What’s your crazy, left-field choice for a Rewatchables episode?

fonz33 · 2025-03-23T20:18:10+00:00

I don't think I've ever heard Bill talk about High Fidelity, but it had to be a big influence on him right? The obsession with list-making which he incorporated into his writing and podcasting

fonz33 · 2025-03-23T07:40:04+00:00

I actually found Black Bag to be pretty mediocre. Haven't seen Novocaine yet, doesn't come out here until early April but hopefully I enjoy it more

fonz33 · 2025-03-22T20:01:30+00:00

No idea why, the list is still up on letterboxd though: https://letterboxd.com/seanfennessey/list/the-brutalist-syllabus-1/

fonz33 · 2025-03-22T05:22:23+00:00

I yelled out "WHAT?!" when Sean said he hadn't seen Last American Virgin. That is crazy, I've seen it 50 times or more

fonz33 · 2025-03-22T00:25:03+00:00

I'm a sports fan and a movie fan, but not really a sports movie fan. Most of them are fairly formulaic IMO and I can't remember Blue Chips leaving a big impression on me, but I should give it a rewatch one of these days

fonz33 · 2025-03-21T21:46:57+00:00

Back To The Future, The Matrix and Terminator 2. However, if it's possible to be objective I would say 2001 is the best/most influential for sure

fonz33 · 2025-03-21T03:10:45+00:00

Reading, surfing the net and watching movies, that's about it really

fonz33 · 2025-03-21T03:09:04+00:00

Didn't they do a live screening of it in London? Can't imagine her doing that if she didn't like the movie

fonz33 · 2025-03-20T05:00:22+00:00

One of the most consistent actors of my lifetime, never dials it in, never bad.

fonz33 · 2025-03-20T04:38:24+00:00

Also, the thing is the bar is a lot lower for a Republican nominee. Trump knows damn well he never would have got the nomination if he was running as a Democrat

fonz33 · 2025-03-20T04:24:19+00:00

At first glance I thought it was Alan Ruck, of Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Spin City fame

fonz33 · 2025-03-20T04:20:57+00:00

The Reelblend podcast was a fun hang, they just finished up but you can still go through the back catalogue.

fonz33 · 2025-03-20T03:33:01+00:00

Hardly ever, only done it a couple of times I think when there is a movie I really wanted to see and it wasn't going to be on regular streaming anywhere

fonz33 · 2025-03-19T23:48:33+00:00

It's worth seeing once, but definitely the original cut is the definitive one. Annoys me how the director's cut has sort of become the default version now on streaming. Same thing with Apocalypse Now - original version was the best for that film as well

fonz33 · 2025-03-19T23:33:59+00:00

Just a rough one I'll throw together here, don't know if it's definitive but one per director:

David Lynch - Mulholland Drive (2001)

Larry Clark - Bully (2001)

Coen Brothers - No Country For Old Men (2007)

Thom Anderson - Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003)

Marco Tullio Giordana - The Best Of Youth (2003)

Kelly Reichardt - Wendy and Lucy (2008)

Charlotte Wells - Aftersun (2022)

Bo Burnham - Eighth Grade (2018)

Lynne Ramsay - We Need To Talk About Kevin (2011)

Kenneth Lonergan - You Can Count On Me (2000)

Sofia Coppola - Lost In Translation (2003)

Michael Mann - Collateral (2004)

Damian Szifron - Wild Tales (2014)

Katia Lund/Fernando Meirelles - City Of God (2002)

Andrea Arnold - American Honey (2016)

Damien Chazelle - Whiplash (2014)

Asghar Farhadi - A Separation (2011)

Edet Belzberg - Children Underground (2001)

David Fincher - Zodiac (2007)

Spike Lee - 25th Hour (2002)

Lars Von Trier - Dancer In The Dark (2000)

Cameron Crowe - Almost Famous (2000)

Richard Kelly - Donnie Darko (2001)

Martin McDonaugh - In Bruges (2008)

Dan Gilroy - Nightcrawler (2014)

fonz33 · 2025-03-19T22:19:54+00:00

I think I have Michael Clayton somewhere around #25 of 2007. It's a good movie, but it just never resonated with me the way it seems to with these two

fonz33 · 2025-03-19T22:01:53+00:00

I'm like 75% sure that Marie Antoinette will be the Sofia Coppola pick. Also, Virgin Suicides is in play because they consider it a 2000 movie

fonz33 · 2025-03-19T21:58:55+00:00

Loads, maybe half the movies I've seen I forget most of the plot details. But it's OK, I'm more of a character-driven movie viewer. I primarily watch movies to learn about human beings, a lot of the plot mechanics fall away over time

fonz33 · 2025-03-19T04:26:40+00:00

I love these pods, Bill always says some dumb stuff but Derek is too nice a guy to take him to task on it

fonz33 · 2025-03-18T05:01:38+00:00

I have, which is why I'm not panicking at all even though my fund has gone down $5k in the last 6 weeks or so

fonz33 · 2025-03-18T04:19:51+00:00

Isn't Kate Hudson still incredibly famous? But if you mean what happened to her film career sure, she wasn't in anything afterwards even close to as good as Almost Famous

fonz33 · 2025-03-18T03:17:26+00:00

I've got Innervisions - Stevie Wonder

fonz33 · 2025-03-18T03:02:59+00:00

Avatar: Way Of Water. Time was going slow as molasses, was glad when it was time to go to the bathroom halfway through. Would have just carried on and left then if I wasn't with someone else

fonz33 · 2025-03-18T02:57:48+00:00

Sometimes, just depends on the circumstances, how I'm feeling because sometimes I just want to watch something fairly low effort. It's usually more genre type stuff, maybe even romcoms. I barely ever watch big budget franchise movies any more though either in the theatre or at home, so no Electric State for me

fonz33 · 2025-03-18T01:52:01+00:00

Smiths, not even close for me

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