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Continuing our "Just F-ing Watch It" series this week, Jeremy, Lee and Chapin go into The Zone with Andrei Tarkovsky's Stalker. As our first experience with perhaps the USSR's most famous director, we examine Tarkovsky's languid pacing, poetic dialogue and meandearing  storytelling.  

We know you are likely at home and with more time on your hands, so we chose our Top 5 Films available on Netflix! Nothing obvious here, just 15 really great recommendations you may not have considered (46:02).

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We've been waiting on this one for a while!  Cameron Crowe's autobiographical journey through 1970s Rock 'n Roll certainly holds a place in many people's hearts.  But can Jeremy, Chapin and Lee be truly "honest and unmerciful" to such an important film?  Find out!  

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A NEW movie.  At last!  Eliza Hittman's new drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always hits VOD in the wake of theater closures and is available to rent for $20. We look at the film's appeal in our current lockdown and it's take on one of the country's most divisive issues.  

Then we move on to a new game: movie trivia, hosted by Jeremy!  

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Another quick fix, weekend edition.  Chapin uses quarantine to catch up on the 26 year old British comedy that launched Richard Curtis and Hugh Grant's career.  

Get your paintbrushes out, we're traveling back to 18th century France this week with Céline Sciamma's Portrait of a Lady on Fire.  We discuss the highly acclaimed film, specifically how we can recommend the film to those less familiar with the genre.  We dive deep into the performances and the film's striking style.  Then, we attempt a new game called "cinema sequence" and Lee breaks out an old list counting down his top films of the 2000s (from 2009).  

Lee, our resident wine expert, takes us on a journey through Oregon, Italy and France and somehow connects the world of wine to the world of cinema!  Enjoy with your favorite tipple!

It's Jeremy and Chapin on the Quick Fix today, talking COVID-19's effect on the movie industry and tax incentives.  Also, some listener feedback!

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Terrence Malick has been a filmmaker we've talked a lot about but haven't reviewed one of his film's since 2011's The Tree of Life.  The reclusive director returned to a more (relative) narrative structure in 2019 with A Hidden Life, a period film set in Austria during World War II.  Now available on VOD, we look at the Malick's storied career and our thoughts (and feelings) about his unique filmmaking technique.  

Then, taking a page from Cast Away, we make some hard decisions on the films we'd choose if we were stuck on a desert island. 

Lee and Chapin together again to give their thoughts on quarantine and a couple listener questions from Instagram. 

In our first week of quarantine, we take a look back at cinema's most famous depiction of solitude Robert Zemeckis' Cast Away.  We debate Tom Hank's Oscar nominated performance (is it his best?) and the film's controversial ending. 

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Lee and Chapin chat quickly about Rounders, Donnie Brasco, Uncut Gems and Contagion.

Damien Chazelle's 2014 breakout indie Whiplash earned J.K. Simmons an Academy Award and thrust the young director into the spotlight. Jeremy, Chapin and Lee look at the little film with a lot of heart this week as part of our "Just F-ing Watch It" series (at Lee's request) and ponder Chazelle's skills and longevity.  Then, we wrap the Pod up with our Top 5 Musical Performers in movies. 

Ridley Scott's Gladiator was one of 2000's most successful and awarded films, leaving the Oscars with Best Picture and Best Actor.  But how has Maximus aged in the last 20 years?  Lee, Jeremy and Chapin discuss the film's relevance today, Russell Crowe's storied career (three best actor nominations in a row) and director Ridley Scott.

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Nerd alert!  This week, Chapin is joined by special guest Kevin Glenn to break down all 11 theatrical Star Wars films in (dis)honor of the release of The Rise of Skywalker.  Hold on to your lightsabers kids, this is one dives deep into the Sarlacc and comes out with takes as hot as the lava on Mustafar! Or the sands on Tatooine!  Or Jakku?  Or...Jedha?  

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We kick off our 20th anniversary series with one of our favorites from the year 2000 High Fidelity!  Starring and co-written by Jon Cusack, this flick brings back old memories and may reveal more than the Get Your Film Fix boys want you to know!  We finish it all up with a Top 5 in tribute to the film that inspired it, our Top 5 movies we judge people by!

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Best Actor!  Best Actress!  Best Director!  BEST PICTURE!  The second part of our Fixie Award show, counting down the Top 10 movies of 2019!  Enjoy!

 

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It's finally here!  Our breakdown of the best of 2019 in cinema.  Part 1 covers Best Cinematography, Best Supporting Actor, Best Supporting Actress and Best Screenplay!  Enjoy!

 

 

It's the height of Fixie season and somehow we snuck in time to review the decade!  We use the dreaded Oscars as a kickoff point to look back at the last ten years in film and try to fill in some gaps left by our hiatuses. 

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Our old segment "just F-ing watch it" returns! This week we go back to 1959's Rio Bravo directed by Howard Hawks starring the Duke himself, John Wayne.  Then we count down the worst movie moments of 2019 (36:00).

Can three grown men like a film called Little Women?! Of course they can!  But do they loooove it??  Find out!  We break down Greta Gerwig's adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel first published in 1868.  But is the subject matter still relevant?  Is Gerwig cut out for the job, with only 2017's Ladybird under her belt?

Finally, we break down arguably the greatest living actress' Top 5 best performances!

 

Friends, we'd so love to hear from you!  Let us know what you thought about 2019 at the movies, your favorites, what you hated, what reckoning should take place at the Fixies next month.  Record a voice memo on your phone and send it our way and we'll play it on the show!  Feedback@getyourfilmfixpodcast.com 

We're doing this podcast in one take!  This week we went all the way back to 1917 directed by Sam Mendes to get a message to our listeners.  Turns out, we're like England and Germany...divided!  We talk a little more in depth about Sam Mendes and his eclectic career, then finally finish it off with a discussion of yesterday's Oscar nominations.

 

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This week, Lee and Chapin are shopping in the diamond district for some Uncut Gems! We dive into Sandler's acclaimed performance and the young Safdie brothers, before finally wrapping it up with our Top 5 Antiheroes.

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The holidays are over and we're back, baby!  We get religious this week with Netflix's The Two Popes, a serious contender this award season.  And then we count down our Top 5 most anticipated movies of 2020!

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This week, Chapin and Lee go back to the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta to check out Richard Jewell directed by Clint Eastwood.  We discuss the new film and Eastwood's extraordinary prolific career and his economic work style.  Then we wrap it all up with our Top 5 Clint Eastwood-directed performances.  

 

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Noah Baumbach's latest film has received a wave of nominations and accolades this week, but did Marriage Story win our hearts?  We then countdown our Top 5 Worst Marriages in film.

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Rian Johnson's Knives Out has surprised critics and moviegoers alike with its irreverent take on the whodunit genre, but the question on everybody's lips is, "what do the Get Your Film Fix boys think?"  We give you the answer and more on Johnson's motley career and his place in genre filmmaking.  Finally, we wrap up our revisit of 1999 with our Top 5 movies from that illustrious cinematic period 20 years ago. 

Start your engines, folks!  We're off to France (or is it Italy?) with James Mangold's Ford v Ferrari (or Le Mans '66 for some of our international friends)!  We discuss Mangold's successful but perhaps unmemorable career, the importance of tone and the two great actors who lead this film.  Finally, we wrap it up with our Top 5 performances by Christian Bale or Matt Damon!

Scorsese! De Niro! Pacino!  Pesci!  Romano!  They're all here!  This week on the pod we review our most anticipated film of 2019, The Irishman.  We discuss our thoughts on the film, the de-aging technology that drove the film's budget into the stratosphere and finally wrap it up with the future of films and streaming.  

It's Palme d'Or time, baby!  This week we're going subterranean with Bong Joon-ho's Parasite, the winner of the Cannes Film Festival's highest honor this year.  We discuss the film's worldwide appeal and our thoughts.  Then we finish with our Top 5 foreign films since 1999!

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In space, nobody can hear your podcast!  So good thing you're on Earth, because this week we're looking waaaaay back at 1979's Sci-Fi masterpiece Alien, directed by Sir Ridley Scott.  But, do we all believe it's as fine as history remembers?  

Then we move on to a preview of podcasts to come with our thoughts on the anti-aging technology that has swept through Hollywood and will be a significant factor in the hotly anticipated  The Irishman.  

 

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Another game changing film from 1999!  The Blair Witch Project shocked audiences and critics alike 20 years ago, but how does it hold up today?  We bring in horror expert/connoisseur Brantley Palmer to discuss what was once the most profitable movie ever made.  Later, Brantley has a bone to pick with Lee concerning our Midsommar podcast and his thoughts on the horror genre.  

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Lol!  The Joker's back!  We're on top of it this week with an on-time review of Todd Phillips' controversial Joker!  The film leaves us divided to say the least and that disagreement takes up most of the episode until we wrap it up with our Top 5 Lonely Characters.  

A couple weeks late to the celestial party that is James Gray's Ad Astra, but we've reviewed it and we've got some diverging takes!  We move on to two compelling emails from listeners, and finally, Chapin shares an existential crisis with the boys over Hustlers.

We Three Kings be stealing the gold this week as we jump back to the best year in cinema again to revisit David O. Russell's action-packed and highly lauded film.  Then, we revisit our most anticipated films for the rest of 2019 in our Top 5.

 

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It's 1999 again, possibly the best year ever for cinema, and we're examining that year's second-highest grossing film, M. Night Shyamalan's The Sixth Sense.  After a detailed deconstruction of the movie, apropos of Shyamalan, we discuss the power of twist endings and finally, a War Horse showdown...or do we agree?

 

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We got a very thoughtful email from a listener this week and had to record a follow up to our podcast on Tarantino's latest.  We get in to some of the controversy surrounding the film and QT in general.  Enjoy!

 

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It's the summer of '69 and things are heating up!  We FINALLY got to see one of our favorite directors (Quentin Tarantino) and favorite stars (Leonardo DiCaprio) team up again in our most anticipated film of 2019.  And...surprise...we don't all agree!  

Top 5 this week is our definitive list of Leo's top performances.

This is one of our better podcasts in a while.  Enjoy!  And let us know what you think!

 

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We answer a fan email about "The Matrix" podcast.  Check it out!

It's just Lee and Chapin on today's pod, as we dig deep on Ari Aster's Midsommar and it's genre-bending tactics.  There's no Top 5 this week, so let us know your thoughts at feedback@getyourfilmfixpodcast.com. 

Beatlesmania hits the Get Your Film Fix podcast this week with Danny Boyle's Yesterday.  After Chapin makes a surprising confession, we wrap the pod up with our Top Five songs sung in movies. 

Welcome to the real world!  We're unplugging (or plugging in?) and going back to 1999 (again) to analyze arguably the most influential movie of that year, The Matrix!  We dive into our philosophical understanding of the Wachowskis' future.  Later, we dive into the influences on The Matrix and how it has left it's mark on cinema as we know it.  And finally, we wrap it all up with our Top 5 slow motion scenes. 

This week we review Olivia Wilde's directorial debut film Booksmart, starring Kaitlyn Dever and Beanie Feldstein!  Then we wrap it all up with our Top 5 Female Friendships.  

It's taken a while, but we've finally reviewed Jonathan Levine's political romantic comedy Long Shot (2:25).  Then, we interview director Andrew Gibson about his new film Gutterbug (25:00) and finally wrap it up with our Top 5 Underdogs (51:30).  

We're going back to 1999!  And a galaxy far, far away this week with George Lucas' dreaded prequel The Phantom Menace!  We take a look at the film's influence and Lucas' return to directing after a 20 year absence.  And then we wrap it all up with our Top 5 Films we're embarrassed we own. 

It's FINALLY here!  We've been waiting for this one for a while, one of our favorites of all time, the Paul Thomas Anderson retrospective.  We count down his 8 amazing films and give out our Fixies for performances, screenplay and cinematography.  It's a long one but a good one.  

Back in time again we go to 1999, possibly the greatest year in cinema history, with Michael Mann's The Insider.  The highly acclaimed and Oscar-nominated film is a favorite for us three, but never have we discussed it in as much detail as we do here.  And for our Top 5 this week (41:30), we list our Top 5 films with two great performances and we vote on the best!

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How ironic!  Our discussion of running times in cinema pushed us over the edge on this week's Eyes Wide Shut retrospective.  But here it is, for your listening pleasure.  

We're going back to 1999 again to revisit Stanley Kubrick's final film Eyes Wide Shut featuring Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman.  We discuss that film's deeper meaning and its reflection on Kubrick's illustrious career.  And finally wrap it all up with our Top 5 Cinematic Long Nights.   

 

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This week's episode is about Us!  No, not the GYFF boys, Jordan Peele's newest film starring Lupita Nyong'o.  We go deep on the film's true meaning and our interpretations.  And finally, wrap it all up with our Top 5 Multiple Performances by an actor in a single film.