Taiiku Movies

The White Sox made 11 roster moves this morning, which is surely not a sign of desperation following an 8-21 March/April. The Orioles, meanwhile, are 19-9. And coincidentally, the White Sox' closest statistical comparison is the 2018 Orioles, who lost 115 games, which is a lot in a 162 game season. This episode, we're delving into more French movies with Quand tu liras cette lettre (When You Read...

Adley Rutschman hit a walk off home run in the bottom of the ninth (is it relatively a given that it would happen in regulation?) and I just think that's neat. The kid is going places. This episode, we continue the journey through French cinema and Jean-Pierre Melville with Les Enfants terribles (The Terrible Children). Here's the Criterion essay by Gary Indiana. Join the unofficial Taiiku Podcast...

Chris has taken over the sports nonsense from me for this Melville series, so without further ado: Baseball has sped up spring training games to such a blazing fast speed with the pitch clock that it's given us even more time to pay attention to wild and crazy NBA & NHL trade deadlines. But the award for "What is even going on?", as always, goes to the NFL. Any team in the league can sign Lama...

I don't like the Fangraphs projection for the White Sox, and I am scared for them. They need new ownership, a new front office, and to spend like they're in the third largest market in the U.S. Anyway. This episode, I guess technically our first episode, is our annual top movies podcast! Welcome to the Taiiku Movies podcast, which is the Taiiku Podcast's movie content moved to a separate feed. We'...

Perhaps David Lynch's magnum opus. Were it not for the blatant racism in season two and The Return, almost certainly his best work. Certainly his most thought provoking. Where else to give a little sampler of the man himself than with season one of his television series, Twin Peaks. It's a medium he's clearly much more comfortable in, and he can make it just as indecipherable as his movies, so why...

We finished up our Akira Kurosawa series in November of 2020. After that, we took a short break over our usual December-February series of podcasts, then began anew with a different director. When we first set out on the journey through any single director, I ( @taiikumenco ) had picked Kurosawa since I had quite a few of his movies from the extensive Criterion library. In the end, we had to fill...

This was the first episode of our Akira Kurosawa series with Chris ( @antoniuspius ) on it, so I figured this would be a great second episode sampler for the Kurosawa films. It's also one of his, perhaps his greatest, samurai epic. So why not. Joining Chris, now as always, is Chris ( @gokuffy ) and me ( @taiikumenco ). For the rest of our Akira Kurosawa podcasts , click that link.

Welcome to a teaser of Taiiku Movies. For those who have been listening to the Taiiku Podcast for a while, this won't be new. But for those finding a random movies podcast, we did a lot of podcasts on various movies before I separated them to different feeds. Our first foray into any single director's work was Akira Kurosawa. And thus, our first podcast ever was on Sanshiro Sugata, which we paired...