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.

TV & Film
Film History
Film Reviews
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#107: (Pt. 2) The Disaster Artist / Ed Wood (1994)
James Franco and Tim Burton celebrate the mad geniuses behind a pair of famously bad movies.
62 min
352
#106: (Pt. 1) The Disaster Artist / Ed Wood (1994)
Movies about bad movies and the good people who make them.
49 min
353
#105: (Pt. 2) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, ...
Small town redemption tales by playwright-turned-directors Martin McDonagh and David Mamet.
60 min
354
#104: (Pt. 1) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, ...
Playwrights-turned-movie-directors McDonagh and Mamet are the subjects of this week's pairing.
58 min
355
#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
356
#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
357
#101: (Pt. 2) The Graduate (1967) / The Meyerow...
Part two in a pairing of Dustin Hoffman career bookends.
59 min
358
#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
359
#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
360
#098: (Pt. 1) Blade Runner 2049 / Blade Runner ...
Only one of these films is a replicant.
56 min
361
#097: (Pt. 2) Mother! / The Exterminating Angel
In which Bunuel plays the part of Aronofsky's mother.
54 min
362
#096: (Pt. 1) Mother! / The Exterminating Angel
Aronofsky by way of Bunuel.
46 min
363
#095: (Pt. 2) It (2017) / Stand By Me
Teen boys, dead bodies.
54 min
364
#094: (Pt. 1) It (2017) / Stand By Me
Phobia Death Match: Clowns v Leeches
54 min
365
#093: (Pt. 2) Logan Lucky / Oceans 11
Part 2 of the Soderbergh Heist Double Feature
52 min
366
#092: (Pt. 1) Logan Lucky / Oceans 11
A pair Steven Soderbergh heists.
56 min
367
#091: (Pt. 2) Detroit / Battle of Algiers
Separated by a half-century, a pair of intense and controversial films.
51 min
368
#090: (Pt. 1) Detroit / Battle of Algiers
Separated by a half-century, a pair of intense and controversial films.
49 min
369
#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
370
#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
371
#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
372
#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
373
#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
374
#084: (Pt. 1) Okja / Babe (1995)
Super-pigs and their loyal humans are the subject of this week's porcine pairing.
51 min
375
#083: (Pt. 2) It Comes At Night / The Thing
Paranoia, the apocalypse - and dogs - in part two of this isolation horror pairing.
56 min