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Alternate Sides

By: James Lavino & Sam Neave
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  • Summary

  • James and Sam have been friends and collaborators for over 20 years. They’ve worked on films and TV shows and commercials together and have written numerous scripts that lie unproduced in their shared Dropbox folder.

    But James has a secret: he hasn’t actually seen that many movies. And Sam, who’s a bit of a film snob, has been giving him a hard time about it for years. As James enters undeniable middle age, he has finally promised to catch up on some of the films he’s missed.

    Every week or so, while Sam has to move his Subaru from one side of a Brooklyn street to the other (to appease the street-cleaning gods), they chat about a classic movie that James has somehow managed to avoid until now.

    One film from each year of James’s life so far: 1973 to 2023…
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Episodes
  • Holiday Special: Elf

    Holiday Special: Elf
    Dec 20 2023

    It’s a special holiday episode! We’re deviating from our usual chronology to talk about Jon Favreau’s 2003 Christmas classic, Elf, starring Will Ferrell, Zooey Deschanel, and James Caan. And it turns out that neither of us had ever seen this movie before this week.

    Plus: Ferris Bueller, overripe fruit, and “cross-hatched” dreams.

    LINKS:
    Trailer for Elf
    Will Ferrell takes a dart to the neck in Old School
    Will Ferrell imitates a cat in his SNL audition
    M. Ward sings Bowie's "Let's Dance"
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    36 mins
  • 1982: Fanny and Alexander

    1982: Fanny and Alexander
    Dec 11 2023

    This week we close out Season One of the podcast with a conversation about Ingmar Bergman’s family epic Fanny and Alexander, starring Bertil Guve, Ewa Fröling, and Jan Malmsjö.

    Plus: wind chimes, bookstore etiquette, and Gloomhaven.

    LINKS:
    Trailer for Fanny and Alexander
    Art Garfunkel in the studio
    Chevy Chase can't get left, from European Vacation
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    42 mins
  • 1981: Thief

    1981: Thief
    Dec 11 2023

    This week we discuss Michael Mann’s gritty debut feature, Thief, starring James Caan and Tuesday Weld.

    Plus: spa treatments, house cats, and Pink Floyd knockoffs.

    LINKS:
    Trailer for Thief
    The VEMI treatment
    Steve Martin makes coffee in Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid
    The end of Pink Floyd’s “Comfortably Numb” (starting at 4:20)
    “Confrontation”, the final music cue in Thief (starting at 0:40)
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    39 mins
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