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Happy Bisexual Visability Week! Celebrate, as is tradition, the glorious 35th anniversaries of Clive Barker's 'Hellraiser' (Sept.1987), Abel Ferrara's 'China Girl' (Sept.1987), and Uther Shite (Sept.1987), with your hosts, Uther Shite & Finn "Sound" Nicolas Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Finn & Uther watch John Ford's 'The Searchers' (1956), a western Uther strongly argues shouldn't be in the BFI Top Ten, and, S. Craig Zahler's 'Bone Tomahawk' (2015), a western Finn repeatedly implies should take its place. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Finn and Uther watch 'Man with a Movie Camera' (1929), a still-revolutionary poem of film, and 'Wind from the East' (1970), a shrill-revolutionary waste of celluloid. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Finn & Uther watched 'The Passion of Joan of Arc' (1928) and 'Witchfinder General' (1968), career-best performances from two of the greats: Maria Falconetti (? I hardly know 'er Falconetti) and Vincent Price (in THIS economy?). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To celebrate 100 episodes, here is the first instalment of a new sub-series: Film's Filmvourite Films. Finn introduces Uther to the decadent, despairing directorial work of acid-camp maestro Herbert Ross. First up is 'The Last of Sheila' (1973), Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perkin's poison pen murder-mystery-of-manners to Hollywood. And then on to: 'Pennies from Heaven' (1981), Dennis Potter's brutal musical portrait of toxic masculinity. As portrayed by Steve Martin. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Finn & Uther watch '8½' (1963), the most Fellini a Fellini ever Fellini'd, and, 'Nine' (2009), which is among the films Rob Marshall has directed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Finn & Uther watched ‘Battleship Potemkin’ (1925), Eisenstein’s epochal Soviet propaganda, and ‘Battleship’ (2012), Berg’s eh-pochal Hasbro propaganda. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Finn & Uther watch Vigo's 'L'Atalante', easier to appreciate rather than actually enjoy, and Cameron's 'Titanic', easier to enjoy rather than actually appreciate. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Finn & Uther watched 'Breathless' (1960), Godard's explosive debut feature, and 'Gigli' (2003), Brest's explosive diarrhoea. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Finn & Uther watch 'Apocalypse Now', a film made by maniacs (Coppola, Brando et al.), and 'Slow Bullet,' a film made by maniacs (video store employees). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Finn & Uther watch 'Late Spring' (1949), Ozu's pensive exploration of a father and daughter being separated by marriage, and 'Interstellar' (2014), Nolan's pensive exploration of a father and daughter being separated by a wormhole near Saturn. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Finn & Uther watch 'Au Hasard Balthazar', Bresson's piercing stroll through rural life, and 'A Talking Cat!?!', a film with more punctuation in its title than good performances. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Finn & Uther watched 'Seven Samurai' (1954), Kurosawa's most magnum of his opuses, and 'The Last Samurai' (2003), Zwick's least stagnant of his so-sopuses. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Finn & Uther watched ‘Persona’ (1966). Perhaps the greatest film ever made; a deeply insightful, psychologically rigorous, beautifully cinematic and incredibly performed treatise on modern identity. They followed it with ‘Single White Female’ (1992). All that stuff too plus being quite horny. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Finn, Uther & special guest Josiah Day watched 'Mirror' (1975), Tarkovsky's exploration of memory, war and familial connection, and 'Night Watch' (2004), Bekmambetov's exploration of magic, war and someone using their own spine as a sword. Also: Uther's audio is a bit dodgy for some of this one. Sorry. Technical issues. Totally listenable though. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Finn, Uther and special guest TV's Ray O'Leary watched 'Singin' in the Rain' (1952), an effortless and effervescent musical tribute to the early years of cinema, and 'Xanadu' (1980), an affected and flat musical tribute to the burly years of opening nightclubs. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Finn & Uther watched Antonioni, Bartolini & Guerra's 'L'Avventura' (1960), an elliptical love story of people desperate to be found (metaphorically), and Reitman & Browning's 'Six Days, Seven Nights' (1998), a hysterical love story of people desperate to be found (literally). Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Finn, Uther and special guest Harry Thompson-Cook watch ‘Contempt’ (1963), Godard’s first swing at the movie business, and ‘The Other Side of the Wind (2018), Welles’ last laugh at Hollywood. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Finn & Uther watch ‘The Godfather’ (1972), a film on crime, and ‘The Island of Dr. Moreau’ (1996), a crime of film. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week, Finn & Uther watched 'Ordet' (1855), Dreyer's undogmatic fable on religious themes, and 'The Exorcist II: The Heretic' (1977), Boorman's pragmatic fumble on ridicuous screams. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.