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Valentine’s Day 2025 – My Conceptual Valentine - HER (2013) and I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (2020)
Manage episode 466586953 series 1185329
For our Valentine's Day 2025 episode, we plunge deep into the nature of relationships by discussing two films whose romantic pairings are arguably not relationships at all: Spike Jonze's Her (2013) and his sometime collaborator, Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). Isolation, loss, misogyny, male fantasies, hope and despair: we've got all of the Valentine's goodness for you. And it continues with our Fear and Moviegoing discussion of Mike Leigh's Hard Truths (2024).
Time Codes:
0h 00m 25s: HER (2013) [dir. Spike Jonze]
0h 54m 53s: I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (2020) [dir. Charlie Kaufman]
1h 30m 24s: Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto: Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths (2024)
Related content:
· Our immensely long and under-edited discussion of Synecdoche, New York (2008) and Our Town (1940)
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* Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring
* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s
* Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive)
* Read Elise’s piece on Gangs of New York – “Making America Strange Again”
* Check out Dave’s Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist’s 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!
Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy
Write to us at [email protected]
We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join!
396 episodes
Valentine’s Day 2025 – My Conceptual Valentine - HER (2013) and I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (2020)
Manage episode 466586953 series 1185329
For our Valentine's Day 2025 episode, we plunge deep into the nature of relationships by discussing two films whose romantic pairings are arguably not relationships at all: Spike Jonze's Her (2013) and his sometime collaborator, Charlie Kaufman's I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020). Isolation, loss, misogyny, male fantasies, hope and despair: we've got all of the Valentine's goodness for you. And it continues with our Fear and Moviegoing discussion of Mike Leigh's Hard Truths (2024).
Time Codes:
0h 00m 25s: HER (2013) [dir. Spike Jonze]
0h 54m 53s: I’M THINKING OF ENDING THINGS (2020) [dir. Charlie Kaufman]
1h 30m 24s: Fear and Moviegoing in Toronto: Mike Leigh’s Hard Truths (2024)
Related content:
· Our immensely long and under-edited discussion of Synecdoche, New York (2008) and Our Town (1940)
+++
* Listen to our guest episode on The Criterion Project – a discussion of Late Spring
* Marvel at our meticulously ridiculous Complete Viewing Schedule for the 2020s
* Intro Song: “Sunday” by Jean Goldkette Orchestra with the Keller Sisters (courtesy of The Internet Archive)
* Read Elise’s piece on Gangs of New York – “Making America Strange Again”
* Check out Dave’s Robert Benchley blog – an attempt to annotate and reflect upon as many of the master humorist’s 2000+ pieces as he can locate – Benchley Data: A Wayward Annotation Project!
Follow us on Twitter at @therebuggy
Write to us at [email protected]
We now have a Discord server - just drop us a line if you'd like to join!
396 episodes
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