TFT 102 – PRECIOUS / FANTASTIC MR. FOX
TFT 102 / MP3 18.2 mb / 38 minutes / DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: PRECIOUS: on IMDB FANTASTIC MR. FOX: on IMDB / on TFT: Antichrist – Mr. Fox Poster Mashup ARMOND WHITE: Pride and Precious OPERATION SAVE THE FILM TALK EVERY NEW MEMBER GETS A MOVIE POSTER COURTESY OF MOVIEGOODS.COM THE AUTEURS ALL LISTENER [...]
'The Film Talk' Invites All Listeners to Watch a Movie for Free on 'The Auteurs'
Hey there Dear Listener – It’s Jett here. We’ve got a great offer for everybody! Starting today you can watch a movie of your choice for free, (instead of paying the 5 bucks!), on the great streaming movie site ‘The Auteurs’. All ya gotta do is go to theauteurs.com and use the promo code: thefilmtalk [...]
The Most Over-Rated and Under-Rated Films of the Decade?
The Most Under-Rated Movie of the Last Ten Years? The decade draws to a close, and most of us will be feeling a sense of surreality as we reflect on what we were doing on New Year’s Eve 1999 – I was with four of my dearest friends; we had a gorgeous dinner by the [...]
From Now Until They're All Gone: Become a TFT Member and Get One of these Beautiful 27"x 40" Movie Posters
UPDATE: We’ve changed the offer Dear Listeners! From now, until they’re all gone, Every Single New Member – regardless of Membership Level – will get a poster! Click the link below to join ‘The Film Talk’ for as little as $3 a month or a one-time donation of your choosing and get one of these [...]
A Week in the Life of The Film Talk, Part 2: Antichrist and Arthur
Four New TFT Members of the Week We’ve been busy this week at TFT Central – so busy, in fact, that we haven’t managed to produce posts as regularly as we’d like. Jett and I spent last night at a cabin in the woods of Tennessee, a perfect location to ruminate on our shared expereince [...]
TFT 101 – 2012 / ANTICHRIST / GAIA
TFT 101 / MP3 30.2mb / 1hr 3min / DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE: 2012: IMDB / on TFT: Oh 2012, What Is It About You That Makes Me Love You So? – 2012 – Raising Arizona Mashup ANTICHRIST: IMDB / on TFT: Antichrist Poster Mashup / at The Belcourt GAIA: IMDB / OFFICIAL SITE / [...]
The Insatiable Moon: One of the Best Films of Next Year?
I’m going to turn 35 in January, which feels old enough to consider myself a man, inexperienced enough to still feel irresponsible; halfway to still being younger than Warren Beatty, alive enough to reflect on what really matters. And what really matters? Friendship. If, as my amazing friend John O’Donohue often said, our identities are [...]
'Lioness' – There's No Telling
“Did I have female soldiers in battle? Yes. Was the intent of those soldiers to be in battle when they went? Ahh…well I don’t know. Probably not. But, did battle come to them on occasion? Yeah it did.” LTC William Brinkley, Commander, 1st Engineer Battalion – – – “There’s no tellin’ how many people we [...]
Violence and Sentimentality in the Movies: A Dangerous Pair?
Richard Brody at The Front Row has this interesting reflection on violence and the movies/media in general: “There does seem to be a great deal of research on the question of violence and of quantity of viewing; but very little, if any, on the subject of treacle. I do worry about the effect of violent [...]
'Antichrist' – Part 1
We’ll be covering the now notorious new film by Lars von Trier: ‘Antichrist’ in an upcoming show. In the meantime I provide a little taster – an ‘Antichrist’/ ‘Fantastic Mr. Fox’ mashup by SamsMyth. – – – The Belcourt Theatre here in Nashville will be screening ‘Antichrist’ for four days, starting this Friday
A Week in the Life of The Film Talk #1/The Film of our Lifetime
We Have a Winner It’s been a momentous week in the life of The Film Talk – we’re crossing the rubicon of a century, with our hundredth episode on-line now. It’s a massive episode, packed to the brim with our reviews of ‘The Messenger‘ (a nominee as Jett’s film of the year) and ‘The Box‘ [...]
TFT 100 – An Interview with Ben Foster on 'The Messenger' / 'The Box' / Our Favourite Films of the Past 100 Episodes
[I'll be introducing 'The Messenger' at its 7:30 Premiere this Friday here in Nashville at The Belcourt Theatre] In this week’s action-packed, adrenaline-fueled thrill-ride of an episode Gareth and I talk with actor Ben Foster about his experience of making the extraordinary new film The Messenger’, why he wants listeners to write a romantic comedy [...]
'Objectified' – Design Around Us and In Us
“What people don’t realise is that from the moment they wake up almost everything that fills their world has been designed.” Alice Rawsthorn in ‘Objectified’ – – – One of the most wonderful side effects of taking up a visual artistic practice, (in my case, photography), is that it reshapes the mind – you begin [...]
'Election Day': What is Democracy?
- – – What does democracy mean? Linguists in the TFT community already know that it derives from a mashup of the Greek work ‘Demis‘ (meaning large bearded man in a kaftan) and ‘Crazy‘ (meaning a way for Danger Mouse and Cee-Lo to ensure their financial futures and colonise the hybrid brain of the human [...]
TFT 99 – 'A Christmas Carol' Investigated and Armond White Interviewed
In this week’s action-packed, adrenaline-fueled thrill-ride of an episode Gareth and I launch ‘OPERATION SAVE THE FILM TALK’, delve into the new film of a ‘A Christmas Carol’ while discussing in not some small detail the flaws in Charles Dicken’s original, speculate as to the nature of 3D and motion capture cinema and have a [...]
Film & Spirit: An Invitation
Gaia – The best film I’ve seen this year I’m very excited about an event I’m co-facilitating in the Los Angeles area in a couple of months, to which you’re all invited. It’s so exciting that Jett is considering driving all the way from Nashville in the official TFT Prius to get there. This post [...]
A Serious Plan
A Serious Man Makes a Serious Plan A couple of weeks ago, my genial co-host and I sat together through a couple of hours of pure cinematic expression, as the Coen Brothers’ ‘A Serious Man’ unfolded before us. Larry Gopnik, the protagonist of this film, one of the most exciting and compelling either of us [...]
Sundance at the Belcourt, The Film Talk on Facebook and Schwarzenegger in Star Wars
My posts are a bit thin this week has have been busy cobbling together ‘The Film Talk Project X’ which Gareth and I have alluded to these last few weeks on the show, (ahhh…the mystery). We’ll be unveiling it on the next episode so make sure to listen in – there are fabulous prizes to [...]
2012 – Raising Arizona Mashup
Yes – I’m glad to see my theory about John Cusack and 2012 is confirmed!: In 2012 John Cusack Realizes He’s in a Comedy
Gareth Goes Home: 'Turning Green' mixes him up
You know, we like to be friendly round here, but if you’ve been in the The Film Talk neighbourhood for any length of time, you’ll also know that we often grieve the lack of imagination in most films. Robots kill some people/people kill more robots; abs-ridden guy meets cute girl/conflict/unification; bloke changes, you know the [...]
Jett Loe's Patented 'Worthwhile Web Wednesdays'
Ok, so Gareth got all webby with his post yesterday: The Tuesday Top Five: Anthropomorphic Animals in the Cinema Zoo I say ‘webby’ cause it’s well known that having posts containing numbered lists, such as a Top 5, or ones tied to days of the week, such as Twitter’s Follow Friday, are a quick way [...]
The Tuesday Top Five: Anthropomorphic Animals in the Cinema Zoo
Chaos Indeed One of the questionable delights of Lars von Trier’s ‘Antichrist’, which we still haven’t seen at The Film Talk due to those oh-so-frustrating regional distribution patterns, is the appearance of a demonic fox who enlightens the audience with the motto: ‘Chaos Reigns’. And so it does, in Trier’s universe, this time round (you [...]
Now Free Online: The Soundtrack For The Film That Never Was – 'Tron, Rise of the Virals'
Jul 24, 1999 – CNET News Story – Pixar and Disney Collaborating on a new Tron film: Pixar Studios to remake Disney’s Tron? It set the scene for a generation of hi-tech sci-fi movies and, arguably, inspired some of the best films of the genre. Tron, the legendary Disney movie loved by the thirty-something generation, [...]
