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A few more Frenchies this week as we hit peak romance for September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION and when it comes to French New Wave, today’s discussion is amongst the most infamous. Jean-Luc Godard’s 1960 international hit “BREATHLESS” helped set a standard in style at a time when the filmgoing world was hungry for more international flair. Like a few other movies we cover this month, it represents a distinct point in the global recognition of European film. The chemistry between Jean Seberg & Jean-Paul Belmondo is out of this world. Belmondo’s character of Michel sees it too. He call...

We’re backpacking across Europe all month long and we’ve been circling back around to France for weeks now. What can we say? France loves their movies. We’ve even got a couple of movies this month that are French movies whose directors aren’t even French. For today’s French feature we’re gonna get a little dirty like some stinky muskrats on the banks of the Seine. It’s the river barge life for a newlywed couple who live their lives on a barge with an old Salty Crewman, a Cabin Boy and about 20 cats. Seems like a fun rom...

Boy did we miss a golden opportunity the last time it fell on a Friday the 13th because the last one was during October. Maybe we should have done this then but we were grinding for Halloween Humpfest and we didn’t think about it. Today marks our first Friday the 13th since that time and we think it’s a good time to do another 6-Pack movie review. We’re diving into another spooky franchise whose tragic slasher has grown into a horror icon. It’s Friday the 13th so we’re discussing first first half of the FRIDAY THE...

September’s theme is EUROPEAN VACATION and it’s not all French! We head up to Norway in this episode. Way up by the Arctic circle in a small town where, in the summer, it can be 24 hour daylight for days. They call it the midnight sun and it’s gonna fuck up your circadian rhythm. A girl has been murdered and two Kripos are sent up from Oslo to investigate but horrible accidents happen and many bad decisions follow. The midnight sun can be maddening if you’re not used to it. If only Engstrom could get some sleep th...

We’re spending a lot of time around France and ‘ol Gay Paris for September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION because Bob has a lot of French DVDs that he’s been holding on to for a while that need to be watched. We finally get to a movie by the notorious Austrian director Michael Haneke and if his other movies hit like this one? Well, we may need more uncomfortable Haneke movies to watch in the future. France, like many European nations, has its ghosts that it doesn’t care to speak much on. Too much emotional inconvenience. Some thing...

For this month’s EUROPEAN VACATION we got a lot of French features. They love their movies and we love movies so it all works out. Today we break the seal on Robert Bresson with his 1959 classic “PICKPOCKET” starring Martin LaSalle and Marika Green. The strange Michel is very driven into relieving people’s wallet weight and is so intent on it that it seems to overtake his life and his relationships. He even takes from his dying mother. The police chief suspects him but has no proof. His friend likes the girl in his building but, somehow, this innocent...

When we’re backpacking across the old countries for September’s theme of EUROPEAN VACATION we gotta stop and sample some of that fine French excellence that Orson Welles so drunkingly told us about. We’re playing it cool with today’s discussion of our second ever Jean-Pierre Melville movie for the show and it’s his swaggiest by far. We’re talking “Le Samouraï” from 1967 starring Alain Delon, Francois Perier, Cathy Rosier and more. Delon plays a cold-as-ice hitman who lives by a personal code of solitude. When an employer turns on him he keeps his contracts while plotting revenge...

This month we’re taking a nice, long, EUROPEAN VACATION and we’re weaving in and out of about six countries throughout the theme.Today’s stop is Germany but don’t expect any of that stereotypical German dryness. No, Wim Wenders has a knack for humanity and sweetness that defies the stereotype. Fassbinder displays broad emotions as well but Wenders seems like a much nicer person. Our second discussion of a Wim Wenders movie (the first discussion, PARIS TEXAS, is way back in our very first 6-pack episode, link here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&v=gvRs2mMM...

We’re leaving the future behind and decompressing with a nice EUROPEAN VACATION all September long. French, German, Norwegian, Dutch, Italian. We’re backpacking across the Old World and our first stop is Italy with a discussion of an iconic director and one of his biggest films. Federico Fellini’s 1960 film “LA DOLCE VITA” catapulted him and his lead, Marcello Mastroianni, into international superstardom. Reporter Marcello can see the disconnect of new trends covering the ashes of the old ways as he bounces between paparazzi and and high society women. His poor and lonely girlfriend can’t seem to give up the...

Our month’s theme and our year’s theme have crossed over. You could call it “LARS VON TRIER’S BULLSHIT TOMORROW” but it may not be bullshit for Lars or the character of Justine so much as cathartic. Imagine being overwhelmed with crippling depression and then you discover a rogue planet is hurtling towards Earth. Guys who get their astronomy news from Joe Rogan aren’t too worried about it but you know exactly what’s going to happen. The end of the world. The world is shitting itself and you’re basking peacefully in the sun’s reflection off of...