Sound On Sight / Sordid Cinema
By Ricky D
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Description
The Sound On Sight radio show is marketed principally towards students and genre enthusiasts, and typically features in-depth discussion and debate on contemporary film. In October of 2009 we launched our monthly spin-off series Sordid Cinema, which focuses more on extreme and eccentric genre flicks. Both podcasts can be heard on this feed.
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast, Episode 395: ‘Frank’ and ‘We Are The Best’ | This week on Sound On Sight, Simon and Ricky discuss Lenny Abrahamson's Frank, a film with a striking performance from Michael Fassbender, who has to generate emotion without using the actorâs most visible asset: his face. | 10/20/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast, Episode 394: ‘Gone Girl’ | Acclaimed director David Fincher has unleashed his tenth feature film, an adaptation of Gillian Flynn's hyper-popular mystery-thriller Gone Girl, starring Ben Affleck and Rosamund Pike as a married couple whose fate has a tabloid nation enraptured. | 10/7/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast, Episode 393: ‘The Double’ ‘Coherence’ and ‘The One I Love’ | Simon Howell returns to the Sound On Sight podcast after taking some time off and on this episode we review three great films, all of which share a common theme. First is Richard Ayoade's dark and heady dystopian-noir cocktail The Double, | 9/30/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast, Episode 392: ‘Ghostbusters’ Franchise | Czech-born but Canadian based Ivan Reitman first emerged as director of the little seen Foxy Lady, followed by the Canadian exploitation classic Cannibal Girls. Initially, Reitman was better known as a producer in Canada with the likes of David Cronenb... | 9/18/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast, Episode 391: ‘Boyhood’ | A unique work in American cinema, shot in 39 days over the course of 12 years, Boyhood is a groundbreaking story of adolecsnce as seen through the eyes of a child named Mason. Today on Sound On Sight, we give you our long awaited review of Richard Link... | 9/1/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitAwesome Mix Tape Volume 4: Best Soundtracks & Scores of 2014 (Part One) | I'm back with another mix tape, only this time the compilation consists solely of the best music from movies released in 2014 (January to the end of August). As per usual, I've also included some fun movie clips. | 8/27/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema #83: Defending the ‘Sin City’ Franchise | When Sin City was released, it was a remarkable achievement - a comic book adaptation that didn't look or feel like every other comic book adaptation release before it. It was bold, daring, fast-paced, and visually inventive. | 8/25/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast, Episode 389: TMNT Franchise (1990-2014) | It took us two weeks to release our TMNT special due to many technical difficulties during recording, and again while editing. Nevertheless, we did not give up, and after many hours of hard work, you can now listen to us review not one, | 8/24/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitAwesome Mix Tape Volume 3: Heads Will Roll | When I was growing up, my friend's older brother made me a bunch of mix tapes. Back then, they used CD's and not USB sticks; but it was still a tad bit better than the audio cassettes people used in the 80's. Anyhow, | 8/15/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast, Episode 388: ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ **Spoilers** | From Marvel, the studio that brought you the global blockbuster franchises of Iron Man, Thor, Captain America and The Avengers, comes a new team - a motley crew of mercenaries and mutants who are the galaxy's last hope. | 8/4/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitAwesome Mix Tape: Vol. 2 | Frequent listeners of the Sound On Sight podcast would have heard me discuss my day job working with kids. For the unfamiliar, I am the director of a community center, and the coordinator of a summer camp here in Montreal. At the start of the summer, | 8/3/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema #82: ‘Cold in July’ + Fantasia Film Festival Highlights Part 1 | Fans of pulp fiction will get a kick out of Cold in July, a gritty, at times bloody, and darkly funny crime yarn directed by provocateur Jim Mickle (Mulberry Street, Stake Land). This week on Sordid Cinema we take some time to review the rigid and enth... | 8/1/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast, Episode 387: ‘Dawn of the Planet of the Apes’ **Spoilers** | A growing nation of genetically evolved apes led by Caesar is threatened by a band of human survivors of the devastating virus unleashed a decade earlier. Today on Sound On Sight we sit down to discuss the follow up to the hugely successful Rise of the... | 7/17/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitMaking Time: Another Ricky D Mix Tape | Making a good mix tape takes some skill. Making a great mix tape is a work of art. In order to make a great mix you need to listen to a wide range of artists. You also need to consider the audience. In other words, who are you making the mix for? | 7/16/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema #81: ‘Snowpiercer’ and ‘All Cheerleaders Die’ | This week on the demented stepchild to our flagship podcast, we finally sit down to discuss one of our most anticipated films of 2014 â Joon-ho Bong's Snowpiercer. In his first production outside his native South Korea, | 7/2/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema #80: ‘Borgman’ and ‘Tom at the Farm’ | This week on the demented stepchild to our flagship podcast, we take a look at The stranger-than-strange Dutch import Borgman by actor/director Alex van Warmerdam - as well as Xavier Dolanâs fourth feature, | 6/23/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema #79: ‘The Sacrament’ and ‘Willow Creek’ **Spoilers** | This week on Sordid cinema, the theme is found footage. Special guest Deepayan Sengupta joins us to review The Sacrament, a film loosely based on the Jonestown Massacre, and from acclaimed writer/director Ti West. But first, | 6/10/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast #386: ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ | X-Men: Days of Future Past screenwriter Simon Kinberg has gone on record to say that the ending of the latest movie impacts what took place previously in the 20th Century Fox/Marvel series. This week, Sound On Sight contributors David Klein and Edgar C... | 5/26/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema #78: ‘Under the Skin’ plus ‘Godzilla’ and ‘Blue Ruin’ | The world has already seen roughly 30 Godzilla movies â if you count Roland Emmerich's 1998 Hollywood remake (which most of us like to forget), Today on Sordid Cinema (the demented stepchild of our flagship podcast), | 5/19/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast #385: ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ 2 with guest Scott Beggs | This week on the Sound On Sight flagship podcast, we discuss The Amazing Spider-Man 2, written by the Lost/Alias team of Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci and Jeff Pinkner; and directed by Marc Webb (500 Days of Summer). | 5/4/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema #77: ‘Only Lovers Left Alive’ and ‘Proxy’ | Â This week on Sordid Cinema, the demented stepchild to the Sound On Sight flagship podcast â we sit down and discuss Director/co-writer Zack Parker's second feature Proxy, about a pregnant woman who enters a strange triangle of violence and paran | 4/28/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema #76: ‘The Raid 2′ and ‘Oculus’ | This week on Sordid Cinema (the demented all genre stepchild to our flagship podcast), we sit down to discuss Oculus, the sophomore feature form upcoming director Mike Flanagan, who graced us with his partially Kickstarter-funded feature debut two year... | 4/17/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema Podcast #75: ‘Nymphomaniac’ **Spoilers** | This week we review Nymphomaniac, volumes 1 & 2 - the latest film from enfant terrible and Danish auteur and provocateur Lars von Trier â and joining us is special guest Justine Smith. But before we dive into the sexual depraved world of Trier, | 4/6/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast #384: ‘Grand Budapest Hotel’ | This week, we finally have the chance to catch up on The Grand Budapest Hotel, Wes Anderson's tribute to classic cinema, that includes genre hat-tips to prison dramas, heist flicks, war movies, screwball comedies and more. There's action, adventure, | 3/30/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast #383: ‘Enemy’ | Jake Gyllenhaal reteams with his Prisoners director, Academy Award nominee and Montreal native Denis Villeneuve, in Enemy - a sexy and hypnotically surreal psychological Cronenbergian thriller that breathes new life into the doppleganger tradition. | 3/26/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema Podcast #74: Paul Verhoeven Special Part 2 | This week we celebrate the career of filmmaker Paul Verhoeven, starting with his stylish erotic thriller The 4th Man, his last Dutch film which gained a cult following for its frank treatment of bisexuality, bizarre visuals, and twisted narrative. | 3/23/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema Podcast #73: ‘The Grand Piano’ ‘Almost Human’ and ‘Big Bad Wolves | This week on Sordid Cinema, Elijah Wood stars as a celebrated pianist who, five years after a notorious fiasco of a performance, is making a nervous, much-hyped return to the stage in Eugenio Mira's Hitchcock inspired thriller, The Grand Piano. | 3/17/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast #382: ‘The Lego Movie’ plus a Philip Seymour Hoffman Retrospective | This week on the Sound On Sight podcast, Ricky, Simon and Josh discuss the career of legendary actor Philip Seymour Hoffman who tragically passed away last Sunday afternoon. But first we sit down and review The Lego Movie - the first-ever, full-length, | 2/10/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast #381: ‘Post Tenebras Lux’ and ‘To The Wonder’ | Mexican director Carlos Reygadas (Japón, Silent Light) had critics divided with his latest, Post Tenebras Lux (the title is a Latin phrase meaning âafter darkness, lightâ). Met with boos following its premiere at Cannes last year (although it | 2/7/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema Podcast #72: 70′s Horror – ‘The Fury’ and ‘The Visitor’ | This week we review Brian De Palma's mind-blowing follow-up to his 1976 horror hit Carrie, titled The Fury, which conducts a similar variation on the theme of teenagers using psychic powers to exert repressed feelings. | 2/4/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast #380: ‘Short Term 12′ and ‘Spectacular Now’ | Mevio {Mevio-4d449bb5180a4ab37b9a24ed734fe941} - This week, we catch up on some movies we didn't have a chance to review last year on the podcast. First, we take a look at Short Term 12, from director Destin Daniel Cretton who expands his 2008 short ... | 1/21/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast #379: ‘Her’ | What better way to celebrate our 450th podcast recording than with a review of Her, the latest feature by writer/director Spike Jonze. Join Ricky D, Simon Howell, Josh Spiegel and guest Edgar Chaput, as they ask some some pretty important questions lik... | 1/13/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast #378: Best of 2013 | 2013 is dead; long live 2013. To memorialize a year that wasn't short on contentious debate in the film world, Josh Spiegel, Simon Howell and Edgar Chaput take a moment to identify what they believed to be the tall trees in that forest, | 1/5/14 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast #377: ‘The Wolf of Street’ and ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ | After his unexpected kid-friendly 2011 hit Hugo (his first PG movie in two decades), Martin Scorsese returns with The Wolf of Wall Street, a toxic depiction of the American Dream at its most extreme and amoral. Josh Spiegel, Simon Howell, | 12/30/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBest Movie Scores of 2013 (Mix Tape) **Explicit** | It has been another extraordinary year for motion pictures. We recently posted our staff list of the 30 best films released in 2013, and with 40 writers who participated, 160 films received at least one vote. | 12/29/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema Podcast #71: ‘The Battery’ and ‘The Last Will and Testament of Rosalind Leigh’ | Â On episode #71 of Sordid Cinema, Rick, Simon and Edgar review two independent horror gems from 2013. First up is The Battery â the $6000 first-time feature film by director Jeremy Gardner that breathes new life into the over-saturated zombie gen | 12/27/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast #375: ‘American Hustle’ | âSome of this really happened,â says an opening title to David O'Russell's latest pic, American Hustle. The script by Eric Singer, written some years ago, and later revised by O'Russell (who initially came up with the title American B******t), | 12/23/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast #374: Best Soundtracks of 2013 | With 2013 very nearly dead and gone, Ricky D, Simon Howell and guest Deepayan Sangupta shoot the proverbial s**t on some of their favorite holiday-set films, as well as their general impressions of 2013 as a filmgoing year. In between talk spots, | 12/19/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound on Sight Podcast #373: ‘The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug’ | The second in a trilogy of films adapting the enduringly popular masterpiece The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug continues the adventure of the title character Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman) as he journeys through middle ... | 12/15/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema Podcast #70: Peter Jackson’s early career | Before he turned all respectable - New Zealand's enfant terrible Peter Jackson made his mark on the cult-movie world with three cheerfully gory movies. This week, we review his ultra low-budget directorial debut, | 12/14/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Nebraska’, with ‘Enough Said’, ‘Computer Chess’ and ‘Thanatomorphose’ – Sound on Sight Podcast #372 | As listmaking / awards season finally beings to percolate, Josh, Simon, and special guest Jared Bratt of Pretty Clever Films (sitting in for Ricky D) tackle Alexander Payne's latest exploration of American emotional discomfort, Nebraska. After that, | 12/10/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Catching Fire’ and ‘Lord of the Flies’ – ‘Sound On Sight Podcast #371 | Chances are, if you're interested in seeing The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, you've done it already, given the fanaticism levels and the insane piles of dough the movie brought in over the weekend. So Ricky, | 11/28/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Stranger By The Lake’ and ‘Blue Is the Warmest Color’ – Sound On Sight Podcast #370 | With the (wider) release of Abdellatif Kekiche's widely-discussed Blue Is the Warmest Colour (aka La Vie d'Adéle), Ricky, Josh and Simon thought it a good time for a roundup of recent, acclaimed fare that touches on LGBTQ issues and depictions | 11/22/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The Act of Killing’ and ’12 Years A Slave’ – Sound On Sight Podcast #369 | We had such an overwhelming response to our 12 Years A Slave podcast that we knew we would have to return to the subject, post-haste. But how? We suckered longtime friend of the show and guest host par excellence Kate Rennebohm to re-open the debate | 11/18/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit’12 Years A Slave’ and ‘All Is Lost’ – Sound On Sight Podcast #368 | Ricky D, Simon Howell and Josh Spiegel sit down to discuss one of Sound On Sight's most anticipated films of 2013, Steve McQueen's 12 Years A Slave â and joining them is former co-host, Julian Carrington. After an hour long heated debate, | 11/6/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Escape from Tomorrow’ and ‘We Are What We Are’: Sordid Cinema #69 | Â This week on Sordid Cinema, Ricky, Edgar and Simon tackle Jim Mickle's We Are What We Are, a remake of Jorge Michel Grau 2010 hit of the same name, which reinvigorates the cannibal genre with an emotional portrait of a family bound by a terrible se.. | 10/26/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Carrie’ and ‘Sisters’ – Sordid Cinema Podcast #68 | This week on Sordid Cinema, we rewind back to 1973 to discuss Sisters, a pulpy, Hitchcockian excursion into the subjects of voyeurism and sexual horror by then unknown director Brian DePalma. But first Ricky, Simon, Edgar and special guest, | 10/19/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Confession of Murder’ and ‘Secretly Greatly’: Sordid Cinema Podcast #67 |  This week on Sordid Cinema, Edgar, Ricky and Simon travel to South Korea to discuss writer/director Jung Byung Gil's exhilarating cop/serial killer thriller, Confession of Murder, and Jang Cheol-Soo's espionage actioneer, Secretly Greatly. | 10/14/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDirector Larry Cohen Special: Sordid Cinema Podcast #66 | After a TIFF-mandated sabbatical, Ricky and Simon fly solo in order to take on veteran schlockmeister and cult legend Larry Cohen, via three of his most popular films. First up is 1974's It's Alive, the killer-baby shocker graced with one of Bernard H. | 10/8/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Gravity’ – Sound On Sight Podcast #367 with guest Alex Billington | In another remarkable collaboration with longtime cinematographer Emmanuel Lubezki and visual effects supervisor Tim Webber, Alfonso Cuaron has pushed the relevant technologies to their limits in order to tell the story of Gravity, | 10/6/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Prisoners’ / TIFF / Fantastic Fest: Sound On Sight Podcast #366 | With TIFF now officially over, and Josh back from Fantastic Fest, we've finally sat down together (after a two week break), to discuss the highlights of the festival seasons, and review Dennis Villeneuve's family crime thriller, Prisoners. | 9/29/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSebastián Silva’s ‘Magic Magic’ and ‘Crystal Fairy’ – Sordid Cinema Podcast #65 | On this episode, we discuss Sebastián Silva's gut-wrenching psychological horror Magic Magic as well as his freewheeling comedy Crystal Fairy. In our week-in-review segment, we share our feelings on Michael Bay's Pain and Gain, and Canadian filmmaker, | 9/6/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The Grandmaster’ – Sound On Sight Podcast #365 | This week we discuss Won Kar-Wai's The Grandmaster; or should we call it The Grandmasters? Between four hosts we've seen at least three different versions of the film, and surprise, most of us walked out disappointed. Joining us is special guest Kevin B. | 9/2/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘You’re Next’ – Sordid Cinema Podcast #64 | On the latest episode of the Sordid Cinema podcast, Ricky, Edgar and Simon sit down to discuss director Adam Wingard's home invasion thriller You're Next, along with the micro-budget, homespun geeksploitation comedy Zero Charisma; the coming of age Sau... | 8/28/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The World’s End’ and ‘Kick Ass 2′ – Sound On Sight Podcast #364 | Simon Howell takes a much needed week off, and Josh Spiegel joins me (Ricky D) and Edgar Chaput, to discuss Edgar Wright's third instalment in his Cornetto trilogy, The World's End. We also discuss everything that is wrong with Kick-Ass 2, | 8/25/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Elysium’ and ‘Only God Forgives’ Sordid Cinema Podcast #63 | Here at Sound on Sight (and, by extension, Sordid Cinema), we often complain about the faceless, semi-identical blockbusters that ruin our moviegoing experiences for much of the summer and make us wish we'd stick off the beaten path for good. | 8/14/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The Conjuring’ and Fantasia Film Fest 2013 – Sordid Cinema Podcast #62 | Long live James Wan: the undisputed box-office king of mainstream horror (Insidious, Saw, Dead Silence) is only accelerating, with the critical and commercial success of The Conjuring presaging his insidious sequel later this year. | 8/2/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Before Midnight’ and ‘Frances Ha’ – Sound On Sight Podcast #363 | Better tardy than never: we tackle two of the year's best-received American indies, with the help of Kate Rennebohm, who sits in for Ricky. First up: Richard Linklater's Before Midnight, the third film in his ongoing chronicle of love, | 7/21/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Pacific Rim’ – Sound On Sight Podcast #362 | The summer movie season is nearly done, but isn't it about time we were treated to a non-sequel/remake/spinoff? Guillermo del Toro's first feature in a long time, Pacific Rim, finally makes land this week, | 7/15/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Upstream Color’ and ‘A Field In England’ – Sordid Cinema Podcast #61 | With enough time having lapsed to allow repeat viewings (for some of us, at least), we're finally prepared to discuss Shane Carruth's "one-man band" sci-fi/body horror/romance Upstream Color, one of the year's most divisive movies. | 7/11/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The Hunt’ and ‘Lore’ – Sound On Sight Podcast #361 | The Great SOS Catch-Up of 2013 continues with a look at two international dramas that tackle taboo subject matter. First up is Thomas Vinterberg's The Hunt, which tackles the stigma that comes with an allegation of child abuse, | 6/30/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘World War Z’ and ‘This Is The End’ – Sound on Sight Podcast # 360 | The apocalypse has never been more prominent. With vast cityscapes and countrysides being razed, blown up, or otherwise decimated in vast conflicts of every conceivable nature, why not tackle two new movies that present the end of life as we know it? | 6/27/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘V/H/S’ and ‘V/H/S 2′: Sordid Cinema Podcast #60 | - The horror anthology has a long history, if not necessarily the greatest track record of success. So it's with a mixture of trepidation and excitement that Sordid Cinema tackles V/H/S and V/H/S/2, both of which tackle the anthology concept t | 6/23/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Man of Steel’ vs. ‘Superman The Movie’ – Sound on Sight Podcast # 359 | DC is looking to expand its cinematic influence in order to compete with the mighty Marvel Studios, and it's hopeful that Zack Snyder's Man of Steel will be the cornerstone. Special guest and former SOS contributor Al White joins Ricky, | 6/16/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Kings of Summer’ and ‘Stand By Me’ – Sound on Sight Podcast # 358 | It's a double feature of R-rated coming-of-age flicks on this week's podcast. Ricky, Josh and Simon tackle Sundance fave The Kings of Summer, which boasts Nick Offerman and Megan Mullaly along with its trio of adolescent ne'er-do-wells, | 6/8/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitEarly-Seventies American Counterculture Road Films: Sordid Cinema Podcast #59 | It may surprise some moviegoers to learn that before the advent of The Fast and the Furious, cinema had a long and fruitful relationship with vehicular machines and the open road. This week, Ricky, Edgar and Simon take a look back at a roster of autom. | 6/6/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Mud’ and ‘The Place Beyond the Pines’ – Sound on Sight Podcast # 357 | Yes, we know: we've been reviewing too many blockbusters. Ricky, Simon and Josh are just as bored with 'splosions as you are, so for the next few weeks, expect a renewed focus on slightly smaller pictures. This week, | 5/26/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitHorror Films of 2013: Sordid Cinema Podcast #58 | After a considerable gap, Sordid Cinema is back with a triple feature of recent genre fare, from the beloved to the...less beloved. First up is our long-belated take on Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead's little indie that could, Resolution, | 5/25/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Star Trek Into Darkness’ Sound on Sight Podcast # 356 | All hail JJ Abrams, Emperor of the Nerds. Having taken over both the Star Trek and Wars franchises, he continues his blockbuster offensive with Star Trek Into Darkness, an already-contentious addition to Trek lore that engages with th | 5/20/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The Lords of Salem’ and ‘The Devil Rides Out’ – Sordid Cinema Podcast #57 | If you've felt a distinct lack of menace in your filmgoing lately, perhaps you should make some time for the lastest opus from divisive writer-director Rob Zombie, whose Lords of Salem looks to unite arthouse dweebs and horror mavens in glorious, | 5/8/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Iron Man 3′ – Sound on Sight Podcast # 355 | The '13 summer movie season is officially upon us, and so is the resurgent Marvel movie universe, which kicks off its latest wave with Iron Man 3, which, much like The Avengers, also works as a major break for a cult-y auteur. | 5/5/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Pain and Gain’ and ‘Bad Boys’ – Sound on Sight Podcast # 354 | For not our first, not our second, but in fact our third look at the career of director Michael Bay, he of the outsized blockbuster, we focus on "low-budget" Bay. That includes his newest effort, the relatively small-scale Pain & Gain, | 5/2/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitMichael Mann’s ‘Thief’ and ‘Manhunter’ – Sordid Cinema Podcast #56 | Â Whether you think of Michael Mann as a strict stylist or as an auteur deserving of more specific scrutiny, there's no denying that he's one of the most aesthetically influential American filmmakers of the last few decades. | 4/27/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Jurassic Park’ and Digital vs. Film: Sound on Sight Podcast # 353 | With Steven Spielberg's landmark blockbuster Jurassic Park making a 3D-assisted comeback in theaters, Ricky, Josh and Simon take a look back in order to rank it among Spielberg's crowd-pleasers and see how it stands the test of time, | 4/20/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDanny Boyle Special: Sound on Sight Podcast # 352 | After helming a celebrated Olympic opening ceremony and taking home truckloads of awards for two straight acclaimed features, UK director Danny Boyle has returned to his grimier, genre-ier roots with Trance, | 4/14/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitREWIND – ‘Dead By Dawn’ Trilogy: Sound On Sight Podcast #123 | To many horror fans, director Sam Raimiâs name should only be spoken by a chorus of angels, followed by an inner-thigh mopping for those blessed enough to hear the hallowed invocation. His Evil Dead trilogy ran the gamut of hardcore gore to slapstick | 4/9/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitRoger Ebert and ‘Evil Dead’ – Sordid Cinema Podcast #55 | Justine Smith returns to the Sordid Cinema podcast, and along with Josh Spiegel, Ricky D and Edgar Chaput, they sit down to discuss the career of Roger Ebert and the reboot of Evil Dead. - Please give us a rating on Itunes. | 4/8/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Spring Breakers’ and ‘Gummo’Sordid Cinema Podcast #54 | As the kids might say, the internets are all abuzz over Harmony Korine's Spring Breakers, his most mainstream-accessible provocation yet. Ricky, Edgar and Simon try their best to separate hype from reality, | 4/1/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Wild at Heart and ‘Lost Highway’ – Sordid Cinema Podcast #53 | We had such an awesome time chatting with Kate Rennebohm on our last Lynch show that we knew we had to bring her back for a sequel to commemorate Lynch month. This time around, we take a look at two of the master's '90s flicks: the Nic Cage/Laura Dern ... | 3/30/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitStoker’ & Kickstarter-funded filmmaking | The second film of the year to feature a South Korean director making his Western debut, Park Chan-wook's Stoker has already divided critics and audiences sharply. In a two-part review, Ricky, Edgar and Simon try to earn royalties from the Hitchcock | 3/18/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSam Raimi Special: Sordid Cinema Podcast #51 | In what might well have wound up as the most heated Sordid Cinema ever (!), Ricky, Edgar and Simon take a slightly askew look at the filmography of one of the most beloved American genre filmmakers of the last three decades. | 3/12/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBryan Singer Special – Sound on Sight Podcast # 351 | Having cleared the 400-recording mark, we tinker a little with the SOS format this week, resulting in a supersized outing. The major topic of the week is director Bryan Singer, whose family fantasy opus Jack the Giant Slayer opened this weekend. Ric | 3/5/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit400th Anniversary Recording: ‘Goodfellas’, Video Games and Movieland | After a month or so of teasing it, our 400th recording - that's 350 Sound on Sight episodes and 50 Sordid Cinemas - is finally upon us. We brought in as many of our previous co-hosts as possible for individual talk spots on a miscellany of subjects, | 2/25/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSteven Soderbergh Special: ‘King of the Hill’ and ‘Side Effects’ | Leading up to our 400th recording, we've decided to take on our fourth Steven Soderbergh special. This time, we discuss the director's (supposedly) final theatrical release, Side Effects, as well as his criminally under-seen coming of age flick, | 2/18/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitKeanu Reeves Special: ‘Speed’, ‘Devil’s Advocate’ and ‘Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure’ | You may have noticed it's Keanu Reeves month here at SOS, and no one is more excited about it than returning guest host Kate Rennebohm, an avowed stalker/superfan who joins Ricky and Simon to discuss three of the man's most popular movies: 1989's Bill. | 2/10/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSpaghetti Westerns: ‘Django’, ‘The Mercenary’, ‘The Great Silence’ / Sordid Cinema Podcast #50 | On episode 50 of the Sordid Cinema podcast, we focus on critic-turned-director Sergio Corbucci. We start by discussing his 1966 masterpiece Django, featuring Belgian actor Franco Nero playing the soon to be iconic titular character. After, | 1/28/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBest Docs of 2012: Sound on Sight Podcast # 347 | 2012 might be dead and gone, but we're not quite done saluting some of its more memorable flicks. This week we take a look at two docs we didn't quite find the time for, starting off with Ricky D's favorite film of 2012, | 1/23/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The Last Stand’ and ‘The Good, The Bad, The Weird’ – Sordid Cinema Podcast #49 | South Korea's Kim Jee-Woon has been a Sound on Sight favorite for some time, having created diverse, sprawling, and beautifully realized genre pieces like I Saw the Devil and A Tale of Two Sisters. He now makes his American debut with, of all thi | 1/21/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Zero Dark Thirty’ / ‘The Imposter’ | Kathryn Bigelow's simultaneously acclaimed and condemned Zero Dark Thirty finally found it way to general release this past Friday. bringing with it the still-raging debate over its depiction of "enhanced interrogation." Ricky D, | 1/14/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBest of 2012: ‘Tabu’, ‘The Comedy’ and ‘Amour’ | Slightly belatedly, Ricky D, Julian Carrington and Simon Howell unite for the first SOS of 2013 in order to count down their respective Top 10s of 2012, along with brief discussions about the year in general and Django Unchained in particular. | 1/7/13 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Django Unchained’ | It's all been leading up to this. Tarantino Month concludes with Ricky D, Edgar and Simon converging for an epic take on Django Unchained, the writer-director's long-awaited take on the Western. (Appropriately, next month's theme is Westerns. | 12/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey’ / Videogame Aesthetics | Following up from our epic Lord of the Rings 'cast, Ricky D and Simon Howell had to find a way to keep the ante high to discuss The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey. They could think of nothing better than to rope in one of their very favorite critics - a... | 12/17/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Kill Bill’ The Whole Bloody Affair | Kill Bill marked the return of renowned filmmaker Quentin Tarantino after a six-year hiatus. Re-teaming the director with Uma Thurman for the first time since 1994's Pulp Fiction; this loving recapitulation of '70s-era chop-socky cinema, | 12/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Jackie Brown’ and ‘Death Proof’ **Spoilers** | Quentin Tarantino Month continues with a look at two wildly different efforts. First off: 1997's Jackie Brown, in which Tarantino tackles someone else's fictional universe directly for the first (and, to date, only) time, | 12/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The Lord of the Rings’ Trilogy | With The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey looming, we faced a problem: how do we tackle Peter Jackson's epic, 11-hour (if we go by Extended Editions) Lord of the Rings saga without going insane? Ricky D and Simon Howell decided the best course of action w... | 12/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Life of Pi’ **Spoilers** / Best Animated Films of 2012 | This week, hosts Ricky D, Simon Howell and Julian Carrington invite Josh Spiegel (host of the Mousterpiece Cinema podcast), to discuss Ang Lee's Life of Pi, as well as the best animated features of 2012. In our review of Life of Pi, | 12/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitQuentin Tarantino’s ‘Reservoir Dogs’ & ‘Pulp Fiction | December is Tarantino Month here at SOS, and in the weeks leading up to the Christmas release of Django Unchained, we'll be tackling the man's entire filmography in podcast form. Tim Buell of First Showing and The Golden Briefcase joins Ricky and Simon... | 11/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Silver Linings Playbook’ and ‘The Sessions’ | Josh Spiegel swaps in for Ricky D, joining Simon Howell and Julian Carrington to discuss two late-year fest darlings - which, of course, also makes them Oscar hopefuls. First up is David O. Russell's bipolar rom-com Silver Linings Playbook, | 11/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Lincoln’ | For the first time in Sound on Sight history, Ricky and Simon attempt a crossover episode, joining forces with Ty Landis and Tom Stoup from over at Almost Arthouse in order to assess the latest historical epic from director Steven Spielberg, Lincoln, | 11/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Skyfall’ | Dust off your tuxedos and get your martini shakers ready. The 007 film franchise is turning 50 this year and to celebrate, we have a very special review of Skyfall. It's been a busy half-century since the super-spy hit the big screen, | 11/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDavid Lynch Special – ‘Inland Empire’ | In what turned out to be one of the most epic conversations in SOS history, Ricky, Simon and Edgar are joined by David Lynch superfan and friend of the show Kate Rennebohm for a two-part dissection of the man's last two films: 2001's Mulholland Dr. | 11/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDavid Lynch Special – ‘Mulholland Drive’ | In what turned out to be one of the most epic conversations in SOS history, Ricky, Simon and Edgar are joined by David Lynch superfan and friend of the show Kate Rennebohm for a two-part dissection of the man's last two films: 2001's Mulholland Dr. | 11/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGiallo Special – ‘Don’t Torture A Duckling’, ‘Dressed To Kill’ and ‘Amer’ | On this episode of Sordid Cinema, guest James Merolla joins hosts Ricky, Edgar and Simon to discuss three pseudo-giallo films; Brian De Palma's hotly controversial Dressed To Kill, Lucio Fulci's Don't Torture A Duckling and Belgium export Amer. - | 10/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Cloud Atlas’ and ‘Bound’ | Already being hailed as one of the most ambitious movies to come down the proverbial pike in ages, The Wachowskis and Tom Tykwer co-directed Cloud Atlas has arrived to fiercely divided reaction. Ricky, Julian and Simon tackle the three-hour epic with a... | 10/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitCronenberg Special #6 – ‘Antiviral’ and ‘Scanners’ | In our sixth Cronenberg-themed show, we expand our scope to include David Cronenberg's very own spawn, Brandon, whose debut feature Antiviral has just gone wide in Canada. Ricky, Edgar and Simon tackle the new flick, | 10/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Sinister’ and ‘Burnt Offerings’ | With the help of new regular Sordid Cinema co-host Edgar Chaput, Ricky and Simon tackle Scott Derrickson's warmly received haunted-house horror flick Sinister, which also happens to feature a found-footage component, because this is 2012. | 10/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Seven Psychopaths’ and ‘Sightseers’ | It's a double dose of dark comedies that happen to prominently feature...dognapping? Not the smoothest or most obvious connection we've made, probably, but both flicks bear some discussing. First up and new in theaters this past weekend is Martin McDon... | 10/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDirector Don Coscarelli: ‘John Dies at the End’ and ‘Bubba Ho-Tep’ | Our latest episode of Sordid Cinema takes on cult item Don Coscarelli, not once, but twice: first via his adaptation of Jason Pargin's cult-sensation novel John Dies at the End, produced by and co-starring Paul Giamatti; then we rewind to take a look a... | 10/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Looper’ and ‘Time After Time’ | Rian Johnson's hotly anticipated third feature, Looper, is finally upon us, and Julian rejoins Ricky and Simon after a brief absence in order to tackle Johnson's knotty time-travel actioner in both spoiler-free and spoiler-ful flavors. | 9/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitFantastic Fest 2012: ‘Holy Motors’ and ‘Berberian Sound Studio’ | For the latest in our marathon of Sordid Cinema 'casts, we take a look at two highlights of the Fantastic Fest lineup. First up is Peter Strickland's audio-nerd dreamland Berberian Sound Studio, starring Toby Jones as a UK sound engineer who finds hims... | 9/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Dredd 3D’ and ‘Judge Dredd’ | As the Remakeathon continues unabated, it seems inevitable that someone would give the Judge Dredd series another crack, especially since the Sylvester Stallone / Rob Schneider attempt was generally deemed not so hot. (Who'd have guessed? | 9/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitP.T. Anderson’s ‘The Master’ and ‘Boogie Nights’ | Paul Thomas Anderson's much-anticipated dual character study The Master is finally upon us, having just enjoyed its proper North American premiere at TIFF. Julian, Ricky and Simon offer an epic take on the new film, | 9/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Room 237′ | With TIFF over and done with, a huge number of noteworthy films have to be parsed, and first up is the "subjective documentary" Room 237, in which a host of obsessives muse over their pet theories on what Stanley Kubrick's The Shining is really about. | 9/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Modern Times’ and #9 ’12 Angry Men’ | With the notion of film canonization once again at issue, we thought it might be an appropriate occasion to check in on our staffâs collective opinion of the greatest films of all time. The results were, appropriately, eclectic, | 9/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Lawless’ / TIFF 2012 Preview | Director John Hillcoat reteams with writer and musician Nick Cave for their third collaboration, the Prohibition-era quasi-historical actioner Lawless, with Tom Hardy, Shia Laboeuf, Jason Clarke, Gardy Oldman, | 9/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The Expendables 2′ / ‘True Romance’ | If you've been following Sound on Sight for any length of time, you'll know that, for all of our love and affection for arthouse and foreign film, not to mention documentaries, we love a good terrible action film. | 8/24/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Compliance’ and ‘Tokyo Story’ | Last week, we got to talking about the Sight and Sound poll, as well as its critics' list topper, Vertigo. This week we switch gears to discuss Yasujiro Ozu's Tokyo Story, which topped the filmmakers' poll. | 8/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Vertigo,’ ‘Beasts of the Southern Wild,’ and the Best of 2012 so far | Unless you've been under a rock for the last week, you probably heard that Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo unseated Citizen Kane for the #1 spot on Sight & Sound's critics' poll of the greatest films of all time. Ricky D, Justine Smith, | 8/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDirector William Friedkin’s ‘Killer Joe’ and ‘Bug’ (mild spoilers) | Sound on Sight's misshapen relative Sordid Cinema is finally back with a new episode, and it's a doozy: William Friedkin, famed director of The Exorcist and The French Connection, has undergone a bit of career rehabilitation these past few years, | 8/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The Dark Knight Rises’ | The most anticipated movie of the summer season arrived this past weekend, and we're taking it on in a supersized format. Regular hosts Ricky D, Simon Howell and Julian Carrington are joined by new SOSer Ty Landis for a two-part (spoiler free / spoiler... | 8/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Spiderman’ vs. ‘Amazing Spider-Man’ | Holy deja vu, Batman!, Oh, wait, wrong superhero. On episode 327 of the Sound On Sight podcast, guest host and SOS contributor Al White joins Ricky, Simon and Julian to discuss both The Amazing Spider-Man, directed by Marc Webb, | 7/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Magic Mike’ and ‘Sex, Lies, and Videotape’ | With the release of Channing Tatum Stripper Movie, aka Magic Mike, we take another look at director Steven Soderbergh, whose filmography is among the most diverse in American cinematic history. Ricky, Julian, and Simon tackle the new flick, | 7/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Harold and Maude’ and ‘Moonrise Kingdom’ | After a slow North American rollout following its Cannes premiere, Wes Anderson's Moonrise Kingdom has finally been seen by all four SOS hosts - Ricky, Julian, Justine, and Simon - so we figured we'd all throw our critical hats in the ring for an epic ... | 6/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDavid Cronenberg, Pt. 4 (‘Cosmopolis’ / ‘Spider’) | Our resident favorite filmmaker, Canada's own David Cronenberg, has been busy lately. We got his Freud/Jung historical biopic A Dangerous Method less than 12 months ago, and he's already back with the sure-to-be-divisive Cosmopolis. | 6/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitRidley Scott (‘Prometheus’ / ‘Alien’) | The cinematic summer of 2012 rolls on with director Ridley Scott's first sci-fi effort in almost 30 years, Prometheus, whic has provoked fierce discussion among critics, audiences, fanboys and cinephiles as to its merits since it hit theaters this week... | 6/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Miss Bala’ / ‘Regular Lovers’ | After 321 episodes of Sound On Sight, Simon Howell gets ready to make his move to Toronto, marking this the very last time the SOS hosts record a podcast live within the same room and same city. On this very special occasion we continue our France May ... | 6/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Laurence Anyways’ / ‘The Dreamers’ | Quebec's most divisive new director of the last few years, as well as one of its most prominent, Xavier Dolan has already produced three features, each of which have played at Cannes. His latest, Laurence Anyways, is a hugely ambitious undertaking, | 5/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBest of French Cinema – Louis Malle, Robert Bresson and Francois Truffaut | For his birthday show, Ricky D selects...sad French films? He'll explain his choice soon enough, just be aware of the all-classic lineup: Robert Bresson's Mouchette (with an assist from Julian), Louis Malle's revered 1987 autobiographical coming-of-age... | 5/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJoss Whedon Pt. 2 (‘The Avengers,’ ‘Serenity’) | Never have our opinions been of less importance than in discussing Joss Whedon's The Avengers, the comic-book-movie tentpole to end all tentpoles, but we give it the old college try anyway. Justine Smith, Derek Gladu, | 5/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSpotlight + Interview – Director Whit Stillman (‘Damsels In Distress,’ ‘The Last Days of Disco’) | Writer-director Whit Stillman was once one of the most buzzed-about American filmmakers around - that is, until he took almost a decade to make another film. Damsels in Distress, his new, delightfully screwy pseudo-romantic comedy, | 5/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSouthern Gothic Cinema: ‘Night Of The Hunter’ and ‘Baby Doll’ | It's SOS host Justine Smith's birthday show, so she gets to choose the flicks and the tunes. She opted for a serously kickass Southern Gothic double feature: first up is Elia Kazan's Baby Doll, written by Tennessee Williams; next is Charles Laughton's ... | 4/30/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJoss Whedon Special – ‘Cabin In The Woods’ and ‘Alien Resurrection’ | It's a Joss Whedon double feature, sort of: this past weekend saw his long-delayed collaboration with Drew Goddard, The Cabin in the Woods, finally see release to mostly-rapturous reviews. We spoil the hell out of it in our extended, | 4/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The Raid Redemption’ and ’36th Chamber of Shaolin’ | Ricky D, Justine Smith and Simon Howell return to the dank Batcave known as Sordid Cinema! This time around, martial arts are the focus, thanks to Gareth Evans's Indonesian asskicking epic The Raid: Redemption, | 4/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit2011 Cannes Winners Part 2 – ‘Footnote’ and ‘Once Upon A Time In Anatolia’ | In our second look at some of last year's Cannes Film Festival prizewinners, Justine Smith, Julian Carrington and Simon Howell tackle Joseph Cedar's lauded Footnote, a dark, somewhat askew comedy about duelling Talmudic scholars who also happen to be f... | 4/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit’21 Jump Steet’ and ‘Battle Royale’ vs. ‘ Hunger Games’ pt. 2 | With March almost over, it seems as good a time as any to check in on our cinematic 2012 and start to weigh the few films of worth we've seen. Simon, Ricky, Justine and Julian ponder the question, re-open the Hunger Games / Battle Royale debate, | 3/28/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The Hunger Games’ Vs. ‘Battle Royale’ | As you probably know by now, blockbuster season (as denoted by movies that people actually go see en masse) starts in earnest this week with the release of Gary Ross's The Hunger Games, adapted from Suzanne Collins's ludicrously popular book series. | 3/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit2011 Cannes Winners ‘Polisse’ and ‘The Kid with a Bike’ | Do you know where your kids are? This week we take a look at two French-language flicks that offer up kids in peril, albeit in considerably different levels of peril. First up in Polisse, the French policier about a squad of specialized officers whose ... | 3/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitGet your ass to Mars! (‘John Carter’ / ‘Total Recall’) | Mars. The Red Planet. It hasn't inspired as many memorable movies as you might assume, but it is the indirect inspiration for Wall-E director Andrew Stanton's first live-action feature John Carter, which sort of tanked at the box office this past weeke... | 3/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitAustralian Genre Cinema: ‘Wake In Fright’ and ‘Snowtown Murders’ with Director Justin Kurzel | Ricky D had the pleasure of interviewing the director and co-writer of Snowtown (or The Snowtown Murders, as it's now known in North America), Justin Kurzel, who happened to mention that 1971's Wake In Fright as a standout Australian cult movie - so we... | 3/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDirector Alfred Hitchcock’s ‘Shadow of a Doubt’ – ‘Psycho’ – ‘The Birds’ | Every month the Sound On Sight staff bands together to tackle a specific filmmaker, event and/or some sort of movie related theme. This month our focus shifts towards the âMaster of Suspenseâ, Alfred Hitchcock. | 2/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit2012 Oscars Foreign Language Nominees, ‘A Separation’ and ‘Monsieur Lazhar’ | The Academy Awards are just two weekends away, and we've been itching to talk about a pair of films that wound up getting nods in the Foreign Film category, so we've brought in a pair of guests to help us out. | 2/14/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Chronicle’ and ‘The Woman In Black’ | Two notable new releases go on the SOS chopping block today: first up is James Watkins's follow-up to the truly vicious killer-kids flick Eden Lake, the Daneil Radcliffe vehicle The Woman In Black; after that, | 2/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDirector Robin Hardy – ‘The Wicker Man’ / ‘The Wicker Tree’ | Long after its world premiere last July at the Fantasia International film Festival here in Montreal sharply divided viewers, Robin Hardy's long-in-the-works sorta-sequel to his famed cult classic The Wicker Man is finally making its way to theaters - ... | 2/3/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDirector Joe Carnahan (‘The Grey’ / ‘Narc’) | Joe Carnahan has been oscillating between smaller genre movies and big-budget blowouts for the last decade, but in this hour we opt out of Smokin' Aces and The A-Team in order to focus mostly on the first half of that equation. | 2/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDavid Cronenberg’s ‘A Dangerous Method’ and ‘Crash’ | We have a long and storied history of feting David Cronenberg over here at SOS - hell, the first iteration of our podcast was called The Naked Lunch. Our Cronenberg fanboyism gets seriously tested this week, though, | 1/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSteven Soderbergh’s ‘Haywire’ and ‘Contagion’ | No year is complete without at least one new Soderbergh vehicle, and despite his proclaimed status of sorta-retirement, 2012 will bring two of them; the first is the Gina Carano-powered actioner Haywire, which reteams him with Limey / Kafka scribe Lem ... | 1/23/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Kill List’ and the most anticipated films of 2012 | With 2012 underway and our collective imminent demise now closer than ever, it seemed as good a time as any to tackle Ben Wheatley's apocalyptic, genre-defying Kill List, which we'll talk about in both non-spoiler and spoiler flavors. In between, | 1/16/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDavid Fincher’s ‘Seven’ & ‘The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo’ | Are there any mainstream American filmmakers who have carved out as distinctive a niche as David Fincher? His subject matter may vary from time to time, but he tends to keep one topic close at hand: serial killers. His breakout feature, | 1/10/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDirector Jason Reitman’s ‘Young Adult’ and ‘Thank You For Smoking’ | It seemed appropriate to kick off Sound on Sight's third year of podcasting with a Montreal-born filmmaker - even if he's more or less associated with Toronto. Jason Reitman's been slowly getting more serious over the years, | 1/9/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTen Best Movies of 2011 | 300 episodes. If that sounds like an insane number to you, thatâs because it damn well is. Since the inception of the radio show roughly four years ago, weâve reviewed roughly 750 films (if not more), undergone loads of changes in lineup, format | 12/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTen Best Movies of 2011 / Review of ‘Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol’ | 300 episodes. If that sounds like an insane number to you, that's because it damn well is. Since the inception of the radio show roughly four years ago, we've reviewed roughly 750 films (if not more), undergone loads of changes in lineup, format, | 12/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSteven Spielberg’s ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ and ‘War Horse’ | He's probably the most consistently popular filmmaker in history, as well as one of the most divisive - and he's also got two new movies out this Christmas. Steven Spielberg's patented blend of awed faces, childlike wonder, | 12/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy’ / ‘The Spy Who Came In From the Cold’ | Tomas Alfredson's long-awaited, star-studded adaptation of John le Carré's famed Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has begun to creep into North American theaters a couple of months following its UK debut, bringing with it heaps of awards buzz and the hope th. | 12/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDirector Alexander Payne & Best Soundtracks of 2011 | Since the (very) black comedy Citizen Ruth announced him as a writer-director to be reckoned with, Alexander Payne has been one of the most consistently acclaimed American filmmakers of the last 15 years; he doesn't make movies very often, | 12/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The Muppets’ / ‘Hugo’ | We've got two big-hitter family films to discuss this week - first up is Jason Segal's long-awaited reboot of the Muppet franchise, appropriately titled The Muppets. Next up is Martin Scorsese's first-ever family film, the ambitious, | 11/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPedro Almodóvar’s ‘The Skin I Live In’ and ‘Bad Education’ | This week, we turn our focus to Spanish auteur Pedro Almodóvar, who has reunited with former collaborator Antonio Banderas for The Skin I Live In, which finds the acclaimed director wading further into the depths of genre than perhaps ever before, | 11/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitInterview with Sean Durkin (‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’) / ‘Afterschool’ | Ricky D scored an interview with Sean Durkin, the writer-director of one of the year's most acclaimed films, Martha Marcy May Marlene. In this episode, we included the whole conversation, as well as a review of Afterschool, | 11/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDirector Steve James (‘The Interrupters,’ ‘Hoop Dreams’) | Hoop Dreams might very well be the most acclaimed documentary of the 1990s, but its co-director, Chicago-based documentarian Steve James, has continued to create distinctive, relevant films in the near-20 year interval since that film's release. | 11/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitHalloween Special | Sound On Sight contributor James Merolla joins Ricky D, Simon Howell and Justine Smith to discuss their favorite horror films of all time, the results of their five-week horror marathon / contest, and the specific properties of real-life killer birds. | 10/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe Thing’ *Mild Spoilers* | Way back in 1938, John W. Campbell Jr. wrote a novella entitled Who Goes There? - who'd have thunk it would have turned out to be the impetus for not one, but three feature films? (Not discussed today: Howard Hawks' 1951 version, | 10/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit’50/50′ – ‘Moneyball’ – ‘Ides Of March’ | Julian Carrington of The Torontoist joins Ricky D, Justine Smith and Simon Howell to review Jonathan Levine's cancer/comedy 50/50, Bennett Miller's Moneyball and George Clooney's Ides Of March. - Music Playlist: - De La Soul - "The Magic Number" | 10/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema Podcast #30: Fantastic Fest – Best Of Japanese Film 2011 | In our second Fantasic Fest 'cast, Rick, Justine and SImon talk up three of the more ballyhooed Japanese flicks kicking around the fest: Yoshimasa Ishibashi's depressive technicolor dream Milorcrorze: A Love Story; A Boy and His Samurai, | 10/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitFantastic Fest ’11 – ‘Snowtown’ / ‘Bullhead’ | Fantastic Fest is one of the biggest film festivals in the states. Held in Austin Texas at the Alamo Drafthouse, the event screens nothing but the best in genre films. We've been reporting from the festival since 2009, | 10/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTIFF 2011 Part 2 – ‘Martha Marcy May Marlene’ / ‘Take Shelter’ / ‘Melancholia’ | On this episode of the Sound On Sight podcast, special guests and SoS contributors Julian Carrington and Eduardo Lucatero join Ricky D and Justine Smith to discuss three of the highlights from the Toronto International Film Festival: Starting with Take... | 9/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTIFF 2011 Part 1 – ‘Drive’ / ‘Shame’ / ‘We Need To Talk About Kevin’ | Justine and Ricky D are back from the Toronto International Festival to discuss three of the best films of 2011: the sophomore effort by Steve McQueen, Shame, the long-awaited return of acclaimed director Lynne Ramsay with We Need To Talk About Kevin, | 9/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound on Sight Radio #289: Telluride 2011 – ‘Pina’ / ‘A Dangerous Method’ / ‘Into the Abyss’ | SoS host Simon Howell was lucky enough to not only get to attend this year's Telluride Film Festival, but also to take part in the fest's Student Symposium, which grants access to the filmmakers behind some of the fest's high-profile gets. | 9/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The Artist’ / ‘Senna’ / Best Films of the Year … So Far | Yeah, yeah, we know - it's way past the year's halfway mark. Thanks to the timing of the film festivals we cover, though, and the general glut of great movies that tend to crop up in the Fall, we thought it best to wait a little while before letting yo... | 8/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBest Of Canadian Genre Film 2011 | The line up for the Fantasia Film Festival had so many great films this year, that we are still playing catch-up, even a month after the festival has ended. On this episode of Sordid Cinema, Simon, Rick and Justine sit down and discuss three of the bes... | 8/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDocumentary Roundup: Cave of Forgotten Dreams’ and ‘ Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times’ | It's been too long since we checked in on the world of documentaries - not aided by the cinematic scheduling discrepancies between Montreal and Toronto - so it seemed time to finally talk about two of the summer's best-loved ones: Werner Herzog's 3D op... | 8/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDirector James Gunn’s ‘Super’ and ‘Slither’ | James Gunn began his career in filmmaking with Troma Entertainment, for whom he wrote and co-directed Tromeo and Juliet. After contributing to several other films for Troma, he wrote, produced and performed in his own superhero comedy, The Specials, | 8/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDirector Miranda July’s Me and You and Everyone We Know’ and ‘The Future’ | Writer/director/actress/visual artist Miranda July's second feature, the highly divisive The Future, has been rolling out through the arthouse citcuit for some time now, and Ricky D, Justine, Simon ans guest Josh Youngerman are eager to debate July's n... | 8/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitApe Conquest: ‘Planet of the Apes’ and ‘Project Nim’ | Apes. They're everywhere these days! This past weekend, Rupert Wyatt's entry into the Planet of the Apes canon, Rise of the Planet of the Apes, won over both audiences and critics around the world -but where Derek, Justine and/or Simon impressed? | 8/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitFantasia 2011: ‘Kidnapped’ – ‘Stake Land’ – ‘Trollhunter’ – ‘Some Guy Who Kills People’ | Our sort-of Fantasia wrap-up continues. In this hour: Miguel Angel Vivas's ultraviolent home-invasion thriller Kidnapped; Jim Mickle's post-collapse vampire flick Stake Land, also out on DVD this week; and finally Trollhunter, | 8/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitFantasia 2011: ‘Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark’ – ‘The Innkeepers’ – ‘Absentia’ – ‘Marianne’ | In Part One of our epic two-part sort-of wrap-up to the Fantasia Film Festival here in Montreal, we take on a motley crew of some of the most-discussed genre movies on display. First up: Mike Flanagan's Absentia, a moody, | 8/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitFantasia 2011 – The Career of Director John Landis, with Special Guest…John Landis! | John Landis, the director behind The Blues Brothers, Animal House, American Werewolf In London and Michael Jacksonâs Thriller, is back after 12 long years with Burke and Hare. The film had its Canadian premiere at the Fantasia Film Festival this past | 8/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitFantasia 201: ‘Another Earth’ / ‘Bellflower’ / ‘The FP’ with Special Guest, Director Evan Glodell | The Fantasia Film Festival continues here in Montreal, and this year there's a sizeable number of promising American independent features to discuss. First up is Mike Cahill's Another Earth, a Sundance prizewinner; then there's Evan Glodell's one-of-a-... | 8/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitFantasia 2011: ‘Attack The Block’ / ‘A Lonely Place To Die’ / ‘Retreat’ | The Fantasia Film Festival continues here in Montreal and with it came three exception British genre films. On this episode of the Sound On Sight podcast, we sit back and discuss Julian Gilbey's A Lonely Place To Die, | 7/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ (***Spoilers***) | With the Summer of Superheroes drawing to a close, one last major Marvel Studios release remains: , the last of Marvel's superhero team to get a formal introduction before Joss Whedon's The Avengers takes over our collective wallet in 2012. | 7/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast – TV Spotlight: ‘Friday Night Lights’ | Few great shows sound less appealing on paper than NBC/DirecTV's Friday Night Lights, which just wrapped up the second run of its fifth and final season. The nuanced ensemble drama, centered around high-school football in the fictional town of Dillon, | 7/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitKevin Smith Special | No director inspires more of an impassioned divide between fanboys and critics as Kevin Smith. After his 1994 indie breakout sensation Clerks helped reshape American independent moviemaking, he developed a cult fanbase with his profane, cheeky comedies. | 7/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Rubber’ and ‘Hobo With A Shotgun’ plus an interivew with director Jason Eisener | We first reviewed Hobo With A Shotgun on episode 4 of our videocast Front Row Center, but now with the DVD'Blu-Ray release, we figured we'd give it another go. Fantasia Film Festival kicks off this week here in Montreal, | 7/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDirector Michael Bay: ‘The Rock’ and ‘Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ | Over the past weekend, Michael Bay's latest volley of testosterone, Transformers: Dark of the Moon, raked in over $400 million worldwide - so what can three puny humans possibly have to say about it? Plenty, as it turns out - Rick, | 7/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitStanley Kubrick: A Clockwork Orange’, Paths of Glory’ and Barry Lyndon’ | Please note: - (This show is long, longer than what we normally produce, but what can you do when you discuss such a talented filmmaker. I strongly suggest listening all the way to the very end, at which point we review what I think is Kubrick's best ... | 6/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast – TV Spotlight: ‘Breaking Bad’ | For the fourth edition of our new podcast, Rick, Mike and Simon take an extended look at the generally-agreed-upon (at the SoS offices, anyway) best drama on TV right now, AMC's second original series, Breaking Bad. | 6/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTerrence Malick / The Tree of Life, pt. 2 | It's been a couple of weeks since we first reviewed director Terrence Malick's latest, the Palme d'Or-winning The Tree of Life, and since then it has rolled out to most decent cities, bringing with it a lively discussion about the film's merits. | 6/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast – TV Spotlight: ‘Archer’ | Our new series continues with one of our very favorite recent comedy series, FX's Archer, which might be an animated spy comedy, but it also serves as the closest TV had come to producing a genuine follow-up to the hallowed Arrested Development. H. | 6/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Green Lantern’ / ‘Judge Dredd’ | The Summer of the Superhero continues unabated with Martin Campbell's Green Lantern, which took a mild commercial snubbing and a severe critical one this past weekend. How bad could it be, really? Listen if you dare find out the answer. Meanwhile, | 6/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Super 8′ and ‘E.T.’ | After over a year of anticipation through teasers, images and speculation, J. J. Abrams's third feature - and first original screenplay - is finally with us. Super 8 has been a source of fierce debate all weekend long, and Rick, | 6/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitErrol Morris’s ‘First Person’ | While we wait around to see his new film Tabloid (which, between our recording this episode and its publication, has a new trailer - see below), we thought it appropriate to take a look at Errol Morris's First Person, | 6/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast – TV Spotlight: ‘Justified’ | In the second episode of our new TV podcast, we're joined by Alyssa from the (excellent) Big Red Podcast to talk up one of the best dramas on TV, FX's Justified, starring the inimitable Timothy Olyphant as US Deputy Marshal Raylan Givens, | 6/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound on Sight Radio #274: ‘X-Men First Class’ / ‘DareDevil’ / ‘Remo Williams’ | The summer blockbuster/superhero sweepstakes continue with X-Men: First Class, which is both the latest from director Matthew Vaughn (Kick-Ass, Layer Cake) and the fifth film in the X-Men series, though the first chronologically speaking. | 6/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Podcast – TV Spotlight: ‘Community’ | It's been a long time coming, and this week, Sound on Sight ventures into TV talk for the first time ever. Over the course of the summer, and perhaps beyond, we'll be recording a bonus show every week on one of our favorite shows. | 5/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Tree Of Life’ / Cannes Film Fest / ‘Taxi Driver’ | The Cannes film festival wrapped up not too long ago, and Rick, Justine and Simon got to see this year's Palme D'Or winner - Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life - bright and early. Predictably, they have plenty to say about it, | 5/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema Podcast #22: Director Gregg Araki | Once considered the angriest, most unconventional, and relentlessly intriguing voices in independent queer cinema, Director Gregg Araki is back with Kaboom, a science-fiction cyber-thriller and self-aware teen sex comedy. | 5/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Thor’, Marvel Studios, and Kenneth Branagh | The summer movie season begins in earnest with Thor, a rock 'em, sock 'em action flick and comic-book adaptation brought to you by...director Kenneth Branagh, best known for his acting, and for his Shakespeare adaptations. Given that Rick, | 5/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSidney Lumet: ‘Serpico’, ‘The Verdict’ and ‘The Pawnbroker’ | A couple of weeks ago, we lost one of the longest-revered American directors around, Sidney Lumet, whose directorial career opened with a bang with 1957's beloved 12 Angry Men, and ended fifty years later with the acclaimed crime drama Before the Devil... | 5/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitElizabeth Taylor Special: ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf’ and ‘A Place In The Sun’ | Elizabeth Taylor is one of film's most successful actresses, having starred in over fifty films from her early years as a child star to her Oscar winning performance in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? As one of the world's most famous film stars, | 4/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitJustice Is Not Served: ‘Paradise Lost’ and Dear Zachary’ | For our first documentary special in quite some time, we decided to give ourselves an emotional beating for some reason by sticking with an unusual theme: three docs that focus on miscarriages of justice. First up in Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at... | 4/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitScreamathon | After an 11-year gap, Wes Craven and Kevin Williamson's megabuck meta-slasher Scream franchise is back with a fourth installment. To mark the occasion, Rick, Justine and Simon go back and dissect the original trilogy - in complete and spoiler-filled de... | 4/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Hanna’ and ‘Certified Copy’ | One of the better-received films so far this year, Joe Wright's Bourne-y thriller Hanna, gets the SoS treatment this week courtesy of Rick, Simon and special guest from Chicago, Josh Youngerman, who also joins Justine and Simon to discuss Abbas Kiarost... | 4/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Source Code’ / ‘Miracle Mile’ | This week sees the release of Moon director Duncan Jones's sophomore feature, the Montreal-shot sci-fi thriller Source Code, starring Jake Gyllenhaal. Rick, Derek and Simon are on hand to review it in both spoiler-free and spoiler-ful format. Also, | 4/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Insidious’, ‘Poltergeist’ and ‘Hausu’ | Saw originator James Wan's long-hyped paranormal horror flick Insidious crept into theaters this week, so we thought it wise to look at one of its most obvious forbears, plus a cult oddity on the same tip. First up is 1977's Hausu (House), a bizarre, | 4/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitClassic Directors – Otto Preminger | In our second Classic Directors podcast, Derek, Justine and Simon take a look at the life and work of the prolific Otto Preminger, whose work often defied genre while touching on hot-button issues in a generally unforced manner. | 3/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitPaul / Hot Fuzz | Simon Pegg and Nick Frost became known to most nerds on this side of the Atlantic for their first feature-length collaboration with writer-director Edgar Wright, Shaun of the Dead. This week, for the first time ever, | 3/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Rango’ and Hunter S. Thompson on Film | A while back, when some choice Sound on Sight-ers saw the trailer for Gore Verbinski's animated debut Rango, notice was taken of the cameo by a digitized Hunter S. Thompson and his crazed early-70s sidekick, Lazlo/Dr. Gonzo. So naturally, | 3/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #262: Alien Invasion Movies | On episode 262 of Sound On Sight Radio, host Al Kratina makes his long awaited return to the show. Along with newbie/regular co-host Michael Waldman and Ricky D, the three hosts take a look at three Alien Invasion flicks, | 3/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDirector Lucio Fulci: ‘The Beyond, ‘House By The Cemetery’ and Lizard in a Woman’s Skin’ | While he started his career as an art critic, Lucio Fulci later made the transition to screenwriting and eventually directing in the late â50s. He worked in numerous genres but became famous for his work in horror. | 3/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitClassic Directors: Preston Sturges | - - With a distinct lack of interesting fare in this chunk of the year, we came up with the bright idea of highlighting the careers of directors never before discussed in Sound on Sight's relatively long history. | 3/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDirector Mike Leigh Special / Oscar Talk | Another year, another Oscars - this time around, there seems to be an all-around consensus that it was a pretty dull affair this year. So we won't take oo much of your time explaining why before we dive into a bit of Mike Leigh, | 3/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitBlaxploitation Cinema Special | This week, we resurrect the perverted stepsister of Sound on Sight we call Sordid Cinema for a special occasion: Grindhouse Wednesdays is putting on a special screening of Jack Hill's classic blaxploitation flick Coffy at the Rialto Theater, | 2/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitThe King’s Speech / Open Forum | The Academy Award nominations are upon us, and leading the way with 12 is Tom Hooper's historical melodrama The King's Speech, which also happens to be the only one of the 10 Best Picture nominees we've yet to discuss on the show, | 2/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound on Sight Radio #257: ‘Restrepo’ / ‘Armadillo’ | In our latest spotlight on recent documentaries, Derek, Justine and Simon tackle two very different visions of the war in Afgahnistan: first up is Restrepo, which has just been announced as an Academy Award nominee, | 1/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitAustralian Cinema: ‘Bad Boy Bubby’ and ‘Animal Kingdom’ | This week, we take on three very different flicks hailing from the great nation of Australia, all three of which are way overdue for our coverage. First up, and garnering a bit of Oscar buzz for co-star Jacki Weaver, | 1/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Blue Valentine’ / ‘Everyone Else’: Sound On Sight Radio #255 | ---------- - This week, we finally get our grubby cineaste paws on Derek Cianfrance's controversial and much-ballyhooed Blue Valentine, starring Michelle Williams and Ryan Gosling, and we (Derek, Justine and Simon) are here to let you know if it's any... | 1/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #254: The Green Hornet / Danger: Diabolik | 2011's first bonafide would-be blockbuster is here in the form of Michel Gondry's long-delayed, endlessly troubled adaptation of The Green Hornet, itself formerly a radio program. Appropriately, Rick, Al and Simon are here to tell you in radio forma... | 1/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #253: The Fighter / Fat City | We apologize for the sound quality. Something went seriously wrong. - It's been a few weeks since controversial director David O. Russell's boxing drama The Fighter hit multiplexes, and Ricky D's been chomping at the bit to review it since he cauugh... | 1/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #252: David Cronenberg with Special Guests from FILMJUNK | ALL HAIL THE NEW FLESH! - Our special guests this week, Sean and Jay from the Film Junk Podcast, hail St-Catharine's, Ontario, not far from Toronto so it seemed to make sense to revisit the man who may be Toronto's most famed filmmaker, | 1/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #251: Director Sofia Coppola | For our first show from our new studio in a secret location in the heart of downtown Montreal, we've decided to tackle one of Amer-indie-dom's most divisive director, Sofia Coppola, by talking about her new flick, the Stephen Dorff (?! | 1/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #250 Part 2: ‘Tron Legacy’ with Matt Singer | Itâs our 250th anniversary show and after four years of hard work we wanted to make it huge. In the second half of our special, Simon and Ricky D sit down and review Tron: Legacy with Matt Singer from the IFC podcast. | 12/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #250 Part 1: ‘True Grit’ with Filmspotting’s Adam Kempenaar | Itâs our 250th anniversary show and after four years of hard work we wanted to make it huge. In the first half of our special, Simon and Ricky D sit down and review True Grit with Adam Kempenaar from Filmspotting. | 12/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #248: ‘Carlos’ / ‘Four Lions’ | On a weirdly eclectic hour of Sound on Sight, the subject is: international terrorism! First up is Olivier Assayas' Carlos, a three-part, 330-minute epic starring Edgar Ramirez as infamous terrorist/assassin/mercenary Carlos "The Jackal" Ramirez. | 12/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #249: Director John Cameron Mitchell | For an hour Ricky D has been breathlessly waiting years to do, he and Simon take on director John Cameron Mitchell's brief but already incredibly diverse filmography: 2001's trans-glam musical Hedwig and the Angry Inch, | 12/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #247: The Best Movie Scores of 2010 | Last week we took a listen to some of the year's better soundtracks, and this week we bring you our companion show on the year's original scores, from the likes of Clint Mansell, AR Rahman, Michael Giacchino, and plenty more. | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #246: The Independent Spirit Awards | Awards season is upon us, and as usual the Independent Spirit Awards are pretty much the first out of the gate with their nominations slate, which gives us a chance to catch up on some 2010 releases that evaded our direct attention: Lena Dunham's cr... | 12/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #245: Best Soundtracks of 2010 | Ricky D and Simon Howell sit down to tell some stories, discuss the S.O.S. podcast and take a listen to tracks from the best soundtracks of 2010. - listen now - Download the show in a new window Listen on I-Tunes RSS feeds | 11/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #244: Director Darren Aronofsky Part 2 | Writer-Director Darren Aronofsky has been a constant fixture here at Sound on Sight; two years back, we named The Wrestler one of the best films of that year. Now, Aronofsky is back with his psychosexual ballet opus Black Swan, | 11/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Shock Corridor’ & ‘The Brood’ | On the first Wednesday of every month, an event in Montreal called âGrindhouse Wednesdaysâ screens exploitation films the way they should be seen - at midnight and in a gritty, grimy and legendary porn theatre called Cinema L'Amour. - | 11/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #243: Director Denis Villeneuve | Quebec director Denis Villeneuve has been ubiquitous here in Canada since 2000, when he released his breakthrough feature, the strange, vivid and colorful Maelstrom, which swept that year's Genie Awards. He returned, audaciously, with Polytéchniq | 11/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #242: Megamind / The Secret Of Kells / How to Train Your Dragon | It's been a big year for animated features, with Pixar's Toy Story 3 becoming the first to crack the billion-dollar mark, and DreamWorks has tried to keep pace with the lauded studio with two of its own tentpole features this year: March saw the rele... | 11/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #241: Director Danny Boyle Special #2 | With an eclectic array of films to his credit, director Danny Boyle emerged from his native England to become one of the most celebrated and revered filmmakers of independently-minded cinema. Ever since his emergence onto the world stage with Trainspot... | 11/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #240: Hot Docs 2010 | Back in 2007, software-entrepreneur turned documentary filmmaker Charles Ferguson made a big splash with his debut feature No End In Sight, a thorough examination of the second Gulf War that earned him an Academy Award nomination. | 11/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #239: Back To The Future | Mankind has long dreamed of traveling back in time to right past wrongs, fix our mistakes, and finger our own mothers outside of a high school dance, apparently. At least, thatâs if Robert Zemeckisâ Back to the Future trilogy, | 11/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #238: Howl / The Times Of Harvey Milk | Some 25 years back, Jeffrey Friedman and Rob Epstein made The Times of Harvey Milk, a documentary about the titular San Francisco city councilman who was not only the first openly gay elected government official in the United States, | 11/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #236: Never Let Me Go / Stone | We're catching up with new stuff in general release and new on DVD in this week's random round-up: first up is Mark Romanek's Never Let Me Go, which has been kicking around long enough for us to get into spoiler territory, so be warned. | 10/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #237: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives/Le Quattro Volte | The Festival du Nouveau Cinéma wrapped up this weekend, and we've asked occasional contributor Eduardo Lucatero - whose Preludio screened at the fest - to come in and talk shop with us. Besides general fest talk, | 10/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #235: This Gun For Hire | Assassin. Hitman. Contract killer. Call it what you will, itâs an archetype both familiar and fascinating to film fans. Provided, of course, that you accept the conceit that theyâre all debonair, high-skilled murder magicians rather than project | 10/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitDirector Gaspar Noé Special | Argentine Gaspar Noé might not be the cinema world's most prolific provocateur, but he's certainly one of the most vigorous. After a long stint helming short films, he burst onto the scene with 1998's caustic I Stand Alone, | 10/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #233: Director Wes Craven | Horror auteur Wes Craven makes films torn from the nightmares of the collective unconscious. Unfortunately, our collective unconscious is full of creationists and Tea Partiers and the people who go to Maury Povich tapings, | 10/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #234: Director Claude Chabrol | Credited as a father of the French New Wave, Claude Chabrolâs career spanned over 5 decades and included everything from arthouse classics, police dramas and psychological thrillers. With his passing last month, | 10/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #232: The Social Network / Catfish | It seems like all anyone can talk about is a little movie called The Social Network, a new film from director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin about the origins of internet stronghold Facebook, | 10/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #231: Fubar | How do you know when a mockumentary is Canadian? Well, it might open with a disclaimer like this: "The following 'documentary' is fictional. We apologize to any person appearing in the film who believed the documentary was real. | 10/4/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #230: Oliver Stone Special | Back in 1987, writer/director Oliver Stone, fresh off the warm critical reception and multiple Oscar wins for Platoon, released Wall Street, a wildly successful drama centered around a good ol' boy (Charlie Sheen) and the corrupt business mogul, | 9/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitTIFF 2010 Part 2: ‘Let Me In’, ‘Buried’ & ‘Monsters’ | We apologize for the bad sound quality on this show. We tried something new and we promise it won't happen again. One of the most important film festivals in the world, the Toronto International Film Festival combines the prestige of Cannes with Sunda... | 9/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #229: Toronto International Film Festival Part 1 / The Town | We're back from TIFF, and we'll be discussing the ups and downs of festival-going in Toronto, as well as breaking down our general impressions of this year's fare, from the pleasant surprises to the dismal failures. Additionally, | 9/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #228: Catching Up With This Year’s Docs | Throughout the last 9 months, documentaries of note have been cropping up, and on this hour of Sound on Sight Justine, Derek and Simon finally get to round them up in one place. First up is Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work, | 9/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #227: The American / Mesrine | This week, we have a double, er, triple feature of Euro-inflected crime movies. First up is music video disciple Anton Corbijn's The American, starring George Clooney as a reclusive, moody "craftsman" hiding out in a beautiful Italian villa followin... | 9/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #226: Director Robert Rodriguez | Mexican-American filmmaker Robert Rodriguez burst upon the independent scene with a $7000 action film geared for the Mexican Spanish-language video market. Labelled the cheapest film ever released by a studio, | 9/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #225: The Vanishing / Wings Of Desires / Open Your Eyes | Hey, remember back during the World Cup when we announced that really cool movie competition modeled after it? Well, it's high time we got to the winners, which here represent the top three teams at this year's championship. In Germany's corner, | 8/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #224: The Found-Footage Horror Genre | Though the subgenre has its roots in decades-old cult cinema (or, if you;d like, all the way back to Orson Welles' War of the Worlds in 1938), "found footage" horror is most probably still most strongly associated with a breakout 1999 flick called The ... | 8/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #223: The Disappearance of Alice Creed | This week saw the release of UK writer/director J Blakeson's debut feature, the kidnapping thriller The Disappearance of Alice Creed. To accompany of it, we'll be dredging up two very different stories of abduction and disappearance: the first, | 8/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitCreatures Of The Deep | Few things are more fundamentally terrifying than knowing you're prey to some unknown aquatic creature lurking in the depths, and Hollywood has fed well on our love of underwater terror. With scores of prehistoric man-eating predators on the loose in P... | 8/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #222: Sylvester Stallone Special | One of the biggest box office draws in the world from the 1970s through the early 1990s, actor, writer, director and producer Sylvester Stallone combined sheer physical brawn with a touch of vulnerability in two major movie franchises â the Academy A | 8/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #221: The Other Guy, Mark Wahlberg | It's entirely possible that no one has ever crossed over from the realm of pop music into film more thoroughly than Mark Wahlberg. Back in the days when he was fronting Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, it might have been hard to believe that he'd gro... | 8/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #220: The Very Best Of Asian Cinema | Three of the most interesting films of the last 12 months are probably not coming to a theater near you. They're highlights from the last two Fantasia Film Festivals' Asian programs, and you might need to do a bit of hunting to track them down. | 8/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #219: Scott Pilgrim vs. the World / Tucker and Dale Vs. Evil | On this hour of Sound on Sight: coming attractions. Next Friday sees the release of UK director Edgar Wright's third feature, the anticipated comic adaptation Scott Pilgrim Vs. the World. We got a chance to see it early at the Fantasia Film Festival, | 8/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitNew Wave Of UK Horror: ‘Black Death’, Centurion’, and Doghouse’ | The UK has always been known for distinctive genre fare, and this week we have a triple dose of British horror to try and prove it. First up is Jake West's horror-comedy Doghouse, which pits a band of wronged men against a village-ful of killer women. | 8/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitFantasia 2010: Serbian Mayhem | The Serbian spotlight at this year's Fantasia Film Fest is not for the squeamish. Actually, in the case of two of its films, it might not be fit for viewing by conscious beings - making it perfect fare for the deranged cousin of Sound on Sight we like ... | 7/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound on Sight Radio #217: Tilda Swinton | ------------------ - Is there a more versatile oddball working in front of the camera than Tilda Swinton? Though she's probably still best known as the sweaty corporate stooge in Michael Clayton, the role that earned her an Oscar for Best Supporting A... | 7/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitFantasia Film Festival: ‘We Are What We Are’, ‘The Revenant’ and ‘Human Centipede’ | Fantasia, North Americaâs biggest and best genre film festival, is a unique experience. Nowhere else can you hold your wifeâs hand through a lighthearted J-punk romantic romp in the afternoon, and spend the night jerking off to Josef Mengeleâ | 7/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #216: Inception | It's been roughly a year since we saw the first teaser trailers for UK director Christopher Nolan's followup to The Dark Knight, the sci-fi/heist thriller that made its debut this past weekend. Now that it's finally here, | 7/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitFantasia 2010: I Spit On Your Grave / Predators | Fantasia kicked off this past weekend, and it brought with it a remake of one of the most notorious exploitation flicks ever, the rape-revenge horror movie I Spit On Your Grave. We survived the screening and lived to let you know if either version is a... | 7/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #215: Fantasia 2010: Martial Arts Cinema | It seems like just yesterday that Fantasia ended with a glorious advance screening of Inglourious Basterds, and yet the fest has come back to haunt our dreams and wreck our social calendar. In this hour, we'll be taking a look at the fest's prestigiou... | 7/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #213: Pixar Special #2 | Probably the only film company that elicits instant recognition at the mere mention of its name, Pixar Animation Studios has been responsible for at least a half-dozen of the last decade's most celebrated movies. This month, | 7/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #214: Montreal Hipster Xavier Dolan | Not too many of us accomplished much by the tender age of 19, but by then, local writer-directer Xavier Dolan had completed his first full-length feature film, J'ai Tué Ma Mère (aka I Killed My Mother), | 7/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #212: Winter’s Bone / Down To The Bone | It's been a thin year so far for hardcore film nerds. The summer schedule has been predictably stacked with sequels, remakes and other effects-laden disasters, and the arthouses haven't yielded much worth talking about so far. | 6/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitWeird Westerns: ‘El Topo’, ‘Renegade’ and ‘Jonah Hex’ | There are some who would say that the Western genre, one of the fundamental underlying narratives of American culture, has been done to death. But there are those who would use psychotropic drugs and earth magicks to bring the genre back to life, | 6/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #211: World Cup Of Movies Part 2 | As World Cup fever continues unabated like that weird rash you never got looked at, Sound on Sight continues to take a look at soccer flicks. This time around, we're a little more firmly heeled in the realm of the conventional "sports movie;" which ... | 6/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #210: World Cup Of Movies | World Cup season is of course underway, and here at Sound on Sight we'll be taking a look at three very different cinematic representations of the sport this side of the Atlantic calls "soccer." First up is the American documentary Once In a Lifetime, | 6/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #209: The Karate Kid Franchise | Remember the good old days, where dealing with school yard bullies involved standing up for yourself, rather than wearing a black trenchcoat and blowing a cheerleaderâs face off with a pipe bomb? Neither do I, | 6/14/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #208: Remembering Dennis Hopper | A little under two weeks ago, legendary Hollywood iconoclast and all-around s**t-disturber Dennis Hopper passed away. His life and career saw epic peaks and valleys - he rose to auteur status early in life thanks to the landmark road movie Easy Rider, | 6/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSordid Cinema Podcast #10: Splice & Other Canadian Horror/Sci-Fi Films | Before director Vincenzo Natali, Canadian horror was perhaps best known for helping Corey Haim pay his rent and David Cronenberg funnel grant money into his latex and slime fetish. But then came 1997âs bloody low-budget sci-fi film Cube, | 6/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #207: Saturday Night Live Movies | Letâs get one thing straight. Saturday Night Live has never been funny. At least not consistently. Chevy Chase based his comedy on falling down, John Belushi mainly yelled a lot, likely in an attempt to wake his cardiovascular system from a heroin | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #206: Vigilante Justice | If you believe the movies, in every city lies a pissed-off ex-military man with a tragic past, an antiquated firearm and a self-administered license to kill. That describes any number of mostly exploitative action flicks, | 5/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio Rewind #192: Director Joon-ho Bong | The past decade has seen the dramatic emergence of a South Korean national cinema, one bursting forth with inventive genre films and intriguing directors. Perhaps none are as consistently adored as Joon-Ho Bong, whose newest flick, Mother, | 5/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound on Sight Radio #205: Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood | Ridley Scott's man-crush on Russell Crowe has apparently not abated, as he was enlisted to star in Scott's long-gestating Robin Hood reboot/prequel, which has changed form considerably since its 2007 inception. The film, | 5/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound on Sight Radio #204: Mother’s Day | Yes, we know it was last week, but thanks to the rerelease on DVD of the schlocky Troma horror flick Mother's Day, we here at Sound on Sight devised a novel way to pay tribute to our dear matriarchal holiday: the rest of the hour is devoted to the g... | 5/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio Rewind: #160 – The Trotsky | The Festival de Nouveau Cinéma has begun in earnest, and nobody is more excited than we are. In this hour, Mariko, Al and Simon take on a few of the fest's initial offerings, including the widely praised and Nick Hornby-penned An Education, | 5/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #202: Exit Through The Gift Shop / Mishima | Our latest episode centered around the representation of art and artists on film is a double-header with a special focus on the topic of artistic credibility. In one corner, and new in theaters this past weekend, | 5/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #203: Iron Man 2 / Robocop | Director Jon Favreau returns this week with his second installment in the Iron Man series, which once again gives us the ever-laconic Robert Downey Jr. as arms magnate and superhero Tony Stark, this time pairing him up with the likes of Sam Rockwell, | 5/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #201 – Basquiat / My Dear Enemy | Our latest spotlight tackles art and artists on celluloid. First up: Julian Schnabel's 1996 debut feature Basquiat, a typically colorful portrait of Jean-Michel Basquiat, widely considered to be the first artist of African descent to find international... | 5/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘A Nightmare On Elm Street’ Special | The dream - or nightmare - is a staple of the modern horror movie. After all, even as manipulative as the device is, it's still a proven way to jolt an audience. Filmmaker Wes Craven understood this bit of cinematic psychology when he concocted the cen... | 5/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The Wild Hunt’ and ‘Monster Camp’ | Local director Alexandre Franchi seems to have hit on a nerve with audiences with his first feature, the hybrid genre flick The Wild Hunt, which primarily concerns a Live Action Role Playing weekend gone strange. | 4/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound on Sight Radio #200 Anniversary Show: Kick-Ass | For the past few years, Mark Millar has been writing some of the most exciting, mature, and original film storyboards in recent memory. The fact that he has the nerve to call his work âcomic booksâ is only mildly insulting to those of us who do | 4/19/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound on Sight Radio #199: Gainsbourg (Vie héroïque) / Bitter Moon | Tonight's theme: sexual perversion in France! First up is a brand new biopic of French singer, songwriter and cultural icon Serge Gainsbourg rom director Joann Sfar, based on his graphic novel, haughtily titled Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life. | 4/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound on Sight Radio #198: Hot Tub Time Machine | Itâs not really a question of why anyone would choose to remember the 1980s. Itâs how, since there was so much cocaine and neon the whole decade was like a Wham! album dying of a brain-damaging drug overdose. Nevertheless, | 4/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘Clash of the Titans’ Special | In todayâs world of office jobs, income tax, and formal evening wear, itâs no wonder that audiences want to fantasize about a simpler time, a time when the day was spent not filing or typing, but dismembering enemies with broadswords and then us | 4/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound on Sight Radio #197: Director Noah Baumbach | Wes Anderson colleague/collaborator and American indie darling Noah Baumbach returns to arthouse (and a few mainstream) cinemas this week with his fourth feature, the Ben Stiller-toplined squirm comedy Greenberg. | 3/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound on Sight Radio #196: The Ghost Writer / Rosemary’s Baby | Our extended look into the filmography of troubled auteur Roman Polanski continues with a big double-header this week; in one corner, Polanski's hallowed 1968 horror flick, Rosemary's Baby, which played a significant role in the media narative of Po... | 3/29/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound on Sight Radio #195: SXSW / Film Scores | In a special edition of Sound on Sight, we'll be getting a live-from-Austin update on the South by Southwest film festival from our area correspondents. While we get that business our of the way, we'll be having out second behind-the-scenes feature in ... | 3/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound on Sight Radio #194: The Runaways | Music video director Floria Sigismondi makes her feature debut this week with The Runaways, a bio-pic about the pioneering mid-70s all-girl rock group, starring Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart. We'll review it, | 3/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #193: Green Zone / Repulsion | Paul Greengrass, director of United 93 and the last two Bourne thrillers, returned this past week with his long-gestating (and expensive) passion project Green Zone, which reunited him with Bourne star Matt Damon but transplants the action to Iraq in 2... | 3/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #192: Director Joon-ho Bong | The past decade has seen the dramatic emergence of a South Korean national cinema, one bursting forth with inventive genre films and intriguing directors. Perhaps none are as consistently adored as Joon-Ho Bong, whose newest flick, Mother, | 3/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #190: Claire Denis / Academy Awards | Claire Denis' 35 Shots of Rum turned out to be 2009's biggest movie - in film snob circles, that is. Since we've already discussed that film, Rick, Simon and special guest Olivier Creurer tackle three of Denis' other acclaimed features - Beau Travail, | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #191: Director Tim Burton | Director Tim Burton never grew up. Normally, this would mean that he should be making Rob Schneider movies. But since he seems to have spent his never-ending childhood making pets out of things he dug up in the graveyard, his dark, simplistic, | 3/8/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #189: Fish Tank / All About My Mother | Our Pedro Almodovar spotlight concludes with his 1997 breakout hit All About My Mother, which endeared the Spanish filmmaker to a wide international audience. We'll also be talking about Andrea Arnold's Fish Tank, | 3/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Explicit‘The Crazies’ | Horror director George A. Romero has always been known for the social commentary of his films, the political subtext his fans claim transform his gore flicks into the equivalent of a Jackson Pollack painting made with intestines. The Crazies, from 1973, | 3/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #188: Director Martin Scorsese | It's hard to believe that after nearly 200 hours of programming, we've never had an episode tailored around the singular talents of one of America's most revered filmmakers: Martin Scorsese. Shutter Island, | 2/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #187: Revanche / Women On The Verge Of A Nervous Breakdown | Our focus on European cinema continues with part three, in which we finally get around to Revanche, the Austrian film nominated for Best Foreign Feature at the Oscars last year, which has gotten a swanky DVD release courtesy of Janus Films and the Crit... | 2/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #185: Un Prophète / Talk To Her | We continue our spotlight on international cinema with one of last year's most widely praised features, Jacques Audiard's epic crime/prison drama "A Prophet," which makes its Montreal debut this week, and is up for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Fea... | 2/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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ExplicitSound On Sight Radio #186: The Wolfman | Studio patch-it man Joe Johnston returns to revive the beleaguered werewolf movie genre with the The Wolfman, which triumphed over a long and troubled production history to prowl multiplexes with its mediocrity. (Sorry, spoilers.) In...celebration?...Al, | 2/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Is This Criticism?
I will try to keep this review as constructive as I can, as that is what I feel was lacking in the episode I listened to. My hope is that other episodes are more even handed and objective in the critical basis from which the reviewers are judging films, but after listening to the Gaspar Noe episode, I simply have no desire to listen to another. Granted, I will say that Noe's films are incredibly problematic, incendiary, and uncomfortable to deal with. But to simply rant on and on with what I felt were personal attacks on him as both a person and a film maker, is in my opinion, doing a great injustice to a show that is selling itself as a keen critical exploration of the art of film. This sounded more like an hour of three people with a strong agenda of simply tearing someone down as much as possible. The continued references to how "sophomoric", "juvenile", and "stupid" his films are almost totally misses the mark. Particularly in regards to "Enter the Void". If you think that it has no clear point or thematic focus, I suggest you do some additional research and take a look at the Tibetan Book of the Dead, as the film is essentially a full life cycle and three staged journey of the soul from body to ultimate reality, or transcendence. This is the same three tiered journey described within the book. In the film, Noe ambitiously attempts to find new cinematic language that is transcendent of both space and time. Is the execution always flawless? No, absolutely not. A lot of the acting and storytelling is lacking in major portions of the film. But to even tackle a subject and an epic story of this nature with such ambition is commendable in itself. Essentially what this review boils down to is that I am incredibly disappointed at having spent an hour listening to a group of critics personally tear into an artist because they had personal issues with a lot of the subject matter and execution in the films. If all of you want to be legitimate critics and contribute something back to this art form, I suggest you reassess your approach. A more objective and thoughtful approach to your criticism would better serve what I hope you are attempting to achieve. As it stands, this episode was so full of subjective personal attacks, that it really took away from my enjoyment of the program. I wish you the best with your show, and I hope this review has been helpful in some way.
AMONG THE VERY BEST FILM PODCASTS!!
Sound on Sight is one of the very best film podcasts out there. They cover every kind of film out there: cult films, art flicks, Hollywood blockbusters, B movies, horror and so much more. Although I have disagreed many times with opinions of the hosts, they explain very well why they like or dislike a film and always keep a sense of humor about it. Some episodes are downright hilarious while others contain interesting insight into the work of some directors. It’s a must listen.
Host makes idiotic joke on the Aurora shootings
In the beginning of The Dark Knight Rises episode, one of the hosts made an unsuccessful attempt at being funny and clever by making a joke about the Aurora shootings. His words were "did anyone get murdered?". I was dumbfounded. All I could say is this host must be cynical, apathetic, self-important and just out of touch to even think and say something like that on air. Shame on the show for not editing it out of the podcast. It wouldn't make the show dishonest to edit it out. At the least, it would not be perpetuating something regrettable and insensitive...unless they do not regret making the joke at all.
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