#113 - Failure
Điện Biên Phủ (1992) / I Am a Sex Addict (2005) This week we’re taking the L as we parachute into Dien Bien Phu with Pierre Schoendoerffer and crash land on Caveh Zahedi’s minefield of memories
Aug 22, 2023•1 hr 43 min
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#112 - State of Play
Zig-Zag aka Snakes and Ladders (1980) / Avalon (2001) This week we’re playing games as we roll the dice with Raúl Ruiz’s cartographic nightmare and try to level up in Mamoru Oshii’s drab dystopia
Aug 15, 2023•1 hr 44 min
#111 - The Old Dark House
The Ghost & Mrs Muir (1947) / La Maldición de la Llorona (1963) This week we’re renting a pair of drafty houses as we try to reverse the curse in Rafael Baledón’s haunted hacienda and unexpectedly fall in love with Joe Mankiewicz’s seaside cottage
Aug 08, 2023•1 hr 55 min
The Gauntlet Movie Mixtape Volume #5
THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME 5 A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET From Double Dooley to Nostalgia Music and Sounds from Episodes 41-50 Stage Door (1937) | Entranced Earth (1967) | The Family Jewels (1967) | Hell in the Pacific (1968) | The Mattei Affair (1972) | The Dion Brothers aka The Gravy Train (1974) | The Stranger and the Gunfighter (1974) | Take a Hard Ride (1975) | News From Home (1977) | A Perfect Couple (1979) | Gas Pump Girls (1979) | The Five Heartbeats (1991) | Miami Blues...
Aug 01, 2023•1 hr 12 min
#110 - Funny Pages
Batwoman (1968) / Flash Gordon (1980) This week we’re going from strip to screen as we head to Acapulco to solve some very fishy crimes with Batwoman and try to save the universe with Flash Gordon
Jul 25, 2023•1 hr 32 min
#109 - Optimism
109 - The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979) / The Commitments (1991) This week we’re looking on the bright side as we form a soul band in Dublin with Alan Parker and save Pittsburgh with dunks, disco and Dr. J
Jul 18, 2023•1 hr 51 min
#108 - Anger
Insiang (1976) / Out of the Blue (1980) This week we’re mad as hell and out for revenge as we claw our way through the slums of Manila with Lino Brocka and rebel against everything with Dennis Hopper
Jul 11, 2023•1 hr 44 min
#107 - The Abyss
The Silent World (1956) / The Rift (1990) This week we’re taking a dive down to the great depths as we descend into the not-so-silent world of Jacques Cousteau and battle mutants on a salvage mission with JP Simon
Jul 04, 2023•1 hr 46 min
#106 - The Novelist's Film
106 - The Sergeant (1968) / The Wonderful Ice Cream Suit (1998) This week we’re drafting a thesis on novelist screenplays as we take the sergeants uniform out of the closet with Rod Steiger and pick up Ray Bradury’s $100 ice cream suit from the shop
Jun 27, 2023•1 hr 49 min
#105 - Where There's Smoke, There's Fire
105 - Letter Never Sent (1960) / Quest for Fire (1981) This week we're searching for the eternal flame with Jean-Jacques Annand’s questing cavemen while Mikhail Kalatozov’s dizzying forest fire has us running for our lives
Jun 20, 2023•1 hr 52 min
#104 - Gemini
The Man Who Haunted Himself (1970) / Edge of Sanity (1989) This week we’re smoking on that shit that made Anthony Perkins turn into Jack “The Ripper” Hyde and seeing double [07] as Roger Moore haunts himself
Jun 13, 2023•1 hr 24 min
#103 - Agitators
Comrades (1986) / Patty Hearst (1988) This week we form a union of friendship with Bill Douglas and the Torpuddle Martyrs and get kidnapped by Paul Schrader’s visions of St. Patty Hearst
Jun 06, 2023•1 hr 53 min
#102 - Ladies Night
Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964) / Mississippi Masala (1991) with special guest Alex Sherman This week it’s ladies night in the deep south as we lose our minds in Louisiana with Bette Davis and fall in love in Mississippi with Mira Nair
May 30, 2023•1 hr 59 min
#101 - Genesis
The Man Without a Past (2002) / Kannathil Muthamittal (2002) This week we’re starting fresh as we get amnesia and move into a shipping container with Aki Kaurismaki while Mani Ratnam takes us to Sri Lanka on an adoption odyssey
May 23, 2023•1 hr 50 min
#100 - The Gauntlet 100th Episode Special
GAUNTLET 100: A CELEBRATION & RETROSPECTIVE This week we celebrate ourselves by taking a look back at the first 2 years, 99 episodes, 196 movies, and 177 hours of The Gauntlet with special guest MC Alex Sherman
May 16, 2023•2 hr 32 min
The Gauntlet Movie Mixtape Volume #4
THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME #4 A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET From Rivalry Week to Sick Day Movies Music and Sounds from Episodes #31-40 Ganga Bruta (1933) | Road House (1948) | Some Came Running (1958) | A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (1971) | All the Colors of the Dark (1972) | Breaking Away (1979) | Continental Divide (1981) | Sugar Cane Alley (1983) | The Sisterhood (1988) | Mountains of the Moon (1990) | Vacas (1992) | Archipiélago (1992) | Good Burger (1997) | Futuresport (1998) ...
May 09, 2023•56 min
#99 - Party Like It's 1999
Belly (1998) / Bringing Out the Dead (1999) with special guest Ryland Walker Knight This week: apocalyptic visions at the fin de siècle as we hustle through NYC’s underbelly with Hype Williams and cruise its haunted streets in Martin Scorsese’s ambulance
May 02, 2023•1 hr 48 min
#98 - Mysteries of Lisbon
In the White City (1983) / O Fantasma (2000) This week we’re heading to Lisbon in search of unstructured time as we wander the white city with Alain Tanner and dig through the trash with João Pedro Rodrigues
Apr 25, 2023•1 hr 28 min
#97 - Take it to the Bank
Bamako (2006) / Life Without Principle (2011) This week: globalization and its discontents as we put the financial system on trial with Abderrahmane Sissako and crash the market with Johnnie To’s recession thriller
Apr 18, 2023•1 hr 52 min
#96 - Heroes of the East
7-Man Army (1976) / Odd Couple (1979) This week everybody’s kung-fu fighting as we defend the great wall with Chang Cheh and duel with a double dose of Lau Kar-wing and Sammo Hung
Apr 11, 2023•1 hr 34 min
#95 - Steamulacra and Steamulation
95 – Playing with Fire (1975) / Emanuelle in America (1977) This week things are getting steamy at the arthouse and grindhouse as we are kidnapped into a labyrinth of pleasure by Alain Robbe-Grillet and shoved into Joe D’Amato’s videodrome
Apr 04, 2023•1 hr 50 min
#94 - Paranoid Rhizoid
Dossier 51 (1978) / Pacifiction (2022) This week we’re grappling with forces beyond our control as we join Michel Deville’s shady surveillance operation and grab a cocktail on Albert Serra’s island of torment
Mar 28, 2023•1 hr 44 min
#93 - Game Show Network
Deathrow Gameshow (1987) / Stay Tuned (1992) This week we’re ready at the buzzer because slow reaction time will lead to execution on Mark Pirro’s diabolical game show and a lifetime of hell with Peter Hyams
Mar 21, 2023•1 hr 35 min
#92 - Global Highways
Iracema: Uma Transa Amazônica (1975) / No, or the Vainglory of Command (1990) This week we hitch a ride on the Trans-Amazonian Highway with Jorge Bodanzky & Orlando Senna and truck through Portuguese military history with Manoel de Oliveira
Mar 14, 2023•1 hr 40 min
#91 - World War Fun
The Big Parade (1925) / La Grande Guerra (1959) This week we’re off to the trenches as we march towards love and death with King Vidor’s parade of doughboys while Mario Monicelli’s comic cowards show us that war is no joke
Mar 07, 2023•1 hr 53 min
#90 - The Romantic Comedy
So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993) / Saving Face (2004) This week we’re trying to fall in love but are too busy caring for our pregnant mother with Alice Wu and worrying about serial killers with Michael Myers
Feb 28, 2023•1 hr 49 min
#89 - Take a Chill Pill
Brannigan (1975) / Routine Pleasures (1986) This week we’re in search of relaxation as we join a model railroaders club with Jean-Pierre Gorin and explore the dull rhythms of late John Wayne as he saunters through London
Feb 21, 2023•1 hr 45 min
#88 - Hospitalized
Visiting Hours (1982) / Syndromes and a Century (2006) This week we’re checking in and stalking the corridors of death with Michael Ironside while Apichatpong Weerasethakul prescribes a space of healing
Feb 14, 2023•1 hr 50 min
#87 - Riding the Rails
Train in the Snow (1976) / Unstoppable (2010) This week we’re celebrating the kinetic majesty of the iron horse as we try to dislodge a snow-trapped Yugoslavian children’s cooperative with Tony Scott’s propulsive runaway, choo choo motherfuckers
Feb 07, 2023•1 hr 59 min
#86 - Pre-Code Hollywood
I’m No Angel (1933) / Wild Boys of the Road (1933) This week we’re joining the pre-code circus as we tame lions and men with Mae West and hit the road with Wild Bill’s wild boys (and girls) of the great depression
Jan 31, 2023•1 hr 48 min
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