Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers (1972) / Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid (1973) This week we’re feeling restored as we move to NYC with Holly Woodlawn’s lost and found star vehicle and say goodbye to the old West(ern) with Sam Peckinpah’s contested cuts
The Story of a Cheat (1936) / InterVista (1987) This week we’re embracing the powers of the false as we cheat our way through life with Sacha Guitry and get lost in layers of lies in Federico Fellini’s Cinecittà
Woman Basketball Player No. 5 (1957) / Edge of America (2004) This week we’re hitting the hardwood as we dunk on the past and look to the future with Xie Jin while Chris Eyre teaches us how to run-and-gun on the reservation
A Canterbury Tale (1944) / Three the Hard Way (1974) This week we’re talking threesomes as we make a propaganda pilgrimage with Powell & Pressburger and try to stop a genocidal plot with Gordon Parks Jr.’s action supergroup
Khrustalyov, My Car! (1998) / The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (2005) This week we’re not feeling so good as we try to survive the doctor’s plot with Aleksei German and go from bellyache to the grave with Cristi Puiu
Message from Space (1978) / Vegas in Space (1991) This week we’re floating through the cosmos as we’re conscripted into Kinji Fukasaku’s star war and take a much needed vacation at Phillip Ford and Doris Fish’s Vegas in Space
Mighty Peking Man (1977) / Pulgasari (1985) This week it’s go big or go home as Alyssa Heflin joins us as to track down a giant ape in the jungle and battle imperialists with a mythical metal-eating monster
Phenomena (1985) / The Decay of Fiction (2002) This week we’re dozing off into a deep dark slumber as we sleepwalk through the Swiss Alps with Dario Argento and haunt the Ambassador Hotel with Pat O’Neill
The Games of Countess Dolingen (1981) / The Blood of Heroes (1989) This week we’re dipping into short-lived directorial careers as we play formal games with Catherine Binet and gear up for Jugger with David Webb Peoples
Wee Willie Winkie (1937) / Once Upon a Time in China III (1993) This week we’re rushing headfirst into the 20th century with John Ford and Tsui Hark as we drill with Shirley Temple and Lion-Dance with Jet Li
We’re No Angels (1955) / Fear Strikes Out (1957) This week we’re loading the camera horizontally as we discuss the vista-less visions of Michael Curtiz’s stagebound comedy and Robert Mulligan’s baseball crack-up
Moving (1993) / The Girl and the Spider (2021) This week we’re packing up and being left behind as we struggle through divorce and roommate drama with Shinji Sōmai and the Zürcher brothers
The Candy Snatchers (1973) / The Protector (1985) This week we’re being abducted, shanghaied, and buried in the dirt by exploitation cinema as we discuss the vulgar visions of Guerdon Trueblood and James Glickenhaus
THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME 7 A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET From Borderlands to Witchcraft Music and Sounds from Episodes 61-70 Gentleman Jim (1942) | The Passionate Friends (1949) | Kid Galahad (1962) | A Very Curious Girl (1969) | The Unfaithful Wife (1969) | Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) | The Private Eyes (1976) | Southern Comfort (1981) They All Laughed (1981) | 2010 (1984) | The Witches of Eastwick (1987) The Great Outdoors (1988) | Videograms of a Revolution (1992) | New ...
Gelin aka The Bride (1973) / Eskiya aka The Bandit (1996) This week we’re talkin’ Turkey as we migrate to Istanbul in Lütfi Akad’s family melodrama and Yavuz Turgul’s bandit fairy tale
157 - Stolen Death (1938) / Lust, Caution (2007) This week we’re forming resistance cells and sneaking around as we arm ourselves against Tsarist oppression with Nyrki Tapiovaara and plot an assassination with Ang Lee’s patriotic theatre troupe
Wild Side (1995) / Femme Fatale (2002) This week Brendan Boyle joins us for a roundtable to reminisce about message boards, video stores, and uncles as we take a walk on the wild side with Donald Cammell and get freaky with Brian De Palma
The Burning Moon (1992) / V/H/S/Beyond (2024) This week we’re talking tapes and short form frights as we go to hell with Olaf Ittenbach’s heroin-fueled SOV triptych and encounter the paranormal in the latest V/H/S
The Island (1980) / Humanoids from the Deep (1980) This week we’re diving in to aquatic horror as we’re kidnapped by Michael Ritchie’s anachronistic pirates and battle sea monsters and Roger Corman with Barbara Steele
The Secret (1979) / Lone Star (1996) This week we’re looking for clues as we try to solve a southern fried cold case with John Sayles and get to the bottom of a shocking murder with Ann Hui
A Bigger Splash (1974) / The Mill & The Cross (2011) This week we’re living the lives of artists as we dive in to David Hockney’s bad breakup and join Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s procession
How High (2001) / D.E.B.S. (2004) This week we’re going back to school for some higher learning as we enroll some joints with Method Man and Redman and conduct field work at Angela Robinson’s sexy spy academy
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971) / Workingman’s Death (2005) This week we’re saluting the workers as we labor under extreme conditions with Michael Glawogger and lose our finger and minds on the factory floor with Elio Petri
149 - La Religieuse aka The Nun (1966) / L’altro Inferno aka The Other Hell (1981) This week we’re taking our vows and entering convent life as we descend into madness with Bruno Mattei and try to escape with Jacques Rivette and Anna Karina
Ilya Muromets aka The Sword and the Dragon (1956) / Laserblast (1978) This week we’re taking a spin on the Satellite of Love as we do our own riffs on MST3K, Charles Band’s laser cannon, and the epic fantasy of Aleksandr Ptushko
How The West Was Won (1962) / Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 1 (2024) This week we’re hitching our wagons to the epic visions of MGM and Kevin Costner as we explore two sprawling takes on westward expansion
Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania (1972) / Documentarian (2012) This week Arlin Golden joins us for a doc swap as we confront a hostile subject with Ivars Zviedris & Inese Klava and journey to Lithuania with Jonas Mekas
Who Am I This Time? (1982) / The Second Civil War (1997) This week we’re channel surfing as we tune in to Jonathan Demme’s public television romance and Joe Dante’s war time broadcast
Crazy Thunder Road (1980) / His Motorbike, Her Island (1986) This week we get our motors running and head out on the highway as we terrorize Tokyo with Sogo Ishii’s biker gangs and fall in love with Nobuhiko Obayashi’s romantic riders
This week we’re crosschecking polite society and battling beer barons as Vikram Murthi joins us for a drinking session with Paul Newman and the Mackenzie Brothers, listen up hosers!
