This week on The Spectator Film Podcast… National Treasure (2004) 9/13/19 Featuring: Austin, Maxx Commentary Track begins at 15:25 — Notes — Let America Be America Again by Langston Hughes Ways of Seeing by John Berger — Here’s a link to Ways…

This week on The Spectator Film Podcast… Scarface (1932) 9/6/19 Featuring: Austin, Maxx Commentary Track begins at 13:30 — Notes — “The Gangster as Tragic Hero” by Robert Warshow — Here’s a link to a professor’s personal website (Andrée Lafontaine, PHD)…

This week on The Spectator Film Podcast… The World’s End (2013) 8/30/19 Featuring: Austin, Maxx Commentary track begins at 14:20 — Notes — The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to Literary Genre by Tzvetan Todorov — Here’s a link to Todorov’s book…

This week on The Spectator Film Podcast… The Dark Crystal (1982) 8/23/19 Featuring: Austin, Maxx Commentary track begins at 13:40 — Notes — The Wider Worlds of Jim Henson: Essays on His Work and Legacy Beyond The Muppet Show and Sesame…

This week on The Spectator Film Podcast… Pacific Rim (2013) 8.16.19 Featuring: Austin, Maxx Commentary track begins at 18:59 — Notes — The Transnational Fantasies of Guillermo Del Toro Edited by Ann Davies, Deborah Shaw, and Dolores Tierney — Here’s a…

This week on The Spectator Film Podcast… Island of Lost Souls (1932) 8.10.19 Featuring: Austin, Maxx Commentary track begins at 11:21 — Notes — We watched The Criterion Collection release of the Island of Dr. Moreau for this week’s episode. It’s a…

This week on The Spectator Film Podcast… Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) 8/1/19 Featuring: Austin, Maxx Commentary track begins at 18:19 — Notes — We watched this 20th Century Fox bluray release of Sunrise for the show this week. Once…

This week on The Spectator Film Podcast… Scream (1996) 7.18.19 Featuring: Austin, Maxx Commentary track begins at 11:45 — Notes — Men, Women, and Chainsaws: Gender in the Modern Horror Film by Carol J. Clover — This is a seminal book…

This week on The Spectator Film Podcast… Dune (1984) 7.19.19 Featuring: Austin, Maxx — Notes — The Impossible David Lynch by Todd McGowan — Here’s the main resource we used to help structure our conversation this week. This is an excellent…

This week on The Spectator Film Podcast… The Elephant Man (1980) 7.12.19 Featuring: Austin, Maxx Commentary track begins at 14:05 — Notes — The Impossible David Lynch by Todd McGowan — Here’s the main resource we used to help structure our…