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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1:19:01
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.
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CPH:DOX 2025 (possibly part 1) with Alex Elder
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.
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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