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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#327: Cage Match, Pt. 2 — The Unbearable Weight...
Have we already moved past the stage of Cage’s career that the actor's new meta-movie is commenting on?
60 min
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#326: Cage Match, Pt. 1 — Adaptation
It's double the Nic Cage in Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman's 2002 meta ode to writer's block.
63 min
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#325: Multiple Choice, Pt. 2 — Everything Every...
The new one from the directing duo Daniels offers surprise and delight. Also butt jokes.
64 min
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#324: Multiple Choice, Pt. 1 — Blind Chance
An 80s multiverse story from Krzysztof Kieślowski.
52 min
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#323: Tex-Mess, Pt. 2 — X (2022)
Nothing is certain but death, sex, and Texas in the latest from Ti West ("House of the Devil").
69 min
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#322: Tex-Mess, Pt. 1 — The Texas Chainsaw Mass...
Often imitated, never duplicated.
56 min
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#321: Bye, Robot Pt. 2 — After Yang
Warm, thematically rich sci-fi from director Kogonada.
68 min
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#320: Bye, Robot Pt. 1 — A.I. Artificial Intell...
Revisiting 2001's Spielberg/Kubrick hybrid.
67 min
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#319: No Time to Dye, Pt. 2 — Kimi
Spare, simple and stylish, Steven Soderbergh's latest is pure entertainment.
77 min
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#318: No Time to Dye, Pt. 1 — Run Lola Run
Time, choice, fate - and that hair - in Tom Tykwer's 1998 international breakout.
62 min
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#317: Star Crossed Pt. 2 — Marry Me
Jennifer Lopez and Owen Wilson in an old-fashioned - but modern - romcom.
63 min
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#316: Star Crossed, Pt. 1 — Notting Hill
The new "Marry Me" sends us back to the rom-com heyday of the late 90s.
54 min
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#315: Toil and Trouble Pt. 2 — The Tragedy of M...
The Scottish Play fits surprisingly well in the Coen filmography.
71 min
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#314: Toil and Trouble Pt. 1 — Throne of Blood
Akira Kurosawa's 1957 "Macbeth" adaptation eerie, unnerving and unexpectedly funny.
54 min
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#313: Tales as Old as Time, Pt. 2 — Belle (2021)
Mamoru Hosoda's lush anime update of "Beauty and the Beast."
76 min
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#312: Tales as Old as Time, Pt. 1 — Beauty and ...
The new anime feature "Belle" invites a return to Disney's late-20th century renaissance.
65 min
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#311: Our 2021 Top 10s, Part 2
Top 5s and honorable mentions.
67 min
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#310: Our 2021 Top 10s, Part 1
Scott, Tasha and Keith share their 10-6 picks.
55 min
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#309: Carnival Games, Pt. 2 — Nightmare Alley (...
Even without supernatural or fantasy elements, there is never any doubt this is a Guillermo del Toro film.
80 min
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#308: Carnival Games, Pt. 1 — Nightmare Alley (...
Guillermo del Toro's "Nightmare Alley" uses the same source material as Edmund Goulding's '47 noir.
57 min
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#307: Model Males, Pt. 2 — The Power of the Dog
Jane Campion's acclaimed new film in conversation with John Boorman's "Deliverance."
73 min
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#306: Model Males, Pt. 1 — Deliverance
Dueling banjos - and dueling male archetypes - in John Boorman's '72 classic.
58 min
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#305: White Lies, Pt. 2 — Passing
Racial identity and the rejection thereof in Rebecca Hall's new film and in Douglas Sirk's "Imitation of Life."
81 min
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#304: White Lies, Pt. 1 — Imitation of Life
Douglas Sirk's 1959 melodrama explores race and class in the director's trademark heightened style.
68 min
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#303: Dual Duels Pt. 2 — Last Night In Soho
Edgar Wright wears his influences on his (mod, swinging 60s-era) sleeves.
77 min