For Screen and Country
Brendan and Jason dive into the British Film Institute's Top 100 British Films of All-Time list. What does that mean? Well, they'll be exploring each film's significance, if it deserves its place in history and answering questions and comments from you, the listeners.
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Gregory's Girl (#30)
This week, the guys talk about Gregory's Girl and much like the previous film, they are delighted to find some real strong female characters in this one. They discuss the arc of Gregory and compare him to title characters in Animal House and Revenge of t...
91 min
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Fires Were Started (#89)
This week, the guys return to the list with a very different type of film: Humphrey Jennings' docudrama about firefighters during the Blitz in WWII - Fires Were Started. The guys appreciate the way in which the film shifts its focus evenly between the fi...
60 min
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Brit Picks: The Gentlemen
For the final Brit Pick, the guys go back to an older request on Twitter and cover Guy Ritchie's surprise hit from earlier this year, The Gentlemen. Is it a return to form? Is Ritchie clinging too much to his old style or does he impart some wisdom he's ...
74 min
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Brit Picks: Monty Python and the Holy Grail
This week, Jason presents his Brit Pick in the form of Monty Python and the Holy Grail and all its quotable silliness. The guys debate which Monty Python film should go on the list, they sing the praises of the unheralded Carol Cleveland, discuss the rea...
80 min
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Brit Picks: Paddington 2
For the first episode in our three-part Brit Picks series, Brendan brings forth the most critically-acclaimed sequel in recent memory (or possibly ever) known as Paddington 2. The guys talk about the beautiful colour palette in the movie, Hugh Grant's cr...
89 min
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The Servant (#22)
This week, Brendan and Jason watch a tale about a butler who is... much different from Anthony Hopkins in The Remains of the Day. The year is 1963 and Dirk Bogarde is a sinister man with a plan up his sleeve in The Servant. The guys discuss some of the m...
89 min
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Alfie (#33)
What's it all about? That's the question about life that Brendan and Jason attempt to answer as they roll through the swingin' sixties with the 1966 hit Alfie. The guys debate about how the film plays through the view of a modern lens, they examine each ...
92 min
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Whisky Galore (#24)
Time to drink your socks off, kids! Brendan and Jason travel to the island of Todday to discover a bunch of very sad alcoholics that have run out of whisky! But it's an Ealing Comedy so it's funny! You'll chuckle at the ineptitude of Captain Waggett and ...
92 min
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Hope and Glory (#90)
This week, your hosts get in the bunker and brace themselves for John Boorman's tale of childhood wonder whilst living through the horrors of WWII in London with Hope and Glory. They discuss how the film takes a wholly refreshing spin on the typical 'war...
86 min
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The Day of the Jackal (#74)
Take aim as Brendan and Jason talk all about the meticulous attempted assassination of Charles de Gaulle in the sniper thriller The Day of the Jackal. Could this film have influenced All the President's Men in some way as a procedural thriller? What diff...
94 min
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The Remains of the Day (#64)
Let us serve you up with another episode as Brendan and Jason delve into the Merchant Ivory classic The Remains of the Day about a loyal-to-a-fault butler and his staff. The guys wonder if Mr. Stevens truly has an opinion or if it's just repressed, they ...
92 min
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#PodcastBlackout
Hey guys. Thanks for continuing to listen to and supporting this show and we'll get back to our regularly scheduled episodes next week but we thought it would be important to show some solidarity and join in on the #PodcastBlackout. Please stay safe and ...
24 min
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The Red Shoes (#9)
Put on your dancing shoes as Brendan and Jason tappity-tap into your hearts with their second Powell and Pressburger film - The Red Shoes (#9 on the list). This discussion includes a breakdown of the highly controversial 15-minute ballet sequence, the gu...
97 min
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Brief Encounter (#2)
Is this one of the most realistic portrayals of romance in film history? Brendan and Jason debate that this week during their discussion of David Lean's "Brief Encounter" (#2 on the list). They also talk about the subplot that nicely mirrors the main lov...
87 min
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Isolation Spectacular: The Girl with All the Gifts
To cap off this exciting excursion off the list, Brendan and Jason examine a film that may be a cautionary tale for our current world situation. Okay... maybe that is a BIT exaggerated but the movie looked intriguing and we needed a reason to watch it, a...
86 min
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And Now For Something Completely Similar: St. T...
Brendan and Jason go back to films somewhat related to movies on the BFI Top 100 with And Now for Something Completely Similar.
After the first film which focused on a raucous all-girls school, what's the next logical step? Yes, that's correct: pirates...
80 min
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And Now For Something Completely Similar: Blow Out
Brendan and Jason go back to films somewhat related to movies on the BFI Top 100 with And Now for Something Completely Similar.
This week, the guys breathe a sigh of relief as they discuss Blow Out, Brian De Palma's answer to Antonioni's 60s counter-cu...
85 min
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And Now For Something Completely Similar: St. T...
Brendan and Jason go back to films somewhat related to movies on the BFI Top 100 with And Now for Something Completely Similar.
This week, Brendan and Jason don their uniforms for the wild and wacky antics of the girls at one of the worst schools in th...
80 min
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And Now For Something Completely Similar: Eliza...
Brendan and Jason go back to films somewhat related to movies on the BFI Top 100 with And Now for Something Completely Similar.
This week, the guys discuss the sequel to the 1998 hit Elizabeth (#71 on the BFI Top 100) aptly titled Elizabeth: The Golden...
81 min
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And Now For Something Completely Similar: The 3...
Brendan and Jason go back to films somewhat related to movies on the BFI Top 100 with And Now for Something Completely Similar.
While maintaining social distance, Brendan and Jason discuss the BBC television adaptation of The 39 Steps released in 2008....
73 min
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And Now For Something Completely Similar: The W...
Brendan and Jason go back to films somewhat related to movies on the BFI Top 100 with And Now for Something Completely Similar.
With the surprisingly low-ranked and eerie 1973 original The Wicker Man already on the list, Brendan and Jason welcome back ...
81 min
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And Now For Something Completely Similar: Lawre...
Brendan and Jason go back to films somewhat related to movies on the BFI Top 100 with And Now for Something Completely Similar.
Following the legendary Lawrence of Arabia (#3 on the list), the guys talk about the follow-up nearly thirty years later - L...
58 min
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And Now For Something Completely Similar: The R...
Brendan and Jason go back to films somewhat related to movies on the BFI Top 100 with And Now for Something Completely Similar.
First up on the docket is Ken Russell's The Rainbow, an adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's book of the same name and the film tha...
80 min
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Mini-Episode: 1917
In a departure from the usual claptrap, your hosts take a look at a recent (!) movie in the form of the Oscar-winning film, 1917. Marvel at Jason's encyclopedic knowledge of war history, weigh in on the debate about the "one continuous take" being immers...
35 min
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The Ladykillers (#13)
It's time to get dark as Brendan and Jason tackle the black comedy The Ladykillers featuring Jason's hottest take on a film thus far! The two also spend most of the episode praising the performances of Alec Guinness and Katie Johnson, they talk about Pet...
74 min