Floating Through Film

On Episode #13 of Floating Through Film, we conclude our series on Charlie Chaplin! We aren't reviewing any of his films in total this week, instead we use this episode to go over our overall thoughts on Chaplin, how they might have changed or stayed the same while doing this series, what he means to us, etc. We then jump to a list of various questions we thought would be fun to answer about his f...

On Episode #12 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series on Chaplin with a discussion of two of his last films, 1947's Monsieur Verdoux  (2:25) and 1952's Limelight (36:17).  We hope you enjoy! Music: - Intro from Limelight - Outro from Limelight  Hosts: Luke Seay (https://letterboxd.com/seayluke/), Blake Tourville (https://letterboxd.com/blaketourville/), and Dany...

On Episode #11 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series on Chaplin with a discussion of two of his most popular movies, 1936's Modern Times and 1940's The Great Dictator. We hope you enjoy! Link to Modern Times Roller Skating Scene VFX: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4oTcWevGfs&ab_channel=PetrPechar Music: - Intro from Modern Times - Outro from Modern Times Hosts: Luke Seay...

On Episode #10 of Floating Through Film, we continue our series on Chaplin with a discussion of two great, but in some ways vastly different Chaplin movies, 1923's A Woman of Paris (0:25) and 1931's City Lights (27:59). We hope you enjoy! Movies We're Reviewing Next Week: Modern Times (1936) and The Great Dictator (1940) Music: - Intro from City Lights - Outro from City Lights Hosts...

On episode #9 of Floating Through Film, we start our new series that was picked by Dany, Charlie Chaplin! There's many reasons to choose Chaplin for a series topic, and that's what we spend the beginning of the episode discussing. After the guys give their thoughts on Chaplin coming in to this series, we then move right to the reviews for this week, starting with a general discussion of all h...

On episode 8 of Floating Through Film, we do another one-week topic before starting our new series next week. We chose as our subject this week to talk about films that directors have made in countries that they're not from, especially in languages that are not in their native language. The list is huge and filled with great movies, so we just give some of our overall thoughts on this phenomenon i...

On this seventh episode of the Floating Through Film podcast, we switch to talking about a director working today, Robert Eggers! We speak about each of his previous films, 2015's The Witch (1:44) and 2019's The Lighthouse (15:09), before moving to his movie that released this year, 2022's The Northman (31:13). We also have our first guest today, our good friend and fellow film fan, Weston! We hop...

On this sixth episode of Floating Through Film, we conclude our (first) series on the French New Wave!  We start this episode by wrapping up our overall thoughts on the French New Wave, including our favorite directors, films, etc., as well as talking about what we learned and how our opinions changed about these artists over the course of doing this series. After this, we move to the films w...

This 5th episode of Floating Through Film is about the French New Wave filmmakers that weren't part of the Cahier du Cinema Group, commonly referred to as the "Left Bank" Group. The core members of this group were Chris Marker, Alain Resnais and Agnès Varda, but others at the time can also be considered a part of this group, especially including Varda's husband Jacques Demy. We begin the episode b...

In this fourth episode of Floating Through Film, we begin our discussion (0:40) by talking about the directors in the French New Wave that wrote for the  famous French film magazine, Cahiers du Cinéma. The five directors most commonly associated with this group are Claude Chabrol, Francois Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Eric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette. We first give our overall thoughts on these...

In this third episode of Floating Through Film, we start by discussing some of the types of movies/genres that influenced the French New Wave (0:35). This leads us to the movies we're reviewing this week, the 1948 Howard Hawks film, The Big Sleep (16:40), and Vittorio De Sica's 1948 Italian Neorealist film, Bicycle Thieves (25:50). We hope you enjoy!  Movies We're Reviewing Next Week: Jacques...

In this second episode of Floating Through Film, we introduce our series on the French New Wave (0:22). This was Luke's pick, and he starts off by telling us why he picked the French New Wave for our first series, before we all give our thoughts on what we think of this movement in film. We then move to reviewing two of the most popular movies in the French New Wave (18:04), Breathless (1960) and...

In this inaugural episode of Floating Through Film, we thought we'd try to introduce ourselves through a few different questions relating to movies that will hopefully allow you to see our individual tastes and interests as we answer them. We start the episode (1:40) by answering a 2 part question: 1. What was the movie that opened the door of film for you? and 2. More importantly, what was the mo...