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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#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.
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#084: (Pt. 1) Okja / Babe (1995)
Super-pigs and their loyal humans are the subject of this week's porcine pairing.
51 min
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#083: (Pt. 2) It Comes At Night / The Thing
Paranoia, the apocalypse - and dogs - in part two of this isolation horror pairing.
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#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.
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#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."
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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."
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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."
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#078: (Pt. 1) Baywatch / The Brady Bunch Movie
This week's Brady Bunch/Baywatch double feature has the NPS crew exploring the cheesy-TV-show-to-feature-film-adaptation genre.
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#077: (Pt. 2) Stop Making Sense / Justin Timber...
In part two of their appreciation of the late, great Jonathan Demme, the Next Picture Show talks Demme's final film - "Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids" - and how it connects with Demme's '84 collaboration with The Talking Heads.
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#076: (Pt. 1) Stop Making Sense / Justin Timber...
In part one of this Demme double feature, the Next Picture Show considers the enduring legacy of the 1984 Demme-Talking Heads collaboration "Stop Making Sense."
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#075: (Pt. 2) The Lost City of Z / Burden of Dr...
In part two of their 'Welcome to the Jungle' double feature, Scott, Keith and Genevieve share their takes on "The Lost City of Z" before diving into the way "Z" and Les Blank's "Burden of Dreams" engage with obsession and hubris.
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#074: (Pt. 1) The Lost City of Z / Burden of Dr...
The new jungle adventure THE LOST CITY OF Z inspires The Next Picture Show to take another trip to the Amazon via the Les Blank documentary BURDEN OF DREAMS about the making of Werner Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo."
46 min
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#073: (Pt. 2) The Matrix / Ghost in the Shell (...
Hyper-stylish and cerebral, 2017's GHOST IN THE SHELL shares lots of similarities with the Wachowski's THE MATRIX. But it's their differences that are most telling.
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#072: (Pt. 1) The Matrix / Ghost in the Shell (...
GHOST IN THE SHELL inspires THE MATRIX which inspires GHOST IN THE SHELL. Much be a glitch in the Matrix. For this week's double bill, The Next Picture Show pairs the poorly received GHOST live action remake with the Wachowskis' landmark '99 film.
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#071: (Pt. 2) Alien (1979) / Life (2017)
In part two of their "Alien"/"Life" double feature, The Next Picture Show focus on the new film and how Ridley Scott's classic may have influenced it.
52 min
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#070: (Pt. 1) Alien (1979) / Life (2017)
This week's movie pairing examines the new space thriller "Life" alongside the Ridley Scott classic "Alien."
46 min
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#069: (Pt. 2) Kong: Skull Island / King Kong (1...
Part two of this week's double feature pairs the new "Kong: Skull Island" with 1933's medium-defining "King Kong."
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#068: (Pt. 1) Kong: Skull Island / King Kong (1...
This week's double feature pairs the new "Kong: Skull Island" with 1933's medium-defining "King Kong."
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#067: (Pt. 2) Get Out / People Under The Stairs
Part two of The Next Picture Show's race-conscious horror film pairing: Wes Craven's "People Under the Stairs" from 1991 and Jordan Peele's surprise box office hit "Get Out."
58 min
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#066: (Pt. 1) Get Out / People Under The Stairs
The Next Picture Show pairs hit film "Get Out" with an earlier race-conscious horror film - Wes Craven's "People Under the Stairs" from 1991.
48 min
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#065: (Pt. 2) Batman (1989) / The Lego Batman M...
In part two of their Dark Knight double feature, The Next Picture Show considers the character's long history in the movies and how that history contributes to the pleasures of the new "Lego Batman Movie."
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#064: (Pt. 1) Batman (1989) / The Lego Batman M...
In part one of a Dark Knight double feature, The Next Picture Show re-evaluates Tim Burton's 1989 "Batman" before getting to the new box office hit "The Lego Batman Movie."
47 min
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#063: (Pt. 2) The War Room / Weiner
In part two of their political doc double feature, The Next Picture Show dives into the topical 2016 film "Weiner."
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#062: (Pt. 1) The War Room / Weiner
In the wake of the 2016 election, The Next Picture Show discusses a pair of Clinton-related docs - 1993's "The War Room" and last year's "Weiner."
48 min
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#061: Live at the Chicago Podcast Festival
Recorded in November, 2016 as part of the Chicago Podcast Festival, a special live edition of The Next Picture Show.
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