He made the B-movie about a rubber tyre killing people with its psychic powers. He had superheroes give monsters cancer and stoners raise a dog-sized fly. Quentin Dupieux is weird. He's surreal. And ... kinda trashy and lowbrow when he wants. In this episode, we turn everything on its head, starting with his most recent film (that we have all seen - Daaaaaalí! - and working our way back to his very first mini-feature Nonfilm - as we try to figure out what makes him tick and how we could explain his films at a dinner party.Timestamps:Intro: 00:00:00Dinner Party Pitch - 00:03:00Daaaaaalí! - 00:12:14Yannick - 00:22:08Smoking Causes Coughing - 00:34:07Incredible but True - 00:39:38Mandibules - 00:45:00Deerskin - 00:51:17Keep an Eye Out - 00:56:32Reality - 00:59:23Wrong Cops - 01:04:33Wrong - 01:09:19Rubber - 01:11:46Steak - 01:19:43Nonfilm - 01:23:17
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Is Emilia Perez This Decade's Crash?
One of us rated Emilia Perez 1/10 - find out why, as we make blanket statements about why the Academy may love it, estimate its chances and utter the words "inspirational trauma porn" more than once.
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31:05
The 2020s Are Halfway Done: What Will This Decade Be Remembered For?
Are we in a new 60s, where Hollywood is burning out of steam and foreign films, along with A24 and Neon, are taking the spotlight? Could we be on the road to one of the best decades in history, or is it something far more lacklustre going on? Join us as we break down our impressions of the first half of the 2020s and guess/share our hopes of what this decade will be remembered for. How wrong will we be?
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10+ Hidden Gems From the Last 3 Years [ICMFFF2024]
The ICMForum's 8th annual film festival is here. In this episode, Chris and Matt discuss the 10 films on the main slate and shout out favourites across the program.
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We Watched Every Pixar Short, and Now We Will Judge Them
Adam, Brett, and Chris collectively watched practically every single Pixar Short, from the early CGI experiments in the 80s to Academy Award nominees and winners to DVD extras and the still-running "SparkShorts."
Exhausted from endless Cars Franchise tie-ins, though more optimistic about Toy Story, this episode flies between love and admiration to disappointment.
Listen in to hear which Pixar shorts we love, which disappointed us, and which sparked a heated debate with "soulless content" accusations.
Don't worry, it ends on a note of positivity as we discuss the co-op program, an initiative we were all thoroughly ignorant of, but resulted in some of the best work from Pixar employees.
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