Faffing About Film

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HOT ON THE HEELS OF... nevermind. Here's our chat about some Oscar-nominated movies we watched. Enjoy! 1:00 The Banshees of Inisherin 12:40 Everything Everywhere All At Once 26:20 Elvis 41:50 The Fabelmans 63:38 Tár Recorded 4/6/2023

...and Andy finally finishes the coverage of the CFF with a 20 movie speed run about their favorite films of the '22 festival in time for the '23 festival. @fafcast Facebook.com/FaffingAboutFilm 00:58 Comedy Films Intro 01:08 Make Popular Movies(2022) Dir:Bryan Connolly 03:06 Chicken House(2022) Dir: Cate Jones 04:56 Animated Films intro 05:10 Interface(2021) Dir: Justin Amit Tomchuk  http...

Vivian and Andy go on high in blue tomorrows in search of identity, meaning and a way out in David Lynch's Inland Empire . 0:00 Opening and introduction. 6:50 On David Lynch, his 2000s experiments (plus David Bowie). Darkened Room and the genesis of Inland Empire. 18:40 Technical aspects of Inland Empire. 34:30 Plot and themes discussion.

Life happened in the middle of us reviewing the CFF and this episode kind of fell by the wayside even though we had it recorded already. We will be rounding up our CFF (@chattfilmfest #RespectCinema) coverage in an upcoming episode before moving on. This one is short and nasty. Enjoy! -V Movies covered: Something in the Dirt (2022) Dir: Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead The Leech (2022) Dir: Eric...

At long last, Vivian & Andy return with an experimental film grading rubric and set to work evaluating everything they saw at the Chattanooga Film Festival! ( @chattfilmfest #RespectCinema) starting with the genre of movies everyone wants to hear about, The Documentaries! Part one of Faffing About Film's coverage of the Chattanooga Film Festival.  Movies covered: One Road to Quartzsite (2...

Vivian & Andy discuss genre fiction and talk about a handful of movies that are less than the sum of their parts. The 1973 adoption clown thriller The Premonition (1973) , The erotic Altman comedy That Cold Day in the Park (1969 ), and Paul Thomas Anderson's latest grooming-of-age small business drama Licorice Pizza (2021) . 06:15 The Premonition. Dir: Robert Allen Schnitzer 23:16 That Cold Da...

Vivian and Andy return to discuss the newest Batman movie. 00:00 The Batman (dir. Matt Reeves, 2022) Recorded 3-9-22 Find us at our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/FaffingAboutFilm or at Anchor for all our episodes https://anchor.fm/faffingaboutfilm

Happy Faffoween! a holiday in Octo-November a tradition going back weeks where one sets out to accomplish many small tasks but ends up completing one so thoroughly, and so late as to seem gauche. we're talking about 2017's woman themed anthology horror film XX Plus a bunch of other things get mentioned and discussed such as: Ultraviolet Aeon flux Coherence The invitation Midsommar  Hereditary...

Dipping back into their pit of weird old movies you've never heard of, Vivi and Andy talk of horses and their plays with Equus (1977) and then get gritty with that stuff that gets everywhere in a film called Woman in the Dunes (1964). Pardon the coarse language. 00:00 Equus. Dir: Sidney Lumet 33:05 Woman in the Dunes. Dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara Recorded 5-30-21

Vivian and Andy discuss a couple of recent films for a change. 00:00 - The Tomorrow War (Directed by Chris McKay, 2021) 58:00 - Censor (Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond, 2021) Recorded on 7-21-21 Find us at our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/FaffingAboutFilm or at Anchor for all our episodes https://anchor.fm/faffingaboutfilm

A revolution in film discussion podcasting! Vivian and Andy talk about five, count 'em, FIVE entire films! This disjointed collection of movies was selected to make listeners go "what? why?" Edited painstakingly and lackadaisically over the course of an entire month, Faffing about Film brings you opinions and observations on Amulet (2020), Peacock (2010), No Retreat, No Surrender (1986), Godz...

In this exciting episode, Vivian and Andy discuss reality, sand, computers and colonialism. Then they talk a lot about A Glitch in the Matrix (2021) and Danny Boyle's The Beach (2000) but also touch on Detective Pikachu (2019), Room 237 (2012), and Trainspotting (1996) 03:51 A Glitch in the Matrix. Dir: Rodney Ascher 30:00 Spoilers for a Glitch in the Matrix 39:30 The Beach. Dir: Danny Boyle Recor...

Vivian and Andy finally land on a name for their podcast(now with twitter support @FAFcast ) then press play on Robert Altman's The Player(1992) which gets thoroughly discussed for the remainder of the show. 01:08 The Player. Dir: Robert Altman 19:10 Spoilers for The Player Recorded 1-6-21

Andy opens up about a recent gift and Vivian indulges his digression before talking about juvenile delinquent films Rumble Fish(1983) and Made in Britain(1982) . 00:20 Host Segment 03:00 Rumble Fish Dir: Francis Ford Coppola 17:45 Made in Britain Dir: Alan Clarke Recorded: 11-28-20

Vivian and Andy try to figure out what to call the podcast, have audio issues, play around with the clicky function on a fidget cube and something else.... OH they talk about movies like professionals! Between Worlds (2018) , and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) 02:20 Between Worlds. Dir: Maria Pulera  09:40 I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Dir: Charlie Kaufman 20:28 Spoilers for I'm Thinki...

This week on Faff, Vivian and Andy get in-depth and involved talking about the Home Alone prequel, The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane (1976) , and the existential buddy comedy: The Hitcher (1986)   00:35 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. dir: Nicolas Gessner 22:45 The Hitcher. dir: Robert Harmon Recorded 10-10-20

In this short episode of Faff, Vivian and Andy struggle to talk about the Hulu adaptation of Books of Blood (2020), and touch on some other Clive Barker adaptations like Rawhead Rex (1986). 00:30 Books of Blood. dir: Brannon Braga 02:40 Rawhead Rex. dir: George Pavlou

Vivian and Andy's discussion of films couldn't be contained in a single episode, so we had to break it off and have an in depth look at The Congress (2013), and Circle (2015). 00:10 The Congress. dir: Ari Folman 29:46 Circle. dir: Aaron Hann, Mario Miscione Recorded 7-29-20

Vivian and Andy finish their books and talk some movies. The Return of Swamp Thing (1989), The Toxic Avenger (1984), The Toxic Avenger 2 (1989), Quatermass 2 (1957), Enter Nowhere (2011), Ghosts of Mars (2001), and The Fourth Kind (2009). 08:20 The Return of Swamp Thing  15:20  The Toxic Avenger 26:30 The Toxic Avenger 2  33:55 Quatermass 2  45:30 Enter Nowhere 49:45 Ghosts of...

Vivian and Andy discuss their readings and talk about a bunch of alien movies with cool music.   Surf Nazis Must Die (1987),  The Brood (1979), American Pop (1981), The Vast of Night (2019), Fire in the Sky (1993), Anunnaki - Mesageiros do Vento (2018), Hero (2002), Possum (2018), Blood Machines (2020), The Quatermass Xperiment (1955) 7:05 Surf Nazis Must Die 15:10 American Pop 23:20 The...

Vivian and Andy discuss  Vampiros Lesbos (1971), Underwater (2020), Hard Boiled (1992), Elle(2016), and The Devils(1971) . 0:30 Vampiros Lesbos 9:00 Underwater 14:50 Hard Boiled 21:25 Elle 34:25 The Devils Recorded 7-1-20