The Gauntlet

Filibus (1915) / Hudson Hawk (1991) This week we’re stealing with style as we play a game of cat and mouse with Mario Roncoroni’s genderbending sky pirate and try to crack the Da Vinci code with Bruce Willis’ singing burglar

133 - Duvidha (1973) / Anantaram (1987) This week we explore parallel cinema as we are hypnotized by Mani Kaul’s mythopoetic ghost story and deconstruct storytelling with Adoor Gopalkrishnan’s unreliable monologue

THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME 6 A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET From The Truth is Out There to Gettin’ Animated Music and Sounds from Episodes 51-60 Thunder Birds (1942) | Come Back, Africa (1959) | Lancelot du Lac (1974) | Ici et Ailleurs (1974) | Simone Barbès or Virtue (1980) | Times Square (1980) | Night Witches in the Sky (1981) | Lookin’ to Get Out (1982) | Der Fan (1982) | Vampir...

Little Buddha (1993) / I Come with the Rain (2009) This week we’re getting outside of our comfort zones as we seek enlightenment in Nepal with Keanu Reeves and try to find a missing person in Hong Kong with Josh Hartnett

131 - Metal Detector Maniac (2021) / Earth Mama (2023) This week it’s out with the old and in with the new as we take a suspicious sabbatical with Matt Farley and fight for our children’s future with Savanah Leaf PLUS! Year-end favorites with special guest Ryland Walker Knight

Tough Guys (1986) / Children of Nature (1991) This week we’re making way for tomorrow as we saunter out of prison and into the 80s with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas and break out of the retirement home with Friðrik Þór Friðriksson

La Guerre des Tuques (1984) / Tenement (1985) This week we’re under attack as we defend a Quebecois snow fort with André Melançon’s little soldiers and try to fight off a murderous gang in the South Bronx with Roberta Findlay

Duel of the Titans (1961) / Sebastiane (1976) This week all roads lead to Rome as we fight to found a city with Sergio Corbucci’s beefcakes and lounge in exile with St. Derek Jarman’s shimmering soldiers

Invention for Destruction (1958) / Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970) This week we’re getting a Czech stamp in our cinema passports as we sail through the fantastical world of Karel Zeman and stumble through the looking glass with Pavel Juráček

Vai~E~Vem aka Come and Go (2003) / The New World (2006) This week we’re giving thanks as we feast on the mythopoetics of Terrence Malick and stuff ourselves with the perverse philosophies of João César Monteiro

It’s Always Fair Weather (1955) / Passing Strangers (1974) This week we’re embracing male relationships as we dance through the ups and downs of friendship with Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen and fly kites in the bay with Arthur J. Bressan Jr.’s young lovers

Hell Drivers (1957) / High-Ballin’ (1978) This week we’re joining the great big convoy as we drive dangerously with Cy Endfield’s working class haulers and fight off hijackers with Peter Carter’s easy riders

Eyes of Fire (1983) / Phantom Town (1998) This week we’re facing fear on the frontier as we settle on cursed land with Avery Crounse and get lost in Jeff Burr’s wild west phantasmagoria

Lewat Djam Malam (1954) / Sambizanga (1972) This week we’re saluting Scorsese and the World Cinema Project as we join Sarah Maldoror in the fight for Angolan independence and struggle to adapt to post-revolutionary Indonesia with Usmar Ismail

A Cat in the Brain (1990) / Coffin Homes (2021) This week we’re wallowing in gore as we paw our way into the twisted mind of Lucio Fulci and hack each other to bits over real estate with Fruit Chan

Pit Stop (1969) / The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (1975) This week we’re revving our engines and peeling out as we speed through the world of Figure 8 racing with Jack Hill while Ivo Caprino shows us how to animate a grand prix winner

The Passion of the Christ (2004) / Shoot ‘Em Up (2007) This week we’re plunging neck deep into the dark heart of the Bush years as we go in whips blazing with Mel Gibson and preach the gospel of guns with Clive Owen

Ministry of Fear (1944) / The Hitcher (1986) This week we’re pissing our pants and going into survival mode as we get trapped in Fritz Lang’s nest of spies while Rutger Hauer stalks us on the open road

Attica (1974) / Life (1999) This week we’re headed to the slammer as we do life with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence and lose our Firestone fortune documenting the Attica uprising

116 - The Dream Lady (1918) / Macbeth (1948) This week we’re spinning the wheel of fortune as we tempt fate with Orson Welles and pitch a soothsaying tent with Elsie Jane Wilson

The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) / Some Call it Loving (1973) Once upon a time we woke up sleeping beauty with James B. Harris and set sail for the island of Colossa with Ray Harryhausen…

The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981) / Six O’Clock News (1996) This week we’re broadcasting live from the martian invasion with Piotr Szulkin while Ross McElwee takes us beyond the confines of the nightly news

Điện Biên Phủ (1992) / I Am a Sex Addict (2005) This week we’re taking the L as we parachute into Dien Bien Phu with Pierre Schoendoerffer and crash land on Caveh Zahedi’s minefield of memories

Zig-Zag aka Snakes and Ladders (1980) / Avalon (2001) This week we’re playing games as we roll the dice with Raúl Ruiz’s cartographic nightmare and try to level up in Mamoru Oshii’s drab dystopia

The Ghost & Mrs Muir (1947) / La Maldición de la Llorona (1963) This week we’re renting a pair of drafty houses as we try to reverse the curse in Rafael Baledón’s haunted hacienda and unexpectedly fall in love with Joe Mankiewicz’s seaside cottage