HeyJaredThe Recommendation Game
A bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given. Orla McNelis and Ricardo Deakin, Dublin and Toronto.
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Episode 232: Cry Freedom (opens the original)
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Cry Freedom (1987) directed by Richard Attenborough. Donald Woods is the chief editor at the liberal newspaper 'Daily Dispatch' in South Africa. He has written several editorials critical of the views of Steve Biko, but after having met him, he changes his views and attracts attention from the security police. When Steve Biko dies in police custody, he writes a book about Biko. The only way to get it published is for Woods himself to illegally escape the country. We are Ricardo Deakin and Orla M
Episode 231: Murs Murs (opens the original)
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Murs Murs (1980) directed by Agnes Varda. When her own mooted U.S. project fell through, Varda found herself stranded back in California, temporarily separated from Demy, and with her seven-year-old son in tow. Rather than give in to disappointment, she got back to work and created Mur Murs and _Documenteur _. A film that, like Thom Andersen’s remarkable Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003), is a study of the city through a given medium, it depicts the street art on display, from graffiti to large-sc
Episode 230: Godzilla Minus One (opens the original)
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Godzilla Minus One (2023) directed by Takashi Yamazaki. In postwar Japan, Godzilla brings new devastation to an already scorched landscape. With no military intervention or government help in sight, the survivors must join together in the face of despair and fight back against an unrelenting horror. This is The Recommendation Game, a bi-weekly podcast where two film lovers take turns to recommend a film the other has not seen, they watch and then skype to discuss it. Spoilers are a given. We are
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