Episode 172 – Watership Down
Watership Down (Rosen, 1978) is, without a doubt, one of the pivotal cinematic experiences in my life. It captivated me at a very young age...
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20 of 173 episodesEpisode 171 – Seven Samurai
Seven Samurai (Kurosawa, 1954) is truly a foundational film, not just of Japanese cinema, but of world cinema. Because it is has become a to...
Episode 170 – The Magic Jack O’Lantern 2021
It’s that most wonderful time of the year again! In this episode, The Magic Jack O’Lantern 2021, we once again bring you our list of viewing...
Episode 169 – Let Sleeping Corpses Lie
The Cole-o-ween festivities roll on here at Lantern HQ! This time around we are discussing one of our favorite underappreciated zombie class...
Episode 168 – The Invisible Man
Is there anything you find impossible to watch? Or how about just very difficult? For me, The Invisible Man (Whannell, 2020) is that film. I...
Episode 167 – Gray’s Anatomy
Gray’s Anatomy (Soderbergh, 1996) is the last proper cinematic monologue we have from Spalding Gray. That’s a little ironic. Here, he naviga...
Episode 166 – Harlan County, USA
Harlan County, USA (Kopple, 1976) is still a gut punch some fifty years later. Watching the violent and bloody events unfold as miners strik...
Episode 165 – Shadow of a Doubt
Shadow of a Doubt (Hitchcock, 1943) was a turning point in the career of the master of suspense. It was reportedly Alfred Hitchcock’s favori...
Episode 164 – Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Hill, 1969) is a delight to watch time and again, a true piece of entertainment that seems to hit all th...
Episode 163 – The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show (Bogdanovich, 1971) will break your heart in a million different ways, all of them Texan. As an expatriate from a town...
Episode 162 – Vagabond
When we first see Mona, she is already dead. In Vagabond (1985), Agnès Varda then sets about to reconstruct the last days and weeks of this...
Episode 161 – My Brilliant Career
Gillian Armstrong’s My Brilliant Career (1979) belongs to a special category of films in my personal canon. Sometimes a movie hits you like...
Episode 160 – Rushmore
Is Rushmore (1998) your favorite Wes Anderson film? It is certainly mine. When I first saw it in the theater when I was about 22, it hit me...
Episode 159 – Tremors
We owe a debt of gratitude to Tremors (Underwood, 1990). Its arrival kicked off another boom cycle for one of our favorite subgenres – the c...
Episode 158 – Diabolique
Is Diabolique (Clouzot, 1955) a film noir or a thriller? We firmly assert that it is one of the most delectable, and yes, diabolical noir ma...
Episode 157 – The Square
It’s May again! And you know what that means around these parts – film noir. We are in our second year of the Noir City festival postponemen...
Episode 156 – Monsoon Wedding
By special invitation from Mira Nair, we are guests at the raucous, glorious, marigold-covered Monsoon Wedding (2001). Delhi, its sights and...
Episode 155 – My Twentieth Century
Much like the electric light, telegraph, and motion pictures it chronicles, My Twentieth Century (Enyedi, 1989) is a marvel of its age. Lumi...
Episode 154 – A Room with a View
Rapturous. This word perfectly describes my feelings about A Room with a View (Ivory, 1985). You could also use this word to describe my fee...
Episode 153 – L’Argent
I carry a particular impression with me about Robert Bresson’s L’Argent (1983). It strikes me as a stately and austere museum whose only exh...