Ciara Moloney Podcast

Friday Film Showcased, Episode 4: Giallo – Screamless Bunny Edition

For many years, with regard to their film-watching, Ciara and Conor have been theming their months. On Friday Film Showcased (FFS to friends, and sometimes enemies), they look back on themes gone by.

In the Quatro episode of FFS, Ciara and Conor discuss the genre of giallo, including the films in the title of this episode and Stagefright Aquarius, Blood and Black Lace, Pieces, Lizard in a Woman’s Skin and Bird With the Crystal Plumage.

In the interests of listeners who don’t enjoy listening to screaming, we have released a version where screams, chainsaws and eyeball popping replaced with the soothing sound of bunny rabbits! The uncensored version is also available, but you can listen to the Screamless Bunny Edition here:

Screamless Bunny Edition – Episode 4: Giallo – Deep Red, Bay of Blood, Dressed to Kill, What Have You Done to Solange and More – Friday Film Showcased

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Giallo list on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/hoganassasin/list/giallo-season/

We continue our discussion on giallo with a deep dive on Lucio Fulci’s 1972 masterpiece Don’t Torture a Duckling:

Episode 5: Giallo – Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) – Friday Film Showcased

Mentioned in the podcast

Giallo in Casa Muppet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_AikJ8F5oY

Ciara’s article on Pieces: https://crookedmarquee.com/pieces-isnt-exactly-what-you-think-it-is/

The Giallo Files: https://giallofiles.blogspot.com/

YELLOW in ITALIANO Coldplay cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_PtHYQoC20

De Palma (2015) documentary, dir. Noah Baumbach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zlxmwz55Tk

J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDKbT_l2us (discussion of transphobia in cinema including Psycho and Silence of the Lambs from 50:00)

Ciara Moloney Podcast

Friday Film Showcased, Episode 4: Giallo – Deep Red, Bay of Blood, Dressed to Kill, What Have You Done to Solange and More

For many years, with regard to their film-watching, Ciara and Conor have been theming their months. On Friday Film Showcased (FFS to friends, and sometimes enemies), they look back on themes gone by.

In the Quatro episode of FFS, Ciara and Conor discuss the genre of giallo, including the films in the title of this episode and Stagefright Aquarius, Blood and Black Lace, Pieces, Lizard in a Woman’s Skin and Bird With the Crystal Plumage.

Will we ever find out happened to Solange?

Giallo list on Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/hoganassasin/list/giallo-season/

You can listen to it here:

Episode 4: Giallo – Deep Red, Bay of Blood, Dressed to Kill, What Have You Done to Solange and More – Friday Film Showcased

A version in which the screaming is replaced by bunny noises is now available. How relaxing!

Screamless Bunny Edition – Episode 4: Giallo – Deep Red, Bay of Blood, Dressed to Kill, What Have You Done to Solange and More – Friday Film Showcased

Listen and subscribe on: Spotify || Apple Podcasts || Amazon Music || Castbox || Overcast || Pocketcasts || Goodpods

We continue our discussion on giallo with a deep dive on Lucio Fulci’s 1972 masterpiece Don’t Torture a Duckling:

Episode 5: Giallo – Don't Torture a Duckling (1972) – Friday Film Showcased

Mentioned in the podcast

Giallo in Casa Muppet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_AikJ8F5oY

Ciara’s article on Pieces: https://crookedmarquee.com/pieces-isnt-exactly-what-you-think-it-is/

The Giallo Files: https://giallofiles.blogspot.com/

YELLOW in ITALIANO Coldplay cover https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I_PtHYQoC20

De Palma (2015) documentary, dir. Noah Baumbach: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Zlxmwz55Tk

J.K. Rowling | ContraPoints https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDKbT_l2us (discussion of transphobia in cinema including Psycho and Silence of the Lambs from 50:00)

Ciara Moloney and Dean Buckley Film

2018 in Film(s That Didn’t Come Out This Year)

Check out The Sundae’s 2017 in films that didn’t come out in 2017 here. 

There’s a huge pressure on anyone who wants to talk or write seriously about film to pretend as if they’ve already seen every great film ever made, whether in the form of a self-imposed anxiety or others dismissing your opinions because you haven’t seen X or Y. This is silly, obviously, because no-one has seen every great film ever made: the last time anyone could conceivably watch every film ever was in the early 1930s, and here in the present, it would take someone years to work through the established canon of great American cinema – let alone the cinema of every other country, experimental and avant-garde filmmaking, and all the great films (and okay films) that have gone unnoticed or unrecognised.

But that’s no reason not to try. Sometimes when people reject the pressure to pretend to have already seen every great film, they throw the baby out with the bathwater and reject a desire to try to catch up all the great films they haven’t seen, as if boldly declaring that you will never watch Casablanca is anything but a tragedy. It’s looking at the whole thing backwards.

The joy of accepting that you’ll never see every great film ever made is realising that there will always be more great films that you’ll get to see for the first time.

In February, we’ll go through our favourite new releases of the year when we post the third annual Sundae Film Awards. But looking back on the year in film shouldn’t just mean looking back at what came out this year. 2018 is the year Ciara got into westerns and Michael Moore documentaries, the year Dean watched A New Leaf again and was like, oh no, wait, this is great. So here are some of the best films we saw in 2018 that didn’t come out in 2018.

It’s no big deal if you haven’t seen them, but we definitely recommend checking them out.
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