Episode 160 – John Barry Remembered / SOMEWHERE / THE GREY ZONE
Here it is – our tribute to the great John Barry as well as an investigation of the new Sofia Coppola film SOMEWHERE and a look back at Tim Blake Nelson’s THE GREY ZONE.
This Week in TFT: SOMEWHERE / THE GREY ZONE / INSIDE JOB / ANOTHER YEAR
That cinema train just keeps on rolling Dear Listener! This week it’s Brandon Nowalk’s review of ANOTHER YEAR and Tony Youngblood’s thoughts on INSIDE JOB. And as a bonus, if you’ve been good, on The Show Gareth and I go SOMEWHERE and end up in THE GREY ZONE.
SOMEWHERE: Lifestyles of the rich and famous
Still sucking up to the Italians, Sofia Coppola continues to explore the old bourgeois ennui picture—an increasingly pessimistic cycle from EUROPA ’51 to LA DOLCE VITA to LA NOTTE and beyond—in SOMEWHERE, another film about existential angst where the cause, contra the Italians, is not the soul-crushing effects of modernism but celebrity itself. The bourgeoisie [...]
This Week in TFT
This Week in The Film Talk blogger and operative Brandon Nowalk discusses SOMEWHERE, an old story he says that’s beautifully realized; scribbler and agent Tony Youngblood will be submitting his Year’s Best list for your approval, (he assures me BLACK SWAN will not rear it’s head anywhere in the post); to top it off on [...]
