FilmBabble: The Sight and Sound Top 100

Join Charlie and Antonio as they experience one of cinema's greatest and most ambitious attempts to answer the human question: Edward Yang's epic family drama YI YI. Love, life, youth, death, age, regret. It's all here. Sink in.   Intro/outro music: "Morning Sun" by Takuro Okada   YI YI (2000), Taiwan, written and directed by Edward Yang, cinematography by Wei-han Yang, featuring Wu Nien-jen, Elai...

This week, Charlie and Antonio tackle the first film on the list hailing from Japan! Specifically, Kenji Mizoguchi's 1953 ethereal folktale classic UGETSU. Never heard of it? Well, don't fret, because this is a first time watch for the Filmbabble boys. Hop in and get ready to try something new out!   Intro/outro music: "Highway Star" by Deep Purple, cover composed by Tim Follin   UGETSU (1953), Ja...

Oh, you missed us, huh? Well, we are breaking our silence with the first of two bonus episodes--something to tide you over until the Actors' strike comes to a resolution. In this episode, we tackle an off-the-beaten-path international mind-bender, directed by the late, great Abbas Kiarostami and starring the transcendent Juliette Binoche (in the role that won her Best Actress at Cannes). We hope y...

On this week's episode of Filmbabble, Charlie and Antonio watch Bong Joon-ho's 2019 masterpiece: PARASITE. Yeah, you read that right. PARASITE- arguably the most famous and acclaimed movie of the past 5 years. Do they have what it takes to tackle the Oscar-winning mammoth of cinematic greatness? Find out on Filmbabble!   Intro/outro music:  "Do It Baby" by Susan Cadogan   PARASITE (2019), South Ko...

Meow. It's The Leopard! Get ready for another ball, it won't be the last. Charlie and Antonio watch Luchino Visconti's 1963 Italian epic; can they handle all this opulence? Intro/outro music: Excerpt from 'The Tree of Life' by Alexandre Desplat. THE LEOPARD (1963), Italy and France, written by Luchino Visconti, Enrico Medioli, Massimo Franciosa, Suso Cecchi d'Amici, Pasquale Festa Campanile, and R...

Put on your best party dress and come on down for a ball of tragic proportions! Charlie, Antonio, and Matteo dive into the 1953 French classic 'The Earrings of Madame De...' by Max Ophüls, and, for the first time on the podcast, almost come to blows. Not literally, of course... Intro/outro music: "House of Woodcock" from 'Phantom Thread' by Johnny Greenwood. THE EARRINGS OF MADAME DE... (1953), Fr...

Wait... did the title just spoil the movie?! Join Charlie and Antonio as they learn that sometimes the journey IS the destination in Robert Bresson's 1956 seminal prison break movie: A MAN ESCAPED. You're listening to Filmbabble, Episode 6: Charlie and Antonio Enjoy the Movie! Wait...   Intro/outro music: "Pajarillo" by Aldemaro Romero y su Onda Nueva   A MAN ESCAPED (1956), France, written and di...

Tuck your napkins in, we got a hearty dish of spaghetti served up today (don't forget the western)! For the first time, Charlie and Antonio dive headfirst into Sergio Leone's 1968 masterpiece, Once Upon a Time in the West! Henry Fonda, Claudia Cardinale, Jason Robards, Charles friggin' Bronson?! What could go wrong?   Intro/outro music: "Ikiru" theme composed by Fumio Hayasaka   ONCE UPON A TIME I...

Intro and outro music taken from 'A Letter in the Past', composed by Mickie Yoshino and Godiego.   TROPICAL MALADY (2004), Thailand, written and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, cinematography by Jarin Pengpanitch, Vichit Tanapanitch, and Jean-Louis Vialard, featuring Sakda Kaewbuadee, Banlop Lomnoi, and Sirivech Jareonchon  

Intro and outro music is taken by 'Women of Ireland', composed by Seán Ó Riada.    BLACK GIRL (1966), France and Senegal, written and directed by Ousmane Sembene, cinematography by Christian Lacoste, featuring Mbissine Thérèse Diop, Anne-Marie Jelinek, Robert Fontaine, and Momar Nar Sene.

Intro and outro music is taken from 'Drive My Car', composed by Eiki Ishibashi     THE GENERAL (1926) COUNTRY: USA DIRECTOR: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman WRITER: Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, Al Boasberg, Charles Henry Smith, Paul Gerard Smith DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Bert Haines, Devereaux Haines CAST: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom,

Intro and Outro music from 'Day for Night', by Georges Delerue   GET OUT (2017) COUNTRY: USA DIRECTOR/WRITER: Jordan Peele DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY:  Toby Oliver CAST: Daniel Kaluuya, Alison Williams, Catherine Keener, Lil Rel Howery, Bradley Whitford, Stephen Root, Caleb Landry Jones, LaKeith Stanfield

Welcome to FilmBabble! We, your hosts (Charlie and Antonio), are going on a film odyssey, unpacking what it means for a film to be included on the BFI's Sight and Sound "Greatest Films of All Time" list, as well as exploring what we think about each film and and its inclusion. Join us each week as we move down the list towards "Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du commerce, 1080 Bruxelles", the newly crowne...