Welcome to Episode #190 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Britnee, James, Brandon, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of sweaty films set in summer heat, starting with the sordid beefcake melodrama Picnic (1955).
00:00 Welcome
02:45 Her (2013) 07:40 V.C. Andrews’ Heaven (2019) 13:45 Will-o’-the-Wisp (2023) 17:07 Falling Down (1993)
23:33 Picnic (1955) 46:22 Baby Doll (1956) 1:07:40 The Beach (2000) 1:23:55 Call Me By Your Name (2017)
Welcome to Episode #189 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Britnee, James, Brandon, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of new releases from the first half of 2023, starting with Give Me Pity!, Amanda Kramer’s feature length spoof of one-woman TV specials in the disco era.
Welcome to Episode #188 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Hanna, and Britnee discuss the glamorously adulterous romcoms of Old Hollywood legend Ernst Lubitsch, starting with Trouble in Paradise (1932)
00:00 Welcome
03:03 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) 05:48 Sorcerer (1977) 07:50 Reality (2023) 12:45 Savage Grace (2007) 16:55 You Hurt My Feelings (2023) 23:03 Rimini (2023) 28:08 Sanctuary (2023)
30:51 Ernst Lubitsch 39:35 Trouble in Paradise (1932) 55:55 Design for Living (1933) 1:13:43 The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 1:28:10 That Lady in Ermine (1948)
Welcome to Episode #187 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Hanna, and Britnee discuss Terrence Malick’s signature works, starting with the brief-history-of-time family drama The Tree of Life (2011).
00:00 Welcome
01:14 Missing (2023) 03:44 The Little Mermaid (2023) 10:55 The Last Laugh (1924) 14:50 Breakdown (1997) 18:30 Sibling Rivalry (1990) 21:03 Stripper (1986) 22:52 Flashdance (1983)
28:28 The Tree of Life (2011) 55:22 Badlands (1973) 1:09:35 Days of Heaven (1978) 1:23:30 The New World (2005)
Welcome to Episode #186 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Hanna, and Britnee discuss a grab bag of passion projects from one-and-done directors, starting with Ester Krumbachová’s The Murder of Mr. Devil (1970).
00:00 Welcome
02:02 The Doom Generation (1995) 07:13 The Black Tower (1987) 08:45 The House is Black (1963) 11:25 The Year Between (2023) 14:40 The Canyons (2013) 20:47 White Palace (1990)
25:37 The Murder of Mr. Devil (1970) 44:45 Wanda (1970) 1:03:42 Harlem Nights (1989) 1:19:25 The Evil Within (2017)
Welcome to Episode #185 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Hanna, and Britnee discuss Dolly Parton’s movie star era, starting with the legalized-prostitution musical The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982).
00:00 Welcome
02:45 The Suckling (1990) 04:55 Bound (1996) 08:30 The Conversation (1974) 12:30 How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2023) 15:45 Blue Steel (1990)
19:35 Dolly Parton: Here I Am (2019) 23:25 The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982) 38:55 9 to 5 (1980) 53:45 Steel Magnolias (1989) 1:13:50 Straight Talk (1992)
Welcome to Episode #184 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Hanna, and Britnee celebrate Tax Day with a grab bag of movies about dramatic tax audits & tax evasions, starting with Juzo Itami’s A Taxing Woman (1987).
00:00 Welcome
02:08 Suzume (2023) 04:55 Enys Men(2023) 13:18 Passion of the Christ (2004) 20:55 Ernst Lubitsch 27:21 John Wick: Chapter IV (2023) 32:00 The Women (1939)
37:30 A Taxing Woman (1987) 56:15 The Laundromat (2019) 1:16:20 3 Hearts (2014) 1:36:00 Exotica (1994)
Welcome to Episode #183 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss the highbrow, low-energy art of “slow cinema” – ranging from Scott Barley’s self-distributed microbudget cult film Sleep Has Her House (2017) to Chantal Akerman’s landmark feminist classic Jeanne Dielman (1975), recently cited by Sight & Sound as “the greatest film of all time”.
00:00 Welcome
02:24 Jethica (2023) 05:48 The Strange Thing About the Johnsons (2011) 11:30 Knock at the Cabin (2023) 14:57 Branded to Kill (1967) 19:58 A Ghost Story (2017)
27:26 Sleep Has Her House (2017) 53:46 Jeanne Dielman, 23 quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975) 1:18:00 La Ciénaga (2001) 1:43:10 Tropical Malady (2004)
Welcome to Episode #182 of The Swampflix Podcast. For this episode, Brandon, James, Britnee, and Hanna discuss a grab bag of dark, horrific takes on classic fairy tales, starting with the 1995 creature feature Rumpelstiltskin.
00:00 Welcome
02:14 Finde (2021) 05:30 The Little Mermaid (1968) 08:37 The Cremator (1969) 16:40 The Firemen’s Ball (1967) 21:51 Assault on Precinct 13 (1976)
26:41 Rumpelstiltskin (1995) 48:41 Beauty and the Beast (1978) 1:02:50 Snow White: A Tale of Terror (1997) 1:16:00 Freeway (1996)
For Carnival 2017, a few members of the Swampflix crew joined forces to pray at the altar of the almighty Divine. The greatest drag queen of all time, Divine was the frequent collaborator & long-time muse of our favorite filmmaker, John Waters. Her influence on the pop culture landscape extends far beyond the Pope of Trash’s Dreamlanders era, however, emanating to as far-reaching places as the San Franciscan performers The Cockettes, the punkification of disco, and Disney’s The Little Mermaid. Our intent was to honor the Queen of Filth in all her fabulously fucked-up glory by maintaining a new Mardi Gras tradition in Krewe Divine, a costuming krewe meant to masquerade in the French Quarter on every Fat Tuesday into perpetuity.
Our initial krewe was a small group of Swampflix contributors: site co-founders Brandon Ledet & Britnee Lombas, regular contributor CC Chapman, and repeat podcast guest Virginia Ruth. We were later joined by local drag performer Ce Ce V DeMenthe, who frequently pays tribute to Divine in her performances. There’s no telling how Krewe Divine will expand or evolve from here as we do our best to honor the Queen of Filth in the future, but for now, enjoy some pictures from our 2023 excursion, our fifth year in operation as Swampflix’s official Mardi Gras krewe (and our first year returning after the COVID-19 outbreak of 2020):
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