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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS: LEVIATHAN (2012, Dir: Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Véréna Paravel)Whoops, a little late! Sorry everyone Matt is busy and I am something aside from busy but diverting enough that I forgot to post the episode. This one is about "Leviathan," a documentary from the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard about commerical fishermen, the ocean, and things all sloppin' on the camera. Watch it here! Topics include: GoPros, sloppy noises, thinking about how a camera is doing something, guys with horny mermaid tattoos, Solaris, pornography, moshing, and post-continuity reemerging in the tiny cameras we would all be packing around sooner rather than later. Matt's recommendation. Co...
2025-08-171h 37The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS: HUGO (2011, Dir: Martin Scorsese)Old Cinema! New Cinema! Here they are, together! Ellis and Corbs talk about "Hugo," Martin Scorsese's honestly conspicously excellent family movie about a an orphan, a great filmmaker, and the open wounds of World War One. Topics: how exactly is Scorsese so good at making a special effects extravaganza, the 3D moment, fated to fail, color, and Scorsese's ability to bring a wide range of techniques to the table. Read a fascinting article about Rave Culture in Britain here. Corbin Rec. Matt rec. Next episode is about Leviathan. Watch here.
2025-08-081h 59The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Certified Copy" (2010, Dir: Abbas Kiarostami)Welcome. In this episode Matt and Corbin talk about Abbas Kiarostami's 2010 brainscrew "Certified Copy," a movie about two strangers hanging out in the Italian countryside. Topics include: Binoche's performence, an anchor in a storm, Kiarostami as a natural candiate for digital cinema owing to his particular unfussiness, and Walter Benjamin. So much Walter Benjamin. Matt's recc. Corbin's recc is available on your music streaming application of choice. Our next episode is about "Hugo." Watch it here.
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastCROSSOVER: Cold War Cinema Bonus: The Phoenician Scheme (2025, Dir. Wes Anderson)(sorry for the double post. this is a repost of a bad upload. LISTEN TO THIS ONE) Hi there! Matt made a guest appearance on a great new podcast about cinema, history, and the left and we are sharing it, with you, RIGHT HERE! The podcast is called 'Cold War Cinema,' and you can find it here and here. Join Ellis and hosts Jason Christian, Tony Ballas, and Paul T. Klein as they discuss: The Phoenician Scheme’s connections to the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a CIA-backed cultural operation from 1950 that weaponized write...
2025-07-311h 35The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastCold War Cinema: The Phoenician Scheme (2025, Dir: Wes Anderson)Hi there! Matt was on a different podcast, and we are sharing it, with you, RIGHT HERE! It's called 'Cold War Cinema,' and you can find it here and here. Join Ellis and hosts Jason Christian, Tony Ballas, and Paul T. Klein as they discuss: The Phoenician Scheme’s connections to the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a CIA-backed cultural operation from 1950 that weaponized writers, artists, and other thinkers for intelligence operations. How Anderson’s film reveals the Cold War origins of the contemporary world in its critiques of capitalism and the neoliberal proje...
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS: "The Social Network" (2010, Dir: David Fincher)Corbin and Matt talk about THE SOCIAL NETWORK, David Fincher's (and also Aaron Sorkin's) parable about the fouding of Facebook and the terrible dream of what felt like was coming next. Topics include: capital and moral hazard, the Winkelvosses and Eduardo, the movie's make believe version of Zuckerberg, Fincher setting the palette for the future by accident, and a bunch of other stuff. I dont know if you can see, but this episode is very long. Corbin rec. Ellis rec. Next episode is about "Certified Copy." Have a good day!
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"A Married Couple" (1969, Dir: Alan King) w/ Christopher Jason BellDocumentarian CHRISTOPHER JASON BELL (MeansTV, 'Miss Me Yet,' the upcoming 'Failed State') joins us to talk about 'A Married Couple,' Alan King's 1969 documentary about a disintegrating Canadian marriage. Topics include: reality TV, the weird sexism in the movie's reception, documentary performance, the parade of hideous outfits this guy wears, and the terrible language of irrational arguements stuck deep in a nightmare mire. I will not be indexing our recs this week, there are simply too many of them. Next week's episode will return to the DIGITAL MINES as we talk about "The Social Network," David F...
2025-07-181h 39
The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Paranormal Activity" (2007, Dir: Oren Peli)Ellis and Corbin talk about post-continuity infused, found footage horror extravaganza PARANORMAL ACTIVITY. Topics include: real estate in 2006 (the true horror), why there wasn't a second demonologist in San Diego at the time, the editing style, HDR cameras, porn aesthetics, and other stuff. Read some Fabulous Criticisim about Paranormal Activity here. NOTICE: OUR NEXT EPISODE IS NOT ABOUT THE SOCIAL NETWORK, LIKE WE SAID HERE. It is about "A Married Couple." Watch it here.
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Avatar" (Dir: James Cameron, 2009)We had to do it, so we did. Topics include: the insane camera setup they used on this, Cameron: Movie Napoleon, the...particular aesthetics, and the faint nostalgia for Michael Bay real heads feel while watching this thing. There's stuff we like about it, too. Read this to learn stuff about Avatar. Ellis rec here. Corbin rec'd a video game, again. Next week: PARANORMAL ACTIVITY.
2025-07-041h 43
The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Speed Racer" (Dir: The Wachowskis, 2008)Speed Racer. It's a masterwork. It also might give you a headache. We must live in that contradiction. Topics: Comic Books and post-continuity cinema, the movie's collage-like qualities, the alternate vision for Hollywood it presents, and the movie as a product of globalization. Matt's recommendation. Corbin's. Next episode is about "Avatar," which you can watch on Disney+, if you dare.
2025-07-021h 35
The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Che: Part One" (2008, Dir: Steven Soderbergh) (W/ Eric Marsh)Ellis and Corbin and ERIC MARSH discuss "Che: Part One," Steven Soderbergh's process-oriented tale of the Cuban Revolution, and the first movie ever shot on a 4K Movie Camera. Topics include: Oakley Sunglasses, Soderbergh during this time, digital cinematography blessing his particular way of working, and why CAPITALIST STREAMING PLATFORMS make this movie hard to watch. Ellis: 'Song at the end is "Carlos Puebla – Hasta Siempre, Comandante," which is about Che.' Our next episode is about SPEED RACER. Tremble in fear.
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Rachel Getting Married" (2008, Dir: Jonathan Demme)Eyy! Rachel Getting Married! It's a heavy movie! We talk about Ann Hathaway playing into public type, the incredibly strange casting, Demme as a physical filmmaker working in a kinetic-digital world, rehab, European family vs American Family, 'Realism,' and other stuff. Hey: there's a weird little background sound in this episode. Sorry we hope it doesn't drive you insane. We were recording at Workers' Tap and the music was a little loud. We swear the episode is good enough that you will be able to ignore it. Interesting interview about the movie's sound mixing...
2025-06-181h 36
The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS: Post-Continuity (With a Special Focus on Deja Vu, Tony Scott, 2006)Some big news: Corbin and Matt lost their minds and recorded about film academy stuff for two hours. Our topic is Hollywood Continuty and its accelerants and defectors, which we process through the frame of Tony Scott's 2006 sort-of-sci-fi movie Deja Vu. Topics are wide and varied and include: comic book storytelling, film scanning, the digital console, Jim Caviezel, Ozu (again), and Michael Bay, the angel and the demon in one manifestation and the role of superhero movies in rebelling AGAINST post-continuity. Read Bordwell on late (intensified) continuity here. Read Shaviro on Post-Continuity here. Corbin rec's Mu...
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story" (2007, DIR: Jake Kasdan)We still got a will and a burning rage to win, folks, because Ellis and Corbs are talking about WALK HARD! Topics: Non-linear editing and audience testing, Judd Apatow, John C. Reilly, bizzaro Phil Hoffman, the evolving form of the comedy star during this time, the superior (but rarely seen) director's cut of this movie, and the weird line between parody and pastiche the movie straddles. Weirdly long? Corbin's Reco Here. Matt recommends The Ankler, a newsletter about Da Movie Buziness. Next week's episode is an episode about post continuity. Check out "Deja Vu" by T...
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" (2007, Dir: Sidney Lumet)Corbin and Matt ride their horses across the Digital Frontiers and arrive at BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD, a world-historic bummer that legendary director Sidney Lumet stages in a series of disgusting interiors. Also PSH drops a bunch of rocks on a glass table. It's excruciating. Corbin recommends a donut shop. Matt recommends "The Studio," on Apple TV. Next week's episode is about "Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story," which you might have to rent? Sorry.
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS: 'Zodiac' (2007, Dir: David Fincher)We got a live one here, folks! Matt and Corbin talk about 'Zodiac,' David Fincher's digital cinema landmark that also happens to be one of the best movies of the aughts. Topics include: slip sliding into the place where no knowledge can validate you and the terror that remains, Fincher's San Fran past, ILM, a smoking fetus, digital's capacity to enable control freaks in directors chairs and executive's offices alike, and Matt's buckwild thesis on how the Zodiac killer is digital cinema. Corbin recommends this game. Matt recommends the second section of the second season Andor, w...
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"The Fan" (1996, Dir: Tony Scott) w/ Nate FisherAfter months in the digital mines, Matt and Corbin come up for air with NATE FISHER, co-writer of the fabulous new American Baseball Picture EEPHUS. We discuss Tony Scott's 1996 Travis-Bickle-As-Sports-Fan classic THE FAN. Topics include: Frederick Weisman, Deniro in a very strange mode, Barry Bonds, and modernist stability slipping into the chaotic morass of the next thing. Our recs this week don't have any relevant links, so I will spare you the description of them here. But, Eephus is currently available on your VOD utility of choice, watch it today. Also make sure to check out Nate's s...
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDigital Frontiers: "Star Wars Episode III: Revenge of the Sith"It goes without saying that a fake holiday to celebrate a film franchise owned by the Disney Corporation is an atrocity of taste and nonsense of the highest degree. Why does life under the social mediaized form of capitalism subject you to all this simpery, this nonsense, this neverending wave of novelty? Truly we are in hell. But hey we had a Star Wars episode in the tank so screw it, Happy Star Wars Day, May the Fourth Be With You! We are joined by friend of the program Ryder Canepa to talk about Star Wars Episode...
2025-05-041h 58The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDigital Frontiers: "INLAND EMPIRE" (2006, Dir: David Lynch)Corbin and Matt have spent week dreading the moment when they would have to watch INLAND EMPIRE, David Lynch's extreme digital cinema expirment that he shot with a skateboard camera. But what if... it's actually kind of sick with it? Corbin recommends The Long Good Friday. Matt recommends Protean Magazine. Our next episode will be about STAR WARS EPISODE THREE: REVENGE OF THE SITH. It was in theaters again! It's not in theaters anymore, boo!
2025-05-021h 36
The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS: "Apocalypto" (2005, Dir: Mel Gibson)Hey sorry the episode is late, we recorded like three episodes this week and Matt didn't have time to edit. Anyway while we were scrambing to figure out something to watch for weird scheduling reasons, we discovered that Apocalypto was shot on digital and boy oh boy were we lucky for that fact because this is a weird one/wild digital artifact. Topics include: Gibson's unrelenting thrist for a certain kind on screen violence, the weird push and pull between woke method and conservative values in the movie, and the uses of digital video in creating a kind of...
2025-04-281h 32The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS: 'The Long Take'Corbin and Ellis talk about the new proliferation of tracking takes at the dawn of digital cinema, focusing in particular on "Children of Men,' Alfonso Cauron's movie about the whole world losing their minds when fertility ends. Also metioned: Timecode, Russian Ark, video games, Gravity, and 1917. Matt reccomends an album. Corbin reccomends a movie. Next week's episode is about APOCOLYPTO, which you can watch on Hulu.
2025-04-181h 39
The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDigital Frontiers, Episode Seven: "Crank" (2006, Dir: Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor)Statham. Handheld cameras. Offensive stuff. Insane continuity. Statham. Violence. Statham. Statham. Statham. Statham. It's Crank, baby. Matt reccomends this article. Corbin reccomends this article. Next week's episode is about tracking shots, you could watch Children of Men and/or Russian Ark, but you don't have to, I don't think.
2025-04-111h 30The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDigital Frontiers, Episode Seven: "Miami Vice" (2006, Dir Michael Mann) (w/ Eric Marsh)ERIC MARSH joins Matt and Corbin to talk about MIAMI VICE, Michael Mann's digital fantasia/globalization fable/index of excruciatingly hot one liners. Topics include: globalization as topic and as aesthetic driver, the insane looking sky, and the unstability of digital filmmaking in an unstable time. Matt Recommends "Tokyo Vice" on MAX. Corbin recommends "Hell Hath No Fury," an album available on your local music streaming service. Eric recommends the song "Alone," by The Cry. Check out Eric's Podcast, "The Gaunlet," here. Next week's episode is about CRANK. It's not streaming for free anywhere, somehow, b...
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDigital Frontiers Seven: "STILL LIFE" (2006, Dir: Jia Zhangke) (w/ Tyler Theus)Corbin and Matt are joined by TYLER THEUS, a famous academic, to discuss "Still Life," a movie by a friend of the program who I have never said anything bad about, Jia Zhangke. Topics include: slow cinema, fiction/doc hybridization, the movie's relationship to neorealism, critical forms and aesthetic forms, hyper-mediated Mise-en-scène and the Three Gorges Dam. Watch Still Life here. Seriously, watch it, it's great. Corbin reccommends an album, avaibale on album streaming services or at your local record shop. Tyler reccomends Passing Fancy, an Ozu movie. Matt reccommends Eternity's Pillar, available here....
2025-03-281h 43
The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS, EPISODE SIX: "Cars" (2003, Dir: John Lasseter)PIXAR TIME BABY! Ellis and Corbin talk about 'Cars,' a movie about a civilization of Cars. Why are the Cars alive? What build the world they live in? How do they reproduce? Then, after they talk about the important stuff, they talk about Pixar, their history and centrality to digital cinema as a practice, the Pixar-to-SFX pipeline, their storytelling technique, and the nostalgia for modernity that lives in this particular movie. Good Episode! Corbin reccomends a new video game, available in your video game e-store of choice. Matt reccomends this. Friday's episode will be...
2025-03-241h 37
The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS EPISODE FIVE: What is Digital Cinema?Corbin and Matt talk about 'WHAT IS DIGITAL CINEMA,' a 1995 essay by Lev Manovich concerned the difference between filmic cinema of the 20th Century, and the emerging technological and artistic form that we have been talking about the last few weeks. It's a little hard to explain this episode to be honest, but it's good. Read Manovich's essay here. Corbin reccomends a movie currently in theaters. Matt reccomends "Blackberry," a movie. Next week's episode is about 'Cars,' from 2006. We will have a bonus episode regarding "Me and You and Evereyone We Know" and a...
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS EPISODE FOUR: "Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams" (2002, Dir: Robert Rodriguez)Huh? Why? Good question: it's because of Rodriguez's approach to economical filmmaking, which would come to whoopsiedoodle dominate everything uh oh! We get into it, as well as one or two other topics. Banderas is actually Spanish, not Mexican (I looked) but I don't think this invalidates my broader point. Corbin Reccomends the Mars Trilogy. Matt reccomends 'Hail Satan?" a documentary about jerks. Next week's episode is about a few movies trying new things in digital around the early/mid-aughts, including: Me and You and Everyone we Know, Once, and Timecode.
2025-03-061h 36The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS, EPISODE 3: '28 Days Later" (2002, Dir: Danny Boyle)28 Days Later is a "Zombie" movie made with a TV Camera that you watch on a big screen. It's really great! We talk about the practical and impractical applications of digital technology, materiality and zombie movies, the movie's depiction of fascism and soildering, then and now, and also what a spectacular bummer this thing is. Read a great essay about filmic materiality and the zombie movie here. Research also pulled up this extemely weird but kind of nifty essay about how 28 Days Later is kind of about the new apocolyptic bent that food writing took in the e...
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS, EPISODE TWO: 'Star Wars, Episode Two: Attack of the Clones' (2002, Dir: George LucasBro we're so back. We've never been more back. Because two white guys got in a room and talked about STAR WARS EPISODE TWO: ATTACK OF THE CLONES, which is, in addition to being one of the most reviled movies (By total weight, not percentage of hatred per person) of all time, the first major motion picture ever shot on digital cameras. We sorta think it's neat? Topics include anything but the plot, which, you know, it not important. The cameras they made, the difficult dransition to HDR Sensors, Lucas's monumental individual role in pushing movie technology...
2025-02-202h 03The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastDIGITAL FRONTIERS, EPISODE ONE: "The Celebration" (1998, Dir: Thomas Vinterberg)HEY EVERYONE! Corbin and Matt are starting a new series! It's called Digital Frontiers: Digital Cinema From 1998-2011, and it's about the movies' transition to digital as a primary medium, as seen in the movies that took the first steps forward. We are excited for you to join us on this journey, seeking answers to the eternal present question: "hey, why do movies look like that now?" Our first episode is about "Festen," ('The Celebration,' in English), The first certified Dogme 95 movie and an absolute banger. Topics include: the weird little camera they made it with a...
2025-02-121h 40The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastTHE BRUTALIST (2024, Dir: Brady Corbett) (w/ Ryder Canepa)Matt and Ryder love The Brutalist! Corbin thinks it's fine. We talk about it! Topics: codings in the text, the question of a broad anti-oppression reading vs. a zionist one, and the life of an artist, which sucks ass. Corbin reccomends TWO MOVIES currently in theaters. Ryder reccomends "Different Trains" by Steve Reich. Matt reccomends "Blueprinting" by the Aizuri Quartet. Next week's episode will be the beginning of a new series, DIGITAL FRONTIERS, a history of the early days of Digital Cinema. Our subject will be "The Celebration" by Thomas Vintenberg. Watch it here.
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'Don't Look Back' (1967, Dir: D.A. Pennebaker, With Ryder Canepa)Last year, Timothee Chalamet played the role of Bob Dylan in a major motion picture. It was all a little pointless, though, seeing as Robert Zimmerman has been playing the role of Bob Dylan in the movies for 60 years now. This week, we watched America's Onery Boy in 'Don't Look Back," D.A. Pennebaker's Cinéma vérité classic about Dylan's 1965 tour of England, where our hero spins Donnovan around, gets in fights with journalists, and meets the high sherrif's wife, and talked about it with Corbin's fellow Dylan sicko Ryder Canepa. Corbin reccomends Skyrim, which you prob...
2025-01-241h 56The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastMULHOLLAND DR. (2001, Dir: David Lynch)This week, David Lynch, a titan of the form and one of the great American artists of the post-war era, passed away at the age of 78. In tribute, Corbin and Matt talked about 'Mulholland Dr.,' his 2001 masterpiece. Watch it here. Check out a really neat essay about the movie's multifuntional narrative here. Matt reccomends The Brutalist, currently in theaters. Corbin reccomends UFO 50, snag it here. Our next episode will PROBABLY be about "Don't Look Back," finally, but it could end up being about The Brutalist. We'll find out together.
2025-01-221h 32The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastUNREST (2022, Dir: Cyril Schäublin)A few months back, Corbin and Ellis watched a movie about anarchist swiss watchmakers. Then they talked about it. Whatever else happened, Corbin cannot presently recall. Next week's episode will PROBABLY be about 'Don't Look Back,' but David Lynch's death (RIP) might complicate that plan. Whatever the case it will exist.
2025-01-171h 38The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastSONGS FROM THE SECOND FLOOR (2000, Dir: Roy Andersson)Hey I know we promised you Bob Dylan Sicko Stuff but the episode has some tech problems we gotta work out so first Ellis and Corbin are talking about 'Songs from the Second Floor," a Swedish Kids in the Hall Movie. It's been. while since we watched it so I can't remember what happens in it. Watch it here. Next week's episode will be about either 'Unrest' or 'Don't Look Back,' depending on like six things. Sorry for the break, It was New Year's.
2025-01-111h 20The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastMIRACLE ON 34th STREET (1994, Dir: Les Mayfield)How did consumer culture change in the 50 years following "A Miracle on 34th Street? (1947)?" Big news, they made ANOTHER ONE and it TELLS YPOU EVERYTHING YOU KNOW! Topics include: Dylan McDermott: too hot to not get a shot, too untalanted to make much of it, the weird loss of the original's cynicysim, Wal-Mart, and the question of what the NEXT remake of this movie will look like. Next week's episode is about "DON'T LOOK BACK." Watch it here.
2024-12-241h 18The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastMIRACLE ON 34th STREET (1947, Dir: George Seaton)Corbin and Matt talk about 'MIRACLE ON 34th STREET, a Sentimental Christmas Classic about Department Stores and the supremac y of the suburban lifestyle. We recorded it a few weeks ago so Corbin forgot specific topics but he suspects they talk about the emergence of consumer culture in America, the eternal American Christmas Disconnection, and the movie's oddly cynical edge. Watch the movie here. Check out Land of Desire, a book about the history of the department store, here. Corbin reccomends "THE JOY OF CHRISTMAS," a Bob Dylan album. Matt reccomends his own website. Next we...
2024-12-201h 15The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"VOLCANO" (1997, Dir: Mick Jackson) w/ CAM CROWELLMatt and Corbin are joing by CAM CROWELL (Inaction) to talk about VOLCANO, a Los Angeles Disaster Movie. Topics include: Anne Heche, sweet as pie, Mike Davis, man's craving to see LA Doomed, the percise geography at work in this bad boy, and, of course, Don Cheadle. Watch Volcano here. Read "The Literary Destruction of Los Angeles" by Mike Davis here. Matt reccomends the director's cut of Ridley Scott's Napolean. Cam reccomends Christmas Evil. Corbin reccomends Corbin reccomends "The Duelists." Next week's episode is about "Miracle on 34th Street," the 1947 version. (I do n...
2024-12-131h 15The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastRAP WORLD (2024, Dir: Connor O'Malley, Danny Scharar)Ellis and Smith talk about 'RAP WORLD,' Connor O'Malley's lo-fi fantasia about America after the 2008 Crash and also three dunces trying and failing to make a rap song. Topics: handmade culture's pre-social lack of gloss, melllenial trash culture, just how terribly sad the project is, O'Malley's early appearences in Corbin's consiousness and the dog he is watching. Matt reccomends a mexican resturaunt. Corbin reccomends Bob's Burgers. Next week's episode is about "VOLCANO," a movie about a Volcano. Watch it here.
2024-12-061h 30The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastNOIRVEMBER: THIEF (1981, Dir: Michael Mann) w/ JOHN WILMESWilmes Joins us to talk about THIEF, Michael Mann's totallyt realized debut. Topics: reversenoir, Nietzsche and capitalism, and sone other stuff. Matt reccomends coffee. Corbin reccomends Hobswan. John reccomends Saul Bellow. Next week's episode is about RAPWORLD. Watch it here.
2024-12-021h 35The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastNOIRVEMBER: "Le jour se lève/Daybreak" (1939, DIR: Jacques Prévert)Noirvember goes to FRANCE, where Corbin and Matt talk about 'Le jour se lève,' known as Daybreak in America, a sorta-noir/sorta-crime movie/sort of allegory for the annhilation of Europe as Hitler prepared to invade everyone. Does it resonate in the present political climate? Unfortunately, yes! Corbin reccomends Elliott Smith and Quasi on the Live Music Archive. Matt reccomends this song, I think? hard to say. Our next episode is about THIEF. Special guest! Rent it or watch it on MGM+, I guess.
2024-11-261h 11The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastNOIRVEMBER: 'Stray Dog" (1949, Dir: Akira Kurosawa)Listen to Corbin and, lesser degree, Matt, get all swoony over STRAY DOG, a police procedural by THE MASTER Akira Kurosawa. Topics include: soup, noir-and-not-noir elements at work, Kurosawa's enduring influence, and the heroic impulse vs. the rational impulse. Corbin reccomends a movie currently in theaters. Matt reccomends "Tokyo Vice" on HBOMAX. Next week's episode is about Le Jour Se Leve/Daybreak, which you will have to rent. Matt: "Song at end: Himiko Kikuchi- Don't Be Stupid. Famous Japanese Jazz album apparently"
2024-11-161h 28The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastNOIRVEMBER: "KISS ME DEADLY" (1955, Dir: Robert Aldrich)Matt and Corbin talk about "Kiss Me Deadly," a film noir about a Nietzschean superman lost in an existential world... right up until the point when it turns out he's actually in a science fiction disasterpiece. Our analysis of the election: wrong. Sorry! Corbin reccomends "BALATRO," a video game. Matt reccomends e-readers. Next week's NOIRVEMBER selection is "STRAY DOG," which you can watch here.
2024-11-081h 19The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"Let's Scare Jessica to Death" (1971, Dir: John Hancock)Corbin and Ellis are joined by MATEA, Portland's Elvira (Letterboxd here, subscribe today!), for a conversaion about the early indie horror touchstone "Let Scare Jessica to Death." Topics include: the shifting uses of mental health care as a literary device, the bitter end of the sixties playing out on screen, the thin line between madness and a vampire invading your mind, and the movie's wild sound design. Corbin reccomends a movie. Matt reccomends another movie. Matea reccomends yet another movie. Next week's episode, which i neglected to mention, will be the first in a series of...
2024-10-311h 23The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"The Apprentice" (2024, DIR: Ali Abbasi)Corbin and Matt talk about "The Apprentice," a movie that persues an impossible goal and comes out Interesting. Topics: Sebastian Stan, who is incredible, where orbin was when Trump won, Fred Trump, and how "Humanization" is actually like, the only honest way of telling this story. Corbin reccomends "Persona 5," he guesses. Available wherever you buy games. Matt reccomends "It Happened One Night," watch it here. Next week: "Let's Scare Jessica to Death." Watch here. After that: NOIRVEMBER
2024-10-251h 31The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"The Breaking Ice" (2023, Dir: Anthony Chen)Ellis and Da Corb talk about "The Breaking Ice," a lil' character drama about three people in a chilly city on China's border with North Korea. Topics: America in the 50's and China in the now's, capital's universal qualities, China's particular qualities, and a depressing story that happens in a Safeway. Watch the movie here. Ellis's reccomendation can be heard here. He totally reccomended it last week, despite what he claims. Check out some of Mike Watson's music here. Our outro music this week is "Violet Gibson" by Lisa O'Neill.
2024-10-181h 28The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastMEGALOPOLIS (2024, Dir: Francis For Coppola) with CORY ATADCory Atad (The Baffler) Joins Dr. Movies and The Corb to talk about "MEGALOPOLIS," a movie about Francis Ford Coppola getting extremely baked and creating a drastically less efficent method of public transit. Corbin writing this right now just wants to say: my opinion on this movie has curdled into something meaner and less forgiving after recording this episode. I have come to think of it as a monument to one man's narcissim, a canker sore on the art of cinema, a pile of garbage for precisely no one. I will concede that it is not boring, t...
2024-10-101h 38The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastFredric Jameson's thoughts on "VIDEODROME" (Dir: David Cronenberg, 1983)Matt and Corbs talk about the recently departed Frederic Jameson and his thoughts on VIDEODROME, David Cronenberg's 1983 masterpiece about the terrifying merger of man and machine occuring en masse in front of your very eyes and also the pleasures and perils of having a gigantic hole in your abdomen that someone can stick living videotapes inside, compelling you to murder people on behalf of a shadowy right wing technoconspiracy. Read 'Totality as Conspiracy' here. Matt told me to link this piece about Jameson by Jeet Heer. If it's bad, I didn't read it, blame Matt. M...
2024-10-041h 33The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"The Young Master" (1980, Dir: Jackie Chan)Jackie Chan. Early eighties. Fred Astaire. Buster Keaton. Buddy if you need convincing to watch The Young Master please, get your fun switches cleaned. Check out a good essay about Jackie here. Corbin reccomends a sandwhich. Next week's episode is about VIDEODROME. Then: MEGAOLOPOPPOIS!
2024-09-281h 32The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"Christ Stopped at Eboli" (1979, Dir: Francesco Rosi)Big Matt and Lil' Corbs talk about 'CHRIST STOPPED AT EBOLI,' a movie about a dissident who get sent to the world's cruddiest village by Benito Mussolini. He learns lessons. Topics include: Pringles, anarchism, its similarities and differences to "The Tree of Wooden Clogs," another movie about pesants, and which came first: Christianity or History? Matt reccomends Roger Waters' new Dark Side of the Moon remake. Corbin reccomends a video game. Next week's episode is about "The Young Master," available at Criterion. RIP Fredric Jameson.
2024-09-241h 28The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World" (2023, Dir: Radu Jude)Ellis and the Corbot talk about "DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD," Radu Jude's recent bang bang exploration of the feeling of being alive under late capitalism. Subjects include: terrible Romanian techno, exploitated people observing other exploited people for the purpose of exploitation, and international business's wholesale domination of our lives. Corbin reccomends concerts by Ted Leo, Matt reccomends ASASSINS CREED. Next week's episode is about "Christ Stopped At Eboli," which you can watch here.
2024-09-141h 30The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"The Rocketeer" (1991, Dir: Joe Johnston)Ellis and Corbin talk about "The Rocketeer," a Walt Disney Live Action Classic™ about a guy who acquires a Rocketpack and becomes... not like, a superhero but like... a guy with a jetpack and good intentions? Topics include: Fredric Jameson, the nexus of technological emergence in turn of the century California, and the deep and profound tragedy at the center of this movie: lazy casting. Corbin reccomends "Red Mars," a book available at your local library. Ellis reccomends "Promethus" and "Alien: Covenent." Next week's episode is about "Do Not Expect too Much from the End of t...
2024-09-061h 34The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"Los Angeles Plays Itself" (2003, Dir: Thom Anderson)Ellis and Corbs talk about "Los Angeles Plays Itself," Thom Anderson's lengthy video essay about Movie City's place in the Movies, and the Movies place in Movie City. Topics include: Modernist Architecture: is it evil? The germ of the other American cinema we see in the end of this movie, and filming driving in Los Angeles and in Portland. Corbin's reccomendation is an album, you can find it on a streaming service. Matt's is a video game he only kind of enjoyed. Watch the movie here. Next week's episode is about "The Rocketeer," which you ca...
2024-08-311h 19The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"Cruel Intentions" (1999, Dir: Roger Kumble)Corbin, Matt, and SPECIAL GUEST MATEA (Check out her ROBUST Letterboxd here) talk about CRUEL INTENTIONS, a truly wild erotic thriller/black comedy from the precise moment when the Americans were most sick and tired of their own bullshit. Topics include a lengthy diatribe about Clinton and Bush, the gauzy-TV look of the movie, and the movie's depiction of Step-sisters as well as the culture's. Check out a cool intertextual essay about the movie here. Matt reccomends the podcast "Fall of Civilizations." Corbin reccomends Pauline Kael aggregregator accounts. Matea reccomends a book by the 40 Laws o...
2024-08-221h 31The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'All That Heaven Allows' (1955, Dir: Douglas Sirk)Big Corbs and the El Train talk about "All That Heaven Allows," Douglas Sirk's MASTERFUL melodrama about conformity, love, and how your daughter likes Freud too much. Topics: Digital Restoration: Not Actually That Bad, justice for the daughter, television, and the relationship between beaknikism and nostalgia. Good essay about the movie here. Matt's reccomendation is in theaters. Corbin's is Tetris, I guess? Next week's episode is about CRUEL INTENTIONS, which you can watch on FreeVee with ads, which is, in truth, the best way to watch it.
2024-08-151h 29The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'North by Northwest' (1959, Dir: Alfred Hitchcock)Corbin and Ellis talk about NORTH BY NORTHWEST, a movie about Cary Grant, world class charmer, getting chased around America by a faint idea about the Cold War. Topics: Grant, who is charming and handsome, the movie as a of proto-action thriller and how it succeeds and doesn't in that capacity, and style Hitch vs. Neurosis Hitch. Matt's reccomendation may or may not be in theaters. Corbin reccomends the Portland Pickles Baseball Club in Portland's beautiful Lents Neightborhood. Our next episode is about Douglas Sirk's "All that Heaven Allows." It's not streming anywhere for free at...
2024-08-071h 29The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'The Rules of the Game' (1939, Dir: Jean Renoir)Ellis and Corbin talk about "THE RULES OF THE GAME," and are kind of bowled over by how much there is in it. Topics include: farce in collapse, the movie's technical achivements, and how it functions as a frustrated, bordering on nihlistic flipside to Renoir's other prewar masterpiece. Corbin reccomends "Link's Awakening," available on your Nintendo Switch or your Nintendo Game Boy. Matt reccomends a bar in Portland. Next week's episode is NOT about 'All that Jazz,' because it was hard to find on the internet and Matt got annoyed while watching it. Instead we talked a...
2024-07-271h 24The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'The Roaring Twenties' (1939, Dir: Raoul Walsh)Matt and Corbin talk about THE ROARING TWENTIES, a remarkably sedate gangster picture featuring the talents of JAMES CAGNEY, America's mean lad. Topics include: a weirdly progressive view on the twenties, Bogey, and Matt's band. Matt reccomends this song. Corbin reccomends the act of zoning out in front of Mario Kart. Next week's episode is about "The Rules of the Game," a very famous movie. Watch it on Criterion or Kanopy.
2024-07-201h 21The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'ANOTHER ROUND' (2020, Dir: Thomas Vinterberg)Ellis and Smith discuss 'Another Round,' Danish director Thomas Vinterberg's tribute to the wonder and dangers of both booze and male friendship. We discuss the little liberation of .05, the modern condition vs the human condition, and MADS. Ellis reccomends 'The Roaring Twenties,' which talk about on next week's episode. Watch it here. Corbin reccomends 'Doppelganger,' a book by Naomi Klein, available at your local library.
2024-07-121h 29The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'LOST HORIZON' (1937, Dir: Frank Capra)Corbin and Matt talk about LOST HORIZON, Frank Capra's fantasy movie about how the road to utopia runs through the elimination of soceity. Corbin gets a little irritated. Corbin's reccomendation here. Matt reccomends Tubi. Next week's episode is about 'Another Round,' which you can watch here.
2024-07-061h 36The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'GOOD MORNING' (1959, Dir: Yasujirō Ozu)Ellis and Corbin talk about "GOOD MORNING," Ozu's little fable about two brave little boys and their quest to acquire the most forbidden of all fruits... a television. It's also about adults running their mouths. Matt and Corbin both reccomended books. Corbin also reccomends "Hit Man," the new Richard Linklatter movie, which you can watch on Netflix (Ugh). Next week's episode is about Frank Capra's 'Lost Horizon,' which you can watch on the Internet Archive. Ellis send my this with the file: 'Song at the end, if you want to put it into notes, i...
2024-06-281h 18The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'Shane" (1953, Dir: George Stevens)Folks it's time to say "Symptomatic," because we're watching SHANE! Topics include: why is this movie basically Heaven's Gate, the weird glimpse of Hollywood's narrative future it provides, and just how guilt a violent person needs to feel to experience some degree of redemtpion in the eyes of the audience. Warning: Corbin sounds a little weird Watch Corbin's reccomendation here. Matt reccomended shirts. Next episode is about "GOOD MORNING," which you can watch here.
2024-06-201h 21The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'Werckmeister Harmonies' (2000, Dir: Bela Tarr)Hey! Me and Matt had a little scheduling SNAFU this week so we are releasing and episode we recorded a while back, just in case we got off schedule. It's about "Werckmeister Harmonies," a movie by Bela Tarr, Mr. Turin Horse Himself. Watch Corbin's reccomendation here, if you dare. Matt's can be listened to here. Next week's episode has been AUDIBLED. We are doing "SHANE," the western classic by George Stevens. It's on Paramount Plus and Pluto.
2024-06-161h 22The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"A Touch of Zen" (1971, Dir: King Hu)This movie whips so hard. Listen to me and Matt try to say something aside from "this whips." Watch it here. Check out Matt's reccomendation here. Corbin's reccomendation is currently in theaters. Next week's episode is about "Mephisto," which you can watch here.
2024-06-101h 35The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastJesus Month: "The Last Temptation of Christ" (1988, Dir: Martin Scorsese)Corbin and Matt, two male American movie enthusiasts, watched a Martin Scorsese movie, so you KNOW they're juiced. Topics include: what in the movie ACTAULLY a little blasphemous, the ongoing translations of Judas in these movies, David Bowie's Stoic Pilate, and Peter Gabriel. Corbin's reccomendation can be acquired here. Matt's is here. Next week's episode is about TOUCH OF ZEN, which can be seen here.
2024-05-301h 37The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastJesus Month: "The Gospel According to Saint Matthew" (1964, Dir: Pier Paolo Pasolini)Corbin and Matt talk about THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT MATTHEW, Marxist Neorealist Pier Paolo Pasolini's pretty straight on take on the book of Matthew. Topics: Where's Mary Magdeline?, a political Jesus, yet another disappointing crucifixion, and the temptation to find some sense in Judas. Check out a good essay on the move here. Corbin's reccomendation can be seen on Mubi, if you're that kind of sicko. He also reccomends a movie that is presently in theaters. Acquire Matt's reccomendation here. Next week: THE LAST TEMPTATION OF CHRIST! Watch it here!
2024-05-261h 32The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastJesus Month: 'The Greatest Story Ever Told' (1965, DIR: George Stevens)This week, Corbin and Ellis talk about THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, a lengthy epic about Jesus from right before New Hollywood started. Topics: Max Von Sydow, John Wayne, Political Jesus, and Nikolai Jokic. Next week (By this I mean in the next few days, on account of this episode's lateness) we are talking about THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO SAINT MATTHEW, a neorealist take on the story of Jesus, which you can watch here. Also coming up: The Last Temptation of Christ.
2024-05-2245 minThe Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastJesus Month: 'KING OF KINGS' (1927, DIR: Cecil B. DeMille)In this, the first episode of TPNWICMFP's first ever JESUS MONTH, Corbin and Matt discuss "KING OF KINGS," a silent picture (With color segments!) from the father of the film epic, CECIL B. DEMILLE. Topics include: why we aren't we doing one specific movie, DeMille's odd theater aesthetic, the scenes that work (The Ressurection!), the scenes that don't (The Crucifixion), and the question of sin-ema trying to navigate the world of values. Watch King of Kings here. Corbin's reccomendation can be seen here. Matt's can be imbibed here. Next week's episode is about 'THE GREATEST STORY EVER T...
2024-05-101h 43The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"Foxcatcher" (2014, Dir: Bennett Miller)Corbin, Matt and SPACIAL GUEST SAM WHITELEY (Comedian, The Payton Years) talk about Foxcatcher, a BLEAK movie about wrestling (The non-cool kind), the world warping around the wealth of an unstable man, the question of what america actually is, and stamp collecting. If you like hearing Corbin say something unacceptably rude to a guest, this is the one for you! Next week's episode is about Cecil B. DeMille's KING OF KINGS. It will be the first in a series of movies about JESUS OF NAZARETH, reagarded by most Christian sects as the incarnation of God on Earth. W...
2024-05-021h 43The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"Born in Flames" (1982, Dir: Lizzie Borden)This week, Matt and Corbin talk about BORN IN FLAMES, a facinating little piece of second-wave feminist instigation from Lizzie Borden. I am worried we get something wrong about it by being white men talking about 'Born in Flames' so please do not hurt us. We talk about the movie's sense of feminism in relation to capitalism and how it feels very disassociated in the present day, the music in the movie, the sight of possible futures from the perspective of the present, and other stuff. Watch the movie here. Corbin also vicifoursly reccomends Lizzie Borden's other b...
2024-04-231h 12The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"Bambi" (1942, Dir: David Hand)Corbin and Matt discuss "BAMBI," Walt Disney's animated classic about animal friends living in a forest idyl, and their deadliest, most terrifying enemy: human beings. You can read an enlightening and low key troubling essay about Bambi's literary origins here. Corbin's reccomendation can be seen here, on Kanopy. Don't read Ellis's reccomendation here. next week's episode is about "Born in Flames," by Lizzie Borden. Check it out here!
2024-04-121h 36The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"Sexy Beast" (2000, Dir: Jonathan Glazer)Corbin and Matt talk about SEXY BEAST, a prehistoric crime drama from Jonathan Glazer. We talk about the advent of the chatty gangster picture, the way the movie does and doesnt subvert the tennants of this subgenre, end-of-history type blathering, and Ray Winsome, the titular Sexy Beast. You can watch Corbin's reccomendation this week here. Also check out this Reba McEntire music video. Matt's can be seen here. You should check out Matt's if you want to stay current on upcoming episodes if you know what I mean. Next week's episode is about BAMBI. You c...
2024-04-061h 14The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast"News from Home" (1976, DIR: Chantal Akerman)THIS WEEK Corbin and Matt talk about 'News from Home," an avant-garde collage of still life 70's New York Footage and Chantal Akerman's mother's letters to her. It's really great but also there's not much to say about it in a podcast blurb, you know? Next week we are discussing Jonathan Glazer's SEXY BEAST, which you can watch here, on Criterion or here, on Hulu. It's a wonderful movie!
2024-03-221h 26The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp' (1943, Dir: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)This week, Corbin and Matt talk about 'The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp,' Powell and Pressburger's incredible exploration of the life and career of a British Solider from the first half of the 20th Century. It's almost hard to talk about because it is such a rich text. We didn't even talk about how the central relationship of the movie reflects that of the movie's creators, we're so deep in it. You can, and should, watch this movie here, on Criterion, and here on HBOMax. If you want to read something really incredible ab...
2024-03-141h 33The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'Dune' (1984, Dir: David Lynch)Corbin and Ellis and Cam, (A friend, the author of (In)Action), talk about David Lynch's stab at Frank Herbert's 'Dune,' on the eve of the release of Dune: Part Two. Topics include: why did they have David Lynch make this movie, exactly? Pardon the posting mess: it was Ellis's fault. Corbin is a GOOD BOY. Watch this movie here, if you dare.
2024-03-091h 48The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'Dune' (1984, Dir: David Lynch)Matt and Corbin are joined by fellow DuneHead Cam to discuss David Lynch's take on the franchise. Why, you might ask, was David Lynch tapped to make a sci-fi blockbuster? Probably becase of sheer freakiness of the source material, considered unfilmable until a french guy figured out that you didn't need to focuse on the freakiness. Watch the movie here, on HBOMax. I do not recognize the offical corporate name of that streaming service in this space. Check out Cam's newsletter, (In)Action, here.
2024-03-061h 48The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'The Birds' (1963, DIR: Alfred Hitchcock)This week, Ellis and Smith discuss 'The Birds,' Hitchock's movie about that time all birds went buckwild and started mauling people. We talk about the various utilites of metaphor in addressing the picture, how fucking weird the non-birds parts of this movie are, the impressive job Hitch does in never giving you anhything close to a satisfactory cause and effect in the movie, and the less than impressive job he did in 'Respecting Tippi Hendren.' At the end of this episode we say that next week's episode will be "THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL B...
2024-02-281h 31The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'Heaven's Gate' (1980, Dir: Michael Cimino)Today, Corbin and Ellis talk about HEAVEN'S GATE, Michael Cimino's mondo flop about the economics of cattle farming and a romance between a country singer and The Piano Teacher. The Cattle Economics stuff works better. Ellis and I watched the long version of this movie, which is available on DVD and streaming services. To the best of my knowledge, it is the superior version. Next week's episode is about Alfie Hitchie's "THE BIRDS," which can be seen on Criterion for ten or so more days.
2024-02-211h 21The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastSCARFACE (1931, Dir: Howard Hawks)Hey whoops we were supposed to do Heaven's Gate this week but Corbin got the flu so we're releasing this backstopped episode regarding Howard Hawks' 1931 Pre-Code sleazesterpiece SCARFACE, a movie I suggested as a historical inquiry that ended up being one of the best things we've watched for the show. Topics include: violence, incest, the movie's wild mis en scene, and some other stuff.
2024-02-151h 15The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'Ferrari' (2023, DIR: Michael Mann)Corbin and Matt and SPECIAL GUEST RYDER (not famous) talk about 'Ferrari,' Michael Mann's 2023 movie about fast cars and human suffering. Corbin also reads from the futurist manifesto in public, which gets a little awkward. Next Week, the movie that single handedly destroyed American cinema: HEAVEN'S GATE. The version we are watching is available on HOOPLA! (Probably: your library might differ in this matter.) See you then!
2024-02-071h 21The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'The Magician' (1958, DIR: Ingmar Bergman)This week on the show, Corbin and Matt talk about THE MAGICIAN, a 1958 Bergman Bangern about performence, trickery, and the eternal enemy of fun, scientific rationalism. You can watch the movie here, on Criterion. Next week's movie is FERRARI, by Michael Mann. I think it's streaming somewhere but I have already given too much to this blurb. Oh, our new cover art is by SPENCER STANLEY GROSHONG, a wonderful designer known for his work at TRILLBLAZIN. We thank Spencer for rescuing us from Corbin Smith's graphic design instincts, which are not so good.
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'Night of the Comet' (1984, Dir: Thom Eberhardt)Hey! Sorry about the break its been a little crazy around here and there lately. THis week Corbs and Ellis talk LIVE AT WORKERS TAP in PORTLAND, OREGON, about 'Night of the Comet,' a sort-of-zombie movie that mixes a bunch of 1980's stuff in a big ol' bowl and serves it to you, the viewer. Topics include: Star Trek First officers, automation's ghost living on in the ruins of human civilization, how great it would be to work as a projectionist in the early 80's, and a maybe-repeat of a conversation about film vs. digital. We also talk...
2024-01-191h 33The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm Podcast'Cure' (1997, DIR: Kiyoshi Kurosawa)Corbin and Dr. Matt talk about 'CURE,' Kiyoshi Kurosawa's 1997 J-Horror classic. Topics: horror or pyshcological thriller (Genre distinctions being the main thing men talk about), pushing pyshcology back through premodernity, Corbin's new book on NYU Press, Mothra, and Naruto's pal the nine-tailed beast. We're not sure what next week's episode is about yet.
2024-01-031h 21The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastHOLIDAY SPECIAL: MEET JOHN DOE (DIR: Frank Capra, 1941) In a special Christmas Episode, Corbin and Matt talk about MEET JOHN DOE, a 1941 Frank Capra Christmas Joint, staring screen goddess Barbara Stanwyck and the thinking man's John Wayne, Gary Cooper. We talk about Capra's worldview, where soceiry can fix all its problens so long as it doesn't dip intonthe morass of "Politics" or whatever. "Meet John Doe" can be seen here on Criterion, or here, on the Internet Archive, because someone forgot to renew the copyright in the seventies. Coming up next week:
2023-12-231h 53The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastEpisode Twelve: The Devil, Probably (DIR: Robert Bresson, 1977)France was hoping for a better future in 1968. When that didn't happen, Robert Bresson was there to ask a very important question: "What if the icy embrace of death is all that life has to offer?" A real Live/Laugh/Love episode of the show, lemme tell ya. This movie can be seen here, on Criterion. Next week's episode is MEET JOHN DOE, by Frank Capra, which can be seen here on Criterion, or here, on the Internet Archive, because someone forgot to renew the copyright in the seventies. Also coming up: Cure.
2023-12-211h 18The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastEpisode Eleven: AFIRE (Dir Christian Peztold, 2023)On paper, Afire seems like it is an alegory for climate change. It is actually a movie about Corbin irritating himself to death. Whoops! Next week's movie, part of a VERY SPECIAL CHRISTMAS PNWICMFP is MEET JOHN DOE, by Frank Capra. You can watch it here, on Criterion, or here, on the Internet Archive, because a long time ago someone forgot to renew the copyright. Did anyone see the new Miyazaki movie, aside from me? My man is operating heavy in an allegorical space right now. Also the use of blues and greens... very cool. N...
2023-12-141h 17The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastEpisode Ten- MASCULIN FÉMININ (Dir: Jean-Luc Godard, 1966)Godard episode bwah bwah bwah bwaaaaaaah. Jean-Luc Corbard and Jean-Ellis Godard talk about MASCULIN FÉMININ, a bog standard Godard movie about... I honestly don't remember. Topics include: The Boy from The 400 Blows, all grown up, two specific dogs, if modern man can really get Godard, and other stuff, I presume. Next week's movie is AFIRE, by Christian Petzold. Watch it here.
2023-12-061h 37The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastEPISODE NINE: THE EYES OF LAURA MARS (Dir: Irving Kershner, 1987)On this episode, Corbin and Mattbin talk about THE EYES OF LAURA MARS, a movie about violent images and Tommy Lee Jones's nipples. Topics include: images of violence and how we process them as individuals and as a society, Haneke, the difficulty in seeing prolific character actor René Auberjonois as anyone but Odo, and Helmut Newton. Corbin says next week's episode will be about "The Devil, Probably," by Robert Bresson, but he called an audible and we went with Jean-Luc Godard's 'Masculin Feminin' instead. So be aware of that.
2023-11-291h 32The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastEPISODE EIGHT: ExISTENz (1999, DIR: David Cronenberg)Matthew and Corbthew speak on Canadian God Sicko David Cronenberg's eXistenZ, a movie about video games, guns made of chicken bones, teeth bullets, the unnerving creep of virtual reality onto reality reality. Topics include: the Mandela Effect fuel that is Willem Dafoe one being in one Cronenberg movie, video games in their moral panic era, and Cronenberg as a kind of non-savant Lynch. You can watch the movie for free here, with ads.
2023-11-231h 28The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastEPISODE SEVEN: JAUJA (2014, Dir: Lisandro Alonso)Corbs and Matts talk about JAUJA, which is sort of like if Taken starred Viggo Mortensen, was excruciatingly slow, and ended with a deeply unsatasifying resolution. It was great! Please note that since recording this episode, Corbin learned about Patagonia. You can watch this week's movie here, on Kanopy.
2023-11-161h 24The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastEPISODE SIX: THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS (Dir: Ermanno Olmi, 1979)Big Corbs and Lil' Matty Movies talk about THE TREE OF WOODEN CLOGS, an Italian neorealist epic about the Last Pesants and their nice community. Topics include: modernity's strange slow creep, the limits of community, and the weird little glasses the priest wears. Features audio problems because Corbin needs a New Mic, but you can handle that, right?
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastEPISODE FIVE: COMPUTER CHESS (Dir: Andrew Bujalski, 2013)Matty and Corbsy talk about COMPUTER CHESS, American Director Andrew Bujalski's fable about AI, shitty hotels, flirting, free will and the Mysterious Man of Myth, Michael Papageorge.
2023-10-251h 24The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastEPISODE FOUR: Wild in the Country (DIR: Philip Dunne, 1961)Dr. Movies and Mr. Ducks take up "Wild in the Country," a Serious Drama starring Elvis Prestly, who you might know from his other, less dramatic roles. Discussion includes: screenwriter Clifford Odets, a leftist snitch who was also maybe corny, the hazy period when Hollywood was trying to break into method acting and not quite succeeding, if you can see Elvis as not-Elvis (you can't), and when, exactly, it became unacceptable to bang your cousin.
2023-10-181h 32The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastEPISODE THREE: Oppenheimer (2023, DIR: Christopher Nolan)Corbin and Matt discuss OPPENHEIMER, Christopher "Mr. Movies" Nolan's biographical picture about the life and career of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the director of atomic bomb development at Los Alamos. Topics include: the hole where the idealogy was supposed to go, the movie's IMMACULATE casting, a therotical version of the movie made by Mike Leigh, and Nolan's dialogue.
2023-10-181h 10The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastEPISODE TWO: God Told Me To (1976, DIR: Larry Cohen)Discussion regarding GOD TOLD ME TO, American sicko auteur Larry Cohen's tribute to the joys and perils of murdering someone because God said so. Topics include: the ways the movie has read throughout time, if movies should have narrative closure, and goop.
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The Pacific Northwest Insurance Corporation Moviefilm PodcastEPISODE ONE: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984, Dir: Hayao Miyazaki)In our DEBUT EPISODE, Matt and Corbin talk about Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, the second film from the master of anime, Hayao Miyazaki. Topics include: natural and technological visions of apocalypse, the comic's more jaded, but also more fulfilling ending, and Matt's weird animation blind-spot.
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TURTLE POND HANGOUTREGARDING: The Sight and Sound Poll, at length, Rules of the Lame, PostModernism w/ Matt EllisCorbin talks to DOCTOR Matt Ellis about the Sight and Sound list. He also says the word "Beejer"
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