Cinema Callback
Cinema Callback is a voicemail-based film podcast hosted by Andy and Michael, two lifelong movie lovers. Each week they exchange voice messages dissecting cult classics, hidden gems, and new releases.
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Pickpocket (1959) - The Criterion Series (opens the original)
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As part of Cinema Callback’s Criterion Collection series, Andy and Michael take a deep dive into Robert Bresson’s Pickpocket (1959), a stark, stripped back portrait of crime, isolation, and a young man who seems almost completely checked out from the world around him. Through the show’s signature voice note conversation format, the hosts explore Michel, a protagonist whose emotional numbness becomes one of the film’s most fascinating qualities. Looking at the character through a modern lens, And
Love Jones (1997) - The Criterion Series (opens the original)
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As part of Cinema Callback’s Criterion Collection series, Andy and Michael take a deep dive into Theodore Witcher’s 1997 cult classic Love Jones, a soulful romantic drama powered by the sizzling energy and chemistry between Larenz Tate and Nia Long. Through the show’s signature voice note conversation format, the hosts explore the relationship between aspiring writer Darius and photographer Nina, two young artists whose attraction feels immediate but whose path towards something more meaningful
Ashes and Diamonds (1958) - The Criterion Series (opens the original)
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As part of Cinema Callback’s Criterion Collection series, Andy and Michael take a deep dive into Andrzej Wajda’s Ashes and Diamonds (1958), one of the defining films of postwar Polish cinema. Through the show’s signature voice note conversation format, the hosts explore a film whose personal drama is inseparable from the complicated political history surrounding it. Originally watched as part of a week spent exploring films from the Criterion Collection, Ashes and Diamonds proves to be one of th
Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) - The Criterion Series (opens the original)
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Spoiler Warning: This episode contains full spoilers for Picnic at Hanging Rock. Criterion Week continues on Cinema Callback as Andy and Michael take a deep dive into Peter Weir’s 1975 cult classic Picnic at Hanging Rock, revisiting a film once dismissed as a boring teenage memory and discovering instead a remarkable piece of atmospheric horror. Through the show’s signature voice note conversation format, the hosts explore the central mystery of the schoolgirls who vanish during a trip into the
Tampopo (1985) - The Criterion Series (opens the original)
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Cinema Callback kicks off Criterion Week with Andy and Michael taking a deep dive into Juzo Itami’s Tampopo (1985), the joyous and wonderfully eccentric Japanese classic that transforms the conventions of the American Western into a story about the pursuit of the perfect bowl of ramen. Through the show’s signature voice note conversation format, the hosts explore the film’s central story of a truck driver helping a widowed restaurant owner perfect her ramen recipe and rescue her struggling busin
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