The Projectors

With this episode we end September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION and we’ve hit up plenty of classic Euro bangers. The A and S-Tier lists are swelling. This is a good thing and today’s discussion is no different as we make our final stop in Germany to discuss our third Fassbinder movie for the show. One last fling before Halloween time and we got one of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s most infamous. His...

We’re winding down our European Vacation and we make a stop in Norway but there’s something that goes beyond the borders in Joachim Trier’s 2021 romance/comedy/drama/coming-of-age film “THE WORST PERSON IN THE WORLD”. Renate Reinsve plays “Julie” whose fickle and drifting life might seem a little too familiar especially if you’re in a certain age range. She meets Aksel, played by Anders Danielson...

We’re in our last stretch of September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION and we’re broke as fuck now. We spent way too much money in France on wine, cigarettes and food cooked in heavy cream and now we’ve come back to postwar Italy and we got to get a job. But we need a bike. When it comes to representing poverty on film Vittorio De Sica’s 1948 film “THE BICYCLE THIEF” (or “BICYCLE THIEVES”) stands amo...

This is our last stop for French movies this month and the last of our most romantic week under September’s EUROPEAN VACATION theme. This movie bounces around from France to Spain and is one of the most bizarre romantic comedies out there. Pretty impressive for any director to hit it like this at the age of 80 but Luis Buñuel was a different breed. Fernando Rey plays a well-to-do widower who falls...

A few more Frenchies this week as we hit peak romance for September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION and when it comes to French New Wave, today’s discussion is amongst the most infamous. Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 international hit “BREATHLESS” helped set a standard in style at a time when the filmgoing world was hungry for more international flair. Like a few other movies we cover this month, it represe...

We’re backpacking across Europe all month long and we’ve been circling back around to France for weeks now. What can we say? France loves their movies. We’ve even got a couple of movies this month that are French movies whose directors aren’t even French. For today’s French feature we’re gonna get a little dirty like some stinky muskrats on the banks of the Seine. It’s the river barge life for a n...

Boy did we miss a golden opportunity the last time it fell on a Friday the 13th because the last one was during October. Maybe we should have done this then but we were grinding for Halloween Humpfest and we didn’t think about it. Today marks our first Friday the 13th since that time and we think it’s a good time to do another 6-Pack movie review. We’re diving into another spooky franchise whose t...

September’s theme is EUROPEAN VACATION and it’s not all French! We head up to Norway in this episode. Way up by the Arctic circle in a small town where, in the summer, it can be 24 hour daylight for days. They call it the midnight sun and it’s gonna fuck up your circadian rhythm. A girl has been murdered and two Kripos are sent up from Oslo to investigate but horrible accidents happen and many bad...

We’re spending a lot of time around France and ‘ol Gay Paris for September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION because Bob has a lot of French DVDs that he’s been holding on to for a while that need to be watched. We finally get to a movie by the notorious Austrian director Michael Haneke and if his other movies hit like this one? Well, we may need more uncomfortable Haneke movies to watch in the future....

For this month’s EUROPEAN VACATION we got a lot of French features. They love their movies and we love movies so it all works out. Today we break the seal on Robert Bresson with his 1959 classic “PICKPOCKET” starring Martin LaSalle and Marika Green. The strange Michel is very driven into relieving people’s wallet weight and is so intent on it that it seems to overtake his life and his relationship...

When we’re backpacking across the old countries for September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION we gotta stop and sample some of that fine French excellence that Orson Welles so drunkingly told us about. We’re playing it cool with today’s discussion of our second ever Jean-Pierre Melville movie for the show and it’s his swaggiest by far. We’re talking “Le Samouraï” from 1967 starring Alain Delon, Franc...

This month we’re taking a nice, long, EUROPEAN VACATION and we’re weaving in and out of about six countries throughout the theme. Today’s stop is Germany but don’t expect any of that stereotypical German dryness. No, Wim Wenders has a knack for humanity and sweetness that defies the stereotype. Fassbinder displays broad emotions as well but Wenders seems like a much nicer person. Our second discus...

We’re leaving the future behind and decompressing with a nice EUROPEAN VACATION all September long. French, German, Norwegian, Dutch, Italian. We’re backpacking across the Old World and our first stop is Italy with a discussion of an iconic director and one of his biggest films. Federico Fellini’s 1960 film “LA DOLCE VITA” catapulted him and his lead, Marcello Mastroianni, into international super...

Our month’s theme and our year’s theme have crossed over. You could call it “LARS VON TRIER’S BULLSHIT TOMORROW” but it may not be bullshit for Lars or the character of Justine so much as cathartic. Imagine being overwhelmed with crippling depression and then you discover a rogue planet is hurtling towards Earth. Guys who get their astronomy news from Joe Rogan aren’t too worried about it but you...

We’re winding out our theme of dystopian futures in movies and we absolutely have to go back in time, once again, and try to prevent catastrophe. The Terminator is back and this time? He’s your new dad and he’s been sent back in time by your 45 year old self. Devastation may have been delayed but still imminent. There’s hope still in keeping John Connor alive to destroy Skynet tomorrow. The resist...

We’re near the end of this month’s movie theme examining various futures in film. We’ve been calling it SOME BULLSHIT TOMORRROW and while most tomorrows have been bullshit, this near future has some optimism. This future is so concerned with CTE damage in combat sports that humans have been replaced by fighting robots. Imagine if your rock ‘em sock ‘em robots could dance and dismember. Shawn Levy’...

SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW is the movie theme all August and how can we go through a month of strange futures without including a selection from the director that made today’s discussion? Yeah, a lot of our tomorrows are definitely bullshit but Cronenberg’s future doesn’t seem so stressed. Seems like your refrigerator could have fleshy bits and holes made just for you. The TV remote could look and fee...

When you’re getting into the concepts of SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROWs many classic literary interpretations have stood the test of time. It’s felt “1984” a few times this month and today’s selection is no different but perhaps it feels a little closer in its mediocre society. Things are cluttered, disconnected and cartoonishly inept. Life lived under paperwork and forms in drab buildings, some of them...

For this month’s movie theme, SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW, late stage humanity can come subtly. You live your life, as normal as far as you can see it, then you become accused. You assert some faith in the law and individual right that you’ve been told exists. Maybe you can maneuver these charges if only you knew what the charges were. If only you knew what they were saying behind the door that is only...

SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW is the theme and it’s all about dystopian futures and perhaps familiar places of history, altered, from before their time. Today’s discussion is a time capsule of a corner of a music and subculture scene amongst the rubble of postwar England. This gaggle of strange kids, some more lethal than others, thrive whereas the countries greatest titles and traditions fall. Top of th...

How can you not sit down with a couple of 80’s heavy hitters for our month’s dystopian theme “SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW”? Especially the one we’re discussing in this episode. This privatized authoritarian world of technocratic mediocrity might hit closer to home than any future film we’re discussing all month. The near future setting of Old Detroit is extremely violent and absurd. There are no deep s...

When it’s SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW your dystopia can manifest in many forms and styles. Maybe your megacity is cold and logical, devoid of love and sorrow, but you got some level three seductress dime pieces walking around ready for whatever? But don’t catch feelings! If you do you’ll be machine gunned into a pool and the Alphaville Synchronized Swimming Club will surround you in the water and make...

It’s dystopian future month all August and some futures seem a little too close for comfort. This movie is about the year 2022. It came out in 2013. Now it’s 2024 and there’s no day devoted to mass killing, yet, but the undercurrent of violent obsession in our society combined with our propagandized fear of the impoverished makes this movie concept not at all hard to grasp. James DeMonaco’s dystop...

We’re getting deep into some strange futures all month. SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW is the perfect follow up to last month’s war movie theme but is it war that gave us the strange future we’re seeing in this episode? Some say a meteor. Maybe something alien. Something shifted the world. We’re talking about our very first Andrei Tarkovsky film with his 1979 psychological dystopian flick “STALKER” starri...

We’re in the future all month long for August’s theme that we’ve dubbed “SOME BULLSHIT TOMORROW” and so far we’re 2 for 2 on post nuclear war societies. Every Monday (mostly) is a vintage selection (vintage is considered 1969 and before) and we’re going into a bizarre and fairly deep cut 1962 science fiction film that ponders the limits of humanity and the humanity of the things humans, and humano...