Our third audience choice episode, selected by listener Amir Khawaja. All three of us had already seen Paul Verhoeven’s hilarious and brutally violent satire of fascism and war movies but was it a chore to revisit, or a joy?
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Short but sweet interview with director Joe Dante talking about The ‘Burbs. And what an engaging chap he is too.
Interview from BOMB Magazine’s Winter 1999 issue with director Thomas Vinterberg that covers his early career, Dogme and the creation of Festen.
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The impact of Dogme 95 wasn’t only felt in the cinema. Patrick Kingsley argues in The Guardian that its influence spread throughout Danish culture and triggered a renaissance in food, television production and architecture.
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Festen was the first film to be made in accordance with the strict rules of the Dogme 95 ‘Vow Of Chastity’ formulated by its director Thomas Vinterberg and notorious genius prankster Lars von Trier.
Family get-togethers are often fraught with peril, especially in the movies and Thomas Vinterberg’s Festen is no exception. The first film to be made under the strict guidelines of Dogma 95, it was a big hit at the Cannes Film Festival at the time and has proven to be hugely influential in the twenty years since. Neither Cross or Gordy have seen it until now, will it be as big a hit with them?
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Widely regarded as the pinnacle of mainstream ’80s Hollywood movie-making, striking a perfect balance between commercial considerations and the exploration of the human condition through art. Well, by Cross & Mitch anyway. Gordy’s watching it for the first time – will he agree?
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