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Episode #61: The Passenger (1975)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·
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This month’s micro-episode takes us inside the mysterious, sensual brilliance of Michelangelo Antonioni's 1975 film, The Passenger. We get into: slow cinema that doesn't feel slow, style & aesthetics, the virility of 70s'-era Nicholson, existential malaise, the unique intensity of traveling relationships, and more.
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Episode #60: Bram Stoker’s Dracula (with Angelica Jade Bastién)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·
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This month we sit down with Vulture critic Angelica Jade Bastién, author of the newsletter Madwomen & Muses. In honor of “cinematic sensuality,” we chat about Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola’s ode to ahistorical melodrama and doomed romance.
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Episode #59: The Celebration (1998)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·
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On this month's bite-sized episode, we're zooming in on the spectral perspective of Thomas Vinterburg's debut film, The Celebration.
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Episode #58: A Different Man (with Frank Falisi)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·
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This month on the pod, we're analyzing Aaron Schimburg’s Kafkaesque body swap, A Different Man, with critic, actor, and BWDR darling Frank Falisi.
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Episode #57: Some Like It Hot (1959)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·
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Our first mini-episode of 2025 is all about Billy Wilder’s subversive farce Some Like It Hot. We get into: the unlikely modernity of Hot’s sexual politics, Orry-Kelly’s naked dresses, Wilder’s collaboration with I. A. L. Diamond, is this the greatest comedy of all time, and more.
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Episode #56: Gladiator (with Blake Howard)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·
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For our final podcast of 2024, we did your Gladiator II homework for you: rewatching Ridley Scott's original Gladiator (2000) with amateur Russell Crowe historian and podcast extraordinaire Blake Howard.
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Episode #55: Don’t Look Now (1973)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·
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This month’s mini-episode takes us into the rich opening sequence of Nicolas Roeg’s Venetian nightmare, Don’t Look Now.
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Episode #54: The 62nd New York Film Festival (with Fran Hoepfner & Eli Sands)

Bright Wall/Dark Room·
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On this special mega episode, Veronica sits down with critic ⁠Fran Hoepfner⁠ and our producer Eli Sands to postmortem the 62nd New York Film Festival.
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Episode #53: Eyes of Laura Mars (1978)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·
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This month’s mini-episode takes us into one of costume designer Sophie de Rakoff’s curated picks: Irvin Kershner’s Eyes of Laura Mars, an American giallo with style to spare.
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Episode #52: Trap (with Dan Mecca)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·
Podcast
This whole episode is a trap. In it, we join Josh Hartnett scholar and The Film Stage gentleman Dan Mecca to dissect the ins and outs of M. Night Shyamalan’s latest film, Trap.
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Episode #51: Something Wild (1986)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·
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On this month's micro-episode, we're taking a loving look back at the gear-shifting, hybrid charms of Jonathan Demme's screwball noir, Something Wild—and the Ray Liotta entrance that changes everything.
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Episode #50: Twister/Twisters (with David Sims)

Veronica Fitzpatrick & Chad Perman·
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Joining us on the pod is Blank Check co-host & staff writer at The Atlantic, David Sims! In summer’s last gasp, we go back to a flashpoint of summer blockbuster season: Jan de Bont’s 1996 Twister, plus its legacy in this year's Twisters (Lee Isaac Chung).
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