Floating Through Film

On Episode 194 of Floating Through Film, we're coming up with our official comedy canon list. The goal was to come up with one comedy film from each decade (starting from the 1920s) that we could all agree on. And since we did have some disagreements throughout the show, at the end of the list, each host was also allowed to pick one wild card choice that the other hosts weren't allow to ve...

On Episode 192 of Floating Through Film, we're concluding our series picked by Dany on Experimental Film. This week we're focusing on another major figure of the American Avant-Garde, the "structuralist" filmmaker Ernie Gehr! Dany spends the first half of the episode going through some of Gehr's interests and concerns in the cinema, before we briefly discuss some of the films...

On Episode 191 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Dany, Experimental Film. This week we're focusing on another figure of the American Avant-Garde,the "abstract" filmmaker Jordan Belson! Dany spends the first hour going through some of Belson's interests and concerns, before we briefly discuss some of the films he made over the course of his career...

On Episode 190 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Dany, Experimental Film. This week we're focusing on another one of the key figures of the American Avant-Garde, Stan Brakhage! Dany spends the first hour going through some of Brakhage's main ideas and interests, before we briefly discuss some of the films he made over the course of his careers (listed here...

On Episode 189 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Dany, Experimental Film. This week we're focusing on one of the key figures of Avant-Garde film, Maya Deren! Dany spends the first hour going through some of the main ideas of her film and film theory, before reviewing 1943's Meshes of the Afternoon (1:03:27), 1944's At Land (1:14:51), and concluding wit...

On Episode 188 of Floating Through Film, we're starting a new series picked by Dany, Experimental Film! Dany starts the episode by trying to give some definitions of what "experimental" cinema could even be, before moving to Week 1's topic, The Early Avant-Garde. Taking 5 categories (Direct onFilm Animation, Cine-Poems, Dada/Surrealism, Absolute Film, French Avant-Garde) from A.L...

On Episode 186 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our annual horror month! Week #3's picks were made by Blake and he picked two very different kinds of horror movies, starting with the 1982 Shaw Brothers film, Human Lanterns, followed by Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 horror classic, Cure (53:58).  We hope you enjoy!   Episode Next Week: Horror Month Week 4 (Pieces + I Saw the Tv Glow...

On Episode 185 of Floating Through Film, we're starting our annual horror month! Week #1's picks were made by Luke and he picked two of his favorite horror films, starting with a Jacques Tourneur 1943 classic I Walked With a Zombie, followed by our first King Hu on the podcast, 1979's Legend of the Mountain (50:48).  We hope you enjoy!   Episode Next Week: Horror Month Week 3 (Human La...

On Episode 184 of Floating Through Film, we're starting our annual horror month! Week #1's picks were made by Dany and he picked two different ghosts stories: starting with Kenji Mizoguchi's 1953 classic Ugetsu, followed by Coppola's 2011 film Twixt (1:23:47) We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Horror Month Week 2 (I Walked with a Zombie + Legend of the Mountain) Music: - Intro:...

On Episode 182 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Blake, Johhnie To! On this week of the series, we're starting with reviewing one of To's early MilkyWay Production films, 1999's Running Out of Time, before skipping 9 years to review his film about pickpockets, the 2008 film Sparrow (1:01:19). We hope you enjoy!   Episode Next Week: Don't Go Breakin...

On Episode 181 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Blake, Johhnie To! On this week of the series, we're reviewing two early 2000s To films, starting with his 2004 action thriller Breaking News, before ending with his 2006 gangster masterpiece Exiled (1:08:08). We hope you enjoy!  Episode Next Week: Running Out of Time + Sparrow   Music: - Intro: Breaking News -...

On Episode 180 of Floating Through Film, we're continuing our series picked by Blake, Johhnie To! On this week of the series, we're reviewing two of the more unique stories in To's filmography, starting with his spiritual/action film Running on Karma, before reviewing his personal judo film Throw Down (1:14:36). We hope you enjoy!   Episode Next Week: Breaking News + Exiled   Music: -...

On Episode 179 of Floating Through Film, we're starting our next series picked by Blake, Johhnie To! On this opening week of the series, we start by giving our overall thoughts on the director, before reviewing 2003's PTU (22:40), and 2005's Election (1:36:04). We hope you enjoy!   Episode Next Week: Running on Karma + Throw Down   Music: - Intro: PTU - Break: Election ( https://www.yo...

On this break episode 178 of Floating Through Film, we're reviewing Hitchcock's classic Rear Window, and then a Rear Window inspired film, the 2021 film The Voyeurs (48:44). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Rear Window + The Voyeurs   Music: - Intro: Rear Window( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=460kqdhminI&ab_channel=SoundtrackGems ) - Outro: The Voyeurs( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S...

On this break episode 177 of Floating Through Film, we decided to ask each other random questions (mostly) related to film, just to see what answers we'd also come up with. There was a very improvisational aspect to the questions the further weget along in the episode, but we found that part fun.  We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Rear Window + The Voyeurs Music: - Intro: Early Summer - Ou...

On this break episode 176 of Floating Through Film, the guys discuss their favorite opening scenes in cinema. Then to create our top 10 list, each host picked three films they personally wanted represented on the list, before we came to a consensuson what the final 10th movie on the list should be. We hope you enjoy!   Episode Next Week: Rear Window + The Voyeurs Music: - Intro: Rebels ofthe Neon...

On Episode 175 of Floating Through Film, we concludeour series picked by Luke, Jacques Rivette! This week we're moving further into his films from the early 200s, starting with The Story of Marie and Julien, followed by The Duchess of Langeais (1:14:40). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: FTF Top 10 Opening Scenes   Music: - Intro: The Story of Marie and Julien - Break: The Duchess of Langeais...

On Episode 174 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Luke, Jacques Rivette! This week we're moving further into his later period, first with his 1995 musical Up, Down, Fragile, followed by his 2001 film Va Savoir+ (1:30:17). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: The Story of Marie and Julien + The Duchess of Langeais Music: - Intro: Up, Down, Fragile ( https://www.youtube....

On Episode 172 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Luke, Jacques Rivette! This week we're reviewing two films that both released in 1976, first hismysterious sci-fi film Duelle, followed by his expansive pirate film, Noroît (1:12:12) We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Gang of Four + La Belle Noiseuse   Music: - Intro: Duelle - Break: Noroît - Outro: Duelle   Hosts: Lu...

On Episode 171 of Floating Through Film, we're starting a new series picked by Luke, Jacques Rivette! Luke starts us off with some background and why he chose to do a series on the French New Wave master, before we start with a re-review (check episode #3 of FTF) of Rivette's most popular film, Celine and Julie Go Boating (55:31), before reviewing his 1981 film Le Pont du Nord (2:11:26). W...

On Episode 170 of Floating Through Film, we're reviewing a movie Wes Anderson latest film, The Phoenician Scheme! All three of us enjoy Wes Anderson's movies a lot, so it was great to talk about a new movie of his. We then concluded the episode by each giving our own top 5 Anderson movies. We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Top 10 Opening Scenes in FilmMusic: - Intro: from The Phoenicia...

On this break episode of Floating Through Film, the guys are coming back to a new series we started called FTF Theory where we try to discuss some film theory/criticism. This week we're going through one of Eisenstein's famous essay's on cinema that he wrote in 1920, 'Methods of Montage'. The conversation also lead to a deeper discussion on the concept of montage generally and...

On Episode 165 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Dany, Satyajit Ray! This week we're reviewing 2 of the 3 movies from his 'Calcutta Trilogy', the first one being 1970's The Adversary, followed by 1975's The Middleman (1:40:46). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: The Music Room + The Chess Players Music: - Intro: The Adversary - Break: The Middleman -...

On Episode 165 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Dany, Satyajit Ray! This is the Sharmila Tagore episode, as we review two of her major films with Ray, the first being the 1966's The Hero, followed by the more experimental Ray film, 1970's Days and Nights in the Forest (1:16:00). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: The Adversary + The Middleman Music: - Intro: Th...

On Episode 163 of Floating Through Film, we're starting a new series picked by Dany, Satyajit Ray! The guys give their thoughts on what they think of Ray, before Dany starts the series by talking about the Indian aesthetic concept of 'Rasa' and what it means in relation to Ray's approach in the Apu Trilogy. We then review all three movies of the trilogy, starting with 1955's Pa...