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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...

Which came first: 'Aladdin' or the egg? Hint: It was the egg. In the second episode of Arthouse Drive-In, Rob and T dip their toes into the wonderful world of animation. This week's film is Richard Williams' criminally under-appreciated, and tragically unfinished masterpiece, 'The Thief and The Cobbler.' This film was brought to us through the efforts of Garrett Gilchrist, who lovingly gathered al...

SPLIT PICKS returns to examine two films that find the Coen Brothers at their cruelest and their most compassionate When two writers selected two separate Coen Brothers films to write about within in a matter of days of each other, the coincidence made for the perfect reason to resurrect Split Picks, the first podcast series Split Tooth Media produced. Looking at two wildly different Coen Brothers...

Join Rob and T as they plunge into the world of arthouse cinema and peel back the layers of the avant-garde onion. In the inaugural episode of Split Tooth Media's newest podcast, Robert Delany guides his geologist cousin, T, into the world of cinema beginning with Chris Marker's dystopian, sci-fi masterpiece, La Jetée (1962). Rob covers the history of the film and Marker's career. T provides a qui...

Robert, a film scholar, leads his cousin "T," a geologist who didn't know film cameras existed before 1939, into the world of arthouse film. They invite you to join them as they explore classic films and much more in the Arthouse Drive-In. New episodes every Monday on Split Tooth Media, starting Monday, Jan. 25.

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. 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 and the the old bay into...

Ringing in the New Year? Save a dance for Cinesthesia. Baby, baby, let's make romance. You know your old time lover hasn't got a chance. He's stranded in the jungle, just as mad as he can be. So come on, pretty baby, just you and me. (Meanwhile, back in the jungle:) It's a year-ender in a four-fender and the Cinesthesia boys are on a bender. Their drug of choice? Mel Gibson's innermost psyche. We'...

Which is more stable — the metaphysics of Jason Voorhees or the regular physics of Jim's motor vehicles? In a new chapter of the Cinesthesia saga (say that five times fast), Jim and Jason float once again into the periphery of your consciousness, like a speck of dust flirting with your eyelash, or a dim memory of someone else's dream. Having never, not once, not one time, learned anything from the...

The voicemails keep coming. 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...