This week we tackle David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive, another reader recommendation (we’ve given up on calling you all ‘listeners’, there’s just such an alliterative appeal about ‘reader recommendation’). Importantly, this gives us a chance to wheel out our ‘news’ jingle, which we always look forward to, so please do write in so we can useContinue reading “Rejoicing in the madness of Mulholland Drive”
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The Top Ten Comedy Films You Should Have Seen
We’ve been looking forward to doing our comedy special, as it finally gives us the chance to spend half an hour quoting lines from our favourite comedy films, all the while laughing like schoolboys who’ve just read their first issue of Viz. As with our previous specials, we’ve chosen a list of our top tenContinue reading “The Top Ten Comedy Films You Should Have Seen”
Good Old Tommy From Third Rock From The Sun
We were given a bit of a dilemma this week: for the first time on the podcast, we watched a film that neither of us particularly liked. I borrowed Brick from a friend a while back on the basis that (a) it was a film noir, and I tend to quite enjoy film noirs, and (b)Continue reading “Good Old Tommy From Third Rock From The Sun”
If Dennis Hopper did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him
Our film odyssey continues with Easy Rider, a film that has been rightly heralded as kickstarting the New Hollywood of the late sixties/early seventies and is famous for sending Jack Nicholson’s career into the stratosphere. But is it any good? Well, yes and no is our decidedly wishy-washy answer. In places it barely seems toContinue reading “If Dennis Hopper did not exist, it would be necessary to invent him”
Divine decadence darling!
Wilkommen, bienvenue, welcome to 101 films podcast 23, in which we dissect the divinely decadent Cabaret. Lewis first watched this film a few months back with the expectation that it would be a fairly average musical in the vein of Chicago, but in fact it turns out to be a brilliant imagining of the riseContinue reading “Divine decadence darling!”
Natalie Portman’s best film… probably
After what seems like ages, we’re back, back, BACK with some more top quality podcasting… Well, at least average quality anyway. Then again, the ukulele challenge this week is an absolute shocker, so there are definitely at least some periods of low quality, but you can always fast forward through those I suppose… ANYWAY, thisContinue reading “Natalie Portman’s best film… probably”
I saved Latin. What did you ever do?
Lewis is back! For the last week he’s been recuperating in St Zardoz, the hospital for knackered podcasters. Lewis has had plenty of visits from 101 Films alumni – Ian, Kurt Humperdinck III and, of course, Tommy from Third Rock From The Sun. Now given a clean bill of health, he’s back to doing whatContinue reading “I saved Latin. What did you ever do?”
I have to say, it’s incredible. You really look like a woman! Does make-up make men beautiful?
It’s the old, old story. Blind masseur comes to town, does a bit of gambling, meets a cross dresser and his/her sister and then brutally murders dozens of criminals. How many times have we heard that tale? And this is the plot of this week’s film, Zatoichi. Cliché! Still, the 101 Films boys found aContinue reading “I have to say, it’s incredible. You really look like a woman! Does make-up make men beautiful?”
I’m not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work there, Lou.
Fargo: the first Coen Brothers film to make it onto our list, and possibly the best. Join us as we discuss the strange and far away world of 1987, the fledgling Steve Buscemi Fan Club, Babe the Baby Blue Ox, the Swedish Chef from the Muppets, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, Swedish crime dramas,Continue reading “I’m not sure I agree with you a hundred percent on your police work there, Lou.”
Remember, you’re fighting for this woman’s honour, which is probably more than she ever did.
War. What is it good for? Absolutely nothing? Well it does provide an amusing backdrop for Duck Soup, the Marx Brothers comedy classic. Yes, this week 101 Films takes a look at the harrowing dramatisation of the first Freedonia-Sylvania War. Lewis and Ian discuss seeing gags for the first time, ask whether a democratic countryContinue reading “Remember, you’re fighting for this woman’s honour, which is probably more than she ever did.”
101 Films You Should Have Seen 