Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 13 Heralds & Denouncements #3: June 2019

The end of June is upon us. We are deep into summer and the core four (Ilya, Reuben, Patrick, and Basil) have spent their time indoors! Watching movies! Here’s what they thought of some ones they really liked and really didn’t.

Heralds: 

Reuben: 

Taxi Driver (1976, Martin Scorsese) 

Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992, David Lynch) 

Fat City (1972, John Huston) 

Patrick: 

Coraline (2009, Henry Selick) 

Basil: 

Shutter Island (2010, Martin Scorsese) 

Ilya: 

Collateral (2004, Michael Mann) 

Denouncements: 

Reuben: 

Close Encounters Of The Third Kind (1977, Steven Spielberg) 

Patrick: 

Missing Link (2019, Chris Butler) 

Trading Paint (2019, Karzan Kader) 

Iron Man (2008, Jon Favreau) 

Basil: 

Friday The 13th: The Final Chapter (1984, Joseph Zito) 

The Final Destination (2009, David R. Ellis) 

To Live And Die In L.A. (1985, William Friedkin) 

Ilya: 

End Of Watch (2012, David Ayer) 

Chernobyl (2019, Johan Renck) 

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 13 Heralds & Denouncements #3: June 2019

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 12 Seen/Unseen #1: Brightburn

This week we bring you another new format, Seen/Unseen! For this two-person podcast one of the people on the show has seen the film to be discussed and the other hasn’t! In this case Patrick brings in new guest Alesha Mitchell to discuss the 2019 film Brightburn. Patrick has seen the film and all Alesha has seen is the trailer! What does she think about the movie? What’s her impression? What does Patrick think with the whole movie in perspective? Where do they converge and where do they differ?

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 12 Seen/Unseen #1 Brightburn

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 11 Readin' 'N' Watchin' #2: Children Of The Corn

Hayley and Basil return with another episode of Readin’ N Watchin’ to discuss one of the so-called Master Of Horror’s most famous short stories and the adaptation it inspired. This film series is easily the most prolific of all Stephen King adaptations, as there are currently nine films and a made-for-TV remake in the series. How did we feel about the first one? All that corn! All those outlanders!

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 11 Readin' 'N' Watchin' #2: Children Of The Corn

Fancy Film Fellows Ep.10 Slumber Party Cinema #3: Flowers of Shanghai

Ilya is away to Munich, so this month’s Slumber Party Cinema is just Patrick, Basil, and Reuben. While Hou Hsiao-Hsien came up frequently on our previous podcast, Loose Canons, this is the first time we’ve done a full episode on one of his films. We talk about opium, meta-textual commentary on making movies, portrayals of women, the downsides of at-home film viewing, and whether or not sad Tony Leung Chiu-Wai is a good person.

Fancy Film Fellows Ep.9 Slumber Party Cinema #3: Flowers of Shanghai

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 9 Heralds And Denouncements #2: May 2019

We finish off the month of May with another episode of Heralds and Denouncements. The core four — Ilya, Basil, Reuben, and Patrick — return again to talk about the movies we saw in the last month that we liked and disliked very strongly.

Heralds:
Basil:
Last Days (2005, Gus Van Sant)

Reuben:
Shoeshine (1946, Vittorio De Sica)
Marnie (1964, Alfred Hitchcock)

Patrick:
Kitbull (2019, Rosana Sullivan)
Deep Cover (1992, Bill Duke)

Denouncements:
Basil:
Sophie’s Choice (1982, Alan J. Pakula)
The Suckling (1990, Francis Teri)

Reuben:
It (1927, Clarence G. Badger)
Rocco And His Brothers (1960, Luchino Visconti)

Patrick:
Little (2019, Tina Gordon)

Ilya didn’t have anything to Herald or Denounce this month! So all he did was host. And what a hosting job he did!

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 9 Heralds And Denouncements #2: May 2019

Fancy Film Fellows Mini-Sode 2: John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

Our second mini-episode! Another new release! This time Patrick is joined by Reuben and Basil to discuss the newest entry in the John Wick series. Ilya couldn’t make it because it doesn’t come out in Germany until next weekend. Damn those German release dates. This is much closer to what we meant by an actual mini-sode. It’s under an hour! We talk about franchises, heroes and villains, stunt work, violence, all that stuff.

Fancy Film Fellows Mini-Sode 2: John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum

Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 8 The Spit Ball #1: Titles

Fancy Film Fellows has another new podcast and another new format. This week it's The Spit Ball, a roundtable question podcast, where one of the Fancy Fellows brings a topic that they want to discuss more generally as opposed one specific movie or a couple of movies. The Spit Ball the first is about film titles and is hosted by Reuben. All of the original crew joins in as we discuss what we think of titles, what some good and bad titles are, what makes them good or bad, and even how and why movie titles might be different than titles for other artforms.


Fancy Film Fellows Ep. 8: The Spit Ball #1: Titles