Floating Through Film

On Episode 75, after our biggest break between series yet, we finally start our next one with Blake's pick, Tsai Ming-liang! Tsai is a one of Blake's all-time favorite directors, and after a brief intro on our overall thoughts on Tsai, we're starting with his first two features for week 1 of this series, 1992's Rebels of the Neon God (15:47), and 1994's Vive L'Amour (1:26:5...

On episode 74 of Floating Through Film, we draft our favorite movies from the 1960s! Once again, the only rule was you couldn't pick multiple movies by the same director for your own list. We hope you enjoy! Luke's List: 1:53:56 Blake's List: 1:54:13 Dany's List: 1:54:27 Series We're Starting Next Week: Tsai Ming-Liang (Rebels of the Neon God + Vive L'Amour Music: - Intro f...

On Episode 72 of Floating Through Film, we return to our Blindspots theme, with Dany picking the two films the other two hosts hadn't seen. The films he picked were Richard Linklater's 2000 animated film, Waking Life (4:13), and 2023's film from Lijo Jose Pellissery, Nanpakal Nerathu Mayakkam (1:09:55). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Rio Bravo + Unstoppable Music: - Intro from W...

On episode 71 of Floating Through Film, we join in on the double feature of the summer by reviewing two vastly different movies, Greta Gerwig's Barbie (8:01), and Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer (51:09). We also spent a brief discussion on the release of these two films at the same time and what that could mean for movies at the beginning of the episode. We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Wee...

We're staying somewhat contemporary with maybe our last movie star, Tom Cruise?? We start with the new release, MI 7 (6:41), before reviewing the Michael Mann classic, Collateral (44:49). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Barbie + Oppenheimer Music: - Intro from MI7 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pzm6cHBhpGg&ab_channel=ThosapholMuenrew) - Outro from Collateral (https://www.youtube.co...

In honor of movies coming out this summer that actually seem interesting to us, we've decided to spend the next few weeks reviewing some contemporary films. The first up is Wes Anderson, where we spend some time discussing the director's career in general (1:40), before getting into the two films picked for this week, 2014's The Grand Budapest Hotel (15:35), and 2023's Asteroid Cit...

On episode #68 of Floating Through Film, we conclude our series that was picked by Luke, Robert Altman! This week we're first reviewing a film that was heavily influenced by Altman, Paul Thomas Anderson's 1999 film Magnolia (9:22), followed by reviewing Altman's last film, 2006's A Prairie Home Companion (50:13). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Asteroid City + The Grand Budap...

On episode #67 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series that was picked by Luke, Robert Altman! This week we're doing two Altman films from the 90s, 1992's The Player (5:37), and 1993's Short Cuts (59:05). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Magnolia + A Prairie Home Companion Music: - Intro from The Player (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBboi0lzTjc&ab_channel=ThomasNew...

On episode #65 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series that was picked by Luke, Robert Altman! This week we're doing two Altman classics, 1974's California Split (3:54), and 1975's Nashville (1:00:45). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: 3 Women + Popeye Music: - Intro from California Split - Outro from Nashville (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-BMUCVvIaQ&ab_channel=Ke...

On episode #64 of Floating Through Film, we start our new series that was picked by Luke, Robert Altman! After Luke introduces why he chose Altman for our next series, and the other 2 guys also give their initial thoughts on Altman (1:35), we jump right into reviewing Luke's picks for this first week of the series, 1971's McCabe and Mrs. Miller (9:15), and 1973's The Long Goodbye (1:21...

On episode 63 of Floating Through Film, we draft our favorite movies from the 1950s! The only rule was you couldn't pick multiple movies by the same director for your own list. We hope you enjoy! Blake's List: 1:32:09 Luke's List: 1:32:28 Dany's List: 1:32:45 Series We're Starting Next Week: Robert Altman (McCabe and Mrs. Miller + The Long Goodbye) Music: - Intro from Rio Bravo...

On episode #60 of Floating Through Film, we conclude our series that was picked by Dany, Yasujirō Ozu! On this week's episode Dany starts the episode again with another general discussion of Ozu (1:03), before getting to the two films for this week, Ozu's first color film, 1958's Equinox Flower (25:27), and Ozu's last film, 1962's An Autumn Afternoon (1:12:17). We hope you enjo...

On episode #59 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series that was picked by Dany, Yasujirō Ozu! On this week's episode Dany starts the episode again with another general discussion of Ozu (1:20), before getting to the two films for this week, 1953's Early Summer (23:59), and 1957's Tokyo Twilight (1:01:11). We hope you enjoy! Episode Next Week: Ozu Week 3 (Equinox Flower + An Au...

On episode #58 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series that was picked by Dany, Yasujirō Ozu! On this week's episode Dany starts the episode again with another general discussion of Ozu (1:20), before talking about the films for this week, the two most popular Ozu films in most circles, 1949's Late Spring (25:07), and 1953's Tokyo Story (1:22:17). We hope you enjoy!. Episode N...

On episode #57 of Floating Through Film, we continue our new series that was picked by Dany, Yasujirō Ozu! On this week's episode we answer the question, "Why Ozu?" (1:51), before starting Ozu with 2 films from his silent period, 1931's Tokyo Chorus (34:22), and 1933's Dragnet Girl (1:00:25). We hope you enjoy!. Episode Next Week: Ozu Week 3 (Late Spring + Tokyo Story) Music:...

On episode #56 of Floating Through Film, we start our new series that was picked by Dany, Yasujirō Ozu! Before starting with Ozu's own films next week, we start with two films from early Hollywood to help us get a brief glimpse into the context of films that Ozu himself was watching and influenced by. The two films are both from giants of this early American period in film, Ernst Lubitsch'...

On Episode #55 of Floating Through Film, we take one last break before starting our next series by coming back to our Blindspots theme with a slight tweak. Instead of two films that all three of us haven't seen like we did last time, we decided to change it to where one of us has seen both, and the other two hosts haven't seen either. On this episode it was Luke picking the movies for us,...

On Episode #54 of Floating Through Film, we're doing another 1-week episode before starting our next series. In honor of John Wick 4 releasing, we're reviewing this latest entry in the John Wick series (01:00), as well as movie that definitely helped inspire some aspects of the John Wick franchise, The Raid 2 (34:22). We hope you enjoy! Episode We're Doing Next Week: All That Jazz + Pa...

On Episode #53 of Floating Through Film, we take a break before starting our next series by finding an excuse to review two very different heists movies, Jean-Pierre Melville's 1970 film, Le Cercle Rouge (5:10), and Steven Soderbergh's 2001 film, Ocean's 11 (46:05). We also spent some time at the beginning of the episode discussing what our overall thoughts are on the heist genre (0:55...

For our 50th episode this week, we're taking a one-week break from our Ghibli series to reflect. On episode #1 of FTF, we answered film questions in a few different categories to show where our tastes in films lied. Now we go back to that format with some new and some similar questions from that inaugural episode. We plan to do these checkpoints every once in awhile just to see where we're at in o...

On episode #49 of Floating Through Film, we continue the series that was picked by Blake, Late Studio Ghibli! This is the Miyazaki family episode, as we're reviewing Hayao Miyazaki's 2004 film, Howl's Moving Castle (??????), followed by his son's film, Goro Miyazaki's 2006 film, Tale from Earthsea (?????). We hope you enjoy! Episode We're Doing Next Week: 50th Episode Special  Music: - Intro...

On episode #48 of Floating Through Film, we start/continue a series that was picked by Blake, Late Studio Ghibli! After doing Early Ghibli last year (Episodes 16-20), we now come back to finish our Ghibli series with some of the films they made after Princess Mononoke. We're picking up the series with one film from Takahata, 1999's My Neighbors the Yamadas (1:38), and one film from Miyazaki, 2001'...

On episode #47 of Floating Through Film, we're talking about M. Night Shyamalan in honor of the release of his new movie in theaters, Knock at the Cabin! We start the episode by briefly discussing our overall thoughts on Shyamalan before reviewing the two movies for this week, Signs (6:40), and Knock at the Cabin (1:03:50). We hope you enjoy! Series We're Starting Next Week: Studio Ghibli Part 2 (...

On episode #46 of Floating Through Film, we have guest co-host Bryan back this week to continue our short series we teased a few weeks ago, reviewing/comparing Gore Verbinski's The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise with Michael Bay's Transformers franchise. After doing the Pirates movies last week, this week we're doing Bay's Transformers movies.  These were fun to revisit again (for some of...

On episode #45 of Floating Through Film, we have guest co-host Bryan back this week to start a short series we teased a few weeks ago, reviewing/comparing Gore Verbinski's The Pirates of the Caribbean franchise with Michael Bay's Transformers franchise. This week's episode we're focusing on the first 3 Pirates movies, and next week we'll be discussing the first 3 Transformers movies. These were fu...