Paul and Corey Cross the Streams

As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in  Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?" This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. For Corey's first choice, we take a look at Sofia Coppola's second feature, Lost in Translation  (2003) - an impressionistic meditation on loneliness, alie...

Welcome to Season 7! As we are now a quarter of the way through the 21st century, like Bill Murray in  Tootsie , Paul and Corey are asking, "What happened?" This season we are looking at the trends, genres, styles, and more that make up cinema of the past 25 years. First up, Paul has chosen Clint Eastwood's Juror #2  (2024), a film whose distribution by Warner Brothers Discovery is as fraught as t...

IT'S THE FINAL EPISODE OF THE YEAR! Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season will focus its sights on "the greatest films of all time" (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Our...

Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season will focus its sights on "the greatest films of all time" (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Our goal is to examine the films that a...

Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season will focus its sights on "the greatest films of all time" (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Our goal is to examine the films that a...

Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season will focus its sights on "the greatest films of all time" (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Our goal is to examine the films that a...

Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season will focus its sights on "the greatest films of all time" (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Our goal is to examine the films that a...

Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season will focus its sights on "the greatest films of all time" (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Our goal is to examine the films that a...

Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season will focus its sights on "the greatest films of all time" (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Our goal is to examine the films that a...

Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season will focus its sights on "the greatest films of all time" (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Our goal is to examine the films that a...

Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season will focus its sights on "the greatest films of all time" (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Our goal is to examine the films that a...

Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season will focus its sights on "the greatest films of all time" (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Our goal is to examine the films that a...

Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season will focus its sights on "the greatest films of all time" (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Our goal is to examine the films that a...

Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season will focus its sights on "the greatest films of all time" (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Our goal is to examine the films that a...

Ranked at 15, John Ford's The Searchers  (1956) has been generally touted as the best American western. German journalist Andreas Kilb called The Searchers , "The essence of American Myth in one film," and Paul (but maybe not Corey) agrees - with the caveat that that's not exactly a good thing. Ford had already made 100 films by this point in his career and worked with star John Wayne in a great n...

Sara Gómez's first and only feature, De Cierta Manera / One Way or Another (1977), is ranked at 196. Gómez was a revolutionary filmmaker in Cuba who spent her career examining and highlighting the struggles of the Afro-Cuban community, women, and the marginalized as they dealt with continued inequalities after social revolution. De Cierta Manera  combines documentary footage and fictionalized narr...

* At the outset, we advise anyone who feels uncomfortable listening to a frank appraisal of Woody Allen, his alleged crimes, and his work to skip this episode. The purpose of this show is to entertain and inform, and we have complete sympathy for anyone who may find this topic too much to endure. We will see you in two weeks. Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season...

Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season will focus its sights on "the greatest films of all time" (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Our goal is to examine the films that a...

Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season will focus its sights on "the greatest films of all time" (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Our goal is to examine the films that a...

Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season will focus its sights on "the greatest films of all time" (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Our goal is to examine the films that a...

Welcome back for Season 6, everyone! Having amassed more than 100 episodes in its run,  PACCTS ' sixth season will focus its sights on "the greatest films of all time" (both in the US and internationally), as assembled by the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Poll of industry critics. Corey will be choosing American films from the list, and Paul will be choosing international ones.  Ou...

Based on Corey's  Being There  (1979), Paul said, "To hell with connecting movies to each other," and picked Carol  (2015). Directed by Todd Haynes and starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara, Paul and Corey close out the year talking about Haynes' career, the 1950s as a period of reaction and the Closet, Patricia Highsmith, and more. Thank you very much for listening this year. Happy Holidays, an...

Based on Paul's  I Was a Communist for the FBI  (1951), Corey decided to stay in Washington, DC (??) and watch a film he absolutely adores: Being There  (1979). Directed by Hal Ashby and starring Peter Sellers and Shirley MacLaine, this classic satire of American culture (especially television), politics, and human interaction in the '70s is infinitely watchable and discussable.

In solidarity with SAG-AFTRA, Paul and Corey have decided to change things up: For the duration of the TA voting process, they will: 1) cover only films about labor unions/strikes/solidarity/etc.; 2) not cover any new releases (that includes Corey's Pass or Plays ); and 3) not recommend any streaming services for where you can find these films. Following Corey's choice,  Norma Rae  (1979), Paul wa...

In solidarity with SAG-AFTRA, Paul and Corey have decided to change things up: For the duration of the TA voting process, they will: 1) cover only films about labor unions/strikes/solidarity/etc.; 2) not cover any new releases (that includes Corey's Pass or Plays ); and 3) not recommend any streaming services for where you can find these films. Following Paul's choice,  9 to 5  (1980), Corey wante...