Dave and Jeremy's Infinite Rewind Watch Party

“You can’t entirely dislike a man who’s tried to kill you.” Old Hollywood’s gift for complicating rugged individualism is on vibrant display in this late-period work from Vincente Minnelli, about a cracked-up actor getting a second chance at fame by rescuing a troubled film shoot in Rome.  Edward G. Robinson plays the tyrannical old director Maurice Kruger, who by the end of the second act has tak...

David Lynch’s unsettling tale of Tinseltown ambitions gone sour first gives us Betty and Rita, the plucky outsider aiding the star in crisis, then takes us through a magic portal to an alternate vision of the same bodies, now living different lives as Diane and Camilla (but are they different lives?). Dave parses the often non-linear timeline and discusses the film’s origins as a shelved televisio...

Dave and Jeremy encounter the sublime, the ridiculous, and the achingly mundane as they unravel the interwoven passions of Millie, Pinky, and Willie, whose destinies tangle in Robert Altman’s 3 WOMEN, a curious and beguiling exploration of shifting identities and wayside desperation. Will Altman pull off a K-Mart-coded mashup of Ingmar Bergman and Sam Shepard? Did Olive Oyl and Stephen King’s Carr...

Dave and Jeremy dive deep into Dave’s pick, a domestic drama from director Yasujiro Ozu. In post-war Tokyo, 27 year old Noriko resists mounting pressure to marry and leave her widowed father’s home. Filled with moments of everyday tranquility, LATE SPRING evokes powerful emotions with unusual camera placement and subdued performances that gently advance the painful conflict faced by Noriko and her...

Suffering in mink takes a human turn as Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis), the unwillingly sheltered adult child of Boston society matron Mrs. Henry Vale (played with iron menace by Gladys Cooper) embarks on a quest to establish a confident independence. Or is it an independent confidence? Aided by the wise and kindly Dr. Jaquith (Claude Rains) following a nervous breakdown, Charlotte has only to overc...

Fortunes change with the seasons in this 2002 exploration of social consequences set in 1950s Hartford, Connecticut. Kathy Whittaker, played by Julianne Moore, achieves peak surburbia just as her husband Frank (Dennis Quaid) begins having gay dalliances and Raymond, a new gardener, awakens Kathy’s need for romantic connection. That Raymond, played by Dennis Haysbert, is Black, allows Kathy to expe...

Never trust the guy who makes the first toast at your anniversary party! Jeremy responds to Dave’s inaugural choice of Hitchcock’s I CONFESS with Brian De Palma’s 1976 film OBSESSION, starring Cliff Robertson and Genevieve Bujold, with a treacherous frenemy turn from John Lithgow. Something is rotten in New Orleans in this genteely lurid steambath of loss and longing, as Robertson’s Michael Courtl...

Here we go…it’s our first episode! Sure, Jeremy’s seen the big Hitchcock movies like REAR WINDOW and VERTIGO, and he even has a couple of black and white favorites (SHADOW OF A DOUBT and STRANGERS ON A TRAIN). But what will he make of a lesser Hitchcock film? This month we take on Dave’s pick, the underappreciated and now relatively forgotten 1953 film I CONFESS, starring Montgomery Clift. Clift s...

In this introductory episode, Dave and Jeremy talk about how their everyday conversations about obscure movies planted the seed for this show. What kinds of movies and genres tend to draw their attention?  How do their idiosyncratic tastes and personal obsessions lead them in unexpected directions? Plus that all-important question: how often will Jeremy gaslight Dave with made-up, late 60s Gene Ha...