This time, we are joined by festival veteran and writer for the Radical Art Review, Alex Elder, to talk about some of the films on offer from CPH DOX 2025, including Flophouse America, Portrait of a Confused Father, Fantastic Family, Another World, About a Hero, Rave, and Zodiac Killer Project. Most of the films we talk about are available on the festival's platform Paradox, while Another World will be available on the rest of the internet. If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you can find our Patreon here.
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Ep. 35 "The Brutalist"
Director Brady Corbet has made an epic about architecture, artistry, money and power called The Brutalist, and we have some "thoughts" about it along with Ayn Rand, pretentiousness and the white elephant/termite theory of filmmaking. If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you can find our Patreon here.
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Ep 34. The End
10 years after changing the world of documentary cinema with "The Act of Killing" and "The Look of Silence", director Joshua Oppenheimer returns to our screens with a post-apocalyptic musical. "The End" is a film about the lies we tell ourselves, the destruction these cause, and the love and hope that such lies deny us. If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you can find our Patreon here.
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Ep. 33 "Babygirl"
So it’s time to talk about “Babygirl” from director Halina Reijn, a tale of a married tech CEO who’s never had an orgasm with her husband, engaging in an illicit sub/Dom affair with her magically empathetic intern. It’s a film that raises questions about identity, control, fantasy, desire, love and power which are very much of the moment. But what is it really about?If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you can find our Patreon here.
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Ep. 32 "Nosferatu"
He's coming! And by "he" we mean Robert Eggers' reimagining of the sublime Dracula copyright dodge, "Nosferatu". Eggers' telling centres on Ellen, the character who in previous versions has been the object of the Vampyr, Orlok's, appetite. But Eggers' version poses the question that she might be the subject who summoned him to satisfy her own. But can this smoothed version of Eggers' auteurship in pursuit of a popcorn hit adequately grapple with such a troubling idea?
Ebba Wester and Macon Holt talk about movies (new and old) in a super nerdy, fun, critical theory-inflected and engaging way. Sometimes other people talk too.
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