Posts by Split Take Podcast
Army of Shadows

Chandler and Jacob run through some of the movies they’ve watched during the month of September and review the French World War 2 film, Army of Shadows (1969).

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The Tatami Galaxy

Chandler & Jacob are joined by their friend, east coast Chandler, to discuss what they’ve been watching lately and to review the short anime TV series, The Tatami Galaxy.

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Beau Travail

As Chandler & Jacob review another French film from the 2012 Sight & Sound greatest films list: Beau Travail, Jacob struggles to pronounce French names and Chandler asks “Is it gay? Or is it just French?”

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The Magnificent Ambersons

Chandler & Jacob talk about one of the great stories of filmmaking, Orson Welles’ The Magnificent Ambersons. A masterpiece in the making that was irrevocably butchered by the studio and found new life years later.

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The Red Shoes

Chandler & Jacob share their July Criterion Sale pickups and review one of the all-time great films not included in the 2012 Sight and Sound top 100 list: The Red Shoes (1948).

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Topsy Turvy

Jacob talks about his Godard binge from August 2020 and his new respect for Godard as a director, and then we gush over Mike Leigh’s charming and criminally under-seen period drama: Topsy Turvy (1999).

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul

Continuing to discuss the themes from their Code Unknown review, Chandler & Jacob tackle Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s tender and simple film about finding love in the face of prejudice: Ali: Fear Eats the Soul.

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Code Unknown

Chandler & Jacob review Michael Haneke’s aesthetically unique film: Code Unknown, a frighteningly relevant two-decade-old film that attempts to explore and unearth the underlying issues at the heart of social dysfunction in modern Europe.

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Do the Right Thing

Tune in for another installment of Chandler’s COVID quarantine watchlist, Jacob shares some podcast updates, and they impromptu review The Tree of Life and Do the Right Thing.

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Kes

Chandler mispronounces Kestral, Jacob rages against the system, and along the way we review Kes, Ken Loach’s 1969 film about a boy and his bird.

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Howl’s Moving Castle

Chandler watched the Naked Gun, Jacob recommends Studio Ghibli movies not by Hayao Miyazaki, and they review one of the most critically controversial Miyazaki movies: Howl’s Moving Castle (2004).

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Quarantine Interlude

Chandler updates us on everything he’s been watching during quarantine, Jacob gives his thoughts on Luis Buñuel as a director and shares his initial blu-ray purchases during the July 2020 Criterion Barnes and Noble sale.

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