Episode 641: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003)

Guest Co-Hosts: Beth Accomando, John Atom

Beth Accomando and John Atom on our month of requests with one from John Atom himself! It’s Kim Ki-Duk's Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring from 2003.

It’s a meditative film about a young man and his master as they pass through different stages of life represented by the different seasons of the title. The film stars writer/director Kim Ki-Duk as the adult version of the young monk and Oh Yeong-su as the older version of his master.

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Original Soundtrack

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Episode 581: The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)

Guest Co-Hosts: Emily Intravia, John Atom

We continue Sci-Fi July with a look at Jack Arnold’s The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957). Based on the book by, and adapted by, Richard Matheson, the film tells the story of Scott Carey (Grant Williams), a man who goes through a mysterious fog bank on the ocean only to find that it’s caused his body to inexplicably shrink.

John Atom and Emily Intravia join Mike to discuss the film and its 1981 remake, The Incredible Shrinking Woman.

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Read about the Nebula awards ballot controversy
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Music:
"Five Foot One" - Iggy Pop
"Galaxy Glue" - Linda November

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Episode 521: Eternity and a Day (1998)

Special Guest: Andrew Horton
Guest Co-Hosts: John Atom, Agatha Luz

Theodoros Angelopoulos's 1998 film, Eternity and a Day, stars Bruno Ganz as Alexandros, a poet who thinks he’s at the end of his life. He rescues an Albanian refugee boy (Ahilleas Skevis) who lives on the street and wipes windshields for spare change.

Agatha Luz (Cinemaspection) and John Atom (Heroic Purgatory) join Mike to discuss the films while Andrew Horton (The Films of Theo Angelopoulos: A Cinema of Contemplation) talks about his relationship with Angelopolous.

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Music:
Original Soundtrack - Eleni Karaindrou

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