Floating Through Film

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/...

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...