Guest Ann Kibbie, English Literature professor at Bowdoin College, joins Cinema60 to discuss Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick's Days of Wine and Roses – a film she classifies as being firmly in the horror genre.
Read MoreIn this very NSFW episode, Bart & Jenna discuss the boundary pushing films of 1969 Japan, one of their favorite New Wave movements. Replete with nudity, graphic violence and sexual themes, it’s some of the wildest stuff they’ve covered yet.
Read MoreGuest Paul Bishop of the Six Gun Justice podcast joins us to discuss The Professionals. From talk of truth and morality, sexism and racism, as well as some memorably badass women warriors, they’ve got quite a bit on their plate.
Read MoreBart & Jenna set out to define Jazz Anxiety movies, a genre that they made up. Beyond just utilizing jazz to get across a mood, all of these movies actively reflect the scores in their filmmaking, resulting in abstract visual punches to non-linear plots.
Read MoreBart & Jenna play Kiss Marry Kill with the year 1965. Having made their way to the middle of the decade they celebrate by railing against “normals,” smashing the established film canon, and pointing out how horny every movie is.
Read MoreGuest Marshall Terrill joins Cinema60 to talk all things Steve McQueen, including his latest book on the man. They also talk Bullitt, from its wild behind-the-scenes goings on to the surprising connection between McQueen, the Zodiac Killer and Charles Manson.
Read MoreGuest Richard A Lertzman talks frankly to Cinema60 about his new book Deconstructing the Rat Pack: Joey, The Mob and The Summit and breaks down the impetus behind the original Ocean's 11 film.
Read MoreBy the 1960s, Luis Buñuel had settled into his late career streak of unparalleled masterpieces. Bart & Jenna investigate the surreal and Catholic-guilt ridden world of this atheist auteur. To their own surprise, it turns out they don’t really see eye-to-eye on any of his films.
Read MoreBart & Jenna are joined by Ryan Moore of Lost in the Longboxes! podcast for a discussion on the Barbarella comic and film. So bust out your psycho-cardiogram, pop a pleasure pill, and allow Cinema60 to take control…
Read MoreOut here in the desert you only have two friends, your rifle and your flat angled eyeliner brush. Bart & Jenna curate a list of 1960s westerns starring women and their incredible ability to deflect desert heat from melting their full face makeup. It’s a positive who’s who of important ‘60s babes!
Read MoreBart and Jenna take a dive into Bart’s choice of international James Bond spoofs and wrestle with the question of why it is James Bond has been so spoofed, remade and perpetuated throughout the entire world. You might ‘get it,’ you might not, but if nothing else you will be introduced to some of the most memorable theme songs this side of “Goldfinger.”
Read MoreCinema60 welcomes Danny Reid, creator of pre-code.com, to talk about George Seaton’s 36 Hours, a James Garner World War II thriller that twists like a Twilight Zone episode and breaks our expectations of cinematic Nazi tropes.
Read MoreBart and Jenna dive into the early works of New German Cinema, a movement that walks the line between the personal and the political in order to navigate feelings of guilt and anger.
Read MoreCinema60 welcomes Natasha Degen, chair of Art Market Studies at FIT, to talk about William Klein’s Who Are You Polly Maggoo?, a film that satisfies Natasha’s research, Jenna’s mod-fashion fetish, and Bart’s love of absurdist comedy.
Read MoreBart & Jenna play Kiss Marry Kill with the year 1964. From Woman in the Dunes to Marnie, this episode’s a bit of a deep-dive into the hopelessness of the human condition (but, you know, in a fun way).
Read MoreIn this double-sized episode, Bart & Jenna tackle the globe-trotting filmography of Sophia Loren. They discuss four of these films in depth: Two Women, El Cid, Yesterday Today & Tomorrow and A Countess From Hong Kong
Read MoreBart & Jenna welcome guest Rachael Guma to talk about her love of Francois Truffaut's Fahrenheit 451. She in turn blows their minds with a theory about how the film uses squares and circles as a visual language.
Read MoreJenna & Bart discuss, in order from the ridiculous to the sublime, several selections from this annus mirabilis of sci-fi films that engage directly with societal anxieties of the future.
Read MoreGuest Pauline Kael joins Cinema60 in spirit to talk about one of her favorite films from the ‘60s: Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde! No reading required as Bart & Jenna argue her case for the film against their own personal misgivings.
Read MoreGuest Kyle Eagle, host of The Major Scale jazz radio show, talks with Bart & Jenna about Sweet Love, Bitter. Starring Dick Gregory, this under watched gem explores jazz, drug addiction, and racial inequality.
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