Pivotal Film

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal pivotalfilm.com Mario and Tom went to see Jordan Peele’s terrific new film “Us,” starring Lupita Nyong’o and Winston Duke (7:07). They then take a flamethrower to their number 70’s…or maybe they didn’t: Mario (34:50), Tom (1:00:33). On Tap! Omnipollo’s Pleroma – A raspberry crème brûlée sour ale brewed with lactose sugar, raspberries and vanilla...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal pivotalfilm.com Mario and Tom take a break from their lists this week to talk about a new film - Gaspar Noe's "Climax"(2:12) - and two of their favorite films from 2017 - David Lowery's "A Ghost Story," (33:20) and Kogonada's "Columbus"(58:05). Music Credits: "Her Eyes Play Tricks on the Camera" Robert Pollard (performed by Tom !), "Pivotal Film...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal pivotalfilm.com Mario and Tom get right to work this week. After cracking open a couple of delicious beers, they pump their fists at each other while riding the rails towards their number 71’s: Mario (5:34), Tom (25:11). On Tap! From Kent, CT’s Kent Falls Brewing Co.’s Substrate – a Black Lager (https://kentfallsbrewing.com/beer/substrate/)(2:30...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal pivotalfilm.com Mario and Tom begin this week’s episode by trying to avert their eyes from the Oscars (5:25), before digging into Arctic, the directorial debut of Joe Penna, starring Mads Mikkelsen (7:55). Then they crawl through a pipe filled with hammer-broken glass to get to their number 72’s: Mario (30:36), Tom (49:43). On Tap! From Oxford,...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal pivotalfilm.com Mario and Tom begin this week’s episode by talking about the Oscar nominations for Best Documentary (Short Subject): End Game (5:16)( zenhospice.org), Period. End of Sentence (14:09) (Thepadproject.org), A Night at the Garden (21:48), Black Sheep (25:55), Lifeboat (32:25)(sea-watch.org). They then jump off a building wearing hand...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal pivotalfilm.com Mario and Tom begin this week’s episode by heaping massive amounts of praise on Steven Soderbergh’s Netflix film “High Flying Bird,” starring an electric Andre Holland (9:50). They then take a trip back to the past in search of their number 74’s Tom (41:20), Mario (1:15:43). On Tap! From Brooklyn, New York, Sixpoint Brewery’s, Ba...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal pivotalfilm.com Mario begins this week’s episode with some more bad Oscar news, before they settle into a conversation about Dan Gilroy’s Netflix feature “Velvet Buzzsaw” starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rene Russo, John Malkovich, Zawe Ashton etc., etc., forever (9:20). They then pull up chairs around a table and cast votes for their number 75’s - Mar...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com www.twitter.com/filmpivotal www.pivotalfilm.com Before Mario and Tom return to their lists, they discuss some of the movies they are looking forward to in 2019 (4:20). They then drive from the city to the country in search of their number 76’s: Tom (40:24) Mario (1:03:07). On Tap! Branford, CT’s Thimble Island Brewing Company’s Mutually Assured Destruction (R) Russian...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal pivotalfilm.com This week Mario and Tom take one more step towards wrapping up their 2018 film-appreciating experience by discussing the Oscar nominations (3:20). They then dig into three movies from 2018 that they didn’t get to talk about/ see earlier: “Beautiful Boy,” starring Steve Carell and Timothee Chalemet (45:31), Debra Granik’s “Leave N...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal pivotalfilm.com instagram.com/pivotalfilm This week Mario and Tom talk about their favorite films, performances, and moments from 2018! Top 10 shots and sequences (9:10), Supporting Actress/ Actor (23:46), Technical Awards (28:52), Documentary Feature (38:25), Animated Feature (41:02), Production Design (43:17), Original Song (45:32), Original S...

pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com www.twitter.com/filmpivotal www.pivotalfilm.com This week Mario and Tom briefly revisit their animated shorts episode to talk about “Animal Behaviour,” the Academy short-listed film they didn’t get to talk about last week (8:00) Then, they talk about why Yorgos Lanthimos’s “The Favourite,” starring Olivia Coleman, Emma Stone, and Rachel Weisz, is good, but not their fa...

talk -pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal visit- pivotalfilm.com follow -instagram.com/pivotalfilm For the sheer pleasure of it Mario and Tom spend this weeks episode talking about the animated short films that the academy has shortlist for this years Oscars (https://www.oscars.org/oscars/91st-oscars-shortlists). “Age of Sail” – John Kahrs USA (5:09) “Bao” – Domee Shi USA (11:42)...

As Tom leaves the movie theater, he records an instant review of Adam McKay's new Dick Cheney biopic "Vice." talk -pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal visit- pivotalfilm.com follow -instagram.com/pivotalfilm Music Credits: "Her Eyes Play Tricks on the Camera" Robert Pollard, "Ghost" Neutral Milk Hotel

talk -pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal visit- pivotalfilm.com follow -instagram.com/pivotalfilm This week Mario and Tom open the show by issuing a thank you to their listeners, before they disagree on Brady Corbet’s captivating, but puzzling, “Vox Lux” starring Natalie Portman, Jude Law, and Raffey Cassidy (5:41). They then try to find some compassion for their number 78’s (Mar...

talk -pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal visit- pivotalfilm.com follow -instagram.com/pivotalfilm This week Mario and Tom spend an hour talking about the terrific “Spiderman: Into the Spider Verse,” (4:25), Alfonso Cuaron’s disappointing “Roma,” (14:49), and “At Eternity’s Gate,” the absolutely breath-taking new feature from Julian Schnabel (42:10). They then try to untangle the...

talk -pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal visit- pivotalfilm.com follow -instagram.com/pivotalfilm This week Mario and Tom open the show by thinking out loud about the release of Orson Welles’s “The Other Side of the Wind,” and its accompanying documentary “They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead” (6:45). They then discuss the best way to build a bridge between their number 80’s (Tom 30:25,...

talk -pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal visit- pivotalfilm.com follow -instagram.com/pivotalfilm This week Mario and Tom open the show by beating up on the recent Golden Globe nominations (5:33). Next, they talk about Alice Rohrwacher’s excellently mysterious “Happy as Lazzaro,” now playing on Netflix (12:47). They then discuss the inappropriate relationships they have with thei...

talk -pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal visit- pivotalfilm.com follow -instagram.com/pivotalfilm This week Mario and Tom open the show with a few moments of rejoicing for Steve McQueen’s “Widows” (5:09). Then Tom and Mario blast off into outer space in the hopes of closely-encountering their number 82’s (Tom 34:15, Mario 58:12). On Tap! East Rock Brewing Company(https://eastrock...

talk -pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal visit- pivotalfilm.com follow -instagram.com/pivotalfilm Mario and Tom take an hour to discuss the director’s cut of Lars Von Trier’s “The House that Jack Built.” Music Credits: "Her Eyes Play Tricks on the Camera" Robert Pollard, "Ghost" Neutral Milk Hotel

talk -pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal visit- pivotalfilm.com follow -instagram.com/pivotalfilm This week Mario and Tom start the pod by talking about MORE Netflix movies: The Coen Brother’s “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs”(7:10), and David Mackenzie’s period misfire “Outlaw King” (26:56). Tom and Mario then have a gun fight in a hole full of their number 83’s (Mario 48:15, Tom 1...

talk -pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal visit- pivotalfilm.com follow -instagram.com/pivotalfilm This week Mario and Tom get derailed by snow so Tom delivers a quick review of Paul Dano's wonderful new flick Wildlife starring Carey Mulligan and Jake Gyllenhaal (5:30). They then ask God to reveal to them their number 84's (Mario 12:12, Tom 29:45). On Tap!: Brooklyn Brewery's Brow...

Mario and Tom take the week off from their lists and instead spend a good hour talking about some documentaries from 2018: Lessons from a School Shooting: Notes from Dunblane - 3:10 Three Identical Strangers - 14:15 RBG - 30:02 Free Solo - 36:16 Won't You Be My Neighbor - 50:00 WE'LL BE BACK NEXT WEEK WITH OUR NUMBER 84'S Music Credits: "Her Eyes Play Tricks on the Camera" Robert Pollard, "Pivotal...

talk -pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal visit- pivotalfilm.com follow -instagram.com/pivotalfilm The Great Sadness of Ben Affleck - https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-appearances/the-great-sadness-of-ben-affleck Mario and Tom begin this week’s episode by talking about Marielle Heller’s complexly pleasurable new film "Can You Ever Forgive Me," written by Nicole Holofcene...

talk -pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal visit- pivotalfilm.com follow -instagram.com/pivotalfilm This week Mario and Tom start the pod by talking about David Gordon Green’s Halloween starring Jamie Lee Curtis and Judy Greer (4:57) and David Lowry’s The Old Man and the Gun starring Robert Redford and Sissy Spacek (23:55). They then try to avoid Comanches and bears while trying to...

talk -pivotalfilmpodcast@gmail.com twitter.com/filmpivotal visit- pivotalfilm.com follow -instagram.com/pivotalfilm This week Mario and Tom start the pod by talking about some more Netflix movies that seemed to warrant discussion: Sarah Colangleo’s The Kindergarten Teacher starring Maggie Gyllenhaal(5:25), and Gareth Evan’s The Apostle, starring Dan Stevens and Michael Sheen(22:23). They then cros...