#142 - Final Films
Paint Your Wagon (1969) / Play Dirty (1969) This week we’re closing out careers as we play dirty with Joshua Logan’s gold rush ménage à trois and paint the desert red with Andre de Toth
May 14, 2024•1 hr 45 min
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#141 - Before the Wedding
I Was a Male War Bride (1949) / Late Autumn (1960) This week we’ll do anything for love as we crossdress with Howard Hawks and try to arrange a marriage with Yasujirō Ozu
Apr 30, 2024•1 hr 40 min
#140 - Artificial Intelligence
Runaway (1984) / Class of 1999 (1990) This week we’re fighting the future as we chase down busted bots with Michael Crichton and dodge killer teachers with Mark L. Lester
Apr 16, 2024•1 hr 22 min
#139 - Misfits
Up in Smoke (1978) / Withnail & I (1986) This week we’re giving the middle finger to polite society as we smoke a giant joint and hit the road with Cheech & Chong and end up on holiday by mistake with Withnail & I
Apr 02, 2024•1 hr 45 min
#138 - The Bad Guys Win
I Am Fugitive From a Chain Gang (1932) / Queimada aka Burn! (1969) This week villainous schemes go according to plan as we’re shackled to a chain gang by Mervyn Leroy and Gillo Pontecorvo feeds us to the bloody revolution
Mar 19, 2024•1 hr 48 min
#137 - Directors as Actors
Requiescant (1967) / Attenberg (2010) This week the directors are on the screen as we wander into a spaghetti western to preach liberation with Pier Paolo Pasolini and get naked and listen to Suicide with Yorgos Lanthimos
Mar 05, 2024•1 hr 40 min
#136 - Life Stories
The Hourglass Sanatorium (1973) / To Live (1994) This week we’re capturing a whole life as we tour a time-bending sanatorium with Wojciech Has and try to survive the people’s republic with Zhang Yimou
Feb 20, 2024•1 hr 34 min
#135 - Shooters
House of Bamboo (1955) / Tempting Heart (1999) This week we’re center framing cinematographers as we take a trip to Japan with Joe MacDonald and interrogate love through time and space with Mark Lee Ping-Bing
Feb 06, 2024•1 hr 31 min
#134 - Stealing with Style
Filibus (1915) / Hudson Hawk (1991) This week we’re stealing with style as we play a game of cat and mouse with Mario Roncoroni’s genderbending sky pirate and try to crack the Da Vinci code with Bruce Willis’ singing burglar
Jan 30, 2024•1 hr 25 min
#133 - Parallel Cinema
133 - Duvidha (1973) / Anantaram (1987) This week we explore parallel cinema as we are hypnotized by Mani Kaul’s mythopoetic ghost story and deconstruct storytelling with Adoor Gopalkrishnan’s unreliable monologue
Jan 23, 2024•1 hr 24 min
The Gauntlet Movie Mixtape Volume #6
THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME 6 A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET From The Truth is Out There to Gettin’ Animated Music and Sounds from Episodes 51-60 Thunder Birds (1942) | Come Back, Africa (1959) | Lancelot du Lac (1974) | Ici et Ailleurs (1974) | Simone Barbès or Virtue (1980) | Times Square (1980) | Night Witches in the Sky (1981) | Lookin’ to Get Out (1982) | Der Fan (1982) | Vampires in Havana (1985) | The Hidden (1987) | The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991) | Love and Death on Lon...
Jan 09, 2024•1 hr 12 min
#132 - Actors Abroad
Little Buddha (1993) / I Come with the Rain (2009) This week we’re getting outside of our comfort zones as we seek enlightenment in Nepal with Keanu Reeves and try to find a missing person in Hong Kong with Josh Hartnett
Jan 02, 2024•1 hr 36 min
#131 - New Movie Revue
131 - Metal Detector Maniac (2021) / Earth Mama (2023) This week it’s out with the old and in with the new as we take a suspicious sabbatical with Matt Farley and fight for our children’s future with Savanah Leaf PLUS! Year-end favorites with special guest Ryland Walker Knight
Dec 26, 2023•1 hr 51 min
#130 - Old Farts
Tough Guys (1986) / Children of Nature (1991) This week we’re making way for tomorrow as we saunter out of prison and into the 80s with Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas and break out of the retirement home with Friðrik Þór Friðriksson
Dec 19, 2023•1 hr 37 min
#129 - Under Siege
La Guerre des Tuques (1984) / Tenement (1985) This week we’re under attack as we defend a Quebecois snow fort with André Melançon’s little soldiers and try to fight off a murderous gang in the South Bronx with Roberta Findlay
Dec 12, 2023•1 hr 38 min
#128 - Ecce Romani
Duel of the Titans (1961) / Sebastiane (1976) This week all roads lead to Rome as we fight to found a city with Sergio Corbucci’s beefcakes and lounge in exile with St. Derek Jarman’s shimmering soldiers
Dec 05, 2023•1 hr 33 min
#127 - Czech It Out
Invention for Destruction (1958) / Case for a Rookie Hangman (1970) This week we’re getting a Czech stamp in our cinema passports as we sail through the fantastical world of Karel Zeman and stumble through the looking glass with Pavel Juráček
Nov 28, 2023•1 hr 33 min
#126 - Thanksgiving
Vai~E~Vem aka Come and Go (2003) / The New World (2006) This week we’re giving thanks as we feast on the mythopoetics of Terrence Malick and stuff ourselves with the perverse philosophies of João César Monteiro
Nov 21, 2023•1 hr 58 min
#125 - Hugs and Kisses
It’s Always Fair Weather (1955) / Passing Strangers (1974) This week we’re embracing male relationships as we dance through the ups and downs of friendship with Gene Kelly & Stanley Donen and fly kites in the bay with Arthur J. Bressan Jr.’s young lovers
Nov 14, 2023•1 hr 40 min
#124 - Convoy
Hell Drivers (1957) / High-Ballin’ (1978) This week we’re joining the great big convoy as we drive dangerously with Cy Endfield’s working class haulers and fight off hijackers with Peter Carter’s easy riders
Nov 07, 2023•1 hr 45 min
#123 - Horror on the Range
Eyes of Fire (1983) / Phantom Town (1998) This week we’re facing fear on the frontier as we settle on cursed land with Avery Crounse and get lost in Jeff Burr’s wild west phantasmagoria
Oct 31, 2023•1 hr 43 min
#122 - The World Cinema Project
Lewat Djam Malam (1954) / Sambizanga (1972) This week we’re saluting Scorsese and the World Cinema Project as we join Sarah Maldoror in the fight for Angolan independence and struggle to adapt to post-revolutionary Indonesia with Usmar Ismail
Oct 24, 2023•1 hr 33 min
#121 - Blood & Guts
A Cat in the Brain (1990) / Coffin Homes (2021) This week we’re wallowing in gore as we paw our way into the twisted mind of Lucio Fulci and hack each other to bits over real estate with Fruit Chan
Oct 17, 2023•1 hr 49 min
#120 - Gauntlet Motor Speedway
Pit Stop (1969) / The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (1975) This week we’re revving our engines and peeling out as we speed through the world of Figure 8 racing with Jack Hill while Ivo Caprino shows us how to animate a grand prix winner
Oct 10, 2023•1 hr 39 min
#119 - The Bush Years
The Passion of the Christ (2004) / Shoot ‘Em Up (2007) This week we’re plunging neck deep into the dark heart of the Bush years as we go in whips blazing with Mel Gibson and preach the gospel of guns with Clive Owen
Oct 03, 2023•1 hr 50 min
#118 - Fear
Ministry of Fear (1944) / The Hitcher (1986) This week we’re pissing our pants and going into survival mode as we get trapped in Fritz Lang’s nest of spies while Rutger Hauer stalks us on the open road
Sep 26, 2023•1 hr 46 min
#117 - The Big House
Attica (1974) / Life (1999) This week we’re headed to the slammer as we do life with Eddie Murphy and Martin Lawrence and lose our Firestone fortune documenting the Attica uprising
Sep 19, 2023•1 hr 38 min
#116 - Mad Fate
116 - The Dream Lady (1918) / Macbeth (1948) This week we’re spinning the wheel of fortune as we tempt fate with Orson Welles and pitch a soothsaying tent with Elsie Jane Wilson
Sep 12, 2023•1 hr 34 min
#115 - Fairy Tales
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958) / Some Call it Loving (1973) Once upon a time we woke up sleeping beauty with James B. Harris and set sail for the island of Colossa with Ray Harryhausen…
Sep 05, 2023•1 hr 33 min
#114 - Broadcast News
The War of the Worlds: Next Century (1981) / Six O’Clock News (1996) This week we’re broadcasting live from the martian invasion with Piotr Szulkin while Ross McElwee takes us beyond the confines of the nightly news
Aug 29, 2023•1 hr 54 min
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