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This week on Unknown Pleasures, we submit to the power of cinematic distance, we beg at the altar of character perspective, and we worship the idea of just okay gay movies in 2025's PILLION! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on Swimfans, we opine broadly about masculinity and its foibles, the raw material of human sexuality, and the proper disposal of seabirds in 2019's THE LIGHTHOUSE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk the struggle of inhabiting a body around other bodies, various gay anxieties, and Josh missing the point entirely in 1991's POISON! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we get really into witchy jerkoff chambers, ponder the meaning of the dog cannibalism box, and consider movies that don't commit to anything in 2018's HIGH LIFE! swimfanspod.com @swimfanspod

It all returns to nothing. It all comes tumbling down. This week on Swimfans, we talk the profane and the divine, the power of sigils and esoterica, and the horrors of being a discrete person in the world in 1997's THE END OF EVANGELION!  linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on Swimfans, we kick off Pride Month by talking the worst party vibes imaginable, the beauty of seeing ourselves in visions from the past, and the necessity of art depicting queer people flaws and all in 1970's THE BOYS IN THE BAND! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

On this week's Unknown Pleasures, we sacrifice ourselves at the altar of takes to discuss having a doppelganger, puppeteers, and how far a film's beauty can take it in 1991's THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on Swimfans, we discuss film grain and attention to detail, the cradle of horror being the domestic, and scary phone in 2022's SKINAMARINK! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk surprisingly horny race car drivers, the joys of movies whose seams and craft you can see, and more about Hanna-Barbera cartoons than one would expect in 1975's DEATH RACE 2000! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk the tightrope of making a movie feel truly punk, a delicate tonal balance not since replicated, and the joys of underwear in 1984's REPO MAN! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we talk movies that are really, really good at just one thing, compulsory cohabitation with your coworker, and the literal woke mob in 2021's BABY ASSASSINS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on Unknown Pleasures, we keep it real classic and talk the reflections of filmmakers on themselves, the multitude of roles we play in our own lives, and what happens when the mirror stares back in 1966's PERSONA! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on the show, we travel to Staten Island to talk lo-fi cyberpunk, chilling predictions of the future, and the joys of dining in an undefined space in 1994's FRESH KILL! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on the pod, we get real Michigan Mindset to talk character as director surrogate, European sensibilites and American aesthetics, and the sublime joy of a really good stick in 2024's VULCANIZADORA! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

Everybody say happy birthday Josh!! This week, we celebrate aging by talking about the metaphors of water, the homies under the summer sun, and when gay people just can't leave each other alone in 1997's HAPPY TOGETHER!   linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week, we're joined by artist and designer Kevin Jay Stanton to discuss the steaminess of love unconsummated, the intimacy of the camera, and the allure of a soup thermos in 2000's IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE!   linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

Welcome to SWIMFANS: UNKNOWN PLEASURES! This week on the pod, we get mad about rent prices, value the inexplicable homies, and ponder about the sturdiness of cover walls in 2024's CLOUD!   linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

Still coming to you live from the red carpet, we dive back into the rest of the Best Picture nominees: 2025's ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER, SECRET AGENT, SENTIMENTAL VALUE, SINNERS, and TRAIN DREAMS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

Put on your sparkliest dress, dear listener: it's time once again for OSCARMANIA! This week, we dip into some of the Best Picture nominees: BUGONIA, F1, FRANKENSTEIN, HAMNET and MARTY SUPREME! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on the show, we return to de Palma and discuss cross-genre and split-screen jaunts, shifting your karmic debt to some random guy via magic, and even find the time to discuss interesting choices in skirts and shoes in 2002's FEMME FATALE!   linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on the podcast, we take a dip in the algae-green waters of our living room swimming pool and talk extended cinematic subtweets, strange new ways to do nude modeling, and manipulation of reality being the greatest effect of all in 1984's SPECIAL EFFECTS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on the pod, we welcome back video editor Shannon Strucci to talk Acme-style ghouling, the many crashouts of Dr. Beck, and once more relitigate the ghosts-cheating argument in 2015's STALKED BY MY DOCTOR! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on Swimfans, we talk movies without an internal logic, getting laid post-asylum stay, and when a noir is kinda more of a gris in 1990's AFTER DARK, MY SWEET! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on the pod, we dive into a world of purely transactional situationships, reading our bad poetry at the strip club, and getting our eggs kidnapped by the hookup in 1994's EXOTICA! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/

This week on the podcast, we yap about horse-sized containers of morphine, egregious de-ghouling, and which controlled substances are safe to feed to ducks in 1998's HUSH! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans Theme by Padlock:   http://padlock.bandcamp.com/