Floating Through Film

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...

On Episode 162 of Floating Through Film, we're trying something new by discussing our first non-film, Bazin's seminal essay, 'Ontology of the Photographic Image'! We then shift from Bazin's essay on the evolution of the image to a film from one of the early innovators of cinema, D.W. Griffith's 1919 film Broken Blossoms (36:37). We hope you enjoy! Bazin's 'Ontology...

On Episode 161 of Floating Through Film, we're doing a different take on our "Blindspots" series by doing two films by two directors we haven't discussed on the podcast yet. That led us to Dany's choice, Renoir's 1945 film The Southerner, followed by Luke's choice, Jerry Lewis's 1961 film The Ladies Man (1:00:01) Episode Next Week: FTF Theory (Bazin's Ontology...

On Episode 159 of Floating Through Film, we're drafting our favorite movies from 2010-now. We hope you enjoy! Luke's List: 1:28:15 Blake's List: 1:28:47 Dany's List: 1:29:25 Episode Next Week: Easter Movie Night (VeggieTales A Jonah Movie + Assassin 33 A.D.) Music: - Intro from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLSzTDUpHdw - Outro from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUKBRTMX_yU&...

On Episode 158 of Floating Through Film, we conclude our series picked by Blake, Takeshi Kitano! We're reviewing the final two movies of his Filmmakers Trilogy this week, starting with 2007's Glory to the Filmmaker!, followed by his movie about painting, 2008's Achilles and the Tortoise (56:41). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Post 2010s DraftMusic:- Intro: Kids Return (https://w...

On Episode 157 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Blake, Takeshi Kitano! We're getting into some of more Kitano's more experimental films this week, starting with his crazy 1994 comedy Getting Any, before reviewing the first of his Filmmakers Trilogy of movies with 2005's Takeshis' (1:35:39). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Glory to the Filmmaker! + Ac...

On Episode 154 of Floating Through Film, we begin our new series picked by Blake, Takeshi Kitano! We start the episode by the guys giving their thoughts on what they know about Kitano so far, and Blake tells us why he chose Kitano for his next series. We then start with Kitano's 1989 debut Violent Cop (9:04), followed by his 1991 surfing drama, A Scene at the Sea (1:29:55). We hope you enjoy!...

On Episode 152 of Floating Through Film, in honor of Valentine's Day (that was over a week ago), we're reviewing 2 different kinds of rom-coms. First we're starting with a more "typical" rom-com, 2003's How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days , followed by Aki Kaurismaki's 2023's film Fallen Leaves (1:08:05). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Starship Troopers + Deja Vu...

On Episode 151 of Floating Through Film, we're talking football in honor of the Super Bowl that happened last week. We're starting by reviewing FTF favorite Tony Scott's football movie, The Last Boy Scout. We then thought it would be fun to draft movie characters as different football positions (????). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days + Fallen Leaves Music: - Intr...

On Episode 150 of Floating Through Film, we conclude our series picked by Luke, Nicholas Ray! Just like most of the movies we did for the series, we conclude with two more great Ray films from the 50s, 1957's Bitter Victory, and 1958's Wind Across the Everglades (54:40) . We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: The Last Boy Scout + Football Player Draft Music: - Intro: Bitter Victory (https://www.yo...

On Episode 149 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Luke, Nicholas Ray! We're continuing Ray's great run in the 50s with 1955's Run for Cover, and 1956's Bigger than Life (55:38) . We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Bitter Victory + Wind Across the Everglades Music: - Intro: Run for Cover (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eoeZta_sW0&ab_channel=AnnyasChannelLogos2020) -...

On Episode 148 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Luke, Nicholas Ray! We're reviewing two of Ray's color films from the 50s, 1954's Johnny Guitar, and 1955's Rebel Without a Cause (1:45:05) . We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Run for Cover + Bigger Than Life Music: - Intro: Johnny Guitar (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlomoZqolEI&ab_channel=MovieTh...

On Episode 147 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Luke, Nicholas Ray! We're reviewing two of Ray's black and white films from the early 50s, 1951's On Dangerous Ground, and 1952's The Lusty Men (1:08:28) . We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Rebel Without a Cause + Johnny Guitar Music: - Intro: On Dangerous Ground (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZvbsBUAvP4&ab_channe...