The Five Films: Recent Episodes
Tim Kail
The Five Films explores the cinema that represents our values - the five films that sum up who we are, where we’re going, and what we’d like to leave behind.
Five Films host, Tim Kail, reflects on the first season of the podcast and shares his vision for its future.
What are your #FiveFilms? Tell Tim on Twitter @FTKail and sign up for Tim's Newsletter at www.ftkail.com
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Five Films host, Tim Kail, examines the seminal blockbuster Star Wars. What are your #FiveFilms? Tell Tim on Twitter @FTKail and sign up for Tim's Newsletter at www.ftkail.com
Podsafe Public Domain Music: Gymnopedie No.1 by Erik Satie provided by the YouTube Free Audio Library
Five Films host, Tim Kail, examines the philosophical classic, My Dinner With Andre. What are your #FiveFilms? Tell Tim on Twitter @FTKail and sign up for Tim's Newsletter at www.ftkail.com
Podsafe Public Domain Music: Gymnopedie No.1 by Erik Satie provided by the YouTube Free Audio Library
Five Films host, Tim Kail, examines the classic Spike Lee Joint, Do The Right Thing.
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Five Films host, Tim Kail, examines his favorite in the "Before Trilogy", Before Sunset.
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Podsafe Public Domain Music: Gymnopedie No.1 by Erik Satie provided by the YouTube Free Audio Library
Five Films host, Tim Kail, examines The Matrix; the impact it had on the world and how it reshaped his idea of his mother.
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Podsafe Public Domain Music: Gymnopedie No.1 by Erik Satie provided by the YouTube Free Audio Library
Enjoy a trailer for the first season of The Five Films, featuring snippets from every forthcoming episode!
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Podsafe Public Domain Music: Gymnopedie No.1 by Erik Satie provided by the YouTube Free Audio Library
Tim Kail, host of The Five Films podcast, introduces himself and the concept of this podcast.
Topics include:
- The criteria for one's "Five Films".
- Tim's "Five".
- The structure of the first season.
And more!
Tell Tim what your Five Films are on Twitter @FTKail and visit www.ftkail.com to sign up for Tim's newsletter.
Podsafe Public Domain Music: Gymnopedie No.1 by Erik Satie provided by the YouTube Free Audio Library
My name is Tim Kail, and I love movies.
Growing up, movies were often the glue that held my family together. We invented rituals and traditions in service of that bond. We communicated through the movies and we learned through the movies.
We huddled together on couches, we gathered together in theaters, and we refined the art of skipping commercials whenever recording a favorite on VHS .
We rented so many movies from the local video store that the owner offered us a special deal: one free rental with every two movies we got.
These memories represent a tiny fraction of the significance of film in my childhood, adolescence, and adulthood.
In reflecting on the role film plays in my life, I was suddenly struck with the need to create a record of its significance.
I wanted to articulate how & why film is so important to me, my family, and everyone who has ever been moved to think and feel something profound thanks a particular film.
The Five Films is my attempt at creating that record.
It is a podcast that will be published in 2020. It will be seasonal, with every episode available for download at the start of each season.
I will provide more details about the structure and focus of the podcast soon, here and on social media as we near the launch date.
Thank you for reading. Until we meet again.