Ep #24 - Cure

A fellow criterion collector from Massachusetts joins the podcast to talk about Weezer of all things, the first movies we remember watching, an in depth discussion on the amazing J horror film: Cure (1997), and more!

This Week

Cure (1997)

A frustrated detective deals with the case of several gruesome murders committed by people who have no recollection of what they've done.

Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Japan, 1h 51m

Available to stream on the Criterion Channel

Guest Host: Chandler

Chandler is a creative from Massachusetts. He runs the internet radio show WAAR, upcoming WAAR podcast, and puts on live music shows/makes movies with the locally South Shore Massachusetts standstill collective.

Find Chandler on: Twitter - Patreon - Letterboxd - WAAR (Radio Show/Podcast) Discord - standstill.

Episode Outline

Where names come from

Guest host intro

Weezer

Working as a movie theatre manager

Film projecting

First movies we saw in the theaters

Charlotte’s Web (2006)

Dead Man (1995)

Jim Jarmusch

Yasujiro Ozu’s Filmography

Criterion Box Sets

Cure (1997) *spoilers*

Initial impressions

The ending

Curtain: Poirot's Last Case

What does it mean?

Horror as a genre

How Cure creates atmosphere

Cure on Blu-ray

Cliffhanger

Next Week (Part 2)

SALÒ, OR THE 120 DAYS OF SODOM (1975)

In World War II Italy, four fascist libertines round up nine adolescent boys and girls and subject them to one hundred and twenty days of physical, mental and sexual torture.

Dir. Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italy, 1h 56m

Available to buy on Criterion.com

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