballin' (1978) This week we're joining the great big convoy as we drive dangerously with Cy Endfield's working class haulers and fight off hijackers with Peter Carter's easy riders

Eyes of Fire (1983) / Phantom Town (1998) This week we're facing fear on the frontier as we settle on cursed land with Avery Crounse and get lost in Jeff Burr's wild west phantasmagoria

Lewat Djam Malam (1954) / Sambizanga (1972) This week we're saluting Scorsese and the World Cinema Project as we join Sarah Maldoror in the fight for Angolan independence and struggle to adapt to post-revolutionary Indonesia with Usmar Ismail

A Cat in the Brain (1990) / Coffin Homes (2021) This week we're wallowing in gore as we paw our way into the twisted mind of Lucio Fulci and hack each other to bits over real estate with Fruit Chan