This time on Projector Pod, we are talking about arthouse director Kelly Reichardt's latest film, The Mastermind. A 1970s period piece about an unemployed father's attempt to pull off an audacious and strangely specific art heist at the local gallery. It is a richly textured, slow, almost slapstick character study set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War and fading dreams of the counterculture about the dangers of being the main character when you're not quite up to the task.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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Eddington
Ari Aster returns to our screens with a black slapstick comedy about the insanity and trauma of the COVID-19 lockdowns, with Eddington. Joaquin Phoenix stars as a down-on-his-luck small-town sheriff who is so disgruntled by the lockdowns that he decides to challenge the town's mayor for office. But what has been bubbling underneth for the sheriff is being brought to the surface by the weird world of social distancing and screens. Ebba and Macon talk about how Aster's movie about trauma a political division has a lot of serious stuff to say about our digital dystopia.
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The Phoenician Scheme
Wes Anderson returns to the silver screen with what some are controversially calling his most emotional film to date, The Phoenician Scheme. But what to make of this mid-century fetishising, reindeer lichen coloured, slapstick violence laden, god bothering caper? Is there more to this film than the zany characters and perfect framing?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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Queer
Luca Guadagnino returns to the cinema following the roaring success of Challengers with an adaptation of William Burroughs' auto-fictional experimental novel of love in the age of intensely felt internalised homophobia, Queer. Beyond the film continuing the trend for gorgeously dirty white linen suits on film, Queer is a masterful, impressionistic exploration of living in bodies and with desires that are tangled up with socially shaped self-loathing and the loneliness that follows from fear. There is so much to unfold!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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Mickey 17
Director Bong Joon Ho returns to Anglophone cinema with the satirical sci-fi Black comedy Mickey 17. Robert Pattinson stars as Mickey, a down-on-his-luck earthling who tries to escape his trouble by signing up for a space voyage as an "expendable", i.e., a person who can die over and over again because they have his data on file. So, what does this tonally peculiar film have to say about the world we live in today?If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, you can find our Patreon here.
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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