Weekend Watchlist: Triangle of Sadness, TÁR and Hellraiser
[Izon by Trent Walton fades in, plays alone, fades out]
MITCHELL Hello and welcome to Weekend Watchlist, a look at what’s screening and streaming, brought to you by The Letterboxd Show. I’m Mitchell, he’s Slim...
SLIM Hello.
MITCHELL And together we’ll dig through what’s dropping this weekend, last weekend, recent trends on Letterboxd and we’ll also take a peek at our own watchlists—all under 30 minutes or I will be put back in the basement where I’ve been for the last month and I will not be allowed out again.
SLIM Mitchell, welcome back to the show! You’ve been on assignment on Four Faves for the last like a month or so.
MITCHELL Yeah, it’s been it’s been a while. I’m excited to be back. I will say, I’m feeling a little bit like a third-wheel now because you and Mia have just been crushing it. The chemistry has been on-point. I feel like I’m stepping into something and maybe I’m not as welcome but happy to be here.
SLIM We missed you. We missed you a ton over these last few weeks. And it’s funny, I just, I looked at your face when I said “hello” differently in my intro and you almost did like a triple-take. [Mitchell laughs]
MITCHELL I freaked out.
SLIM You’re like, ‘It’s not right.’ [Mitchell & Slim laugh] So this week, it’s a big week.
MITCHELL Maybe the biggest week ever... I don’t know.
SLIM Some are saying that—I won’t say that—but some are saying that. [Mitchell laughs] Triangle of Sadness will lead-off our discussion this week, coming out this weekend. Cate Blanchett in TÁR and a brand new Hellraiser is hitting Hulu. We don’t even have to leave our couch to see a brand new Hellraiser this weekend. So I’m very excited about that. We’ll also look back and see what everyone thought of last week’s releases, see it their averages on Letterboxd and your own community reviews tagged ‘Weekend Watchlist’. And of course, finally, we’ll talk about our own shuffled watchlists later in the show.
MITCHELL It’s been a while since I shuffled, but I got it taken care of. I shuffled something over a month ago, I watched it this morning before we recorded. [Mitchell & Slim laugh]
SLIM Very last minute. I love it.
MITCHELL Well, we’ll get into that a bit later. But to start us off, let’s get a little Palme d’Or talking—we’re kicking off this week with Triangle of Sadness, the new film by director Ruben Östlund, on 87,000 watchlists. This film, premiered at Cannes, won the Palme d’Or, Ruben’s second Palme d’Or in like five years. His last movie The Square in 2017 won it as well. Triangle of Sadness synopsis: ”Models Carl and Yaya are invited for a luxury cruise with a rogues’ gallery of super-rich engers. At first, all appears Instagrammable, but the cruise ends catastrophically and the group find themselves marooned on a desert island.” Slim, how are you feeling about Triangle of Sadness?
SLIM I’ve been seeing this trailer a lot. I think I’ve seen more movies in the last few weeks than I have in the last few months in theaters. So I’ve seen the trailer a ton. And it looks funny. I mean, the poster I think you mentioned is that woman barfing?
MITCHELL Yeah. There’s a bunch of posters for it and there’s one that’s like a woman barfing confetti and glitter—it is gross to me. I am glad that we have the new ‘Change Poster’ feature so I can make it whatever I want and do not have to look at that. [Slim & Mitchell laugh]
SLIM But so I have not seen any of Ruben’s films, I’m a Ruben noob, but the trailer looks funny. It makes it look like an ensemble cast. I’m not sure how true that may or may not be based on that synopsis. But I’m excited to see it. What about you?
MITCHELL Yeah, I’m really stoked for it. I’m a huge fan of Force Majeure, his 2014 film, which I think you’d really like. It’s confusing and evolving relationships and marriage and views of your partner and tackling gender conventions around masculinity and all this different kind of stuff in a really just bizarre setup. It’s really darkly comic but also really tragic [at] times. I really liked Force Majeure. I have not gotten around to The Square, it won the Palme d’Or but then got kind of mixed-ish reactions when it started playing in, you know, more general release. So of course, I do own it... But... [Mitchell laughs]
SLIM What don’t you own? You have a vast library of movies that may or may not all still be in saran wrap.
MITCHELL I have not watched it yet. But I’ll check it out. I’ll check it out this week probably before, you know, seeing Flynn, you know, one of our co-workers here at Letterboxd, who’s manning the social shifts. Flynn’s review keeps it simple, just says: “Oh my god.” [Slim & Mitchell laugh]
SLIM Flynn’s review style—everyone has a different style and that is definitely a Flynn review, in my opinion. Joe Reid left a review: “Because sometimes the prospect of being subtle about how awful rich people are is enough to make you want to puke.”
MITCHELL Very true. We’ll shout out one more Cinephile the Card Game: “An absolute savage satire of old money/new money, power dynamics, gender roles and the ridiculous contradictions that we all live with in our modern lives. Funny and biting with a great cast top to bottom. A little long but my favorite Östlund film to date and one of my favorites of the year.” So Östlund fans, get hype.
SLIM Get hype and eat the rich, this weekend in theaters. Next is Todd Field. Todd field is back on 40,000 watchlists with his new movie TÁR, limited theaters. The synopsis: “The film, set in the international world of classical music, centers on Lydia Tár, widely considered one of the greatest living composer/conductors and first-ever female chief conductor of a major German orchestra.” So this has been described as “Cate Blanchett’s Raging Bull.” What are you hearing?
MITCHELL Yeah, I mean, the hype around Cate Blanchett in this movie is astronomical. It definitely feels like one of those things where she, you know, won her second Oscar less than a decade ago, but it feels like she might be coming for her third, it might be one of those just undeniable things. So I’m—we all love Cate Blanchett. I’m very excited for it. But I have to say, the big thing for me, I’m so stoked for Todd Field to be back. I love In the Bedroom, Little Children. I seeing Little Children, his last movie, which was like, what, sixteen years ago now. I seeing it when I was sixteen years old at this little, tiny art house theater in Dover, Delaware when I was like, my love for serious cinema was burgeoning. Me and my friend were the only people there. And it like absolutely blew my mind, and In the Bedroom might be even better than it. So I can’t believe that this is only the third film that we’re getting from Todd Field as a director. But that’s the thing that I’m like most excited for. And I mean, it’s got a great—Cate Blanchett, of course, but Nina Hoss also is one of the main characters in it, who I love from her work with Christian Petzold in movies like Phoenix and Barbara. I adore her, so I’m super stoked to see her in a Todd Field movie. I’m very excited about it.
SLIM Flynn and Gemma hit the red carpet recently. They actually spoke with the director of this movie. And Gemma put the question to Todd, why Cate? Why Cate Blanchett for this role? Let’s hear what Todd had to say. Can we play the clip? Do we have a clip?
MITCHELL Let’s hear the clip!
TODD FIELD Well, I mean, the short answer is Cate and I had spoken about doing a film about ten years ago. I was collaborating on a film with with my friend, Joan Didion, and whatever reasons that the film didn’t end up happening, but Cate left a distinct impression out of those conversations as a collaborator and a potential collaborator. And that’s precisely what this role required. And I’m so very, very lucky and we’re all very lucky to see what she’s done, I think.
SLIM Imagine being able to cast Cate Blanchett in your movie.
MITCHELL What a treat, what a treat that could be. Wonderful words there.
SLIM Cate Blanchett as Mitchell in The Life Story of Mitchell Beaupre.
MITCHELL Cate, why not? Why not, Cate? [Slim laughs]
SLIM Are you listening, Cate?
MITCHELL Let’s make it happen, Cate. You can do it—honestly, people have said it’s hard to pull off. It’s hard to capture the gravitas of Mitchell Beaupre, but I think Kate can do it.
SLIM The red hair on Cate Blanchett in Dover, Delaware. Do you believe? [Slim laughs]
MITCHEL She’s done it—she had red hair in Bandits, if anybody re Bandits, the 2001 threesome movie with her and Billy Bob Thornton and Bruce Willis. She can pull it off...
SLIM Oh my god. So we have some reviews. Mia, our dear friend Mia.
MITCHELL Shout out to Mia Vicino, in the building.
SLIM Mia Vicino left a review: “TÁR GOES HÁRD” And you know she got the joke in that review. You know she was feeling it when she posted that review.
MITCHELL I will—quick point of correction here. I will say, you know, the audience can’t see this but I can see it. We have a Google Doc that we use for these episodes, and I have to just say to everybody, Slim did not put the accent over the Á, in the title for TÁR in the Google Doc. [Slim laughs]
SLIM You know how much of a pain in the butt it is to put accents on letters on a computer—I’m not doing that unless I have to!
MITCHELL It’s not that hard.
SLIM In the episode when this goes out, it’ll be in it, but otherwise I’m not doing it.
MITCHELL [Mitchell sighs] Just criminal, criminal... [Slim laughs]
SLIM Senior editor is beside themselves right now hearing me say that.
MITCHELL Todd Field is coming for Slim. [Slim & Mitchell laugh] Let’s see what Brian Formo, our editorial producer, man was a golden voice has to say about TÁR—I mean I rarely see Brian stanning as hard for a movie as he does for TÁR. This is just a little excerpt from his very long Letterboxd review: “‘Time is the thing. Time is the essential piece of interpretation. You cannot start without me; I start the clock.’ That’s how Lydia Tár describes her profession. It’s also the best way to approach the movie. You give yourself over to the amount of time a filmmaker and performer use to present their story. Time is also an era, however, and this era requires more time to thoughtfully explore muddy waters. More time still, if the time is not being used to make an easy topical statement. And all the time you need if you have a performer like Blanchett playing the notes.”
SLIM Wow. Can you imagine a podcast with the Golden Voice and the Golden Eagle together? Doing a podcast together?
MITCHELL That... I don’t know if people can handle that, honestly. [Slim laughs] It might be too much.
SLIM It might be too much...
MITCHELL But let’s see what we can make happen...
SLIM Alright. So last major release we’ll spotlight is Hellraiser hitting Hulu, directed by David Bruckner. This on 15,000 watchlists, hitting Hulu as we mentioned. The synopsis: “A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimensh.” So I’m excited for a new Hellraiser. What’s your history with the Hellraiser franchise? The first one is formative for many people. But what about you?
MITCHELL Yeah, weirdly, I think just the look of pinhead kind of did not vibe with me. So I kind of avoided Hellraiser for a long time. Samm, my partner who also works with us at Letterboxd, and I watched Hellraiser, the first one, like last year, I think, maybe October vibes, and I really dug it. It wasn’t quite as iconic for me and formative maybe if it had been, maybe if I’d watched it when I was like a teenager. But yeah, I really dug its vibe of—I mean, there’s some nasty stuff in that movie. Really, just twisted stuff in that movie. And I know—so I’ve only seen the first one. I have to watch the second and third for this other podcast I’m doing later this month. So I’m excited to check those out. Because I know other people, like people really go hard for the second one. I’ve seen people say that the second one is the best one. But yeah, there’s a shit ton of Hellraiser movies. Right? How many of you seen?
SLIM I have only seen the first one and I think there’s like ten, and I have a friend of mine that has gone through them and I’m not even sure if they ever—I think they just stopped after like five or six. It was a miserable experience. I’m excited. Bless Hulu for having this available on the weekend to watch. I love it when Hulu does a drop like this, Prey, I loved when Prey came out on Hulu. So I’m pretty high on the Hulu train right now for their releases.
MITCHELL Yeah, I am really excited. We were kind of just slashing the later Hellraisers a little bit that we haven’t even seen... [Mitchell & Slim laugh] But I am really excited for this one. I’m a big fan of David Bruckner, he directed the folklore film The Ritual which I think people should check out, but also The Night House last year with Rebecca Hall is a movie that l love. It’s one of the rare times where I watched a horror movie, I watched it at like 1am, alone in my home and was walking around my home after and thinking that I was seeing things in the corner and not sleeping because of it. So I’m really excited to see what he does with this. Also Jamie Clayton is playing the Pin—I don’t know if it’s still called Pinhead in this or not, but the main villain in this, and that’s super exciting. I love Jamie Clayton in Sense8, shout out Sense8 if people haven’t watched the Netflix series Sense8, that’s an awesome show. So I’m really excited to see her in this role. Yeah, I’m stoked to check it out.
SLIM We have some reviews for Liz: “Surprisingly good and very gay but not horny or kinky enough?” The first one is very known for being horny. So maybe not quite in the new one, but we’ll see.
MITCHELL Fingers crossed. We got a review from FakeRobHunter who calls the new Hellraiser: “A grim and grisly feast for the senses tying lore both existing and fresh into a nightmarish journey touching on the high cost of addiction.”
SLIM So we’ll see what everyone thinks of Hellraiser next week. But quick lightning round, Amsterdam for director David O. Russell, it’s on 65,000 watchlists, that’s hitting theaters. “In the 1930s, three friends—a doctor, a nurse, and an attorney—witness a murder, become suspects themselves and uncover one of the most outrageous plots in North American history.” I’ve been seeing a trailer for this a ton. It’s got a star-studded cast in this movie, but with a director with a long history of abusive behavior on set with actors, especially women, as well as [a] sexual-assault allegation by his own niece who filed a police report that didn’t lead the charges because there weren’t witnesses and Russell says it was consensual. So... let’s move on to Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile instead, Mitchell.
MITCHELL Yes, happier times, better coverage here, Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. You know, I don’t go to the movie theater, so I’m not seeing the trailers that are playing in the movie theaters. I generally don’t watch trailers. One trailer that I have watched, many times, is for Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile. And it’s a delight, directed by Josh Gordon and Will Speck—criminally only on 1.8 thousand watchlists! Let’s get those numbers up people! Listen to this synopsis: “When the Primm family moves to New York City, their young son Josh struggles to adapt to his new school and new friends. All of that changes when he discovers Lyle—a singing crocodile—” You heard that right people... “who loves baths, caviar and great music—living in the attic of his new home. The two become fast friends, but when Lyle’s existence is threatened by evil neighbor Mr. Grumps, the Primm’s must band together with Lyle’s charismatic owner, Hector P. Valenti, to show the world that family can come from the most unexpected places and there’s nothing wrong with a big singing crocodile with an even bigger personality.” It is the new Paddington, everybody’s saying it! [Slim laughs] Everyone is excited for it. It’s getting that 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. we all know it’s coming. Slim, on a scale of 10 to 10, how excited are you for Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile? [Slim laughs]
SLIM This feels like it’s hitting in the Mitchell cinematic universe of Clifford the Big Red Dog. I when I first started working at Letterboxd, that was the buzz, that was the Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile of then, and now we have a new Lyle. I saw a poster in theaters a few weeks ago, I sent that into the Letterboxd Slack. So there is certainly buzz from you about this movie, I can confirm that.
MITCHELL A lot of buzz from one specific person. [Mitchell & Slim laugh]
SLIM So we’ll find out next week if that translates to other buzz from other people. But let’s look back at last week. We had those releases come out. Bros is out and about, 3.6 average, so pretty high on Letterboxd right now. I actually was lucky enough to see that in person with Gemma and Flynn of Letterboxd, last week...
MITCHELL Big day. Big moment.
SLIM Traveled into New York City, the Big Apple, and we saw Bros the end of our night. I thought Bros was okay. It’s kind of long. I’m not even sure if it had an editor, to be honest, but it was okay. People laughed, I laughed, had a good time.
MITCHELL Now you know, when you were in New York City for your big day, did you happen to see a singing crocodile?
SLIM I cannot confirm any visuals of a singing crocodile in New York City.
MITCHELL Fair enough.
SLIM There’s probably other animals that scurried in front of my path walking in Manhattan, but no crocodiles. [Slim laughs]
MITCHELL Also coming out last week was Smile, directed by Parker Finn, you and Mia have talked about that one, which is a 3.2 average on Letterboxd. I’m excited to see it. The comparisons to It Follows have been definitely lighting up a little lightbulb for me. We’ve got a review from Kaden who said: “This movie scared tf out of me but it ultimately was a pretty stupid and pretentious knock off version of It Follows. My theater being really full made it better though.” So it’ll be interesting to see how it plays for me alone in my home.
SLIM What about you? What do want a spotlight from the last week or the last month since you’ve been on the show?
MITCHELL Yeah, I’ve got a big kind of cavalcade of things that I’ve been catching up on over the last month, some new releases hitting things for me. There’s definitely some that I watched that I did not care for... Men, Thor: Love and Thunder, Blonde, Bullet Train—not really a fan of those. But yeah, some that I did dig, Bodies Bodies Bodies...
SLIM Ohh...
MITCHELL Samm and I watched that together and I feel like it kind of got mismarketed a little bit as a horror-slasher but it’s really more of a dark comedy, like certainly thriller elements, you know, people get... there’s blood in it. But it more just plays like a dark comedy for me and I found it really enjoyable. The reviews shining out Rachel Sennott as the MVP are not wrong in any measure. She is phenomenal in it. And I think that, I mean, she’s a goddamn star.
SLIM Yeah, I mean, I keep seeing Rachel photos pop up in my feed thanks to the Letterboxd social s and man alive, we need more Rachel in our lives. That’s a fact.
MITCHELL We all need more Rachel Sennott in our lives. [Slim laughs]
SLIM You mentioned Blonde, that’s sitting at a 2.2 average on Letterboxd right now. Bianca left her review: “WOW I am angry! There are so many issues I have with this movie. The only positive thing I can say is I do think the acting performances are good and Ana de Armas looks stunning, but that’s where it ends. Everything else is a crime.”
MITCHELL Justice for Ana de Armas. You know, I mean, we all—we love her. The Gray Man and then Blonde, come on, she’s got to get in better stuff. If people haven’t seen Deep Water though, Deep Water is great. She’s great in it. That’s on Hulu. Everything’s good on Hulu, but... check out Deep Water on Hulu. [Mitchell & Slim laugh] Now, let’s do a quick check in here on the updates on the Letterboxd Top 50 of 2022 list compiled and curated by Jack’s Facts. We got some big, big updates this week.
SLIM This is huge.
MITCHELL We have two films crashing the top ten of the year this week. The higher-placing one, Argentina, 1985 enters the list all the way up at number three, Jack says, “threatening Everything Everywhere All at Once for that number-one slot.” It’s got a 4.4 rating. So it would contend for a spot in our all-time top 40 at the moment. It’s, you know, from what Jack says, it’s a courtroom drama that covers the trial of Argentinian dictators of the ’70s and early-’80s. Jack says, “think The Trial of the Chicago 7 meets Judgment at Nuremberg.” It premiered at the Venice Film Festival and came out in Argentina on September 29. So that’s probably where like this big surge in the rating is coming from. It’s in theaters right now in the US, according to Jack, literally in one cinema on the beach in Santa Monica. [Mitchell laughs]
SLIM Oh my god.
MITCHELL So Santa Monica, go check it out. But it comes out everywhere on Prime Video on Amazon on October 21st and it’s Argentina’s submission to the Oscars. So definitely, I mean check that, I’m definitely gonna be checking that out when it comes out on Prime.
SLIM That’s pretty... high.
MITCHELL Big, big.
SLIM It’s going up the list folks, for our studious listeners that track to see what could be in the Year in Review. I mean, you better write this down. Something is brewing in the Year in Review right now.
MITCHELL I do know that it stars Ricardo Darín, who’s like a huge actor. He’s in Wild Tales, if people have seen that, The Secret in their Eyes, I think that won the Oscar for Best International Film in 2010. He’s a phenomenal actor. So that’s another reason why I’m excited to check it out.
SLIM Okay, it’s time to go to our own watchlists. You shuffled six months ago, the last time you were on the show. [Mitchell laughs] I shuffled last week, I’ll just briefly go through my pick, I got Messiah of Evil, from the directors of Howard the Duck. It’s about a young girl who goes looking for a missing artist’s father, and when she gets there, she encounters a bunch of strange occurrences and people, one of which being this dude that she has the hots for—very unsettling human being in this movie. But there was one cool scene where a character goes to the movies, and there’s a camera kind of like in the front row facing her in the seats. And every time it would kind of rotate to what she was watching on the screen and then her and every time we’d go back to her the seats were fuller with these vampiric townspeople—very cool shot. Otherwise, I didn’t care for it. So I’m unfortunately still in the L-column right now for my shuffling watchlist. [Mitchell laughs] It’s on YouTube, though as well, so if folks want to give it a shot, by all means, go ahead.
MITCHELL Yeah, I do know a few, a bunch of friends who are really big fans of that. I haven’t checked it out yet. I own it on Blu-ray, but... [Mitchell & Slim laugh]
SLIM That’s another bootleg shirt idea, “I own it on Blu-ray, but haven’t opened it.”
MITCHELL I’m going to watch it at some point. But yeah, so about, you know, a month and a half, three years, however, who knows what time is, ago, I shuffled with Mia, I think and got Umberto D., an Italian neorealist film from Vittorio De Sica. It’s definitely not a movie for the faint of heart. I watched it first thing this morning—not a movie that really wakes you up. It’s about this old man who is picketing for better pension, you know, he’s not working. He’s poor. He’s struggling to make the backpay on his rent, his landlady is trying to kick him out. He is just trying to sell his watch and nobody’s buying it so that he can make rent. He’s got his little dog. He’s sick. He’s got the flu. He goes to the hospital. They’re like, “Hey, if you were younger, you should get your tonsils taken out. But you know, you’re about to die. So who cares? You know, we’re not going to do that.” He gets out of the hospital. His dog, his dog ran away, he can’t find his dog. It’s like 90 minutes of the saddest shit you will ever see. It’s brutal. I mean, it’s pretty good... But... [Mitchell & Slim laugh]
SLIM It sounds very depressing. I would never be able to watch this.
MITCHELL It’s extremely, extremely depressing. It’s from the same guy who directed Bicycle Thieves which I watched a year ago and is also depressing as hell. Vittorio De Sica, I think he was going through some stuff. [Slim & Mitchell laugh]
SLIM Well, I’m glad you were able to sneak that in at 6am this morning before, just to wake yourself up for the day. We do have some friends leaving reviews themselves who are shuffling alongside of us. Ismael left a review for Deep Red: “One of Dario Argento’s greatest gifts to the world was putting Goblin on film. Incredible music work happening here. Story beats were enjoyable and surprising but slyly there the entire time. Good stuff and a whole lot of fun.”
MITCHELL Get the Goblin hype going. I want to shout out Marcel the Shell [with Shoes On], I haven’t been able to talk about in a while, but you know he’s still kicking! Marcel the Shell [with Shoes On] available now on Blu-ray this week from A24. We’ve got a review from Zacky who says: “only watch this on a date if you’re ready to talk about your feelings for two-plus hours after.” It sounds like the beginning of a very good, strong, healthy relationship to me. [Slim laughs]
SLIM Kayla left a Poltergeist review: “I love how in the ’80s even the movies that Steven Spielberg just produced felt like a Spielberg movie. This was so fun! I knew I was going to like this movie when I realized the dad was reading a book about Ronald Regan completely stoned.” [Slim & Mitchell laugh]
MITCHELL Yeah, Poltergeist is...
SLIM Craig T. Craig T., a vision in that movie. An Adonis.
MITCHELL Beautiful, large man. Large man, towering figure.
SLIM Yes, yes.
MITCHELL I want to shout out Georgia’s review for Vanilla Sky, because Slim, we got to, you know, if somebody’s mentioning Vanilla Sky and tagging it ‘Weekend Watchlist’, it’s gotta get mentioned for Slim. [Slim laughs] George’s review, keeps it simple and says: “Fine y’all are forgiven for Jerry Maguire.” Which I have to—what’s wrong with Jerry Maguire?
SLIM Georgia, talk to us. What’s wrong with Jerry Maguire?
MITCHELL Jerry Maguire holds up, that’s a great movie!
SLIM Yeah, that’s a five-banger, I think, Jerry Maguire. Vanilla Sky, yeah, anytime my Vanilla Sky-dar was going off when I was sorting through the tags and I saw Georgia watch Vanilla Sky. Thank you for watching that.
MITCHELL Where’s the Vanilla Sky 4K?
SLIM That’s a very good question. There’s a digital 4K, allegedly streaming, I’m not sure if it’s legit 4K. But there’s no 4K release yet on physical. We need to wake up, Paramount. So let’s go to our watchlist. Let’s shuffle once more before we leave this week. I will filter Service by Stream-only, and then I’m going to sort by Shuffle and that first movie on the list is the one I have to watch. Oh my god the poster on this movie. [shuffle sound plays] Dangerously Close, 1986, Albert Pyun. “Rebel without a cause or a clue at an elite but uptight college discovers some of his classmates have formed an even more elite clique more or less hell-bent on ridding the school, and quite possibly American society, of what they deem to be its undesirables.” This is streaming on Tubi and Amazon Prime and Paramount. John Stockwell’s in it...
MITCHELL This feels like a Tubi movie to me... [Slim laughs] I’m looking at the page for it right now.
SLIM It does! Absolutely a Tubi movie. My friend Chuck gave it four stars. So...
MITCHELL Justin Laliberty, three-and-a-half.
SLIM “Is this Pyun’s masterpiece?”
MITCHELL My friend Edith gives it five stars and said that, “Pyun is a god of style.” So...
SLIM Oh my gosh! Stay tuned. Stay tuned. What’d you get?
MITCHELL My film is... [shuffle sound plays] Not on Tubi... it is called The Funeral. It is directed by Juzo Itami, the director of Tampopo, which is one of my favorite movies. The synopsis: “When Wabisuke’s father-in-law unexpectedly dies, the family goes through a series of random events and occurrences as the funeral unfolds over three days in their home.” I hope this is more—I mean, okay, so genres are listed as comedy, drama. Tampopo is a very fun movie so I think this is gonna, it’s not as bleak as the synopsis sounds. It is on the Criterion Channel for people who want to stream it. I do have it on Blu-ray, I will be watching it... [Mitchell laughs]
SLIM Yeah, I was about to suggest, we need to start filtering through genres before we shuffle our watchlists just to make sure we get something—
MITCHELL Just get me some comedies. [Slim laughs] I did see that my second one on my watchlist, on my shuffle, was Space Truckers, the Dennis Hopper movie... [Slim laughs] So I almost considered fibbing a little bit and going for that one—maybe I’ll watch them both, I don’t know, we’ll see what happens. [Mitchell laughs]
SLIM Oh my god, another great poster here. This definitely looks like a Tubi movie just based on that poster...
MITCHELL Shout Factory put it out on Blu-ray like a month ago, randomly out of nowhere—I got, they gave me a copy of it. I’m very excited to watch it. It is on Tubi... [Mitchell & Slim laugh]
[Izon by Trent Walton fades in, plays alone, fades out]
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