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https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CANON-FODDER_S01_E50.mp3 Vagabond (1985; Dir.: Agnes Varda) Canon Fodder Episode 50 Daniel and Corky explore the dark side of the sunny South of France with Agnes Varda’s 1985 movie  Vagabond . Sandrine Bonnaire plays the equally frustrating and fascinating title character, a young woman trudging across the French countryside without passion...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/CANON-FODDER_S01_BADLANDS-DIE-MY-LOVE.mp3 Die My Love (2025; Dir.: Lynne Ramsay) GRADE: C+ *Now playing in the San Francisco Bay Area and other select markets. IMDB Synopsis: “Grace, a writer and young mother, is slowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in and around Montana, we see her acting increasingly agitated and errati...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CANON-FODDER_S01_E49.mp3 Pather Panchali (1955; Dir.: Satyajit Ray) Canon Fodder Episode 49 Daniel and Corky follow the song of the little road to 1910’s Bengal to review  Pather Panchali , the first film in Satyajit Ray’s storied Apu Trilogy. Elsewhere, Daniel discusses the big winners and awards season favorites from this year’s...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CANON-FODDER_S01_BLUE-MOON-ACCIDENT.mp3 Blue Moon (2025; Dir.: Richard Linklater) GRADE: B- *Now playing at the Tower Theatre in Sacramento. IMDB Synopsis: “Tells the story of Lorenz Hart’s struggles with alcoholism and mental health as he tries to save face during the opening of Oklahoma!” It Was Just an Accident (2025; Dir.: Jaf...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/10/CANON-FODDER_S01_E48.mp3 Yi Yi (2000; Dir.: Edward Yang) Canon Fodder Episode 48 Daniel and Corky turn to turn-of-the-century Taiwan to review Edward Yang’s richly Renoir-ian tapestry of humanity. Yang offers a seemingly bottomless reservoir of empathy in  Yi Yi , but did your hosts appreciate the plunge or did they sink like reservoir dogs?...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/CANON-FODDER_S01_E47.mp3 Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972; Dir.: Werner Herzog) Canon Fodder Episode 47 Daniel and Corky descend through the clouds to review Klaus Kinski as a conquest-driven conquistador in Werner Herzog’s masterpiece. The rare absurdist-realist intimate epic,  Aguirre  is an impossible-to-recreate fever dream of colonial gol...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/CANON-FODDER_S01_E46.mp3 My Darling Clementine (1946; Dir.: John Ford) Canon Fodder Episode 46 Daniel and Corky rustle up a mess of vittles and head to the “rough-looking country” of Tombstone to review this masterful western, arguably the least factual yet most definitive take on the Wyatt Earp/OK Corral legend. But did your hosts feel...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/CANON-FODDER_S01_E45.mp3 A Canterbury Tale (1944; Dir.: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger) Canon Fodder Episode 45 Podcasting pilgrims Daniel and Corky voyage to the WWII-era England of The Archers by way of the 14th-century England of Chaucer to review  A Canterbury Tale . This star-studless small-town mystery has all the magic and splendor...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CANON-FODDER_S01_EDEN-RELAY.mp3 Eden (2025; Ron Howard) GRADE: B *Now playing. IMDB Synopsis: “Based on a factual account of a group of outsiders who settle on a remote island only to discover their greatest threat isn’t the brutal climate or deadly wildlife, but each other.” Relay (2025; David Mackenzie) GRADE: B- *Now playing. I...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CANON-FODDER_S01_E44.mp3 Mirror (1975; Dir.: Andrei Tarkovsky) Canon Fodder Episode 44 Daniel and Corky are in a reflective mood this week as they review Andrei Tarkovsky’s semi-auto-bio-tour-de-force  Mirror . Did this dreamlike film shatter your hosts beliefs about the artistic possibilities of cinema, or were their expectations under glass...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/CANON-FODDER_S01_E43.mp3 The 400 Blows (1959; Dir.: Francois Truffaut) Canon Fodder Episode 43 Daniel and Corky ride the French New Wave all the way back to boyhood with their review of The 400 Blows . Instantly recognizable to anyone who was ever a child, this debut film from Francois Truffaut helped launch a cinematic revolution. But did your hos...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CANON-FODDER_S01_E42.mp3 Only Angels Have Wings (1939; Dir.: Howard Hawks) Canon Fodder Episode 42 Your hosts continue their cinematic world tour by jetting to the fictional South American port town of Barranca.  Only Angels Have Wings  is one of the most revered movies by Howard Hawks. But were your hosts rapt-or with attention or are they carrion...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/CANON-FODDER_S01_E41.mp3 La Ciénaga (2001; Dir.: Lucrecia Martel) Canon Fodder Episode 41 Daniel and Corky drain the swamp with their review of New Argentine Cinema legend Lucrecia Martel’s La Ciénaga . Your hosts are always down for a fetid pool party, and they already lost their heads to The Headless Woman . But how did these mannish boys r...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CANON-FODDER_S01_E40.mp3 Army of Shadows (1969; Dir.: Jean-Pierre Melville) Canon Fodder Episode 40 Daniel and Corky celebrate the 40th episode of Canon Fodder with a sojourn to Nazi-occupied France for Army of Shadows . This stark, episodic look at the moral shadows of the French Resistance found a loyal following despite getting condemned upon re...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/CANON-FODDER_S01_E39.mp3 Videodrome (1983; Dir.: David Cronenberg) Canon Fodder Episode 39 Daniel and Corky put on their finest Canadian tuxedos to review James Woods in the body horror classic  Videodrome . But did your hosts “open up to” Cronenberg’s vision, or were their torso tape players incompatible with the film’s McL...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CANON-FODDER_S01_E38.mp3 Amarcord (1973; Dir.: Federico Fellini) Canon Fodder Episode 38 “When the puffballs soar, winter is no more.” Daniel and Corky sail down memory lane to 1930s Italy for this beguiling semi-pseudo-autobiographical masterwork from Il Maestro. But did this highly influential film give your hosts stardust memories or...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/Mission-Impossible-The-Final-Reckoning-Daniel-Review-1.mp3 Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning (2025; Christopher McQuarrie) GRADE: B *Now playing everywhere. In this change-of-pace mini-episode, Sacramento film critic Daniel Barnes shares his thoughts on the latest  Mission: Impossible  film. Listen along as Daniel talks to himself about aut...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/CANON-FODDER_S01_E37.mp3 Cries & Whispers (1972; Dir.: Ingmar Bergman) Canon Fodder Episode 37 Your hosts retreat to the red room in their most immaculately ivory-white finery to review this blistering chamber drama. But did this stylistically bold wringer from Swedish master Ingmar Bergman inspire cries of joy or whispers of contempt? Elsewher...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CANON-FODDER_S01_E36.mp3 Vertigo (1958; Dir.: Alfred Hitchcock) Canon Fodder Episode 36 Daniel and Corky take a dizzying road trip through the streets of San Francisco in pursuit of Alfred Hitchcock’s mysterious and alluring Vertigo . Although neglected in its day,  Vertigo  famously knocked Citizen Kane  off the top spot of the Sight & S...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/CANON-FODDER_S01_E35.mp3 Charulata (1964; Dir.: Satyajit Ray) Canon Fodder Episode 35 After the French fever dream of India Song , Daniel and Corys take their first real trip to the home country of Bengali maestro Satyajit Ray. But were your hosts stimulated enough by this deceptively simple story of an under-stimulated Calcutta woman breaking out...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/CANON-FODDER_S01_E34.mp3 Happy Together (1997; Dir.: Wong Kar-Wai) Canon Fodder Episode 34 Daniel and Corky rekindle their passion for Wong Kar-Wai by reviewing his 1997 film Happy Together . But were your hosts in the mood for loving this moody love story, or will they relegate it to the ashes of time? HAPPY TOGETHER  FACTS & FIGURES Sight &am...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/CANON-FODDER_S01_E33.mp3 The Watermelon Woman (1996; Dir.: Cheryl Dunye) Canon Fodder Episode 33 Daniel and Corky share their thoughts on Cheryl Dunye’s groundbreaking  The Watermelon Woman , widely cited as the first feature film directed by an out black lesbian. But did your hosts love this lo-fi rom-com or was it the pits? THE WATERMELON W...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CANON-FODDER_S01_E32.mp3 Memories of Underdevelopment (1968; Dir.: Tomás Gutiérrez Alea) Canon Fodder Episode 32 Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell take their traveling medicine show to Castro-era to review this essential piece of Cuban cinema. But will your hosts hold fond memories of this gritty yet dreamy film, or are their brains still under dev...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/CANON-FODDER_S01_E31B.mp3 To Be or Not to Be (1942; Dir.: Ernst Lubitsch) Canon Fodder Episode 31 Daniel and Corky review Jack Benny, Carole Lombard and Robert Stack in Ernst Lubitsch’s  To Be or Not to Be . Elsewhere, Daniel offers his thoughts on the recently released  Wolf Man , starring Christopher Abbott and Julia Garner. TO BE OR NOT TO...

https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/CANON-FODDER_S01_E30.mp3 India Song (1975; Dir.: Marguerite Duras) Canon Fodder Episode 30 Daniel and Corky travel to 1930s India by way of 1970s France for this haunting look at decaying colonialists. INDIA SONG FACTS & FIGURES Sight & Sound  2022 Critics Poll Ranking: #146 (tied) Cannes Film Festival premiere: May 1975 IMDB synopsis: &#82...