David Lynch is dead, and the world is a darker place. Ciara and Dean pay tribute to one of their favourite directors by watching and discussing The Straight Story. They talk about mortality, its lack of resolution, and what it means to be “Lynchian”.
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Ciara and Dean co-host The Sundae Presents, a podcast in which they each make the other watch films they haven’t seen. For the season three finale, it’s assassin versus assassin as Ciara brings John Woo’s The Killer and Dean brings David Fincher’s The Killer. They talk about the homoeroticism of The Killer, the bleak emptiness of The Killer and, of course, the music of The Killer.
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Ciara and Dean co-host The Sundae Presents, a podcast in which they each make the other watch films they haven’t seen. Dean closes out this season’s regular episodes by showing Ciara his favourite Spike Lee film, Summer of Sam. They talk about punk vs disco, the madonna-whore complex and its relationship with Do the Right Thing.
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Ciara and Dean co-host The Sundae Presents, a podcast in which they each make the other watch films they haven’t seen. This episode, Ciara makes Dean finally watch Winter Brothers, the debut film of their favourite Icelandic director, Hlynur Pálmason. They talk about its desolate landscapes, haunting ambiguities and floppy dicks.
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Ciara and Dean co-host The Sundae Presents, a podcast in which they each make the other watch films they haven’t seen. This episode, Dean makes Ciara watch a fourth film shot in his hometown, an Arthurian epic by Exorcist II director John Boorman: Excalibur, which features zero locust POV and tons of before-they-were-famous casting. They talk about Cahir Castle, Gabriel Byrne’s soap opera career, and what are movies even supposed to be like, anyway?
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Ciara and Dean co-host The Sundae Presents, a podcast in which they each make the other watch films they haven’t seen. For the first episode of the year, Ciara chose John Ford’s late career masterpiece The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance as Dean’s third encounter with both Ford and John Wayne. They talk about its unusually unscenic take on the frontier, the role of violence in politics, and how it reflects on the western’s place in American culture.
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Ciara and Dean co-host The Sundae Presents, a podcast in which they each make the other watch films they haven’t seen. In our Christmas special, Ciara makes Dean fulfil his only goal before turning 30: finally watching Die Hard. They talk about masculinity, Christmas movies, and who was offered the role before Bruce Willis.
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Ciara and Dean co-host The Sundae Presents, a podcast in which they each make the other watch films they haven’t seen. Dean fulfils a long-held ambition to introduce Ciara to his boys, director Joseph Losey and actor Dirk Bogarde, with their 1963 film The Servant. They talk about its homoeroticism, the class anxieties of 60s London and whether Dean hates James Fox.
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Ciara and Dean co-host The Sundae Presents, a podcast in which they each make the other watch films they haven’t seen. Ciara gets to show Dean a film for the first time in months, and it’s a big one: John Schlesinger’s multi-Oscar-winning Midnight Cowboy. They talk about disability, poverty and sexuality, its satire of Andy Warhol’s Factory and how dumb Joe Buck is.
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Ciara and Dean appeared on Darren Mooney and Andrew Quinn’s podcast The 250 to talk about Halloween III: Season of the Witch. Check it out!
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