The Gauntlet

THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME 7 A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET From Borderlands to Witchcraft Music and Sounds from Episodes 61-70 Gentleman Jim (1942) | The Passionate Friends (1949) | Kid Galahad (1962) | A Very Curious Girl (1969) | The Unfaithful Wife (1969) | Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) | The Private Eyes (1976) | Southern Comfort (1981) They All Laughed (1981) | 2010 (1984) |...

Gelin aka The Bride (1973) / Eskiya aka The Bandit (1996) This week we’re talkin’ Turkey as we migrate to Istanbul in Lütfi Akad’s family melodrama and Yavuz Turgul’s bandit fairy tale

157 - Stolen Death (1938) / Lust, Caution (2007) This week we’re forming resistance cells and sneaking around as we arm ourselves against Tsarist oppression with Nyrki Tapiovaara and plot an assassination with Ang Lee’s patriotic theatre troupe

Wild Side (1995) / Femme Fatale (2002) This week Brendan Boyle joins us for a roundtable to reminisce about message boards, video stores, and uncles as we take a walk on the wild side with Donald Cammell and get freaky with Brian De Palma

The Burning Moon (1992) / V/H/S/Beyond (2024) This week we’re talking tapes and short form frights as we go to hell with Olaf Ittenbach’s heroin-fueled SOV triptych and encounter the paranormal in the latest V/H/S

The Island (1980) / Humanoids from the Deep (1980) This week we’re diving in to aquatic horror as we’re kidnapped by Michael Ritchie’s anachronistic pirates and battle sea monsters and Roger Corman with Barbara Steele

The Secret (1979) / Lone Star (1996) This week we’re looking for clues as we try to solve a southern fried cold case with John Sayles and get to the bottom of a shocking murder with Ann Hui

A Bigger Splash (1974) / The Mill & The Cross (2011) This week we’re living the lives of artists as we dive in to David Hockney’s bad breakup and join Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s procession

How High (2001) / D.E.B.S. (2004) This week we’re going back to school for some higher learning as we enroll some joints with Method Man and Redman and conduct field work at Angela Robinson’s sexy spy academy

The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) / Workingman’s Death (2005) This week we’re saluting the workers as we labor under extreme conditions with Michael Glawogger and lose our finger and minds on the factory floor with Elio Petri

149 - La Religieuse aka The Nun (1966) / L’altro Inferno aka The Other Hell (1981) This week we’re taking our vows and entering convent life as we descend into madness with Bruno Mattei and try to escape with Jacques Rivette and Anna Karina

Ilya Muromets aka The Sword and the Dragon (1956) / Laserblast (1978) This week we’re taking a spin on the Satellite of Love as we do our own riffs on MST3K, Charles Band’s laser cannon, and the epic fantasy of Aleksandr Ptushko

How The West Was Won (1962) / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) This week we’re hitching our wagons to the epic visions of MGM and Kevin Costner as we explore two sprawling takes on westward expansion

Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) / Documentarian (2012) This week Arlin Golden joins us for a doc swap as we confront a hostile subject with Ivars Zviedris & Inese Klava and journey to Lithuania with Jonas Mekas

Who Am I This Time? (1982) / The Second Civil War (1997) This week we’re channel surfing as we tune in to Jonathan Demme’s public television romance and Joe Dante’s war time broadcast

Crazy Thunder Road (1980) / His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) This week we get our motors running and head out on the highway as we terrorize Tokyo with Sogo Ishii’s biker gangs and fall in love with Nobuhiko Obayashi’s romantic riders

This week we’re crosschecking polite society and battling beer barons as Vikram Murthi joins us for a drinking session with Paul Newman and the Mackenzie Brothers, listen up hosers!

Paint Your Wagon (1969) / Play Dirty (1969) This week we’re closing out careers as we play dirty with Joshua Logan’s gold rush ménage à trois and paint the desert red with Andre de Toth

I Was a Male War Bride (1949) / Late Autumn (1960) This week we’ll do anything for love as we crossdress with Howard Hawks and try to arrange a marriage with Yasujirō Ozu

Runaway (1984) / Class of 1999 (1990) This week we’re fighting the future as we chase down busted bots with Michael Crichton and dodge killer teachers with Mark L. Lester

Up in Smoke (1978) / Withnail & I (1986) This week we’re giving the middle finger to polite society as we smoke a giant joint and hit the road with Cheech & Chong and end up on holiday by mistake with Withnail & I

I Am Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) / Queimada aka Burn! (1969) This week villainous schemes go according to plan as we’re shackled to a chain gang by Mervyn Leroy and Gillo Pontecorvo feeds us to the bloody revolution

Requiescant (1967) / Attenberg (2010) This week the directors are on the screen as we wander into a spaghetti western to preach liberation with Pier Paolo Pasolini and get naked and listen to Suicide with Yorgos Lanthimos

The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) / To Live (1994) This week we’re capturing a whole life as we tour a time-bending sanatorium with Wojciech Has and try to survive the people’s republic with Zhang Yimou

House of Bamboo (1955) / Tempting Heart (1999) This week we’re center framing cinematographers as we take a trip to Japan with Joe MacDonald and interrogate love through time and space with Mark Lee Ping-Bing