Corbin and Ellis are joined by MATEA, Portland's Elvira (Letterboxd here, subscribe today!), for a conversaion about the early indie horror touchstone "Let Scare Jessica to Death." Topics include: the shifting uses of mental health care as a literary device, the bitter end of the sixties playing out on screen, the thin line between madness and a vampire invading your mind, and the movie's wild sound design.  Corbin reccomends a movie. Matt reccomends another movie. Matea reccomends yet another movie.  Next week's episode, which i neglected to mention, will be the first in a series of NOIRVEMBER selections: Kiss Me Deadly! Watch it here. 

Corbin and Matt talk about "The Apprentice," a movie that persues an impossible goal and comes out Interesting. Topics: Sebastian Stan, who is incredible, where orbin was when Trump won, Fred Trump, and how "Humanization" is actually like, the only honest way of telling this story.  Corbin reccomends "Persona 5," he guesses. Available wherever you buy games. Matt reccomends "It Happened One Night," watch it here. Next week: "Let's Scare Jessica to Death." Watch here. After that: NOIRVEMBER

Ellis and Da Corb talk about "The Breaking Ice," a lil' character drama about three people in a chilly city on China's border with North Korea. Topics: America in the 50's and China in the now's, capital's universal qualities, China's particular qualities, and a depressing story that happens in a Safeway. Watch the movie here.  Ellis's reccomendation can be heard here. He totally reccomended it last week, despite what he claims. Check out some of Mike Watson's music here. Our outro music this week is "Violet Gibson" by Lisa O'Neill. 

Cory Atad (The Baffler) Joins Dr. Movies and The Corb to talk about "MEGALOPOLIS," a movie about Francis Ford Coppola getting extremely baked and creating a drastically less efficent method of public transit.  Corbin writing this right now just wants to say: my opinion on this movie has curdled into something meaner and less forgiving after recording this episode. I have come to think of it as a monument to one man's narcissim, a canker sore on the art of cinema, a pile of garbage for precisely no one. I will concede that it is not boring, though, and John Voight does say "Gargatua is here!" Also, this week, Musk announced the Robotaxi thing. The cars have two seats in them, just like the crummy cars in this movie.  Corbin reccomends Diamond Jubilee, an album by Cindy Lee you can acquire here. Matt reccomends the new Blood Incantation record. Cory reccomends High Potential, a new TV show.  Next week's episode is about "The Breaking Ice," which you can see here. Matt said this: "Can you note the song at the end? It's Cult of Luna on a Metropolis themed record called "Vertikal." 

Matt and Corbs talk about the recently departed Frederic Jameson and his thoughts on VIDEODROME, David Cronenberg's 1983 masterpiece about the terrifying merger of man and machine occuring en masse in front of your very eyes and also the pleasures and perils of having a gigantic hole in your abdomen that someone can stick living videotapes inside, compelling you to murder people on behalf of a shadowy right wing technoconspiracy.  Read 'Totality as Conspiracy' here. Matt told me to link this piece about Jameson by Jeet Heer. If it's bad, I didn't read it, blame Matt. Matt reccomends I Love Lucy and The Outer Limits on PlutoTV. Corbin reccomends "Charlie Hustle" by Keith O'Brien. He wrote about the book a while back here. Next week's episode is about Megalopolis, which is maybe the self absorbed movie of all time, currently in theaters. 

Jackie Chan. Early eighties. Fred Astaire. Buster Keaton. Buddy if you need convincing to watch The Young Master please, get your fun switches cleaned.  Check out a good essay about Jackie here. Corbin reccomends a sandwhich. Next week's episode is about VIDEODROME. Then: MEGAOLOPOPPOIS! 

Big Matt and Lil' Corbs talk about 'CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI,' a movie about a dissident who get sent to the world's cruddiest village by Benito Mussolini. He learns lessons. Topics include: Pringles, anarchism, its similarities and differences to "The Tree of Wooden Clogs," another movie about pesants, and which came first: Christianity or History?  Matt reccomends Roger Waters' new Dark Side of the Moon remake. Corbin reccomends a video game. Next week's episode is about "The Young Master," available at Criterion. RIP Fredric Jameson.   

Ellis and the Corbot talk about "DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD," Radu Jude's recent bang bang exploration of the feeling of being alive under late capitalism. Subjects include: terrible Romanian techno, exploitated people observing other exploited people for the purpose of exploitation, and international business's wholesale domination of our lives. Corbin reccomends concerts by Ted Leo, Matt reccomends ASASSINS CREED. Next week's episode is about "Christ Stopped At Eboli," which you can watch here. 

Ellis and Corbin talk about "The Rocketeer," a Walt Disney Live Action Classic™ about a guy who acquires a Rocketpack and becomes... not like, a superhero but like... a guy with a jetpack and good intentions?  Topics include: Fredric Jameson, the nexus of technological emergence in turn of the century California, and the deep and profound tragedy at the center of this movie: lazy casting.  Corbin reccomends "Red Mars," a book available at your local library. Ellis reccomends "Promethus" and "Alien: Covenent." Next week's episode is about "Do Not Expect too Much from the End of the World," which you can watch on mubi if you're that degree of art-film-sicko. 

Ellis and Corbs talk about "Los Angeles Plays Itself," Thom Anderson's lengthy video essay about Movie City's place in the Movies, and the Movies place in Movie City. Topics include: Modernist Architecture: is it evil? The germ of the other American cinema we see in the end of this movie, and filming driving in Los Angeles and in Portland.  Corbin's reccomendation is an album, you can find it on a streaming service. Matt's is a video game he only kind of enjoyed.  Watch the movie here. Next week's episode is about "The Rocketeer," which you can watch over on Disney+. 

Corbin, Matt, and SPECIAL GUEST MATEA (Check out her ROBUST Letterboxd here) talk about CRUEL INTENTIONS, a truly wild erotic thriller/black comedy from the precise moment when the Americans were most sick and tired of their own bullshit. Topics include a lengthy diatribe about Clinton and Bush, the gauzy-TV look of the movie, and the movie's depiction of Step-sisters as well as the culture's. Check out a cool intertextual essay about the movie here.  Matt reccomends the podcast "Fall of Civilizations." Corbin reccomends Pauline Kael aggregregator accounts. Matea reccomends a book by the 40 Laws of Power guy, but she swears you shouldn't take advice from it.  When I said Hunter Thompson is hard to read, I didn't mean as literature, just that it's kind of tedious. Next week's episode is about "LOS ANGELES PLAYS ITSELF" which you can watch here. 

Big Corbs and the El Train talk about "All That Heaven Allows," Douglas Sirk's MASTERFUL melodrama about conformity, love, and how your daughter likes Freud too much. Topics: Digital Restoration: Not Actually That Bad, justice for the daughter, television, and the relationship between beaknikism and nostalgia.  Good essay about the movie here. Matt's reccomendation is in theaters. Corbin's is Tetris, I guess? Next week's episode is about CRUEL INTENTIONS, which you can watch on FreeVee with ads, which is, in truth, the best way to watch it. 

Corbin and Ellis talk about NORTH BY NORTHWEST, a movie about Cary Grant, world class charmer, getting chased around America by a faint idea about the Cold War. Topics: Grant, who is charming and handsome, the movie as a of proto-action thriller and how it succeeds and doesn't in that capacity, and style Hitch vs. Neurosis Hitch.  Matt's reccomendation may or may not be in theaters. Corbin reccomends the Portland Pickles Baseball Club in Portland's beautiful Lents Neightborhood.  Our next episode is about Douglas Sirk's "All that Heaven Allows." It's not streming anywhere for free at the moment but I'm sure you can shell out a few bucks on iTunes or your local DVD rentery to check it out. 

Ellis and Corbin talk about "THE RULES OF THE GAME," and are kind of bowled over by how much there is in it. Topics include: farce in collapse, the movie's technical achivements, and how it functions as a frustrated, bordering on nihlistic flipside to Renoir's other prewar masterpiece.  Corbin reccomends "Link's Awakening," available on your Nintendo Switch or your Nintendo Game Boy. Matt reccomends a bar in Portland. Next week's episode is NOT about 'All that Jazz,' because it was hard to find on the internet and Matt got annoyed while watching it. Instead we talked about Alfie Hitchie's "NORTH BY NORTHWEST," which you can watch on Tubi. 

Matt and Corbin talk about THE ROARING TWENTIES, a remarkably sedate gangster picture featuring the talents of JAMES CAGNEY, America's mean lad. Topics include: a weirdly progressive view on the twenties, Bogey, and Matt's band. Matt reccomends this song.  Corbin reccomends the act of zoning out in front of Mario Kart. Next week's episode is about "The Rules of the Game," a very famous movie. Watch it on Criterion or Kanopy. 

Ellis and Smith discuss 'Another Round,' Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's tribute to the wonder and dangers of both booze and male friendship. We discuss the little liberation of .05, the modern condition vs the human condition, and MADS. Ellis reccomends 'The Roaring Twenties,' which talk about on next week's episode. Watch it here. Corbin reccomends 'Doppelganger,' a book by Naomi Klein, available at your local library. 

Corbin and Matt talk about LOST HORIZON, Frank Capra's fantasy movie about how the road to utopia runs through the elimination of soceity. Corbin gets a little irritated. Corbin's reccomendation here. Matt reccomends Tubi.  Next week's episode is about 'Another Round,' which you can watch here.   

Ellis and Corbin talk about "GOOD MORNING," Ozu's little fable about two brave little boys and their quest to acquire the most forbidden of all fruits... a television. It's also about adults running their mouths.  Matt and Corbin both reccomended books. Corbin also reccomends "Hit Man," the new Richard Linklatter movie, which you can watch on Netflix (Ugh). Next week's episode is about Frank Capra's 'Lost Horizon,' which you can watch on the Internet Archive. Ellis send my this with the file: 'Song at the end, if you want to put it into notes, is "Go Mad and Mark" off of Envy's A Dead Sinking Story. I think you should put it in the notes its one of my favorite albums of all time and I will admit I put it on this episode because they are from Japan lmao.'

Folks it's time to say "Symptomatic," because we're watching SHANE! Topics include: why is this movie basically Heaven's Gate, the weird glimpse of Hollywood's narrative future it provides, and just how guilt a violent person needs to feel to experience some degree of redemtpion in the eyes of the audience. Warning: Corbin sounds a little weird  Watch Corbin's reccomendation here. Matt reccomended shirts. Next episode is about "GOOD MORNING," which you can watch here. 

Hey! Me and Matt had a little scheduling SNAFU this week so we are releasing and episode we recorded a while back, just in case we got off schedule. It's about "Werckmeister Harmonies," a movie by Bela Tarr, Mr. Turin Horse Himself.  Watch Corbin's reccomendation here, if you dare. Matt's can be listened to here.  Next week's episode has been AUDIBLED. We are doing "SHANE," the western classic by George Stevens. It's on Paramount Plus and Pluto. 

This movie whips so hard. Listen to me and Matt try to say something aside from "this whips." Watch it here. Check out Matt's reccomendation here. Corbin's reccomendation is currently in theaters. Next week's episode is about "Mephisto," which you can watch here.   

Corbin and Matt, two male American movie enthusiasts, watched a Martin Scorsese movie, so you KNOW they're juiced. Topics include: what in the movie ACTAULLY a little blasphemous, the ongoing translations of Judas in these movies, David Bowie's Stoic Pilate, and Peter Gabriel. Corbin's reccomendation can be acquired here. Matt's is here. Next week's episode is about TOUCH OF ZEN, which can be seen here. 

Corbin and Matt talk about THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT MATTHEW, Marxist Neorealist Pier Paolo Pasolini's pretty straight on take on the book of Matthew. Topics: Where's Mary Magdeline?, a political Jesus, yet another disappointing crucifixion, and the temptation to find some sense in Judas. Check out a good essay on the move here. Corbin's reccomendation can be seen on Mubi, if you're that kind of sicko. He also reccomends a movie that is presently in theaters. Acquire Matt's reccomendation here.  Next week: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST! Watch it here! 

This week, Corbin and Ellis talk about THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, a lengthy epic about Jesus from right before New Hollywood started. Topics: Max Von Sydow, John Wayne, Political Jesus, and Nikolai Jokic.  Next week (By this I mean in the next few days, on account of this episode's lateness) we are talking about THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT MATTHEW, a neorealist take on the story of Jesus, which you can watch here. Also coming up: The Last Temptation of Christ. 

In this, the first episode of TPNWICMFP's first ever JESUS MONTH, Corbin and Matt discuss "KING OF KINGS," a silent picture (With color segments!) from the father of the film epic, CECIL B. DEMILLE. Topics include: why we aren't we doing one specific movie, DeMille's odd theater aesthetic, the scenes that work (The Ressurection!), the scenes that don't (The Crucifixion), and the question of sin-ema trying to navigate the world of values.  Watch King of Kings here. Corbin's reccomendation can be seen here. Matt's can be imbibed here. Next week's episode is about 'THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD,' a different, later take on the Gospels. Watch it here. Corbin is just at this moment learning it is more than three hours long, so, should be fun.   

Corbin, Matt and SPACIAL GUEST SAM WHITELEY (Comedian, The Payton Years) talk about Foxcatcher, a BLEAK movie about wrestling (The non-cool kind), the world warping around the wealth of an unstable man, the question of what america actually is, and stamp collecting. If you like hearing Corbin say something unacceptably rude to a guest, this is the one for you! Next week's episode is about Cecil B. DeMille's KING OF KINGS. It will be the first in a series of movies about JESUS OF NAZARETH, reagarded by most Christian sects as the incarnation of God on Earth. Watch it here. 

This week, Matt and Corbin talk about BORN IN FLAMES, a facinating little piece of second-wave feminist instigation from Lizzie Borden. I am worried we get something wrong about it by being white men talking about 'Born in Flames' so please do not hurt us. We talk about the movie's sense of feminism in relation to capitalism and how it feels very disassociated in the present day, the music in the movie, the sight of possible futures from the perspective of the present, and other stuff.  Watch the movie here. Corbin also vicifoursly reccomends Lizzie Borden's other big feature, the neorealist middle class prostitution epic WORKING GIRLS, which you can see here. Corbin's reccomendation can be acquired here (On sale!). Matt's is currently in theaters. Next week's episode is about FOXCATCHER, which can be seen here.

Corbin and Matt discuss "BAMBI," Walt Disney's animated classic about animal friends living in a forest idyl, and their deadliest, most terrifying enemy: human beings.  You can read an enlightening and low key troubling essay about Bambi's literary origins here.  Corbin's reccomendation can be seen here, on Kanopy. Don't read Ellis's reccomendation here.  next week's episode is about "Born in Flames," by Lizzie Borden. Check it out here! 

Corbin and Matt talk about SEXY BEAST, a prehistoric crime drama from Jonathan Glazer. We talk about the advent of the chatty gangster picture, the way the movie does and doesnt subvert the tennants of this subgenre, end-of-history type blathering, and Ray Winsome, the titular Sexy Beast. You can watch Corbin's reccomendation this week here. Also check out this Reba McEntire music video. Matt's can be seen here. You should check out Matt's if you want to stay current on upcoming episodes if you know what I mean.  Next week's episode is about BAMBI. You can watch Bambi here, on Disney+, duh. 

THIS WEEK Corbin and Matt talk about 'News from Home," an avant-garde collage of still life 70's New York Footage and Chantal Akerman's mother's letters to her. It's really great but also there's not much to say about it in a podcast blurb, you know? Next week we are discussing Jonathan Glazer's SEXY BEAST, which you can watch here, on Criterion or here, on Hulu. It's a wonderful movie! 

This week, Corbin and Matt talk about 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,' Powell and Pressburger's incredible exploration of the life and career of a British Solider from the first half of the 20th Century. It's almost hard to talk about because it is such a rich text. We didn't even talk about how the central relationship of the movie reflects that of the movie's creators, we're so deep in it.  You can, and should, watch this movie here, on Criterion, and here on HBOMax.  If you want to read something really incredible about this movie, check out Kent Puckett's essay on the movie here, at JSTOR. Next week's episode is about Chantal Ackerman's "News From Home," which you can watch here. 

Corbin and Ellis and Cam, (A friend, the author of (In)Action), talk about David Lynch's stab at Frank Herbert's 'Dune,' on the eve of the release of Dune: Part Two. Topics include: why did they have David Lynch make this movie, exactly? Pardon the posting mess: it was Ellis's fault. Corbin is a GOOD BOY. Watch this movie here, if you dare. 

This week, Ellis and Smith discuss 'The Birds,' Hitchock's movie about that time all birds went buckwild and started mauling people. We talk about the various utilites of metaphor in addressing the picture, how fucking weird the non-birds parts of this movie are, the impressive job Hitch does in never giving you anhything close to a satisfactory cause and effect in the movie, and the less than impressive job he did in 'Respecting Tippi Hendren.'  At the end of this episode we say that next week's episode will be "THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP," available to watch here. But in real life we called an audible and will be talking about David Lynch's Dune instead. It's on HBOMax, which is a problem for Corbin, because he doesn't really HAVE HBOMax, per se. Wish him success in this journey. 

Today, Corbin and Ellis talk about HEAVEN'S GATE, Michael Cimino's mondo flop about the economics of cattle farming and a romance between a country singer and The Piano Teacher. The Cattle Economics stuff works better.  Ellis and I watched the long version of this movie, which is available on DVD and streaming services. To the best of my knowledge, it is the superior version. Next week's episode is about Alfie Hitchie's "THE BIRDS," which can be seen on Criterion for ten or so more days. 

Hey whoops we were supposed to do Heaven's Gate this week but Corbin got the flu so we're releasing this backstopped episode regarding Howard Hawks' 1931 Pre-Code sleazesterpiece SCARFACE, a movie I suggested as a historical inquiry that ended up being one of the best things we've watched for the show. Topics include: violence, incest, the movie's wild mis en scene, and some other stuff. 

Corbin and Matt and SPECIAL GUEST RYDER (not famous) talk about 'Ferrari,' Michael Mann's 2023 movie about fast cars and human suffering. Corbin also reads from the futurist manifesto in public, which gets a little awkward.  Next Week, the movie that single handedly destroyed American cinema: HEAVEN'S GATE. The version we are watching is available on HOOPLA! (Probably: your library might differ in this matter.) See you then!

This week on the show, Corbin and Matt talk about THE MAGICIAN, a 1958 Bergman Bangern about performence, trickery, and the eternal enemy of fun, scientific rationalism. You can watch the movie here, on Criterion. Next week's movie is FERRARI, by Michael Mann. I think it's streaming somewhere but I have already given too much to this blurb.  Oh, our new cover art is by SPENCER STANLEY GROSHONG, a wonderful designer known for his work at TRILLBLAZIN. We thank Spencer for rescuing us from Corbin Smith's graphic design instincts, which are not so good. 

Hey! Sorry about the break its been a little crazy around here and there lately. THis week Corbs and Ellis talk LIVE AT WORKERS TAP in PORTLAND, OREGON, about 'Night of the Comet,' a sort-of-zombie movie that mixes a bunch of 1980's stuff in a big ol' bowl and serves it to you, the viewer. Topics include: Star Trek First officers, automation's ghost living on in the ruins of human civilization, how great it would be to work as a projectionist in the early 80's, and a maybe-repeat of a conversation about film vs. digital. We also talk at length about 'The Thing,' a famous movie that Corbin just saw for the first time. Next week's episode is about "THE MAGICIAN," by friend of the program Ingmar Bergman. You can watch it here, on Criterion. 

Corbin and Dr. Matt talk about 'CURE,' ‎Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 J-Horror classic. Topics: horror or pyshcological thriller (Genre distinctions being the main thing men talk about), pushing pyshcology back through premodernity, Corbin's new book on NYU Press, Mothra, and Naruto's pal the nine-tailed beast.  We're not sure what next week's episode is about yet. 

In a special Christmas Episode, Corbin and Matt talk about MEET JOHN DOE, a 1941 Frank Capra Christmas Joint, staring screen goddess Barbara Stanwyck and the thinking man's John Wayne, Gary Cooper. We talk about Capra's worldview, where soceiry can fix all its problens so long as it doesn't dip intonthe morass of "Politics" or whatever. "Meet John Doe" can be seen here on Criterion, or here, on the Internet Archive, because someone forgot to renew the copyright in the seventies. Coming up next week: Cure, a horror masterpiece about Carl Jung. 

France was hoping for a better future in 1968. When that didn't happen, Robert Bresson was there to ask a very important question: "What if the icy embrace of death is all that life has to offer?" A real Live/Laugh/Love episode of the show, lemme tell ya. This movie can be seen here, on Criterion. Next week's episode is MEET JOHN DOE, by Frank Capra, which can be seen here on Criterion, or here, on the Internet Archive, because someone forgot to renew the copyright in the seventies. Also coming up: Cure.   

On paper, Afire seems like it is an alegory for climate change. It is actually a movie about Corbin irritating himself to death. Whoops! Next week's movie, part of a VERY SPECIAL CHRISTMAS PNWICMFP is MEET JOHN DOE, by Frank Capra. You can watch it here, on Criterion, or here, on the Internet Archive, because a long time ago someone forgot to renew the copyright.  Did anyone see the new Miyazaki movie, aside from me? My man is operating heavy in an allegorical space right now. Also the use of blues and greens... very cool. No one uses color better in the history of the medium, you ask me. 

Godard episode bwah bwah bwah bwaaaaaaah. Jean-Luc Corbard and Jean-Ellis Godard talk about MASCULIN FÉMININ, a bog standard Godard movie about... I honestly don't remember. Topics include: The Boy from The 400 Blows, all grown up, two specific dogs, if modern man can really get Godard, and other stuff, I presume.  Next week's movie is AFIRE, by Christian Petzold. Watch it here. 

On this episode, Corbin and Mattbin talk about THE EYES OF LAURA MARS, a movie about violent images and Tommy Lee Jones's nipples. Topics include: images of violence and how we process them as individuals and as a society, Haneke, the difficulty in seeing prolific character actor René Auberjonois as anyone but Odo, and Helmut Newton. Corbin says next week's episode will be about "The Devil, Probably," by Robert Bresson, but he called an audible and we went with Jean-Luc Godard's 'Masculin Feminin' instead. So be aware of that.

Matthew and Corbthew speak on Canadian God Sicko David Cronenberg's eXistenZ, a movie about video games, guns made of chicken bones, teeth bullets, the unnerving creep of virtual reality onto reality reality. Topics include: the Mandela Effect fuel that is Willem Dafoe one being in one Cronenberg movie, video games in their moral panic era, and Cronenberg as a kind of non-savant Lynch. You can watch the movie for free here, with ads. 

Corbs and Matts talk about JAUJA, which is sort of like if Taken starred Viggo Mortensen, was excruciatingly slow, and ended with a deeply unsatasifying resolution. It was great! Please note that since recording this episode, Corbin learned about Patagonia. You can watch this week's movie here, on Kanopy.

Big Corbs and Lil' Matty Movies talk about THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS, an Italian neorealist epic about the Last Pesants and their nice community. Topics include: modernity's strange slow creep, the limits of community, and the weird little glasses the priest wears. Features audio problems because Corbin needs a New Mic, but you can handle that, right? 

Matty and Corbsy talk about COMPUTER CHESS, American Director Andrew Bujalski's fable about AI, shitty hotels, flirting, free will and the Mysterious Man of Myth, Michael Papageorge.