Awkward Double Bills

Welcome back to Awkward Double Bills, a podcast in which a cinephile and a genre fan attempt to broaden each other's cinematic horizons, one film at a time. In this episode we discuss Alan Clarke's exploration of English identity Penda's Fen from 1974, and Jonathan Demme's concert film Stop Making Sense from 1984.  Timestamps: 00:48: Catch-up and recently watched 8:47: Discussion of Penda's Fen 44...

Welcome back to Awkward Double Bills, a podcast in which a cinephile and a genre fan attempt to broaden each other's cinematic horizons, one film at a time. In this episode we discuss George Lucas' coming-of-age drama American Graffiti from 1973, and Alex Cox's punk sci-fi comedy  Repo Man from 1984.  Timestamps: 00:48: Catch-up and recently watched 15:16: Discussion of American Graffiti 47:25: Di...

Welcome back to Awkward Double Bills, a podcast in which a cinephile and a genre fan attempt to broaden each other's cinematic horizons, one film at a time. In this bonus episode, Rob and Matt look back on the first ten episodes of the podcast, rank their top and bottom three of each other's picks, and discuss what draws them to the kinds of movies they like to watch. Timestamps: 00:33: Catch-up a...

Welcome back to Awkward Double Bills, a podcast in which a cinephile and a genre fan attempt to broaden each other's cinematic horizons, one film at a time. In this episode we discuss Robert Wise's supernatural masterpiece The Haunting from 1963, and Billy Wilder's classic comedy  The Apartment from 1960.  Timestamps: 00:48: Catch-up and recently watched 13:45: Discussion of The Haunting 43:25: Di...

Welcome back to Awkward Double Bills, a podcast in which a cinephile and a genre fan attempt to broaden each other's cinematic horizons, one film at a time. In this episode we discuss Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave drama film Contempt (Le Mépris) from 1963, and Dario Argento's classic giallo Deep Red (Profondo Rosso) from 1975.  Timestamps: 00:48: Catch-up and recently watched 9:18: Discussion of Cont...

Welcome back to Awkward Double Bills, a podcast in which a cinephile and a genre fan attempt to broaden each other's cinematic horizons, one film at a time. In this episode we discuss Joel Anderson's found footage mockumentary Lake Mungo from 2008, and Noah Baumbach's drama of divorce and coming of age The Squid and the Whale from 2005.  Timestamps: 00:48: Catch-up and recently watched 7:10: Discu...

Welcome back to Awkward Double Bills, a podcast in which a cinephile and a genre fan attempt to broaden each other's cinematic horizons, one film at a time. In this episode we discuss Wong Kar-wai's offbeat romantic drama Chungking Express from 1994, and Thom Eberhardt's sci-fi comedy-horror The Night of the Comet from 1984.  Timestamps: 00:48: Catch-up and recently watched 9:06: Discussion of  Ch...

Welcome back to Awkward Double Bills, a podcast in which a cinephile and a genre fan attempt to broaden each other's cinematic horizons, one film at a time. In this episode we discuss Liam Gavin's occult horror A Dark Song from 2016, and Howard Hawks' adaptation of the Raymond Chandler novel The Big Sleep from 1946.  Timestamps: 00:48: Catch-up and recently watched 6:10: Discussion of A Dark Song...

Welcome back to Awkward Double Bills, a podcast in which a cinephile and a genre fan attempt to broaden each other's cinematic horizons, one film at a time. In this episode we discuss Woody Allen's comedy-drama Hannah and Her Sisters from 1986, and Shunya Ito's women-in-prison exploitation classic Female Prisoner #701: Scorpion from 1972. We had some audio issues with this recording, which we hope...

Welcome back to Awkward Double Bills, a podcast in which a cinephile and a genre fan attempt to broaden each other's cinematic horizons, one film at a time. In this episode we discuss Michele Soavi's delerious horror masterpiece Dellamorte Dellamore (AKA Cemetery Man) from 1994, and George Cukor's classic screwball comedy The Philadelphia Story from 1940. 

Welcome back to Awkward Double Bills. In this episode we discuss Stanley Kubrick's anti-war classic Paths of Glory from 1957, and Bruno Mattei's Strike Commando from 1987. 

Welcome back to Awkward Double Bills. In this episode, cinephile Matt and genre fan Rob discuss John Carpenter's Halloween from 1978, and Yasujirō Ozu's Late Spring from 1949. We try to figure out what we each see in the films, and discuss how they might work together as an awkward double bill.

Welcome to the first episode of Awakward Double Bills. In this episode, cinephile Matt and genre fan Rob discuss Richard Linklater's Before Sunse t from 2004, and Lucio Fulci's The Beyond from 1981. We try to figure out what we each see in the films, and discuss how they might work together as an awkward double bill.