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Ep. 79 - The Virgin Spring / The Last House on the Left feat. Keith Phipps 1:07:23

1M ago1:07:23

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Film critic Keith Phipps returns for his second UNWATCHABLES season finale, and how better to close out the year than with a harrowing arthouse classic and its unlikely grindhouse remake? Ingmar Bergman’s THE VIRGIN SPRING is a stark, unsettling adaptation of a 13th century folk ballad; 12 years later, it served as the inspiration for the grisly de…

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Ep. 78 - Two by Dennis Cooper (Like Cattle Towards Glow / Permanent Green Light) 1:31:08

2M ago1:31:08

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Today we welcome author, filmmaker, and (retired) performer Christopher Zeischegg for two films by notorious transgressive author Dennis Cooper. Cooper’s queer, graphic, sex- and death-obsessed fiction is disturbing enough on its own. Now he’s ventured twice into filmmaking: first with 2015’s LIKE CATTLE TOWARDS GLOW, a collection of shorts concern…

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Ep. 77 - Zero Day / Elephant feat. Steve Erickson 1:25:56

2M ago1:25:56

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Today we’re joined by critic Steve Erickson for two films that dared to dramatize the 1999 Columbine massacre—both in 2003, barely four years after the tragedy. Ben Coccio’s ZERO DAY and Gus Van Sant’s ELEPHANT each encountered controversy, though only one would win the Palme D’Or while the other is now mainly available on YouTube. We’ll talk about…

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Ep. 76 - Halloween Special feat. Zach Butcher (Maniac / Angst) 1:30:57

3M ago1:30:57

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It’s the UNWATCHABLES Halloween special, and we’re dissecting two films that helped pave the way for last year’s subject, HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER. With help from return guest Zach Butcher, we consider how two earlier, less “respectable” horror movies deglamorized serial killers by putting us in their shoes: 1980’s grimy New York slasher …

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Ep. 75 - Two by David Cronenberg (The Fly / Dead Ringers) 1:16:33

3M ago1:16:33

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Today we’re kicking off Horror-tober with two classics from the undisputed master of body horror, David Cronenberg. And who better to help us than filmmaker and novelist Bobby Miller, the director of horror films like CRITTERS ATTACK! and 2016's THE CLEANSE starring Johnny Galecki and Angelica Huston. We’ll be discussing two films that blend horror…

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Ep. 74 - Unwatchables Live (The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.) 39:22

3M ago39:22

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For the very first Unwatchables live event hosted by Akron's Nightlight theatre, Seth and Marc introduce a special screening of THE 5,000 FINGERS OF DR. T, the only film ever written by Dr. Seuss— one deemed too dark and strange for family audiences when it flopped in 1953, but now rightfully beloved for its surreal production design and infectious…

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Ep. 73 - More Cannes-tastrophes (The Brown Bunny / The Sea of Trees) 1:31:41

4M ago1:31:41

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Today we welcome Letterboxd’s own Swartacus for the 2nd edition of our CANNES-TASTROPHES series. The Cannes film festival is the most prestigious of its kind in the world, and these films had premieres so disastrous that hundreds booed and even fled the theater. First up is Vincent Gallo’s scandalous 2003 art film THE BROWN BUNNY, which Roger Ebert…

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Ep. 72 - United 93 / 9/11 1:23:58

4M ago1:23:58

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Today’s UNWATCHABLES looks back on two very different films about the September 11th terrorist attacks. Paul Greengrass’ UNITED 93 came out less than 5 years after the tragedy and was the first Hollywood film to dramatize the day that many people weren’t sure needed dramatized. We’ll discuss what recreating the attacks means today as well as back i…

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Ep. 71 - A Family Affair (Nil by Mouth / The War Zone) 1:37:59

5M ago1:37:59

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Today we’re joined by author Derek Fisher for two eerily similar, and similarly miserable, family portraits. Both are the directorial debuts of renowned British actors who would never direct again; both follow dysfunctional working class families; and both star Ray Winstone as *the* worst dad of all time. Only one, however, was too much for one of …

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Ep. 70 - Star Wars Prequels Pt. 2 - Revenge of the Seth 1:23:00

5M ago1:23:00

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On the conclusion of our two-part episode on the STAR WARS prequels, we somehow find both more AND less middle ground. ATTACK OF THE CLONES and REVENGE OF THE SITH are generally considered the worst and best of the prequels, respectively—so naturally, we can’t even agree on that. Topics include whether lightsaber Yoda is a high- or lowlight, how yo…

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Ep. 69 - Star Wars Prequels Pt. 1 1:19:42

5M ago1:19:42

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On a special two-part UNWATCHABLES, our hosts opinions are galaxies far, far apart. George Lucas’ STAR WARS prequels were greeted with mixed to hostile reactions over 20 years ago, but these days some fans—even one on this podcast!—will argue that they’re worth defending. With help from our producer Tony, we’re tackling all three films in the most …

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Ep. 68 - Scare Bears feat. Zack Bornstein (Birdboy / Unicorn Wars) 1:06:36

6M ago1:06:36

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Today we’re joined by Zack Bornstein, the Emmy-nominated, WGA and Peabody Award-winning writer from shows like SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE and SHRINKING, to answer the question: what if the Care Bears were in ANTICHRIST? The animated films of Alberto Vázquez are full of cuddly talking animals, but also graphic gore, human-looking genitalia, and possibly cl…

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Ep. 67 - The World's Greatest Sinner / Forbidden Zone 1:42:43

6M ago1:42:43

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Unwatchables welcomes back Cinematary’s Michael O’Malley for two unhinged California cult curiosities that land somewhere between ROCKY HORROR and THE ROOM. Are they crazily inspired, or just crazy? They are: Timothy Carey’s 1962 Frank Zappa-scored satire THE WORLD’S GREATEST SINNER, and Richard Elfman’s 1980 absurdist musical fantasy FORBIDDEN ZON…

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Ep. 66 - 1941 / One from the Heart 1:28:49

7M ago1:28:49

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Today we welcome podcaster and musician Bob Ethington to discuss two ambitious, high-profile flops from two of the 1970’s most ambitious, high-profile auteurs. Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola were following up some of the most beloved American films ever made when they sunk huge budgets into experiments that blew up in their faces— and th…

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Ep. 65 - Two by Rick Alverson (The Comedy / Entertainment) 1:46:48

7M ago1:46:48

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Today we welcome back Paul Keelan of CINEMATIC UNDERDOGS to discuss the abrasive, deliberately alienating character studies of Rick Alverson. Alverson works with alt-comedy icons like Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington, but his films are anything but normal comedies— whatever you call them, they’re dark, uncomfortable, and follow people you probabl…

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Ep. 64 - Catherine Breillat feat. Hit Factory Hosts (Fat Girl / Anatomy of Hell) 2:06:15

8M ago2:06:15

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We’re thrilled to welcome Hit Factory hosts Aaron & Carlee to discuss the films of French provocateur Catherine Breillat. Breillat never met a male/female relationship she couldn’t dissect in harrowing fashion, often with explicit or downright shocking content. We tackle two of her hardest to stomach films: 2001’s pitch-black coming of age tale FAT…

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Ep. 63 - Mother's Day Special (Inside / Proxy) 1:33:31

8M ago1:33:31

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In honor of Mother’s Day, we’re joined by horror author Emma E. Murray to take a look at the Unwatchable side of motherhood. Today’s films aren’t afraid to put both small children and pregnant women in peril; they include possibly the single bloodiest film of the New French Extremity horror wave, as well as a truly demented (and underseen) Hitchcoc…

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Ep. 62 - The Passion of Joan of Arc 56:00

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Today we’re going back to 1928 for what might be the most harrowing film of the silent era. Carl Theodor Dreyer’s intense, claustrophobic THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC was like nothing at the time and arguably still isn’t; we’ll talk about the film’s controversial history, what makes it so radical, and whether it might be too much for some viewers.Unw…

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Ep. 61 - Dear Zachary feat. Erik Davis 1:04:33

9M ago1:04:33

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Unwatchables welcomes Erik Davis, managing editor of Fandango.com, to discuss possibly the most heart-wrenching film we’ve yet covered. Erik wrote the first review of 2008’s true crime doc DEAR ZACHARY: A LETTER TO A SON ABOUT HIS FATHER after its Slamdance premiere, and anyone who’s seen it knows it’s not the kind of movie you ever forget. We disc…

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Ep. 60 - The Good Son 1:04:37

10M ago1:04:37

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Today we welcome back Jetta Weinstein, aka Letterboxd's theironcupcake, to discuss the film that scarred a generation of HOME ALONE fans. Macaulay Culkin was at the height of his child stardom when his father/manager signed him on for HOME ALONE 2 under one condition… that his next role be the murderous child sociopath in 1993’s R-rated thriller TH…

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Ep. 59 - I Love You, Daddy 1:17:51

10M ago1:17:51

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Today’s film is so controversial it’s never actually been released. In 2017, comedian Louis CK wrote, directed, and starred in I LOVE YOU, DADDY, which was pulled just a week before release after a New York Times article detailed his sexual misconduct; as if that timing wasn’t bad enough, the film itself concerns a director known for his sexual ind…

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Ep. 58 - The Zone of Interest feat. Amy Hensarling 1:19:16

11M ago1:19:16

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Unwatchables is thrilled to welcome back Amy Hensarling of Watch This List for our special pre-Oscars episode! Jonathan Glazer’s harrowing Holocaust drama THE ZONE OF INTEREST may be the most unconventional Best Picture nominee in years, if not ever; we discuss Glazer’s entire career, his uniquely unsettling approach to a familiar unsettling subjec…

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Ep. 57 - 00's Horror Remakes (The Texas Chainsaw Massacre / The Hills Have Eyes) 1:22:07

11M ago1:22:07

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Today’s Unwatchables looks back at a stretch of the 2000’s when seemingly every grimy horror classic was getting a slick, ultra-gory remake. Author and podcaster Mallory Smart joins us to discuss contemporary updates of two of the most iconic and disturbing guerilla horror films of the 70’s, and whether they might actually be *more* sadistic than t…

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Ep. 56 - Two by S. Craig Zahler (Bone Tomahawk / Brawl in Cell Block 99) 1:26:44

12M ago1:26:44

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Today’s Unwatchables is all about the loquacious, shockingly brutal modern exploitation films of S. Craig Zahler. Special guest Matt Belenky helps us discuss Zahler’s artful approach to extreme violence, the controversy around his perceived politics, and whether his films are actually as regressive as their inspirations. On deck are 2015’s grisly h…

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Ep. 55 - The Cult of Damon Packard (Reflections of Evil / Foxfur) 1:31:26

12M ago1:31:26

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Unwatchables kicks off Season 3 with one of the most notorious outsider cult films of the 2000’s. With help from video essayist Jacob Sleezer, we dissect the surreal provocations of filmmaker Damon Packard, starting with his epic, vomit-drenched, copyright-infringing magnum opus, 2002’s REFLECTIONS OF EVIL. Topics include Packard blowing his inheri…

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Ep. 54 - Jackass 1:42:32

1y ago1:42:32

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For the Unwatchables Season 2 finale, we’re tackling the highest-grossing— and we do mean gross— documentary series of all time. In this special “Producer’s Pick” episode, our producer Tony Scarpitti helps us discuss the JACKASS phenomenon, how the films evolved over the years, and which parts we found too painful to endure. In the end, we rank all…

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Ep. 53 - Sleeping Dogs Lie feat. Mike D'Angelo 1:27:43

1y ago1:27:43

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Film critic Mike D’Angelo returns to Unwatchables with our most unexpected guest pick yet: Bobcat Goldthwait’s 2006 dark comedy SLEEPING DOGS LIE. We discuss what makes it so queasy yet unexpectedly moving, how Mike’s opinion has shifted over the years, and whether this is the first rom-com to pivot on an act of bestiality. ALSO: Stay tuned after t…

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Ep. 52 - Queen & Slim feat. Robert Daniels 1:11:14

1y ago1:11:14

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Today’s guest is Robert Daniels, associate editor of http://RogerEbert.com, to help us discuss a controversial fugitive drama that takes a provocative look at police violence against Black Americans. 2019’s QUEEN & SLIM is the feature debut of Melina Matsoukas— director of the iconic music video for Beyonce’s “Formation”— and stars Oscar-winner Dan…

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Ep. 51 - Halloween Special feat. Katie Rife (Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer / The Golden Glove) 1:27:13

1y ago1:27:13

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Who better to join our Halloween special than film critic Katie Rife, aficionado of all things horror? She proves her strong stomach by exposing us to two of the most harrowing serial killer films ever made, starting with 1986’s hugely influential HENRY: PORTRAIT OF A SERIAL KILLER. We discuss its revolutionary approach to depicting violence, how i…

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Ep. 50 - The Kids Still Aren't All Right feat. B.R. Yeager (Bully / Mysterious Skin) 1:41:19

1+ y ago1:41:19

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We’ve already tackled two films from KIDS’ Larry Clark on our previous “Kids Aren’t All Right” episode— who’d have thought he had more unwatchable in him? Today we’re joined by B.R. Yeager, author of the acclaimed horror novel NEGATIVE SPACE, for further evidence that the kids still aren’t, in fact, all right. Both of these films show the dark side…

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Ep. 49 - Clean, Shaven / Keane feat. Isaac Feldberg 1:34:05

1+ y ago1:34:05

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Today’s films take us deep into the subjective sensory experience of extreme mental illness, including at least one character with paranoid schizophrenia. Chicago film critic Isaac Feldberg (of http://RogerEbert.com, Paste Magazine, and more) joins us to discuss the very different— but equally harrowing— approaches of two superficially similar film…

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Ep. 48 - Puppet Perversion (Meet The Feebles / Let My Puppets Come) 1:27:38

1+ y ago1:27:38

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Today we’re joined by Bob McCully from the film podcast Split Your Head to discuss two of the first films to violently tear up the notion that puppets are just for kids. Back when puppetry was mostly the domain of children’s entertainment, these movies brought enough graphic sex, drugs, and violence to traumatize any child unlucky enough to stumble…

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Ep. 47 - Queer Controversy feat. Guy Lodge (Querelle / Taxi zum Klo) 1:19:00

1+ y ago1:19:00

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Today we’re tackling two controversial landmarks in gay cinema with help from Guy Lodge, film columnist for The Observer and chief UK film critic for Variety. Both films were scandalous for the early 1980’s, pushing boundaries with their unflinching depictions of the lives of gay men just before the AIDS crisis. First up is 1982’s QUERELLE, the fin…

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Ep. 46 - NYC Cop Sleazecore feat. Jason Bailey (Cruising / Bad Lieutenant) 1:35:50

1+ y ago1:35:50

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This week’s Unwatchables is a double feature of “NYC cop movie sleazecore”— a term coined by guest Jason Bailey, film critic, author, and host of the popular film podcast A Very Good Year. Both of these films were mired in controversy for their explicit content; both are by directed by legendary, and legendarily cranky, auteurs; and both star iconi…

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Ep. 45 - The Baby of Macon feat. Bilge Ebiri 1:11:43

1+ y ago1:11:43

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Today we’re joined by Bilge Ebiri, one of the country’s leading film critics for Vulture and New York Magazine, to tackle Peter Greenaway’s most disturbing film. The British director may be best known for his 1989 arthouse classic THE COOK, THE THIEF, HIS WIFE & HER LOVER, but he made several other singular, controversial, and often shocking films …

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Ep. 44 - Lindsay Lohan Edition (I Know Who Killed Me / The Canyons) 1:31:44

1+ y ago1:31:44

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Today’s guest is Christopher Norris aka Steak Mtn, the visual artist behind album art for bands like Against Me!, the frontman of Combatwoundedveteran, and now the author of the new book THE HOLY DAY. He’s here to help us figure out what happened to Lindsay Lohan, former teen idol from films like FREAKY FRIDAY and MEAN GIRLS, who seemed on her way …

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Ep. 43 - Sátántangó feat. Charles Bramesco 1:12:23

1+ y ago1:12:23

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Unwatchables welcomes author and film/TV critic Charles Bramesco to discuss one of the most intimidating of all cinematic rites of passage. Bela Tarr’s SATANTANGO is 7 hours and 20 minutes long, and at least one of our hosts endured the entire film in one butt-numbing sitting. And lest you think that 7+ hours flies by, it’s also a quintessential ex…

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Ep. 42 - Stranger Than Fiction feat. Aisha Harris (Compliance / Stuck) 1:24:05

1+ y ago1:24:05

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Today’s Unwatchables features Aisha Harris, cohost of NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour and author of the new book Wannabe: Reckonings With the Pop Culture That Shapes Me. On our “Stranger Than Fiction” episode, we discuss two bizarre true crime stories dramatized in unflinching detail: Craig Zobel’s shocking drama COMPLIANCE, and Stuart Gordon’s darkly…

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Ep. 41 - Heaven's Gate feat. Scout Tafoya 1:03:32

1+ y ago1:03:32

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Unwatchables welcomes Scout Tafoya— critic, video essayist, and author of But God Made Him a Poet: Watching John Ford in the 21st Century— to discuss the film branded for decades as the quintessential big-budget disaster. Michael Cimino’s HEAVEN’S GATE gets blamed for a lot of things: for bankrupting its studio, for animal cruelty, and for singleha…

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Ep. 40 - Life After The Matrix (Speed Racer / Cloud Atlas / Jupiter Ascending) 1:37:25

1+ y ago1:37:25

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On today’s Unwatchables, we ask the question: how do you follow up one of the most popular sci-fi trilogies ever made? If you’re the Wachowskis, it’s with three straight flops, each one stranger, more expensive, and more widely derided than the last. We’re joined by Brad Efford of the internet zine Wig Wag to survey the sisters' entire post-Matrix …

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Ep. 39 - Nekromantik / The Death King 1:41:23

1+ y ago1:41:23

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(Content Warning: The second half of this episode contains discussions of suicide) It’s time for Unwatchables to dive into some REALLY nasty stuff with an assist from Tom Davies, writer and podcaster for http://AVForums.com. Jörg Buttgereit’s infamously gross cult horror film Nekromantik defied state censors with its gruesome yet empathetic look at…

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Ep. 38 - The Act of Killing / The Look of Silence 1:24:43

1+ y ago1:24:43

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Today’s Unwatchables takes our first dive into non-fiction with help from Jon Nix, documentary filmmaker and director of the new film Don’t Fall in Love with Yourself. Joshua Oppenheimer’s documentaries about the 1960’s Indonesian mass killings are a singularly bizarre and uncomfortable spectacle: The Act of Killing allows the killers themselves to…

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Ep. 37 - Two by Yorgos Lanthimos feat. Carlos Aguilar (Dogtooth / The Killing of a Sacred Deer) 1:19:54

2y ago1:19:54

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Unwatchables is joined by film critic Carlos Aguilar, writer for http://RogerEbert.com, Variety, the New York Times, and many more, to dive into one of the most original and provocative auteurs of the last 15 years. Yorgos Lanthimos has been compared to the likes of Michael Haneke and Luis Bunuel, and we’re talking perhaps his two most disturbing f…

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Ep. 36 - Freaks feat. Kristen Lopez 1:10:02

2y ago1:10:02

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The Wrap’s film editor Kristen Lopez joins us this week to discuss one of the earliest entries in the Unwatchables canon. Tod Browning’s Freaks is one the most controversial films of the 1930’s, a one-of-a-kind exercise in empathy and (arguably) horror that essentially ended the career of the Dracula director. Topics include the film’s journey to b…

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Ep. 35 - Dogville feat. Richard Lawson 1:21:15

2y ago1:21:15

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This week’s Unwatchables welcomes Vanity Fair's chief critic Richard Lawson to discuss one of the most audacious and savage provocations from one of our most relentless provocateurs. Lars Von Trier’s Dogville is a 3-hour critique of American “values” that’s filmed on a mostly bare soundstage and puts its star Nicole Kidman through one of the direct…

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Ep. 34 - Christian Scare Films (The Burning Hell / If Footmen Tire You, What Will Horses Do?) 1:28:24

2y ago1:28:24

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Ron Ormond was a B-movie exploitation director before a near-death experience inspired him to start producing some of the most bizarre and gruesome Christian films ever made. We're joined by Cinematary’s Michael O’Malley to discuss two of his surreally morbid collaborations with Baptist preacher Estes Pirkle: 1974’s nightmare vision The Burning Hel…

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Ep. 33 - Two by Harmony Korine (Gummo / Trash Humpers) 1:36:15

2y ago1:36:15

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Experimental filmmaker Harmony Korine burst onto the independent film scene with his screenplay for Larry Clark's Kids, but it's his own grotesque, alienating, and often shocking films that turned him into a cult figure. Unwatchables is joined by author, musician, and Korine superfan Marzi Margo to discuss two of the director’s most notorious provo…

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Ep. 32 - Jeanne Dielman feat. Marya E. Gates 1:13:56

2y ago1:13:56

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Today we’re joined by Marya E. Gates, film critic for sites like http://RogerEbert.com and creator of both #Noirvember & #AYearWithWomen, to discuss one of the most daunting of classic films. Chantal Akerman’s Jeanne Dielman is a 200-minute minimalist art film that recently topped Sight and Sound’s poll of The Greatest Films of All Time, unseating …

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Ep. 31 - A Few Bad Men feat. A.A. Dowd (Naked / In the Company of Men) 1:22:19

2y ago1:22:19

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Unwatchables kicks off Season 2 with special guest A.A. Dowd, former film editor of The AV Club and current culture editor at Chron. This week’s films challenge us to identify with main characters whose repellent behavior stretches the definition of “protagonist”: Mike Leigh’s blistering character study Naked, and Neil LaBute’s immersion in toxic m…

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Episode 30 - Unexpectedly Watchables feat. Keith Phipps (The Straight Story / The Munsters) 1:16:23

2y ago1:16:23

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Unwatchables closes out the year (and season one!) with film critic Keith Phipps, former film editor of the AV Club and The Dissolve, co-host of The Next Picture Show, and author of Age of Cage. In the spirit of the season, this is a special REVERSE episode: two heartwarming family films from directors who usually specialize in the Unwatchable. Fir…

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