Floating Through Film

On Episode 221 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Dany, Jean Renoir! On this fourth week of the series, Dany begins the episode by speaking about Renoir's approach to actors and improvisation (10:33). We then review two films he made after returning to Europe, 1952's The Golden Coach (55:05), followed by 1955's French Cancan (2:11:07). We hope you enjoy...

On Episode 220 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Dany, Jean Renoir! On this third week of the series, Dany starts the episode by speaking about the ambiguity of nature in Renoir's cinema (9:43). We then review two of his films produced by American studios, starting with his 1947 film The Woman on the Beach (53:12), followed by his 1951 film The River, which wa...

On Episode 219 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Dany, Jean Renoir! On this second week of the series, Dany starts the episode by speaking about the importance of depth of field in relation to Renoir's cinema (8:00). We then review his most popular film, the 1939 canon classic The Rules of the Game (35:50), followed by what some consider his American remake of...

On Episode 218 of Floating Through Film, we're starting our next series picked by Dany, Jean Renoir! On this opening week of the series, we start by giving our overall thoughts on the director, before Dany starts the episode with some background on Renoir, including some information on Renoir's philosophical beliefs. We then review the two films starting off our series, 1932's Boudu Sa...

On Episode 217 of Floating Through Film, we're returning to our FTF Theory series to talk a little about Hong Kong film, and also popular film in general. We start the discussion with chapter 1 from David Bordwell's book "Planet Hong Kong", before ending the episode with a review of Tsui Hark's 1986 classic Peking Opera Blues (????). We hope you enjoy! David Bordwell's &q...

On Episode 216 of Floating Through Film, we have our friend Dustin back on to review two films from a director we've never discussed on the podcast before, Abel Ferrara! We're going with 2 films from his late 90s era, starting with 1997's The Blackout, before concluding with 1998's New Rose Hotel (56:10). At the end of this week's episode, Blake also reviews the punishment film...

On Episode 215 of Floating Through Film, we're trying out a FTF related film version of Jeopardy created by Luke, with Dany and Blake going head to head to see who wins. We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: ???? Music: - Intro: from Jeopardy Theme - Outro: from Jeopardy Theme Hosts: Luke Seay (LB: https://letterboxd.com/seayluke/, Twitter: https://x.com/luke67s) Blake Tourville (LB: https://l...

On Episode 214 of Floating Through Film, we have our friend Chris back to talk about some of our favorite scenes in film! We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: FTF Jeopardy Music: - Intro: from Don't Look Now (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wSewzRlvQs&list=PLFZ5kTZU6FldOrXQB_XVcQP7PsyfaMO_Z&index=16 - Outro: from Rio Bravo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyg3VUrevbA) Hosts: Luke Sea...

On Episode 213 of Floating Through Film, we have a first time guest, Chris! Chris chose Bad Education as the film he wanted to talk about, and since Bad Education was influenced by Vertigo in some respects, we decided it would be a great time to finally talk about the Hitchcock classic as well (58:20). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Top 10 Favorite Scenes in Film Music: - Intro: from Bad Ed...

Episode 212: Nobuhiko Obayashi Week 5 (Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, and the Seacoast + Hanagatami) On Episode 212 of Floating Through Film, we're concluding our series picked by Blake, Nobuhiko Obayashi! In this week, we review two films from Obayashi's filmography with familiar themes, but vastly different styles, starting with his 1986 film Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, an...

On Episode 211 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our next series picked by Blake, Nobuhiko Obayashi! In this week, we're reviewing two of the films from Obayashi's "Anti-War Trilogy", starting with 2012's Casting Blossoms to the Sky, and then followed by 2014's Seven Weeks (1:23:30). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Bound for the Fields, the Mountains, a...

On Episode 210 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our next series picked by Blake, Nobuhiko Obayashi! In this week, we start by reviewing his 1989 drama Beijing Watermelon, followed by his 1992 coming of age film The Rocking Horsemen (1:14:37). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Casting Blossoms to the Sky + Seven Weeks Music: - Intro: from Beijing Watermelon - Break: The Rocking Ho...

Episode 209: Nobuhiko Obayashi Week 2 (Lonely Heart + His Motorbike, Her Island) On Episode 209 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our next series picked by Blake, Nobuhiko Obayashi! In this week, we start by reviewing his last film from his 'Onomichi Trilogy', 1985's Lonely Heart, followed by his 1986 film His Motorbike, Her Island (1:08:30). We hope you enjoy! Episode Nex...

On Episode 208 of Floating Through Film, we're starting our next series picked by Blake, Nobuhiko Obayashi! On this opening week of the series, we start by giving our overall thoughts on the director, before reviewing two films from his 'Onomichi Trilogy', 1982's I Are You, You Am Me (24:54), and 1983's The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (1:38:15). We hope you enjoy! Senses of Cin...

On Episode 207 of Floating Through Film, we're coming back to our FTF Theory series to talk about Fritz's Lang's 1931 serial killer film M, while bringing up Deleuze's analysis of the film contained in one of his lectures on his book "Cinema 1: The Movement-Image". We hope you enjoy! Lecture available here: https://deleuze.cla.purdue.edu/lecture/lecture-14-6/ Episode Next Week: Nobuhiko Obayashi W...

On Episode 206 of Floating Through Film, we're returning to our Genre Night series to talk about the two films in the con men genre, Lubitsch's 1932 comedy Trouble in Paradise, followed by Jules Dassin's 1950 film noir, Night and the City (1:19:10). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: FTF Theory (Fritz Lang's M + Deleuze's Large Form of the Action-Image) Music: - Intro: from...

On Episode 205 of Floating Through Film, we're coming back to our FTF Theory series to not only review Oshima's controversial 1976 film In the Realm of the Senses, but to also talk about it in connection to the essay he wrote about the film, "Theory of Experimental Pornographic Film". This was an interesting discussion to have, and Oshima's thoughts really helped framed our o...

On Episode 203 of Floating Through Film, we're each drafting our top 10 favorite villains (and antagonists) in film. We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: FTF Rejects (Rivette's Wuthering Heights + Woo's Once a Thief) Music: - Intro: from Wind Accros the Everglades - Outro: Vertigo (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qWDLb3UNkXs&list=PLkAUJkbhd-RjJLu2tWpOgCNVQAoiJxap3&index=2) Hos...

On Episode 202 of Floating Through Film, we're concluding our series on John Ford! For this final week, we're reviewing two of Ford's most renowned Western films, starting with the all-time 1956 classic The Searchers, followed by 1962's The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1:44:39). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Top 10 Villains in Film Music: - Intro: The Searchers (https://ww...

On Episode 201 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Luke, John Ford! For week 4, we're reviewing two Ford films from the early 50s, starting with his 1953 small town drama The Sun Shines Bright, followed by his 1955 film about West Point, The Long Gray Line (1:01:24) . We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: The Searchers + The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Music: -...

For Episode #200 of Floating Through Film, we're looking back on the last 2 years of doing the podcast, and updating our FTF Canon list (check episode #100 for our first version). Because this is kind of a checkpoint episode for us, we also spent some time during the second half of the episode going over ten of our favorite films at the moment (1:00:10). We hope you enjoy! FTF Canon List: https://...

On Episode 199 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our next series picked by Luke, John Ford! In week 3 of the series, we're reviewing 2 of Ford's more pleasant films, starting with his 1950 western Wagon Master, followed by his 1952 romantic dramedy The Quiet Man (43:57) . We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Episode 200: Updating the FTF Canon Music: - Intro: Wagon Master (ht...

On Episode 198 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our next series picked by Luke, John Ford! In week 2 of the series, Luke starts by giving us his reasons for picking Ford, we're reviewing 2 different kind of Ford westerns, starting with 1946's My Darling Clementine, followed by 1948's Fort Apache (1:41:06). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Wagon Master + The Quiet Man...

On Episode 196 of Floating Through Film, we're recapping our 2025 in film! As has become an annual tradition for us, we're going over each of these categories: Worst Movie Watched in 2025, Top 3 Movies released in 2025 (16:13), Top 5 Rewatched Movies this year (41:34), and then closing out with our Top 10 First Watches in 2025 (1:27:00). We also have our good friend Dustin on with us again...

On Episode 195 of Floating Through Film, we're going back to Griffith with his 1919 film, True Heart Susie (33:07). But before we review the film, Luke created his own film version of NYT Connections for Dany to try solve on air. If you want to see ifyou can do better than Dany did (you definitely can), the links for the four games are listed below. We hope you enjoy!   #1: connectionsplus.io/...