The Next Picture Show

Looking at cinema's present via its past. From the former editorial team of The Dissolve, The Next Picture Show examines how classic films inspire and inform modern movies. Episodes take a deep dive into a classic film and its legacy, then compare and contrast that film with a modern successor. Hosted and produced by Genevieve Koski, Keith Phipps, Tasha Robinson, and Scott Tobias.

TV & Film
Film History
Film Reviews
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#114: (Pt. 1) A Futile and Stupid Gesture / Wet...
Does David Wain's new biopic spoof have a chance of developing the cult following of his 2001 comedy classic?
48 min
377
#113: (Pt. 2) Phantom Thread / Rebecca (1940)
The ghost of Hitchcock's Best Picture winner haunts PTA's latest.
65 min
378
#112: (Pt. 1) Phantom Thread / Rebecca (1940)
The new PTA is a purposeful riff on the Hitchcock Best Picture winner.
46 min
379
#111: (Pt. 2) I, Tonya / To Die For (1995)
True-life stories rarely come with the bold, satirical edge that the new Tonya Harding biopic does. Just one thing it shares with Van Sant's "To Die For."
68 min
380
#110: (Pt. 1) I, Tonya / To Die For (1995)
The new Margot Robbie-starring true-crime tragi-comedy shares some DNA with Gus Van Sant's 1995 satire.
58 min
381
#109: (Pt. 2) Call Me By Your Name / The Talent...
Back to sunny Italy for part two of this week's in-depth look at a pair of films about Americans abroad, in love and in over their heads.
56 min
382
#108: (Pt. 1) Call Me By Your Name / The Talent...
Italian summers, sun-kissed actors and repressed desire are the themes for this week's pairing.
47 min
383
#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.
61 min
384
#106: (Pt. 1) The Disaster Artist / Ed Wood (1994)
Movies about bad movies and the good people who make them.
49 min
385
#105: (Pt. 2) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, ...
Small town redemption tales by playwright-turned-directors Martin McDonagh and David Mamet.
60 min
386
#104: (Pt. 1) Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, ...
Playwrights-turned-movie-directors McDonagh and Mamet are the subjects of this week's pairing.
57 min
387
#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.
54 min
388
#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
389
#101: (Pt. 2) The Graduate (1967) / The Meyerow...
Part two in a pairing of Dustin Hoffman career bookends.
58 min
390
#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
391
#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.
63 min
392
#098: (Pt. 1) Blade Runner 2049 / Blade Runner ...
Only one of these films is a replicant.
55 min
393
#097: (Pt. 2) Mother! / The Exterminating Angel
In which Bunuel plays the part of Aronofsky's mother.
54 min
394
#096: (Pt. 1) Mother! / The Exterminating Angel
Aronofsky by way of Bunuel.
45 min
395
#095: (Pt. 2) It (2017) / Stand By Me
Teen boys, dead bodies.
54 min
396
#094: (Pt. 1) It (2017) / Stand By Me
Phobia Death Match: Clowns v Leeches
53 min
397
#093: (Pt. 2) Logan Lucky / Oceans 11
Part 2 of the Soderbergh Heist Double Feature
52 min
398
#092: (Pt. 1) Logan Lucky / Oceans 11
A pair Steven Soderbergh heists.
55 min
399
#091: (Pt. 2) Detroit / Battle of Algiers
Separated by a half-century, a pair of intense and controversial films.
50 min
400
#090: (Pt. 1) Detroit / Battle of Algiers
Separated by a half-century, a pair of intense and controversial films.
49 min