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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#103: (Pt. 2) Lady Bird / Ghost World (2001)
A deep dive into Greta Gerwig's delightful directing debut and how its nostalgic look back at the early 2000s compares with Zwigoff's '01 effort.
55 min
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#102: (Pt. 1) Lady Bird / Ghost World (2001)
Greta Gerwig's delightful directing debut gets paired with Thora Birch's iconoclastic Enid from Terry Zwigoff's coming of age comedy.
57 min
328
#101: (Pt. 2) The Graduate (1967) / The Meyerow...
Part two in a pairing of Dustin Hoffman career bookends.
59 min
329
#100: (Pt. 1) The Graduate (1967) / The Meyerow...
Separated by five decades, two tales of neurotics gone wild featuring the great Dustin Hoffman.
52 min
330
#099: (Pt. 2) Blade Runner 2049 / Blade Runner ...
The conversation continues with mixed reactions to 2049 and the many ways the new film is informed by its predecessor.
64 min
331
#098: (Pt. 1) Blade Runner 2049 / Blade Runner ...
Only one of these films is a replicant.
56 min
332
#097: (Pt. 2) Mother! / The Exterminating Angel
In which Bunuel plays the part of Aronofsky's mother.
54 min
333
#096: (Pt. 1) Mother! / The Exterminating Angel
Aronofsky by way of Bunuel.
46 min
334
#095: (Pt. 2) It (2017) / Stand By Me
Teen boys, dead bodies.
54 min
335
#094: (Pt. 1) It (2017) / Stand By Me
Phobia Death Match: Clowns v Leeches
54 min
336
#093: (Pt. 2) Logan Lucky / Oceans 11
Part 2 of the Soderbergh Heist Double Feature
52 min
337
#092: (Pt. 1) Logan Lucky / Oceans 11
A pair Steven Soderbergh heists.
56 min
338
#091: (Pt. 2) Detroit / Battle of Algiers
Separated by a half-century, a pair of intense and controversial films.
51 min
339
#090: (Pt. 1) Detroit / Battle of Algiers
Separated by a half-century, a pair of intense and controversial films.
49 min
340
#089: (Pt. 2) Planet of the Apes ('68) / War fo...
How the stunning final chapter of the new "Apes" trilogy looks ahead to the 50 year-old original installment.
51 min
341
#088: (Pt. 1) Planet of the Apes ('68) / War fo...
An in-depth discussion on the cry of “YOU MANIACS” heard ’round the world, 1968’s PLANET OF THE APES.
42 min
342
#087: (Pt. 2) A Ghost Story / Carnival of Souls...
Time, the afterlife and use of music in David Lowery's genre-defying new film and Herk Harvey's classic cult film.
62 min
343
#086: (Pt. 1) A Ghost Story / Carnival of Souls...
David Lowery's horror-drama gets paired up with the creepy cult film from director Herk Harvey.
48 min
344
#085: (Pt. 2) Okja / Babe (1995)
Bong Joon-ho's odd beast of a movie and what two pig-centric films say about eating meat.
50 min
345
#084: (Pt. 1) Okja / Babe (1995)
Super-pigs and their loyal humans are the subject of this week's porcine pairing.
51 min
346
#083: (Pt. 2) It Comes At Night / The Thing
Paranoia, the apocalypse - and dogs - in part two of this isolation horror pairing.
56 min
347
#082: (Pt. 1) It Comes At Night / The Thing
John Carpenter's classic "The Thing" is paired up with Trey Edward Shults's new horror film.
44 min
348
#081: (Pt. 2) Wonder Woman / Paths of Glory
In part two of their WWI-pairing, The Next Picture Show fixes its bayonets on Patty Jenkins's "Wonder Woman" and finds connections with the early Kubrick classic "Paths of Glory."
51 min
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#080: (Pt. 1) Wonder Woman / Paths of Glory
It's a Great War pairing on this week's Next Picture Show, with "Wonder Woman" going into the trenches with Kubrick's 1957 anti-war classic "Paths of Glory."
53 min
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#079: (Pt. 2) Baywatch / The Brady Bunch Movie
In part two of this week's cheesy-tv-to-film-adaptation double feature, The Next Picture Show sizes up the new "Baywatch" against the '95 cult comedy "The Brady Bunch Movie."
59 min