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Stereoactive Movie Club Trailer
The Stereoactive Movie Club is discussing some of the greatest movies ever made. Who says? Sight and Sound magazine says. Every ten years, since 1952, Sight and Sound ...
Ep 37 // Beau Travail
It’s Jeremiah’s Round 6 Pick: Beau Travail, the 1999 film directed by Clair Denis.Beau Travail, which is something of a loose adaptation of Herman Melville’s Billy Bud...
Ep 36 // Wild Strawberries
It’s Alicia’s Round 6 Pick: Wild Strawberries, the 1957 film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman.Wild Strawberries was Ingmar Bergman’s 18th feature film in eleven ...
Ep 35 // Modern Times
It’s Stephen’s Round 6 Pick: Modern Times, the 1936 film starring, written, and directed by Charlie Chaplin.Modern Times marked at least the 60th appearance of Charlie...
Ep 34 // Battleship Potemkin
It’s Mia’s Round 6 Pick: Battleship Potemkin, the 1925 film directed by Sergei Eisenstein.Divided into 5 acts, Battleship Potemkin, in commemoration of the 20th Annive...
Ep 33 // Round 6 Picks!
In our next batch of movies, we'll be traveling from the Soviet Union to Florida with stops in Sweden, Hollywood, and Djibouti along the way...So, listen up as we reve...
Ep 32 // Boyhood w/ Max Goransson
It’s Jeremiah’s Round 5 Bonus Pick: Boyhood, the 2014 film directed by Richard Linklater.Boyhood tells the story of a young boy, his slightly older sister, their divor...
Ep 31 // Apocalypse Now
It’s Alicia’s 5th pick: Apocalypse Now, the 1979 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola.Coppola’s fellow New Hollywood/Movie Brat filmmaker, John Milius first conceived...
Ep 30 // Raging Bull
It’s Lora’s 5th pick: Raging Bull, the 1980 film directed by Martin Scorsese.The film is a character study of boxer Jake LaMotta, who himself is presented as questiona...
Ep 29 // Pierrot le Fou
It’s Stephen’s 5th pick: Pierrot le Fou, the 1965 film directed by Jean-Luc Godard.Godard himself said the film was "connected with the violence and loneliness that li...
Special Episode // The Sight And Sound 2022 Polls Revealed!
The 2022 edition of Sight And Sounds magazine’s polls of the “greatest films ever made” were released last week, and since our entire podcast is about movies that have...
Ep 28 // The Grapes of Wrath
It’s Mia’s 5th pick: The Grapes of Wrath, the 1940 film directed by John Ford. The film is based on John Steinbeck’s Pulitzer-prize winning novel, which was also the b...
Ep 27 // Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
It’s Jeremiah’s 5th pick: Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, the 1927 film directed by F.W. Murnau. Based on a 1917 short story called “The Excursion to Tilsit,’ written b...
Ep 26 // Round 5 Picks!
Listen up as we reveal our picks for what we’ll be watching in Round 5 of the podcast! Spoiler alert: we have two bonus picks this time around, so we’ll be watching 7 ...
Ep 25 // Pather Panchali
It’s Lora’s 4th pick: Pather Panchali, the 1955 film directed by Satyajit Ray. Pather Panchali, which translates as “Song of the Little Road,” is based on the 1929 nov...
Ep 24 // Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
It’s Stephen’s 4th pick: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, the 1964 film directed by Stanley Kubrick. Often cited as one of the bes...
Ep 23 // Persona
It’s Mia’s 4th pick: Persona, the 1966 film directed by Ingmar Bergman. Persona is a film that is open to much interpretation about its themes, meaning, and maybe even...
Ep 22 // The Rules of the Game
It’s Jeremiah’s 4th pick: The Rules of the Game, the 1939 film directed by Jean Renoir. ‘The Rules of the Game’ was the most expensive film ever made in France at the ...
Ep 21 // Hiroshima Mon Amour
It’s Alicia’s 4th pick: Hiroshima Mon Amour, the 1959 film directed by Alain Resnais. With ‘Hiroshima Mon Amour,’ Resnais and screenwriter Marguerite Duras, explore th...
Ep 20 // Round 4 Picks!
Listen up as we reveal our picks for what we’ll be watching in Round 4 of the podcast! Spoiler alert: it’s our most international round yet! Produced by Stereoactive M...
Ep 19 // Singin’ in the Rain
Singin’ in the Rain was a product of MGM’s so-called “Freed Unit,” named for the person who headed it -- Arthur Freed. Before this film, Freed worked on many of the be...
Ep 18 // The Godfather Part II
It’s Mia’s 3rd pick: The Godfather Part II, the 1974 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola The Godfather Part II both continues the story begun in the first film and a...
Ep 17 // 8 ½
It’s Jeremiah’s 3rd pick: 8 ½, the 1963 film directed by Federico Fellini. 8 ½ was Fellini’s feature film follow-up to 1960s La Dolce Vita – with a segment for an anth...
Ep 16 // Lawrence of Arabia w/ Matt
It’s Alicia's 3rd pick: ‘Lawrence of Arabia,’ the 1962 film directed by David Lean. The film is adapted from the autobiographical account of T. E. Lawrence, ‘Seven Pil...
Ep 15 // Vertigo
It’s Lora’s 3rd pick: ‘Vertigo,’ the 1958 film directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Considered by an increasing number of people to be the director’s masterpiece, the film re...
Ep 14 // Round 2 Wrap Up / Round 3 Picks
It’s the end of Round 2 of the Stereoactive Media Movie Club podcast! We’re revisiting the films we’ve discussed in the last 6 episodes and we’re picking our next roun...
Ep 13 // The Godfather
It’s Mia’s 2nd pick: 'The Godfather,’ the 1972 film directed by Francis Ford Coppola. Foundational to modern cinema that’s followed in its footsteps and culturally inf...
Ep 12 // Mirror
It’s Jeremiah’s 2nd pick: ‘Mirror,’ the 1975 film directed by Andrei Tarkovsky. Nonlinear in structure it features moments from the central character’s life, both as a...