A classic Bergman film. Well, a classic Martin Bergman film. About Temecula. Where your favorite podcast hosts first met. Anyway… two neurotic New Yorkers - with ulterior motives - take on a couple of quick gigs in the wine country of (southern) California. Perhaps romance is in the air for this strangely legit cast?

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Leo Sternberg's Underworld (1927).

Content warning: This episode addresses a film that explicitly addresses issues related to and depicts the actions of violent sexual assault.

Director Martha Coolidge blends drama and documentary in an unflinching consideration of her rape as a younger woman. Ostensibly a dramatic recreation of the events surrounding and during the assault, she breaks through the dramatic wall to discuss the project and personal recollections of herself an the actors in this daring and groundbreaking film.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Martin Bergman's A Weekend in the Country (1996).

Who's ready for an anthology movie about mostly Americans in France writing about mostly not Americans in France for an imagined audience of mostly Americans in America? And sometimes everyone speaks French. But mostly they don't. Wes Anderson works with his ever-growing company of highest-profile players to construct this triptych of art and insanity, love and revolution, and food and crime. And a deep admiration for the talents and obsessions of midcentury American magazine writers.

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Martha Coolidge's Not A Pretty Picture (1976).