Floating Through Film

On episode #44 of Floating Through Film, we come back to the draft format, but instead of drafting directors (episode #33), we're drafting actors! We changed the format up a little bit, this time each of us picking one actor from each decade, starting with the 1920s and ending with the 2010s. We hope you enjoy! Luke's Draft: 1:12:19 Blake's Draft: 1:13:07 Dany's Draft: 1:13:42 Episode We're Doing...

On episode #43 of Floating Through Film, we conclude our Jacques Tati series! This week we're Tati's last two feature films,  1971's Trafic (1:22), and 1974's Parade (39:36). We hope you enjoy! Next Week's Episode: Actor Draft Music: - Intro from Trafic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpkMNeSD37w&list=PLkAUJkbhd-Riy8ek_R_XnORrCDQQUip4I&ab_channel=CharlesDumont-Topic) -...

On episode #42 of Floating Through Film, we continue our  series that was picked by Luke, Jacques Tati! This week we're reviewing two of Tati's all-time classics,  1958's Mon Oncle (9:28), and 1967's Playtime (1:09:01). We hope you enjoy! Movies We're Reviewing Next Week: Trafic (1971) + Parade (1974) Music: - Intro from Mon Oncle (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4ogT56wc...

On episode #41 of Floating Through Film, we start our new series that was picked by Luke, Jacques Tati! After Luke tells us why he picked Tati for this series, and asks the other guys some of their opinions on Tati, we jump right into reviewing the picks for week 1,  1949's Jour de fête (6:31), and 1953's Monsieur Hulot’s Holiday (41:00). We hope you enjoy! Movies We're Reviewing Next We...

On episode #40 of Floating Through Film, we're recapping our 2022 year in film! We have returning guest Bryan joining us to discuss each of our independent journeys through film this year with a few different questions. We start the episode talking about our top 10 first watches of 2022 (1:10), then move to each of our picks for worst movie of 2022 (1:25:27), our top 3 movies from 2022 (1:40:52),...

On episode #38 of Floating Through Film, we take a break before starting our next series by discussing one of the most important questions for any film fan: "What's a bad movie?". We begin the episode (0:35) by discussing what exactly this question means to us, and the different types of "bad" movies that exist. We then jump right into the two films we picked inspired by this topic, 1990's Troll 2...

On episode #37 of Floating Through Film, we conclude our series that was picked by Dany, Dziga Vertov! We begin the episode by concluding our thoughts on Vertov, and talking a little bit about what we got out of watching his films (1:13). He then explains why he picked two films not directed by Vertov to conclude a Dziga Vertov series, before reviewing the films themselves. The two films are...

On episode #36 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series that was picked by Dany, Dziga Vertov! After a brief discussion on our overall thoughts on the two films, we jump right into reviewing the two films for this week, 1930's Enthusiasm (2:10) and 1934's Three Songs About Lenin (37:39). We hope you enjoy! Movies We're Reviewing Next Week: If I Had Four Dromedaries (1966) + Mati...

On episode #35 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series that was picked by Dany, Dziga Vertov! After a brief discussion on our overall thoughts on the two films, we jump right into reviewing the two films for this week, 1928's The Eleventh Year (2:38) and 1929's Man with a Move Camera (16:50). We hope you enjoy! Movies We're Reviewing Next Week: Enthusiasm (1930) + Three Songs Ab...

On episode #34 of Floating Through Film, we start our new series that was picked by Dany, Dziga Vertov! After Dany introduces why he chose Vertov for a new series, the other 2 guys also give their initial thoughts on Vertov and the documentary form in general. We then jump right into reviewing Dany's picks for Week 1, Kino-Eye (7:54), and Stride, Soviet! (29:22), A Sixth Part of the World (43...

On episode #33 of Floating Through Film, we take a 1-week break before starting our next series. On this episode we use the "draft" format to draft, and more importantly, discuss, some of our favorite directors of all-time. This episode also provides some hints on who we might be thinking to do for future episodes. This was a really fun episode to do, and we hope you enjoy! Luke's Draft: 2:16...

On episode #32 of Floating Through Film, we finish our Horror Month series! Blake's picks for this week are the two feature films from modern horror director Panos Cosmatos, 2010's Beyond the Black Rainbow (0:47), and 2018's Mandy (20:32). We hope you enjoy! Episode We're Doing Next Week:  Director's Draft! Music: - Intro from Beyond the Black Rainbow (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrF...

On episode #31 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series we're doing in honor of it being October, Horror Month! Blake's picks for this week are two classic horror movies from Japan, Takashi Miike's 1999 film Audition (1:24) and Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 2001 film Pulse (42:09). We hope you enjoy! Movies We're Reviewing Next Week:  Beyond the Black Rainbow (2010) + Mandy (2018) Music: - Intro...

On episode #30 of Floating Through Film, we continue our Horror Month series with one of the best horror directors of all-time, John Carpenter! To help us review these classic horror films, we brought on one of our friends who is a massive fan of the horror genre, Bryan! We review the films in order of release date, starting with Carpenter's 1982 all-time classic, The Thing (2:25), going on a brie...

On episode #29 of Floating Through Film, we jump right into our next series that we're doing in honor of it being October, Horror Month! Because Blake is our resident horror expert, he will guide us through this series by picking 2 movies each week from all across the genre of horror. We start of the month by reviewing three silent horror classics, 1906's The Merry Frolics of Satan (0:48), 1911's...

On episode #28 of Floating Through Film, we finish our series that was picked by Luke, Federico Fellini! We conclude by reviewing one of Fellini's earlier movies that vaulted him to fame, 1953's I Vitelloni (1:35), and one of his last movies that shows the complete evolution of his filmmaking over the course of the next 40+ years, 1987's Intervista (29:33). We then conclude the series by refl...

With the 2022 Sight and Sound List going to be released sometime soon (a poll on the greatest films of all-time conducted every 10 years), we thought it would be fun for us three to come up with our own personal lists. Outside of picking the films themselves, the discussion was also fun in each of us revealing our own personal criteria and the variety of factors we considered when picking our list...

On Episode #22 of Floating Through Film, we take another break before starting our next series. The relationship between these two movies, Stanley Kubrick's 1975 film Barry Lyndon (2:30), and Peter Weir's 2003 film Master and Commander (38:22), shouldn't be too hard to figure out, period pieces. We also have another guest with us to talk about these two great films, a huge history buff and our goo...

On Episode #21 of Floating Through Film, we switch to talking about a director working today, Jordan Peele! We speak about each of his previous films, 2017's Get Out (2:15) and 2019's US (22:40), before moving to his movie that released this year, 2022's NOPE (35:27). We also have another guest today, our good friend and fellow film fan, Richie! We hope you enjoy! Movies We're Reviewing Next Week:...

On Episode #19 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series that was picked by Blake, Early Studio Ghibili! This week we continue the series with two more great Studio Ghibli films, Miyazaki's 1992 film, Porco Rosso (1:35), and Takahata's 1994 film, Pom Poko (23:15). We hope you enjoy! Movies We're Reviewing Next Week: Whisper of the Heart (1995) and Princess Mononoke (1997) Music: - Intro fro...

On Episode #18 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series that was picked by Blake, Early Studio Ghibili! This week we continue the series with two more great Studio Ghibli films, Miyazaki's 1989 film, Kiki's Delivery Service (1:10), and Takahata's 1991 film, Only Yesterday (33:06). We hope you enjoy! Movies We're Reviewing Next Week: Porco Rosso (1992) + Pom Poko (1994) Music: - Intro from&...

On Episode #17 on Floating Through Film, we continue our series that was picked by Blake, Early Studio Ghibili! This week we continue the series with two of the more well known early Studio Ghibli films, Takahata's 1988 film, Grave of the Fireflies (1:10), and Miyazaki's 1988 film, My Neighbor Totoro (21:35). We hope you enjoy! Movies We're Reviewing Next Week: Kiki's Delivery Service (1989) + Onl...

On Episode #16 on Floating Through Film, we start our new series that was picked by Blake, Early Studio Ghibili! The plan is to discuss most of the early Ghibli movies in the order they came out, ending with Princess Mononoke! We'll then save the "Later Studio Ghibli" for a different series. We're starting this series by talking about 1984's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (4:50) and 1986's Cas...

On Episode #15 of Floating Through Film, we take one more break before starting our next series. We're calling this "Blindspots" because every once in awhile we just want to try and review movies that all of us (or at least two of us) haven't seen. This week's picks were 2021's Titane (1:12) and 1965's Red Beard (15:10). We hope you enjoy! Series We're Starting Next Week: Early Studio Ghibli (Naus...

On Episode #14 of Floating Through Film, we take another break before starting our next series. The idea behind this episode is that each one of us picked a SILENT movie we wanted to talk about. The plan is to use this format for future break episodes as well, for different kinds of subjects we can think of. We start with Dany's pick, 1926's The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1:26), then Blake's pic...