The World’s Greatest Sinner (1962) / This Night I’ll Possess Your Corpse (1967) God is dead this week as we get swept up in a whirlwind of sin and join the vainglorious crusades of Timothy Carey and José Mojica Marins
The Last Wagon (1956) / The Gauntlet (1977) This week we fight our way through the grand canyon state as we hitch a ride on the last wagon with Delmer Daves’ and run the gauntlet with Clint Eastwood
Young Einstein (1988) / C.S.A.: The Confederate States of America (2004) This week we’re rewriting history as Yahoo Serious has Tasmanian apple farmer Albert Einstein split the beer atom and Kevin Willmott’s mock doc asks how different America would be had the Confederates won the civil war
Potop aka The Deluge (1974) This week we don our fuzzy hats, load up on pierogies, and charge forward in our polar bear sleigh as we join Jerzy Hoffman in defending the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth against short movies and Swedish invaders
On the Silver Globe (1988) / Highlander II (1991) This week we’re sifting through the wreckage of troubled productions as we crash land on the silver globe with Andrzej Żuławski and battle insurance companies for immortality with Russell Mulcahey
The White Reindeer (1952) / The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) This week we summon some fresh powder from the Finnish stone gods, unearthing our inner assassin with Renny Harlin and using our new antlers to gore hunters with Erik Blomberg
Body and Soul (1925) / Elmer Gantry (1960) This week we’re being led astray by opportunistic preachers as we put our faith in Oscar Micheaux’s melodrama and hit the revival tour to repent with Burt Lancaster’s traveling salesman
Beyond the Time Barrier (1960) / Timestalkers (1987) This week we zap through time like a bolt of lightning, landing in a plague-ravaged future with Edgar G. Ulmer while a tintype zips us back to the Wild West with Michael Schultz
24 Hour Party People (2002) / The Forest for the Trees (2003) This week we’re rolling the tape back to the MiniDV era as we get lost in the proverbial forest with Maren Ade and fly high in Madchester with Michael Winterbottom
THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME 3 A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET From A Date with Doris to The Long Cinema Club Music and Sounds from Episodes 21-30 Barabbas (1961) – Bad Girls Go to Hell (1965) – Marat/Sade (1967) – Dirkie (1969) – White Sun of the Desert (1970) – Deadly Weapons (1974) – Summerfield (1977) – Missing (1982) – Suspicion (1982) – Quicksilver (1986) – The Beast of War (1988) – The Cyclist (1989) – Color of Night (1994) – Waiting to Exhale (1995) – Now and Then (1995) – Th...
Weather Diary 1 (1986) / White Squall (1996) This week we’ve got some severe weather on the forecast as we batten down the hatches in Tornado Alley with George Kuchar and set sail on the high seas with Sir Ridley
Fear Over The City (1975) / The Hunter Will Get You (1976) This week we’re savoring the post-new wave star vehicles of Jean-Paul Belmondo, with death defying stunt work arranged by Henri Verneuil and a fake mustache provided by Philippe Labro
Cruel Tale of Bushido (1963) / The Quince Tree Sun (1992) This week we’re going for gold and exploring past winners of CIFF as we try to paint a tree with Victor Erice and traverse generations of cursed samurai with Tadashi Imai
EO (2022) / Dead for a Dollar (2022) This week we’re taking a look at new works from octogenarians as we saddle up once more with Walter Hill and go inside the mind of a donkey with Jerzy Skolimowski
Three Seconds (2017) / AK-47 (2020) This week we go inside the twisted mind of Russian state cinema as we go for gold with the 1972 Soviet Men’s Olympic basketball team and pull a shift at the weapons factory with Mikhail Kalashnikov
Assassination (1987) / Bulworth (1998) This week we’re dodging bullets in the halls of power as we join Senator Jay Bulworth’s doomed campaign and try to protect the first lady with Charles Bronson
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) / The Witches of Eastwick (1987) This week we’re casting deadly spells as we conjure the perfect man with George Miller’s coven and take a psychedelic joyride thru WW2 on Angela Lansbury’s bed
A Very Curious Girl (1969) / The Unfaithful Wife (1969) This week we’re tripping on a double dose of 1969 as we explore the sexual revolution and its consequences with Nelly Kaplan and Claude Chabrol
2010 (1984) / Videograms of a Revolution (1992) This week we’re calibrating our monitors as we probe a space odyssey with Peter Hyams and sift through images of revolution with Harun Farocki and Andrei Ujică
Southern Comfort (1981) / In the Electric Mist (2009) This week we’re trudging through the bayou with The National Guard and Dave Robicheaux as we try to solve murders with Bertrand Tavernier and hope to survive with Walter Hill
THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME TWO A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET From No Escape to All Creatures Great and Small Music and Sounds from Episodes 11-20 La fin du monde (1930) – No Greater Glory (1934) – The Lusty Men (1957) – The Incredible Journey (1963) – Salto (1965) – My Little Loves (1974) – McQ (1974) – First Graders (1984) – Three O’Clock High (1987) – Exorcist II: Heretic (1977) – Knightriders (1981) – An Autumn’s Tale (1987) – Clearcut (1991) – Stalin (1992) – Most Valuable Pr...
Gentleman Jim (1942) / Kid Galahad (1962) This week we’re rolling with the punches as we bob and weave through the origins of boxing with Raoul Walsh and take one on the chin with Elvis in Phil Karlson’s gruff musical
New Jersey Drive (1995) / Snow on Tha Bluff (2011) This week we’re just trying to survive as we get carjacked in Atlanta by Curtis Snow and go joyriding in Newark with Nick Gomez
Night and Day (2008) / Moffie (2019) This week the summer breeze has us feeling so fine as we get drunk and confused in Paris with Hong Sang-soo and find a sliver of humanity in a South African barracks with Oliver Hermanus
The Private Eyes (1976) / They All Laughed (1981) This week we investigate two private detective agencies and get swept up in the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong with the Hui brothers and look for love on the streets of NYC with Peter Bogdanovich
The Passionate Friends (1949) / The Great Outdoors (1988) This week we’re kicking it lakeside as David Lean takes us on an emotional speedboat ride through time and we invade Wisconsin’s Northwoods with Howard Deutch’s Chicago jagoffs
Ta'ang (2016) / Rambo: Last Blood (2019) This week we cross a border into cursed territory, as Adrian Grünberg's hackwork reveals the inherent cowardice of John Rambo while Wang Bing bears witness to the endurance and strength of refugees from Myanmar.
Vampires in Havana (1985) / The Grand Bizarre (2018) This week we’re getting animated as we stop-motion around the world in Jodie Mack’s intricately woven textile tapestry travelog and get bitten in Havana by Juan Padrón’s revolutionary vampire comedy
The Fan (1982) / Love and Death on Long Island (1997) This week we’re feverishly writing fan mail as we fall into a trance with Eckhart Schmidt and Richard Kwietniowski shows us it’s never too late to fall in love with a hot C-list actor
58 - Anatomy of Hell (2004) / How I Ended This Summer (2010) This week we locked ourselves in for a two-hander, as Catherine Breillat helps us get under each other's skin and Alexei Popogrebski cools us down with a bucket of Russian Arctic water.
