The Next Picture Show
Looking at cinema's present via its past. The Next Picture Show is a biweekly roundtable by the former editorial team of The Dissolve examining how classic films inspire and inform modern movies. Episodes take a deep dive into a classic film and its legacy in the first half, then compare and contrast that film with a modern successor in the second. Hosted and produced by Genevieve Koski, Keith Phipps, Tasha Robinson and Scott Tobias.
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#156: Girl World, Pt. 1 - Mean Girls
Power plays and back-biting in the 2004 Tina Fey-penned comedy.
48 min
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#155: The Chicago Way, Pt. 2 - Steve McQueen's ...
Crime and corruption Chicago style.
65 min
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#154: The Chicago Way, Pt. 1 - Michael Mann's "...
Crime and corruption Chicago style.
53 min
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#153: Lost Films Found, Pt . 2 - Shirkers
A landmark first feature shot in the 90s but never seen until now.
46 min
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#152: Lost Films Found, Pt. 1 - The Other Side...
Orson Welles' final film is finally finished.
49 min
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#151: A Star Is Born, Pt. 2 - Bradley Cooper (2...
Transcendent musical performance and messy gender dynamics in Cooper's new take on the old tale.
77 min
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#150: A Star Is Born, Pt. 1 - George Cukor (1954)
The '54 musical spin on the old Hollywood fable starring Judy Garland and James Mason set the stage for Bradley Cooper's latest take.
62 min
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#149: Robert Redford, Pt. 2 - The Old Man and t...
Redford's farewell to acting is a perfect bookend with his iconic turn as The Sundance Kid.
53 min
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#148: Robert Redford, Pt. 1 - Butch Cassidy and...
With Robert Redford's latest and possibly last film currently in theaters, a look back at his classic pairing with Paul Newman from 1969.
47 min
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#147: (Pt. 2) Fahrenheit 11/9 / Roger & Me
How does the Michael Moore's approach play in 2018's heightened political climate?
53 min
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#146: (Pt. 1) Fahrenheit 11/9 / Roger & Me
Revisiting liberal gadfly Michael Moore's cinematic origins.
46 min
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#145: (Pt. 2) BlackKklansman / Malcolm X
When Spike Lee makes a film about the past, he's actually making a film about the present.
68 min
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#144: (Pt. 1) BlackKklansman / Malcolm X
In part 1 of this Spike Lee pairing, a consideration of the rare cradle-to-grave biopic that gets it right.
56 min
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#143: (Pt. 2) Jaws / The Meg
How the shark movie has progressed - and not - from Spielberg's '75 masterpiece to this summer's The Meg.
59 min
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#142: (Pt. 1) Jaws / The Meg
With a new killer shark movie menacing moviegoers this summer, a consideration of the first and best of them, Spielberg's '75 masterpiece.
47 min
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#141: (Pt. 2) Mission: Impossible - Fallout / M...
After two decades, the Mission Impossible franchise is still finding a way to raise the stakes.
62 min
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#140: (Pt. 1) Mission: Impossible - Fallout / M...
How Brian De Palma helped shape the Mission: Impossible franchise, while exerting his own iconoclastic style.
52 min
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#139: (Pt. 2) Sorry To Bother You / Putney Swop...
A look at the anti-capitalist philosophy that unites Boots Riley's and Robert Downey Sr.'s work.
60 min
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#138: (Pt. 1) Sorry To Bother You / Putney Swop...
Capitalism, race, and what it takes to burn down an unjust system.
49 min
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#137: (Pt. 2) Hereditary / Don't Look Now
Visceral reactions to the new Toni Collette-starring horror film.
57 min
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#136: (Pt. 1) Hereditary / Don't Look Now
Grief and psychic distress are the ties that bind the new Toni Collette-starring horror film and Nicholas Roeg's 1973 thriller.
44 min
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#135: (Pt. 2) Incredibles 2 / Goldfinger
Superhero vs Superspy: two versions of 60s-set heroism.
63 min
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#134: (Pt. 1) Incredibles 2 / Goldfinger
With its supervillains, secretive heroes, and secretive schemes, Bond '64 has plenty on common with Pixar's latest blockbuster.
52 min
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#133: (Pt. 2) First Reformed / Taxi Driver
Writer/director Paul Schrader's new film might just be his best - and it shares a lot in common with his screenplay for the Scorsese classic.
55 min
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#132: (Pt. 1) First Reformed / Taxi Driver
Writer/director Paul Schrader's latest is about a despairing pastor (Ethan Hawke), a "God's Lonely Man" in the tradition of Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle.
51 min