#902: Top 10 Films of 2022 with Michael Phillips and Marya Gates
The best of the best.
Read More"The Flagship Film Podcast"
“The flagship film podcast” featuring in-depth reviews, top 5 lists and interviews.
The best of the best.
Read MoreA deeper dive into Adam and Josh’s Chicago Film Critics Association ballots.
Read MoreA recommendation - and a hard pass - on James Cameron's return to Pandora.
Read MoreWith THE FABLEMANS, what appeared to be Steven Spielberg’s portrait of the filmmaker as a young man turns out to be a more complicated autopsy of a family coming apart at the seams—that happens to have a budding filmmaker there to document it. Adam and Josh have lots of praise for Spielberg, his co-conspirator/co-screenwriter Tony Kushner, and the film’s cast, but a few minor issues may reflect a weakness that appears more broadly in the director’s work. Director Joanna Hogg has worked almost exclusively in an autobiographical vein: her acclaimed 2019 film “The Souvenir” and last year’s sequel “The Souvenir, Part II,” had Hogg revisiting and re-examining her film student days. Her latest, THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER, continues the director’s audacious self-reflexivity, this time casting Tilda Swinton in a double role as Hogg surrogate Julie and also as Julie’s mother, Rosalind. Hogg’s film is both a meta-meditation on what it means to be an artist—and a ghost story. Plus, Adam recommends Sr., a new doc about filmmaker - and Robert Downey Jr.’s dad - Robert Downey, Sr.
1:06 - Review: "The Fablemans"
36:35 - Next Week / Notes
43:44 - Polls
51:22 - Review: “The Eternal Daughter"
1:03:01 - Review (AK): “Sr.”
1:08:41 - Outro
The return of Daniel Craig’s Benoit Blanc and Wakanda in mourning.
Read MoreJosh, Sam, and Adam discuss the launch of the new Filmspotting Family membership platform and how you can help support and grow the show.
Read MoreThe many and varied expressions of onscreen male friendship. (Yep, RIO BRAVO goes into the Pantheon.)
Park Chan-wook’s dreamy new noir inspires a consideration of police ensnared in complicated romances.
Have fun storming the castle.
Read MoreAndrew Dominik's Marilyn Monroe tale is nightmarish and reductive. That's not necessarily a bad thing.
Read MoreThe intriguing, the curious, and the just plain weird.
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