Lost in the Movies: Patreon update #9: High and Low & Elephant (+ podcast recommendations & more)

Patreon update #9: High and Low & Elephant (+ podcast recommendations & more)


update: this page now includes a link to the podcast

This week's podcast features a couple intense movies with very different approaches to violence. The first film in focus is an Akira Kurosawa masterpiece, enveloping the viewer in the ever-shifting world of a businessman who must decide if he'll pay the ransom for a servant's son, the cops who try to find the kidnapper, and the sociopathic kidnapper himself. The second film in focus stages a series of shootings, with no context or dialogue provided as we follow characters in long takes until either they deliver death or death is delivered to them. I also recommend a whole host of recent podcast episodes and continue my survey of Twin Peaks books with a discussion of Agent Cooper's "autobiography."




Line-up for Episode 9

INTRO
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WEEKLY UPDATE/recent posts: tweeting 10 archive pieces a day until the 10th anniversary
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FILM IN FOCUS: High and Low
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FILM IN FOCUS: Elephant
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TWIN PEAKS REFLECTIONS: My Life, My Tapes: The Autobiography of FBI Agent Dale Cooper
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OTHER TOPICS: Podcast recommendations
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OPENING THE ARCHIVE: "Four's Company" (February - May 2010), this week's highlight (The Hurt Locker)

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