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To celebrate Split Tooth Media's fourth birthday, Split Picks looks at the evolution of late-career Jim Jarmusch. Robert Delany, a devout Jarmusch fan, brings The Limits of Control (2009) to the Split Picks arena, while Bennett Glace, a skeptic who once rated Down By Law a measly two stars, leads a reevaluation of the star-studded zombie comedy The Dead Don't Die (2017). The conversation centers o...

Clint Eastwood has cut an iconic on-screen figure for longer than almost anyone. The lean, sneering Western star made his name in front of the camera on TV’s Rawhide, and as The Man With No Name for Sergio Leone. His second career as a director, often directing himself, has made Eastwood an icon twice over and seen him helm more bonafide classics than almost anyone. On the latest episode of Split...

What's that on the air? Did you hear the baying moan of something almost human in the distance? Did you catch the scent of woodsmoke and viscera, dancing on the wind? It's time again for all that you most fear to rise up in your path. But hold fast — fear is the mind killer. Or so we heard somewhere. Didn't somebody say that? Was it Shakespeare? Kierkegaard? Dick Van Patten? Well, no matter who sa...

Split Picks concludes its series on the American horror greats with two early films by George A. Romero. Each week in October, Split Picks has dedicated an episode to the four titans of American horror directors — Tobe Hooper; John Carpenter; Wes Craven — and for the final episode, we turn to the Zombie Father Of The Dead, George A. Romero. Bennett Glace returns for his third horror episode and Sn...

Bennett and Jim reenter the Split Picks arena to stand up for two of Craven's oft-forgotten horror films. With Tobe Hooper and John Carpenter in the books, Split Picks shifts to Wes Craven and his three horror epoch-shifting films, his greatest successes and shortcomings as a director, and two films with plots far too complex to explain here. But in their talk of Incubi and a channel-surfing mass...

Split Picks continues its look into the four American titans of horror. After discussing Tobe Hooper last week, John Carpenter takes his turn in the spotlight. Filmmaker Steve Collins and actor John Merriman join Craig to talk about Carpenter in the '90s. Steve brings In The Mouth of Madness (1994); John brings John Carpenter's Vampires (1998). They talk about Carpenter's attraction to distilled e...

Split picks kicks off a special series devoted to four iconic American horror directors by examining two should-be-classic Hooper films. Bennett Glace and Jim Hickcox help Craig kick off a special new series for October Horror about the four most iconic American horror directors, or Mount Rushgore, if you will. We begin with Tobe Hooper, best known as the director of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre,...

Split Tooth Media's October Horror series returns Monday, Oct. 4. All month we will have essays about some of our favorite horror films all the way from the House of the Devil to the shores of Party Beach. This year Split Picks will examine the works of four canonical American horror directors — John Carpenter, Wes Craven, Tobe Hooper, and George A. Romero. Tune in every Friday for new episodes ab...

Ninety-one-year-old Clint Eastwood gets back on the horse in 'Cry Macho.' Bennett Glace and filmmaker/critic/teacher Michael Glover Smith, director of the upcoming film Relative, couldn’t help but commemorate the occasion with a special episode of Split Picks. They discuss Eastwood’s 39th directorial effort, his hit-and-miss critical reputation, and their own relationships with one of American cin...

Arthouse Drive-In: 'Son of the White Mare' (1976) by Split Tooth Media

Actor Joshua Burge joins Craig and Bennett for a talk about Buster Keaton's career and legacy, 'Cops' and 'The Cook.' Following their recent interview together, Split Toother Bennett Glace and actor/musician Joshua Burge join Craig Wright to discuss a mutual favorite actor and director, Buster Keaton. One of the all-time great comedians, Keaton redefined what it means to construct a visual gag. He...

In the second Split Picks devoted to Martin Scorsese, Bennett Glace, Robert Delany, and Craig Wright conclude their talk about the director's career with a deep look at his 2016 film Silence. Based on Shusaku Endo's 1966 novel about Catholic missionaries attempting to spread their religion to Japan, Scorsese's third religious epic follows Fathers Rodrigues (Andrew Garfield) and Garupe (Adam Driver...

In the first two-part Split Picks, Robert Delany, Bennett Glace, and host Craig Wright take a deep look at two Martin Scorsese films that share little on the surface. The first, The King of Comedy (1982), features a Scorsese/Robert De Niro pairing that follows a wannabe comedian who takes a chance encounter with his hero to the ultimate extreme. The upcoming second episode focuses on Silence (2016...

In the Season One finale, Robert and T tackle one of the defining films of the American Independent Film Movement. It’s that time of the year! Welcome to the Season One finale of Arthouse Drive-In. Robert and T end their first run of episodes by exploring a masterpiece: John Cassavetes' Faces (1968). Faces follows a married couple on the rocks who seek comfort and excitement in the arms of other l...

When Jim Cine and Jason Sthesia aren’t discussing movies, they’re usually exchanging voicemails. They’re now releasing mini episodes from their private vault while on a short hiatus. Sometimes, when it’s been a long day on the farm, the boys are tired and the dogs is worn. They done meant to have a chitter-chatter about the pictures, but it just took too long to get the sheep into Sheepshead Bay a...

Are we all in a movie right now? Symbiopsychotaxiplasm: Take One follows director William Greaves as he leads a cast and crew through a bewildering Central Park film production. They shoot take after take of the same odd scene, with constant interruptions from pedestrians and police officers, while Greaves' crew record their theories on what exactly is going on with their director. In doing so, Wi...

Arthouse Drive-In Ep. 8: 'News From Home' by Split Tooth Media

Arthouse Drive-In Ep 7: Obayashi's 'House' (1977) by Split Tooth Media

Robert Delany and Bennett Glace join host Craig Wright to discuss a pair of later Stan Brakhage works that rarely receive the attention of earlier landmarks such as Mothlight (1963) or Window Water Baby Moving (1959). These films, one painted on film exploring the psychic effects of television (Delicacies of Molten Horror Synapse, 1990), the other shot on 16mm and produced shortly before Brakhage...

Recorded on Valentine's Day, this Arthouse Drive-In finds Robert and T exploring their first Iranian film together, Abbas Kiarostami's 1997 masterwork, 'Taste of Cherry.' The film follows the mysterious Mr. Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) as he drives around Tehran searching for someone to help him with a grave task. Taking place almost entirely in Mr. Badii's car, the film unfolds in a fashion unlike an...

This week Robert and T tackle a film that is very close to our co-host's hearts (specifically Robert), Sink or Swim (1990) by iconic director Su Friedrich. It is a masterpiece in autobiographical filmmaking, consisting of 26 vignettes depicting times in Friedrich's childhood. Robert uses his love of experimental film to describe how Friedrich constructs a strange and unconventional relationship be...

Spooky season might be over, but we're bringing it back for Orson Welles' interpretation of a Shakespeare classic. In this episode of Arthouse Drive-In focusing on MacBeth (1948) by Orson Welles, Robert and T are joined by their first guest, the one and only Matt Cohen, a horror connoisseur from Robert’s grad school days at NYU. Matt uses his extensive knowledge on all things Orson Welles to offse...

Jim read a book* and Jason has nothing better to do while he washes dishes, so the Cinesthesia Boys spit out some quick gab on film critic Manny Farber's classic 1962 essay, "White Elephant Art vs. Termite Art." Listen as our heroes dare to actually stay on topic, mostly. If what you love about podcasts is the intellectual rigor and careful preparedness of the hosts, then you are probably not list...

In this episode of Arthouse Drive-In, Robert and T take a rose petal bath in the legendary French classique The Rules of the Game (1939) by Jean Renoir. Yes, the upholstery of the car will never be the same, but it was worth it for T’s budding film studies clout. Listen along as they unravel the complicated web of affairs and show how this almost century old classique still holds its relevance tod...

When Jim Cine and Jason Sthesia aren’t discussing movies, they’re usually exchanging voicemails. They’re now releasing mini episodes from their private vault while on a short hiatus. In the fourth Voicemails installment, Jim asks Jason to interpret his dream about Seinfeld and questionable meats. Jason continues his percussion lessons. Join a filmmaker (and sometimes film teacher) and a film teach...