The Film Podcast: Recent Episodes
Craig Kennedy, Sasha Stone, Ryan Adams
Free-wheeling and wide-ranging, The Film Podcast is a weekly movie-lovers' rendezvous with Sasha Stone (Awards Daily), Craig Kennedy (Living in Cinema), and Ryan Adams (Awards Daily). Hooking up for frisky discussion about films and filmmakers on the fast-track to the Oscars, the focus often shifts to unsung movie gems the Oscars sometime overlook. Like all mind-blowing moviegasms, fondly dealt and deeply felt.
We discuss the film Compliance and Side by Side, the documentary on the war waging over film or digital movie production.
Episode 11 - Running down Best Picture - The Social Network, The King's Speech, The Fighter - also True Grit's Hailee Steinfeld and Sofia Coppola's Somewhere.
Episode 10 - Oscar year 1971 - A Clockwork Orange, The French Connection, The Last Picture Show
The Oscar year 1964 when Dr. Strangelove lost Best Picture to My Fair Lady, also Becket
We talk about one of the years Oscar split between Picture and Director, specifically the Life of Emile Zola, we look at the indulgences in Please Give and wonder if liberal guilt is worth pitying, and we also dive deep into Catfish, to discover if it was exploitative or not.
We talk our favorite horror films - The Exorcist, Psycho, The Shining and more. A Special Halloween Edition.
A plug for Winter's Bone, some words about Danny Boyle's latest, 127 Hours, and finally we talk about Animal Kingdom and then devolve into laughter.
Hereafter, much better than the critics are saying. How to Train Your Dragon as the Best Animated Film of the Year and Fair Game.
Social Network as Best Picture Frontrunner? Must-sees for this weekend - Let Me In, Inside Job and Tamara Drewe. Oscar blogging - ethical or not? And Craig reviews Conviction, starring Hillary Swank and Sam Rockwell.