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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot

Episode 82 - An Animated Faith

Episode 82

mardi 10 juin 2025 • Duration 01:02:49

Jay and Tim talk about a few animated movies that seem to offer resonance with the Bible or Christianity. What are some Christian themes? What makes a theme Christian? How would someone outside the Christian faith interpret the themes in these movies? We talk about that, and more. Thanks for listening!

Some films we mention in this episode: Croods: A New Age, The Iron Giant, The Wild Robot, Prince of Egypt.

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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot

Episode 73 - Party Like It's 1999, Documentary Edition: ONE DAY IN SEPTEMBER and AMERICAN MOVIE

Episode 73

mardi 20 août 2024 • Duration 01:18:34

Tim gets echoey in his new house as he and Jay talk documentaries, history rhyming, and the life you make when you're trying to make something else.

Some of the films we mention in this episode: One Day in September, American Movie, Coven, Buena Vista Social Club, Who Took Johnny, Liberated, Abducted in Plain Sight, Love Me, Karl Marx City.

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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot

Episode 72 - Party Like It's 1999, Foreign Language Edition: BEAU TRAVAIL and RUN, LOLA, RUN

Episode 72

lundi 15 juillet 2024 • Duration 01:07:44

In this episode, Tim and Jay talk about two seemingly opposite films, the primarily French-language Beau Travail and the German-language Run, Lola, Run. But maybe the themes and questions aren't as far apart as we initially thought!

We discuss free will, choice, human nature, and a bit of slow cinema.

Some of the films we discuss in this episode are: Beau Travail; Run, Lola, Run; Silent Light, The Hurt Locker, Zero Dark Thirty, Uncut Gems, Good Time, The Butterfly Effect, Fight Club, High Life, Rosetta; Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles.

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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot

Episode 71 - Party Like It's 1999: BEING JOHN MALKOVICH with Collin Insley

Episode 71

mardi 18 juin 2024 • Duration 01:17:49

In this episode, we get existential, philosophical, and humanistic with Boise-based filmmaker (and NBFF alum) Collin Insley. We work through the implications of Being John Malkovich and Charlie Kaufman's filmography for fame, identity, and what it means to be human. Also puppetry.

Collin's film Scam Likely is here.

Some of the films we mention in this episode: Burn After Reading, Magnolia, Being John Malkovich, Rounders, Con-Air, Beau is Afraid, Synechdoche, NY, I'm Thinking of Ending Things, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, and Anomalisa.

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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot

Episode 70! - Party Like It's 1999, Horror Edition: THE SIXTH SENSE and THE BLAIR WITCH PROJECT

Episode 70

mercredi 15 mai 2024 • Duration 01:11:18

Tim and Jay talk about two of the highest grossing movies of 1999: M. Night Shyamalan's first major hit, The Sixth Sense, and the beginning of the found-footage explosion, The Blair Witch Project. How do they play 25 years later? What do they tell us about our fears and traumas? What makes a genre film work, or not?

Some of the films we mention in this episode: The Sixth Sense, Signs, The Blair Witch Project, Cannibal Holocaust, Nosferatu.

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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot

Episode 69 - Party Like It's 1999: THE MATRIX and FIGHT CLUB

Episode 69

lundi 22 avril 2024 • Duration 01:09:55

Tim and Jay talk about two defining movies of 1999: The Matrix and Fight Club. How do they hold up? Why do they hold up? Should Tim have kept his word to preach a sermon focused on The Matrix? Or was he just dumb (with sincere apologies to all college students who are not as dumb as he was)? Plus, some good feedback for our Magnolia episode.

Some of the movies we mention in this episode: The Matrix, Fight Club, Hackers, The Machinist.

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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot

Episode 68 - Party Like It's 1999: MAGNOLIA with Pr. Mark Pierson

Episode 68

lundi 1 avril 2024 • Duration 01:10:39

Jay and Tim talk with Pr. Mark Pierson of St. Paul's Lutheran Church (Long Beach, CA) about the first in our 25th anniversary series of films from 1999. We talk about where we were in 1999, and then get into free will, chance, fate, God, confession, forgiveness, salvation...and frogs.

Some of the movies we mention in this episode are: Boogie Nights, Sidney/Hard Eight, There Will Be Blood, Fight Club, The Matrix.

Tim wrote something about Magnolia in 2017 for The Jagged Word.

The brief clip is from Aimee Mann's song "Save Me."

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Opening music: "Let's Start at the Beginning," Lee Rosevere
Closing music: "Découvre moi," Marc Senet & Simon Grivot

Episode 67 - Oscar Predictions and Expectations

Episode 67

lundi 4 mars 2024 • Duration 01:06:53

Obviously we haven't seen all of the Oscar-nominated films. Who do you think we are? But we have fun talking about the ones we have seen.

96th Academy Awards air on Sunday, March 10, at 4 pm (Pacific).

Some of the films we mention in this episode: Oppenheimer, Poor Things, American Fiction, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, Parasite, The Zone of Interest, Barbie, Perfect Days, Society of the Snow, Maestro, Past Lives, Anatomy of a Fall, Four Daughters, To Kill a Tiger, The Eternal Memory, The After, The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, Godzilla Minus One, Mission:Impossible - Dead Reckoning, Part 1, May December, Rustin, El Conde, The Boy and the Heron, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.

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