The Next Picture Show Podcast

🏳️‍🌈 Ms. Marya E. Gates 🦩🦩🦩🦩 @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 28, 2024 at 23:23 UTC

I'm back on the @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social this week with Scott Tobias, Keith Phipps, and Genevieve Koski talking Molly Manning Walker's HOW TO HAVE SEX through the lens of WHERE THEY BOYS ARE (1960).

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The Next Picture Show Podcast @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 20, 2024 at 17:34 UTC

We begin our "Beach Bummers" pairing with @oldfilmsflicker.bsky.social, who joins us to discuss how 1960's WHERE THE BOYS ARE fits into the tradition of beach-party movies, and how its relative frankness about female sexuality would play to audiences of its era: cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...

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The Next Picture Show Podcast @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 06, 2024 at 20:32 UTC

This week: One of Alexander Payne's models for THE HOLDOVERS was 1973's THE LAST DETAIL, with Jack Nicholson, Otis Young, and Randy Quaid as Navy men on a spree and on a grim deadline. From setting to framing to its take on race, it's a complement to Payne's movie: cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...

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The Next Picture Show Podcast @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social [ View ] Feb 01, 2024 at 20:44 UTC

We're on the back half of our double feature about people agreeing to be hunted by assassins. This week, we're on Jake Johnson's amiable comedy SELF RELIANCE, a different vibe from the stylish, ennui-laced 1965 film THE 10TH VICTIM, but with some clear parallels. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...

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The Next Picture Show Podcast @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social [ View ] Jan 24, 2024 at 22:29 UTC

This week, inspired by Hulu's "man hunted for sport" comedy SELF RELIANCE, we look back to 1965's THE 10TH VICTIM, a stylized Italian satire that snickers at capitalism, the New Wave, religion, family, romance. All that, plus a worldwide murder competition: cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...

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The Next Picture Show Podcast @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 18, 2023 at 19:29 UTC

This week: Hayao Miyazaki's new anime feature THE BOY AND THE HERON parallels his 2001 movie SPIRITED AWAY in a thousand ways, but still tells its own unique story. We compare the two, consider what's distinctive about each, and explore how he's matured as a storyteller in our latest episode.

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The Next Picture Show Podcast @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social [ View ] Dec 05, 2023 at 00:02 UTC

We wrap our Sofia Coppola "girls in gilded cages" pairing with a long look at her Priscilla Presley semi-bio PRISCILLA, then compare it with MARIE ANTOINETTE: two movies about women in oppressive, sexless relationships with powerful men, and how they compensate. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...

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The Next Picture Show Podcast @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 16, 2023 at 22:46 UTC

Episode 400! Sofia Coppola's PRISCILLA has so much in common with her 2006 movie MARIE ANTOINETTE that they feel like the same story, made with two radically different sensibilities. This week, we look back at MARIE and how our perceptions of it have changed: cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...

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The Next Picture Show Podcast @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social [ View ] Nov 06, 2023 at 19:38 UTC

Latest ep: In 1950, the Jimmy Stewart Western BROKEN ARROW read as a corrective to decades of movies typing Native Americans as simple, savage antagonists. Like KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON, it has thoughts on interracial relationships and white predation on Natives. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...

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The Next Picture Show Podcast @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 24, 2023 at 18:44 UTC

This week we wrap our pairing of 1971's WAKE IN FRIGHT and Kitty Green's followup to THE ASSISTANT, the new movie THE ROYAL HOTEL. Both follow outsiders into hard-drinking, oppressive rural Australian towns where the specter of violence is a lure as much as a threat. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...

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The Next Picture Show Podcast @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 17, 2023 at 19:09 UTC

Our new pairing follows THE ASSISTANT director Kitty Green down under, taking us into two boozy, queasily violent Australian subcultures. First up: 1971's WAKE IN FRIGHT, about a schoolteacher's descent into drunken mayhem, featuring a still-shocking kangaroo hunt. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...

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The Next Picture Show Podcast @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social [ View ] Oct 12, 2023 at 15:52 UTC

This week, part 2 of our "aliens and alienation" pairing, comparing Hulu's home-invasion thriller NO ONE WILL SAVE YOU with 2013's Earth-invasion mood piece UNDER THE SKIN. One's about an alien who wants to be a woman, the other's about a woman who… well, let's talk. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...

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The Next Picture Show Podcast @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 27, 2023 at 01:28 UTC

This week: Pablo Larraín's 2012 movie NO and his 2023 Netflix exclusive EL CONDE. Both focus on Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, but one's a wry historical feature, the other's a dark vampire fantasy. Both are political films, but in very different modes. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...

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The Next Picture Show Podcast @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social [ View ] Sep 05, 2023 at 20:31 UTC

We're back with part 2 of our "dark, sexualized, violent, subversive high-school comedies" pairing, looking at the oddly choppy inconsequentiality of BOTTOMS and how it compares to the hyperstylization of 1988's HEATHERS. We feel a bit out of step on this one! cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...

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The Next Picture Show Podcast @thenextpictureshow.bsky.social [ View ] Aug 23, 2023 at 19:10 UTC

This week, we're back to bi love triangles with Ira Sachs' PASSAGES, about a director who leaves his husband for a woman — and vice versa. @noelmu.bsky.social joins us to compare it to 1971's groundbreaking SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, and consider its frank sexuality. cms.megaphone.fm/channel/FLM2...

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