Oeuvre Busters presents...

On this seventh-heaven of an episode, Liam and George welcome Blake Howard, the hardest-working man in podcasting, to discuss The Seven Samurai (1954), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura and Keio Tsushima. Topics discussed: Michael Mann Google alerts; Pauline Kael; high school Liam, film nerd; living French philosophers. Also, Radioactive Man, the Movie! Topic...

This month we welcome Ben Affleck lover, Bostonian, and Liam's sister-in-law Rebecca Weiss to talk about all things Ben Affleck! It's a fun, chatty episode. Witness Liam and Rebecca's amazing Boston accents! Roll your eyes as George keeps trying to make Tarkovsky jokes. Be mildly annoyed that no one has ever seen the movies we're talking about!  Subscribe to the patreon at patreon.com/oeuvreb...

On this non-idiotic episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome A.S. Hamrah to the podcast to discuss Akira Kurosawa’s The Idiot (1951), starring Toshiro Mifune, Setsuko Hara, and Takashi Shimura. Topics discussed: America’s crumbling infrastructure; Draculaesque interiors; snow; human extremes. Also, Christ attacks the money lenders! Topics not discussed: Throwing the I Ching.  A.S. H...

On this memory-laden episode, Liam and George welcome Alissa Wilkinson on to discuss Rashomon , directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Machiko Kyo and Masayuki Mori. Topics discussed: faith in humanity; deus ex baby; postmodern theories of narrative; deep fakes; the politics of the 60s. Also, you guys should kill each other! Topics not covered? Robert Frost’s gent...

On this scandalous episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss Scandal (1950) starring Toshiro Mifune and directed, of course, by Akira Kurosawa. Topics discussed: Weezer, as always; amour; old-doddering dudes; Martin Jay’s glasses; snarky booksellers. Also, congrats to Mifune on the wedding! Topic not discussed? The monstrous waves of Nazaré, Portugal, where extreme surfers go to test thei...

A sneak peek look into our episode on the Dirty Dozen. Greek-American action cinema! The lie of Sleepless in Seattle! War sucks, Bronson rules. To listen to the entire episode, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/oeuvrebusters ! Join us. We love you. Well, George does. Liam likes you. Hey, you all know we love you out there, right? But do you love us? If so, please consider subscribing to o...

On this doggish episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George invite Joyce Wu to discuss Stray Dog (1949), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring, of course, Toshiro Mifune. Topics discuss? Horniness; isolation, alienation, AND ennui; the shadow-self; people are bad; ACAB, have a beer; sucking popsicles. Also, Kurosawa can direct the shit out of anything. Topics not discussed? The origins of the bic...

On this not-at-all regrettable episode Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Nancy Schwartzman to discuss Akira Kurosawa’s No Regrets for Our Youth (1946), starring Setsuko Hara. Topics discussed? Swingers; heroic university professors; bending the knee; fast-asleep cops; ignorant villagers. Also, proper farmer etiquette! Topics not discussed? Nothing. This episode is incredibly ambitious, and w...

On this dueling-banjos episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss The Quiet Duel (1949), directed by Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshiro Mifune. Topics discussed: syphilis; fuck around and find out; Avengers: Endgame; Liam’s wicked sophistry. Also, can’t fuck, wanna fuck. Topics not discussed: The Situationists and the beach beneath the streets. Hey, you all know we love you out there, rig...

Here's a little taste of this month's Patreon on BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD. Our guests are Joe and Michael Ranghelli. For $3 a month, you get one additional episode AND a little essay writen by George. Join us at patreon.com/oeuvrebusters! We appreciate the support. Thank you! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this angelic episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Stuart Galbraith IV, the man who literally wrote the book on the Kurosawa/Mifune relationship, The Emperor and the Wolf . Topics discussed: cynicism and hopefulness; curmudgeonly doctors; Yakuza feudalism; spiritual sickness. Also, Clint Eastwood is just a watered down version of Mifune, really. Topics not discussed: How Vladimir N...

On this dialectically-enhanced episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss two films for the price of one: Sanshiro Sugata (1943), directed by Akira Kurosawa, and Snow Trail (1947), starring Toshiro Mifune. Topics discussed on this episode: alpha and beta males; Babar, the colonialist; the shit and the mire; middle-brow literature. Plus, my god, that sandal! So quintessentially Kurosawa. To...

On this, the season-four premier of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George return to their art-house roots to discuss the collaborative relationship between Akira Kurosawa and Toshiro Mifune! Topics discussed: double-decker VHS tapes; small republican towns; libraries, oases of culture; world cinema; men in crisis. Also, what the fuck is up with Grimace? Seriously?! Hey, you all know we love you out ther...

*Note:To celebrate HUSBANDS being available on the Criterion Channel, we’re re-releasing all of our HUSBANDS content. Believe it or not, this show started because of HUSBANDS.  The Dick Cavett episode is available below, as well as on the Criterion Channel. Watch, listen, and cringe!* Welcome to this bonus episode (you're welcome, America!) of Oeuvre Busters! On September 18, 1970, Cassavetes...

On this, the final episode of season three of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George recap and rank ALL the Batman movies and Batmen. Topics discussed: stink lines; silence as the apotheosis of art; the Reagan administration; the funkiest man you've ever seen; RIP Joel Schumacher. Also, lots of Colin Farrell talk. Katie Stebbin's piece on 'Product as Synergy' can be found here: https://cinenthusiast.word...

On this jokers-are-wild episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Mark Pagan and Randy Wilkins to discuss Joker (2019), directed by Todd Phillips and starring Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz and Frances Conroy. Topics discussed: Sopranos avatars; cathartic dancing; Thomas Wayne: major asshole; anticomedy. Also, Logan! Topics not discussed: Edward Said’s controversial lecture,...

Terrible! Unreal! No passion! Husbands is back, baby! Recently released by Criterion, available TODAY on The Criterion Channel, and selected as Indiewire's streamer of the day , what better time to release our episode on the movie that inspired this entire podcast! Cassavetes' film on toxic men features one of the all-time great performances from Ben Gazzara. This movie is painful, long, incredibl...

On this legotastic episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George invite good friend Matthew Krol, from The Only Podcast About Movies, to discuss Lego Batman, starring Will Arnett, Zach Galifianakis, Michael Cera, Rosario Dawson and Ralph Fiennes, and is directed by Chris McKay. Topics discussed: kissing cousins; Batman: angry dude and tax dodger; Platonic friends; the politics of vigilantism; and fuc...

On this justifiably awesome episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss 2017’s Justice League, directed by Zack Snyder and starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Gal Gadot, Ezra Miller, and Jason Momoa. Topics discussed: mother boxes; Armond White: to troll or not to troll?; brown cinematic sludge; manly men. And the worse people in the world got what they wanted! Topics not discussed? C.L.R J...

On this very antagonistic episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome Michael Carroll to discuss Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), directed by Zach Snyder and starring Ben Affleck, Henry Cavill, Amy Adams, Jesse Eisenberg, and Gal Gadot. Topics discussed: corporate art vs. non-corporate art; Ben Affleck’s body vs. Henry Cavill’s body vs. Gal Gadot's body; visionary style vs. style...

This week, based on a question from a listener, we sat down with filmmaker pal Shaun Seneviratne to talk about Manny Farber's influential theory of White Elephant Art and Termite Art. We talk about what the theory means, whether one type is good or bad, and whether Batman films are an elephant or termite. Finally, we discuss Liam's solo record, Neon Elephant. Shaun Seneviratne is a Sri Lankan-Amer...

On this raisable episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George welcome friends Nicole and Shawn to discuss the final instalment of the Nolan trilogy, "The Dark Knight Rises," starring Christian Bale, Tom Hardy, Anne Hathaway, and Gary Oldman. Topics discussed: Marcel Proust, secret fascist; blood transfusions; Bruce Wayne in rehab; the political imaginary. Also, by the grace of god, more show trials...

WHAT? ANOTHER EPISODE! YOU GUYS ARE SO PROLIFIC - you, talking to us. Liam and George grace your feeds with a new podcast within a podcast called Message to a Buster! The premise is simple. One of us records a message. The other responds. This week, we've decided to talk about the inaugural issue of the new series, Batman The Adventure Continues. This new series, written by Paul Dini and Alan Burn...

On this knightish episode of Oeuvre Busters, George and Liam invite Blake Howard from the One Heat Minute podcast to discuss 2008’s The Dark Knight, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Gary Oldman, Aaron Eckhart, and Maggie Gyllenhaal. Topics discussed: David Fincher’s movies for children; the three Batmen; 24-hour Zodiac; Jim Gordon is Brutus; Bane tattoos. Pl...

On this beginning-ish (oof, that's terrible, we know) episode of Oeuvre Busters, Liam and George discuss 2005’s Batman Begins, directed by Christopher Nolan and starring Christian Bale, Katie Holmes, Cillian Murphy, Michael Caine, Liam Neeson, and Gary Oldman. (What a cast!) Topics discussed: Tax exemptions; orientalism; flirting with fascism; psychological depth, Batman's slightly-pudgy face. Als...