Floating Through Film

On Episode 133 of Floating through Film, we continue our third annual Horror Month with Dany's picks this week, 1942's Cat People directed by Jacques Tourneur (06:02), and 1997's Perfect Blue directed by Satoshi Kon (1:09:19). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: God Told Me To + Meatball Machine Music: - Intro from Cat People (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKyZxkRuufA&list=PLhoT2qrMWNogAxC...

On Episode 132 of Floating through Film, we begin our third annual Horror Month. For this series each one of us will pick the movies for the week, and we're starting with Luke's picks, 1955's Night of the Hunter (3:06) directed by Charles Laughton, and 1975's Deep Red directed by Dario Argento (1:14:24). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Cat People + Perfect Blue Music: - Intro from Night of t...

On Episode 131 of Floating Through Film, we're drafting our favorite movies from the 2000s! Once again, the only rule was you couldn't pick multiple movies by the same director. We hope you enjoy! Luke's List: 1:37:42 Blake's List: 1:38:25 Dany's List: 1:39:15 Episode Next Week: Horror Month Week 1 (The Night of the Hunter + Deep Red) Music: - Intro from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9kVebphJFM...

On Episode of 130 of Floating Through Film, we conclude our series that was picked by Blake, Buster Keaton! This week we're doing 2 of Keaton's last features where he was able to have control of the direction, 1926's The General and 1928's Steamboat Bill, Jr. (48:02). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Top 10 of the 2000s Music: - Intro: Early Summer - Break: https://www.youtube...

On Episode of 129 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series that was picked by Blake, Buster Keaton! This week we're doing 2 of Keaton's features he directed in 1925: 7 Chances (0:47) and Go West (51:43). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: The General + Steamboat Bill Jr. Music: - Intro: Early Summer - Break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2d6HtjVMcVA&list=PLyU6zePFLJ-Bfvx_v...

On Episode of 128 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series that was picked by Blake, Buster Keaton! This week we're doing 2 of Keaton's features he directed in 1924: The Navigator (1:02) and Sherlock Jr. (33:47). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: 7 Chances + Go West Music: - Intro: Early Summer - Break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYs68oMcGdY - Outro: https://www.youtube.co...

On Episode of 127 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series that was picked by Blake, Buster Keaton! This week we start Keaton's features with two films directed in 1923: Three Ages and Our Hospitality (38:28). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: The Navigator + Sherlock Jr. Music: - Intro: Early Summer - Break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L42sbnQxEmw - Outro: https://www.youtube....

On Episode 125 of Floating through Film, we're coming back to review a director we all like, M Night Shyamalan, because of his new thriller Trap that is now out in theaters! We give our brief thoughts on Shyamalan at the beginning of the episode before jumping into new release Trap (05:02) first, before reviewing his 2021 film Old (1:10:13) to close out the episode. We hope you enjoy! Episode...

On Episode 124 of Floating Through Film, we're reviewing silent movies from 2 great directors, Ernst Lubitsch and John Ford. We start with Lubitsch's 1919 comedy, The Doll (3:09), before moving two Ford's exciting western, 3 Bad Men (34:19). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: M Night Shyamalan (Trap + Old) Music: - Intro: Early Summer -Break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25b5TJFL...

On Episode 121 of Floating Through Film, we conclude our series picked by Luke, (Early) Jean-Luc Godard! This week we're reviewing two films that indicated Godard's sharp shift from his 60s era, 1967's Weekend (0:01:35) and 1972's Tout Va Bien (1:05:45) We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: FTF Trivia Music: - Intro: from Weekend (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNFZhai6-cs&ab_...

On Episode 120 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Luke, (Early) Jean-Luc Godard! This week we're reviewing two films Godard directed in 1967, 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (09:41) and La Chinoise (1:12:40) We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Weekend + Tout va Bien (Everything's Fine) Music: - Intro: from 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (https://www.youtube.com/wat...

On Episode 118 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Luke, (Early) Jean-Luc Godard! This week we're reviewing Godard's 1965 film Pierrot le Fou, and his 1966 film Made in U.S.A (1:22:08) We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her + La Chinoise Music: - Intro: from Pierrot le Fou (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8Q4L3YrUn8&list=PLkAUJkbhd-...

On Episode 117 of Floating Through Film, we begin our new series picked by Luke, (Early) Jean-Luc Godard! We start the episode by each giving our own thoughts on Godard, what we know and don't know about his filmography going into this series, etc, before reviewing two of his movies from the early 60s, 1961's A Woman is a Woman (18:14), and 1962's Vivre Sa Vie (1:32:26) Episode Next We...

On Episode 118 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series picked by Luke, (Early) Jean-Luc Godard! This week we're reviewing Godard 1963 political film Le Petit Soldat (01:45), and his 1965 sci-fi film Alphaville (1:02:03) We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Pierrot le Fou + Made in USA Music: - Intro: from Le Petit Soldat - Break: Alphaville (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Of_Am8XD9J...

On this week's episode of Floating Through Film we have guest co-host Bryan on again to help us review to crime movies this week, 1987's Hard Ticket to Hawaii directed by Andy Sidaris (8:44), and 1999's The Mission directed by Johnnie To (41:54). And as was explained at the beginning of this episode, Blake and Bryan also had to watch a "punishment" movie, the Tubi original Tw...

On Episode 115 of Floating through Film, we review two "love triangle" movies from two different eras of American film, first Ernst Lubitsch's 1933 film Design for Living, before moving to one of the best new wide releases of 2024, Luca Guadagnino's film Challengers (1:04:48). We'd also like to thank returning guest Bryan for helping us discuss Challengers! Music: - Intro: fr...

On Episode 114 of Floating through Film, we decided to come to a consensus on FTF's favorite "genre" movies. We each picked 1 movie from 10 different genre categories (Action, Horror, Comedy, Noir/Crime, Western, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Historical, Musical, Documentary), and then debated which one of our picks would be the consensus for each category. We hope you enjoy! Episode Nex...

On Episode 113 of Floating through Film, we conclude our series on Luis Buñuel. Dany starts the episode by speaking about Buñuel and Dreams, before reviewing two of his late period classics, 1972's The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (33:38), and 1974's The Phantom of Liberty (1:48:32) Episode Next Week: FTF Genre Canon Music: - Intro: from The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie - Break:...

On Episode 112 of Floating through Film, we continue our series on Luis Buñuel. Dany starts the episode by speaking about Buñuel and his relationship with Surrealism, before reviewing two of his of more religiously themed films, 1953's Él (32:58), and 1977's That Obscure Object of Desire (1:29:43) Episode Next Week: The Phantom of Liberty + The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie Music: - In...

On Episode 111 of Floating through Film, we continue our series on Luis Buñuel. Dany starts the episode by speaking about Buñuel and Religion, before reviewing two of his of more religiously themed films, 1959's Nazarin (21:56), and 1969's The Milky Way (1:23:31) Episode Next Week: El + That Obscure Object of Desire Music: - Intro: from Nazarin - Break: from The Milky Way - Outro: from Naz...

On Episode 110 of Floating through Film, we continue our series on Luis Buñuel. Dany starts the episode by speaking about Buñuel's interesting relationship to neorealism (4:40), before reviewing two of his road movies he made during his "Mexican period", 1952's Mexican Bus Ride (38:11), and 1954's Illusion Travels by Streetcar (1:21:17) Episode Next Week: Nazarin + The Milky...

On Episode 109 of Floating Through Film, we begin our new series picked by Dany, Luis Buñuel! After a brief introduction on the man himself, Dany starts the episode by giving some background on Buñuel's influences/approach to Montage (14:50), before reviewing two of his classics released 21 years apart, 1929's Un Chien Andalou (40:50), and 1950's Los olvidados (1:09:09) Episode Next We...

On Episode 108 of Floating through Film, we go back and review two films we "rejected" when we did our Ozu and Tsai series', Ozu's 1959 film Good Morning (03:00), and Tsai's 2006 film I Don't Want to Sleep Alone (1:18:00). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Luis Buñuel Week 1 (Un Chien Andalou + Los Olvidados) Music: - Intro from Good Morning (https://www.youtube.com/w...

On Episode 105 of Floating through Film we conclude our John Woo series! This week we're ending with Woo's war epic he made when he returned to China, Red Cliff! Part I (0:01:32) and Part II (1:06:55) We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: 1990s Movie Draft Music: - Intro: from Red Cliff (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvGnZye9Fvs&list=PLC73C36A0BF31C17E&index=1&ab_channel=MsOl...

On Episode 104 of Floating through Film we continue our series picked by Blake, John Woo! This week we're reviewing two of Woo's best movies from his time in Hollywood, 1993's Hard Target (0:01:44), and 1997's Face/Off (1:10:57) We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Red Cliff I + II Music: - Intro: from Hard Target (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8S-lcZ9OtI&list=PLDmdF1ma6cZq...