Lagniappe Podcast: The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

For this lagniappe episode of the podcast, Boomer, Brandon, and Alli discuss the neorealist Italian poverty drama The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978).

0:00 Welcome

03:58 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On (2022)
08:22 Queen of Versailles Reigns Again
15:52 Blue Lagoon: The Awakening (2012)
19:10 Rosaline (2022)
22:40 Blue Hawaii (1961)
26:40 M3GAN (2023)
33:50 The Woman in Black (2012)
37:59 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)

41:47 The Tree of Wooden Clogs (1978)

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Lagniappe Podcast: Neptune Frost (2022)

For this lagniappe episode of the podcast, Boomer, Brandon, and Alli welcome in the New Year by discussing one of 2022’s underseen gems: Neptune Frost, an Afrofuturist musical about the poetry of hacking.

00:00 Welcome

07:57 Babylon (2022)
14:08 The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
15:33 Psycho Beach Party (2000)
18:00 The Coen Brothers
32:00 Funny Girl (1968)
34:03 Moonstruck (1987)
38:08 Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
45:22 Glass Onion (2022)
49:49 Crimes of the Future (2022)
56:14 Mad God (2022)

58:11 Neptune Frost (2022)

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Podcast #176: Un Chien Andalou (1929) and 2022’s Sight & Sound Exiles

Welcome to Episode #176 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss four films that recently fell off the Sight & Sound Top 100 list, starting with Luis Buñuel & Salvador Dalí’s landmark surrealist short Un Chien Andalou (1929).

00:00 Welcome

02:44 Resurrection (2022)
05:40 The Innocents (2022)
07:17 After Blue: Dirty Paradise (2022)
10:00 Please Baby Please (2022)
13:33 Dimension 20
15:45 The Menu (2022)

22:33 The Sight & Sound Top 100

27:40 Un Chien Andalou (1929)
44:02 The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
1:04:18 Wild Strawberries (1957)
1:26:26 Rio Bravo (1959)

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Lagniappe Podcast: Everything Everywhere All at Once & The 2022 SEFCA Winners

For this lagniappe episode of the podcast, Brandon is joined by Moviegoing with Bill‘s Bill Arceneaux to discuss the Southeastern Film Critic Association’s 2022 awarded films, starting with the top-prize winner Everything Everywhere All at Once.

00:00 Moviegoing with Bill
06:20 SEFCA
24:44 EEAAO
59:56 Other winners

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Podcast #175: A Summer Place (1959) & Holiday Melodrama

Welcome to Episode #175 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of movies that stir up memorable moments of holiday melodrama.

00:00 Welcome

08:34 The Illusionist (2010)
12:30 And God Created Woman (1988)
18:24 Blow-Up (1966)
21:23 EO (2022)

24:15 A Summer Place (1959)
50:05 Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
1:03:50 Autumn in New York (2000)
1:20:33 Pieces of April (2003)

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Podcast #174: Girl Asleep (2015) & Classic Twee

Welcome to Episode #174 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss the merits & miseries of twee, comparing the 2015 twee-revival comedy Girl Asleep against a grab bag of aughts-era twee classics.

00:00 Welcome

02:26 Imitation of Life (1959)
05:00 Don’t Worry Darling (2022)
08:13 Banshees of Inisherin (2022)
13:00 Triangle of Sadness (2022)
17:05 Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
21:17 Solomon King (1978)

25:18 Girl Asleep (2015)
39:02 The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
55:22 Amélie (2001)
1:12:02 Garden State (2004)

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Lagniappe Podcast: Pumpkin (2002)

For this lagniappe episode of the podcast, Boomer and Brandon discuss the bad-taste Christina Ricci comedy Pumpkin (2002), in which a WASP sorority girl falls disastrously in love with a mentally disabled athlete.

00:00 Welcome

01:20 The Rehearsal
06:06 Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)
11:27 Death Becomes Her (1992)
21:00 True Grit (2010)
23:23 Gods of Egypt (2016)

26:46 Pumpkin (2002)

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Podcast #173: Causeway (2022) & #NOFF2022

Welcome to Episode #173 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon is joined by Moviegoing with Bill‘s Bill Arceneaux to review the films they caught at the 33rd annual New Orleans Film Festival, starting with the locally-set Jennifer Lawrence drama Causeway.

00:00 #NOFF2022

14:44 Causeway

36:55 The Negro and the Cheese Knife
45:00 Signal and Noise
51:55 Really Good Friends
1:00:40 The Streets Tell a Story
1:03:03 Iron Sharpens Iron
1:15:15 Street Punx
1:17:37 In Search of … Pregame
1:26:30 Friday I’m in Love
1:29:50 Three Headed Beast
1:34:18 Last Dance
1:38:34 Nanny

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Lagniappe Podcast: Gaslight (1944)

For this lagniappe episode of the podcast, Boomer, Brandon, and Alli celebrate Angela Lansbury’s career by looking back to her big-screen debut in the psychological thriller Gaslight (1944).

00:00 Welcome

00:30 Slumber Party Massacre (1982)
02:00 Halloween costumes & candy
14:45 Creepshow 2 (1987)
22:00 Valentine (2001)
31:50 Táriangle of Sadness (2022)
35:55 Mrs ‘Arris Goes to Paris (1992, 2022)

43:35 Gaslight (1944)

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Podcast #172: Body Parts (1991) & Surgical Horror

Welcome to the Swampflix Podcast Halloween Special. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of horror movies about evil surgeons, starting with the major studio body horror Body Parts (1991).

0:00 Welcome

01:51 Fascination (1979)
04:20 See for Me (2022)
09:05 Blood Sick Psychosis (2022)
12:40 The Night Porter (1974)

16:44 Body Parts (1991)
33:45 The Man Who Could Cheat Death (1959)
46:33 Scalpel (1977)
59:25 The Skin I Live In (2011)

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