Have You Ever Seen8 Touko 2023

Tokyo Story

It was about time we covered a Yasujiro Ozu film. The Japanese director is considered a legend and his Tokyo Story has consistently ranked in the Top 5 of the Sight & Sound polls for decades. He gives us a family reunion of a very unhappy family and slowly reveals why we should care about them. That takes quite a while. Ozu's trademark static camera shots are low to the ground. His characters are polite and withholding. And, yet, his style and substance wasn't a home run with both Ellises. Tokyo Story devastated one of us while leaving the other one moved, but much less so. Anyway, stroke that play button while you sit cross-legged on the floor staring off into space with a polite smile on your face. After all, life is disappointing, but we don't think our 510th podcast is.

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15 Kesä 48min

The Rock

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8 Kesä 1h 2min

Moulin Rouge

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1 Kesä 51min

My Darling Clementine & Gunfight & Tombstone

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29 Touko 55min

Black Hawk Down & Battleground

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25 Touko 59min

The Mark Of Zorro & Hopalong Cassidy

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18 Touko 57min

Escape From New York

Call me Snake. Okay, well, that's too cool for me, so just make it Ryan. Either way, this 739th episode gets into the night life and action frenzy that is John Carpenter's Escape From New York. Kurt R...

15 Touko 47min

Top Gun

In anticipation of the theatrical re-release of Top Gun later this week, this 738th episode has me yapping about Tony Scott's blockbuster that put him on the map and made Tom Cruise a megastar. The on...

11 Touko 59min