In Review On Mic #1: Debuts
Welcome to the first episode of In Review On Mic, the new podcast from In Review Online. For our pilot, we look at where three great filmmakers started out: their debut features. Hugo Emmerzael is joined by InRO writers Dhruv Goyal and Joshua Polanski, and each of them brought a debut to the table.The films
* Badlands (Terrence Malick, 1973), picked by Dhruv
* No Man’s Land (Danis Tanović, 2001), picked by Joshua
* The Chaser (Na Hong-jin, 2008), picked by Hugo
Chapters
00:00 Intro
01:36 Welcome, and our three debuts
06:00 Badlands
26:31 No Man’s Land
43:52 The Chaser
53:08 Wrap-up and plugs
56:00 Credits
Also Mentioned
* Malick: Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World
* Tanović: Circus Columbia, Death in Sarajevo, Triage, The Postcard Killings, An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker
* Na Hong-jin: The Wailing, Hope
* The rest: Bonnie and Clyde, Breathless, Se7en, Taxi Driver, Paths of Glory, Eraserhead, Memories of Murder (Bong Joon-ho), Quo Vadis, Aida? (Jasmila Žbanić), 11’09”01 September 11, Murder 2
Recommended readingJohn Bleasdale, The Magic Hours: The Films and Hidden Life of Terrence Malick (University Press of Kentucky, 2024), the first full biography of Malick. It also covers what he was doing during his twenty-year break between Days of Heaven and The Thin Red Line.https://www.kentuckypress.com/9781985901193/the-magic-hours/Find our guests
* Joshua Polanski: Joshua Polanski is a freelance film critic based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition to In Review Online, he contributes to The Rapidian, Klassiki Journal, Rue Morgue, Bay Area Reporter, and Offscreen, among other places. His interests include the technical elements of filmmaking & exhibition, slow & digital cinemas, and East Asian & Middle Eastern film. His column on Baltic cinema is the only place with dedicated and consistent writing on cinema in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in English on There Were No Gods Left.
* Dhruv Goyal: A Bollywood Film & Music Lover now adrift on Silent Art House Shores. Has also written for High on Films.
* Hugo Emmerzael: Hugo Emmerzael is an Amsterdam-based film critic, public speaker, and curator with over a decade of experience at the intersection of cinema, music and culture at large. He is on Instagram at @hemmerzael.
Coming soon on In Review On Mic
* A retrospective episode on Lee Chang-dong, as Possible Love opens in a limited US theatrical run ahead of its Netflix release
* A bonus dispatch from the New York Film Festival
* A Halloween episode with spooky movies
Credits
* Host: Hugo Emmerzael
* Guests: Dhruv Goyal and Joshua Polanski
* Producers: Chris Cassingham, Emily DuGranrut, Luke Gorham and Hugo Emmerzael
* Music: Beau Zwart
* A production of In Review Online
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