57 - Times Square (1980) / The Apple (1998) This week, mom and dad are out of town and we’re throwing a house party with Allan Moyle's punk anthems, Samira Makhmalbaf's stolen ice cream, and a six-pack of self-discovery.
56 - Come Back, Africa (1959) / Ici et Ailleurs (1974) This week we explore hybrid documentaries, as Lionel Rogosin secretly captures South Africa under apartheid and Anne-Marie Miéville helps Jean-Luc Godard confront ghosts of past and present.
Thunder Birds (1942) / Night Witches in the Sky (1981) This week we soar through the clouds alongside two real life aviators, as Wild Bill Wellman helps us get our wings while Yevgeniya Zhigulenko leads us on night bombing raids
Simone Barbes or Virtue (1980) / The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991) This week we're pulling an all-nighter as we take tickets in a porno theater with Marie-Claude Treilhou and stage an explosive coup in Beverly Hills with Sidney J. Furie
Lancelot du Lac (1974) / The 13th Warrior (1999) This week we explore Medieval tomes of spiritual agony, listening carefully to Robert Bresson’s clanking armor and filling in the gaps of John McTiernan’s massacred Viking epic
Lookin’ to Get Out (1982) / Fat Choi Spirit (2002) This week we’re testing our luck, risking it all in blackjack and mahjongg as we hit the tables with Hal Ashby and Johnnie To
The Hidden (1987) / Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs (2005) This week we’re putting on our tinfoil hats as we try to track down materialistic and murderous aliens with Jack Sholder while a sweaty Dan Aykroyd tells us the damage is already done
The Five Heartbeats (1991) / Platform (2000) This week we’re getting sentimental as we hit the road with Robert Townsend and The Five Heartbeats and tour the countryside with Jia Zhangke and the Fenyang Peasant Cultural Group
Entranced Earth (1967) / Escape from L.A. (1996) This week we’re raging against the machine as we hit the campaign trail with Glauber Rocha and try to escape from John Carpenter’s theocratic nightmare
Stage Door (1937) / Hell in the Pacific (1968) This week we’re moving in together, shacking up with the aspiring actresses of Gregory La Cava’s Footlights club and staking out a claim on John Boorman’s contested island beach
THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME ONE A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET From Chicago Guys to Take Me Out to the Ballgame Music and Sounds from Episodes 1-10 Stormy Weather (1943) – Black Book aka Reign of Terror (1949) – Caught (1949) – Calamity Jane (1953) – The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961) – Martha (1974) – 92 in the Shade (1975) – Orca (1977) – Maa Bhoomi (1979) – The Hunter (1980) – A Question of Silence (1982) – The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) – Haunted Honeymoon (1986) – Eight Men Ou...
News From Home (1977) / Serial Mom (1994) This week we’re giving our moms a ring after we bear witness to motherly love through Chantal Akerman’s foreign correspondence and John Waters’ display of murderous affection
The Penalty (1920) / Miami Blues (1990) This week we’re wreaking havoc with charismatic villains as Lon Chaney unleashes a blizzard of crimes on San Francisco and George Armitage shows us how to embrace the criminal-entrepreneurial spirit in Miami
The Family Jewels (1965) / Men & Chicken (2015) This week we’re sanctioning buffoonery and focusing on fools as we discuss the many jewels of Jerry Lewis and ponder our animal nature with Anders Thomas Jensen
The Pit and the Pendulum (1991) / Death and the Compass (1996) This week we annotate a pair of short story adaptations and get lost in a Borgesian labyrinth with Alex Cox and try to survive Stuart Gordon’s inquisition
Blood Money (1974) / Take a Hard Ride (1975) This week we’re wasting away in Margheriti-ville, gorging on spaghetti with a global twist as we search for butts & treasure with Lee Van Cleef & Lo Lieh and take a hard ride with Jim Brown & Fred Williamson
The Mattei Affair (1972) / Gas Pump Girls (1979) This week we get a crash course on oil from Francesco Rosi, who teaches us how to erect out of Italy’s postwar rubble, while Joel Bender’s Gas Pump Girls show us how to squeeze it for all it’s worth
The Gravy Train (1974) / A Perfect Couple (1979) This week we’re doubling down on Dooley in roles big and small as we search for the perfect couple with Robert Altman and romp and stomp through D.C. with Jack Starrett and the Dion Brothers
Breaking Away (1979) / Good Burger (1997) This week we’re taking a sick day and prescribing some cinematic medicine: burger flipping and strawberry jacuzzis with Kenan & Kel and a long bike ride through Indiana with Peter Yates
Archipiélago (1992) / The House that Jack Built (2018) This week we’re taking a seat at the drafting table as we construct a house of corpses with Lars von Trier and try to restore a church – and Chile’s collective memory – with Pablo Perelman Watch Archipiélago for FREE via Cineteca Nacional de Chile: https://www.cclm.cl/cineteca-online/archipielago/
Road House (1948) / Terribly Happy (2008) This week we’re taking the crime out of the city as we go bowling at the road house with Jean Negulesco and get reassigned to oblivion in the boggy lowlands with Henrik Ruben Genz
A Lizard in a Woman’s Skin (1971) / All the Colors of the Dark (1972) This week we’re having bad dreams with Lucio Fulci and Sergio Martino as we attend black mass and trip with debauched hippies in swinging London
Sugar Cane Alley (1983) / Shottas (2002) This week we’re island hopping in the Caribbean as Euzhan Palcy transports us to the sugar cane fields of 1930s Martinique and we get blazed from Kingston to Miami with Cess Silveira’s shottas
Waxworks (1924) / Ganga Bruta (1933) This week we explore the universal language of silent cinema and love triangles as we tour Paul Leni’s nightmarish waxworks and flee to the Brazilian countryside to erect a factory with Humberto Mauro
Continental Divide (1981) / Smoke Signals (1998) This week venture into the Dream Life with two films screened by US presidents: first we help Michael Apted lug Belushi up the rockies then we hit the road with Chris Eyre’s indigenous buddy comedy
The Sisterhood (1988) / Futuresport (1998) This week the future is now as we hoverboard through a geopolitical crisis with Ernest R. Dickerson and try to survive Cirio H. Santiago’s post-apocalyptic wasteland with a band of women warriors
Some Came Running (1958) / Avengement (2019) Join us this week for two fraught homecomings as Frank Sinatra drinks his troubles away in a Minnelli-drama and Scott Adkins guzzles pints and holds court in a Jesse V. Johnson beat-em-up
Mountains of the Moon (1990) / Vacas (1992) It’s rivalry week as we head to Basque country with Julio Medem for some log cutting and generational conflict and then set out to find the source of the Nile with Bob Rafelson’s adventurous duo Burton & Speke
The Works and Days (of Tayoko Shiojiri in the Shiotani Basin) (2020) This week we’re going long in our shortest episode yet as we depart from our normal format to toil in the fields of C.W. Winter & Anders Edström’s 480-minute poem of life and loss in the mountains of Kyoto Prefecture
Waiting to Exhale (1995) / Now and Then (1995) This week our pal Alex Sherman joins us as we wait to exhale with the ladies of Forest Whitaker’s sensual melodrama and raise the dead with the BFFs of Lesli Linka Glatter’s nostalgic flashback
