Time for something a little different.

As much fun as I’m sure it’d by to discuss NON-STOP, and spin it into Other Side selections like SNAKES ON A PLANE and TAKEN 2, I feel like I can find more constructive uses of my time…both the time spent watching, and the time spent discussing. So why not go off-book? Why not go for catalogue releases? Why not go around the world?

Whether you love the idea or you hate it (and you know who you are), The Blindspot Series has caught on quite nicely this year. What’s more, the entries I’m getting are coming from all over the bloody place. So instead of waiting for a new release that will open in both Canada and Portugal at the same time, I was able to give the show some international flavour by getting three lads and three lasses from six different countries on to discuss what they’d watched for the first time.

So take a trip around the world with me, and likewise check below to find links to my guests’ blindspot posts for the films discussed.

 

Here’s what’s in store in episode one-hundred-and-seven…

 

Runtime
87 minutes

Up for Discussion

1. Introduction
2. Mette Kowalski discusses MEMENTO (2:03)
3. Shantanu Ghumare discusses HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY (15:07)
4. Getter Trumsi discusses THE PRINCESS BRIDE (29:13)
5. Jay Cluitt discusses THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW (41:28)
6. Dani Eide discusses MY LIFE AS A DOG (54:01)
7. Amir Soltani discusses CLEO FROM 5 TO 7 (66:23)

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7 Replies to “Episode 107 – BLINDSPOTS 2014”

    1. Thanks Jandy! I was *this* close to asking you to do a spot for it, but I was hellbent on getting six first-time guests on. I do have to get you back soon though, it feels like it’s been too long!

    1. Over the past few years, I’ve become a really big believer in it. Whether it’s mapped out ahead of time like these entries are, or it’s just a matter of saying “I have two hours, I should watch something new“, it’s such a rewarding way to watch film.

      To that end, I watched HAROLD AND MAUDE for the first time last night. I was as knocked-out by it as you’d imagine.

  3. I lucked out with my cult film blindspot series, since the only one I didn’t respond well to was Pink Flamingos.

    I’ve also watched Crystal Maze a few times in 1994, but it was after Richard O’Brian left and replaced with a new host.

  4. Bravo to Shantanu for not wanting to compare How Green Was My Valley and Citizen Kane. I would link up the blog post I wrote a few weeks ago about unfairly judging Oscar winners because they beat something now generally considered better, but my blog is in the midst of a technical crisis, and I don’t know when I’ll have time to fix it. Suffice it to say, I have grown to love Kane (do rewatch it at some point, Shantanu – it rewards repeat viewings and analysis), but the fact that How Green Was My Valley is so often remembered only as “the film that stole Citizen Kane’s Oscar” is a travesty, because it’s a wonderful and beautiful film in its own right.

    Also glad to hear you guys wax on about Cleo from 5 to 7! I saw that as part of a female directors series at the local rep cinema, and I knew very little about it except that it was a female director and sort of part of the French New Wave. I was FLOORED. Great discussion about a great film.

    1. I was quietly happy that Shantanu didn’t take the bait either. I’m actually a little bit tired of that discussion, especially since more than half the time it’s brought up by people who haven’t seen VALLEY.

      As for CLEO, I wager you could hear the hesitance in Amir and I as we barrelled into that discussion. There really is nothing like two dudes dissecting a film like that to basically dare the conversation to miss the greater point.

      Thanks for listening Jandy!

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