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To celebrate 20 years of the show, we hosted Filmspotting Fest in March – six films over three days at two of Chicago’s iconic cinemas. This episode features two standout post-screening conversations: director Kogonada reflects on his Golden Brick-winning debut COLUMBUS, and Slate film critic Dana Stevens joins Josh to discuss Satyajit Ray’s indelible PATHER PANCHALI. This episode is presented by Regal Unlimited⁠ , the all-you-can-watch movie subscription pass that pays for itself in just two visits. (Timecodes and chapter starts may not be precise with ads.) Intro (00:00:00-00:01:47) Columbus with Kogonada (00:01:48-00:28:21) Notes (00:28:22-00:29:31) Pather Panchali with Dana Stevens (00:29:32-00:56:49) Credits / New Releases (00:56:50-01:00:16) Links: -Filmspotting Fest https://www.filmspotting.net/filmspotting-fest -"Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the 20th Century" https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Camera-Man/Dana-Stevens/9781501134203 -Filmspotting Poll: Pixar or Ghibli https://poll.fm/15908981 Feedback: -Email us at ⁠⁠ feedback@filmspotting.net⁠⁠ . - ⁠⁠Ask Us Anything⁠⁠ and we might answer your question in bonus content. Support: -Join the Filmspotting Family for bonus episodes and archive access. ⁠⁠http://filmspottingfamily.com⁠⁠ -T-shirts and more available at the Filmspotting Shop. ⁠https://www.filmspotting.net/shop⁠ Follow: ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/filmspotting⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://letterboxd.com/filmspotting⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://facebook.com/filmspotting⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://twitter.com/filmspotting⁠⁠ ⁠⁠https://letterboxd.com/larsenonfilm⁠⁠ https://www.instagram.com/larsenonfilm https://bsky.app/profile/larsenonfilm.bsky.social Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Welcome back to another episode! Learn the key steps to successfully change your career with Career Change Coach, Dana Stevens. If you're feeling stuck and not sure where to start, this podcast will help you identify the mistakes you're making and what you can do instead to make sure you find a career that really works for the next chapter of your working life. Dana discusses the biggest mistakes people make when they are thinking of changing careers, how working with a coach can help when you're making a career change and how do you know if you've left it too late to change careers? Find out more about working with Dana here

Walt Disney Pictures Presents A Film By David Lynch. And what a beautiful, expectation-defying, G-rated, cold-glass-of-beer film it is. Dana Stevens joins us to talk about 1999’s The Straight Story, a film that showcases Lynch’s fascination with Americana and his deep empathy for characters on the margins. Join us on a journey through the Midwest (Griffin can’t drive, but he’s a great passenger), where we talk about braunschweiger, cheese castles, bundles of sticks, Chicago theater actors without photos on their IMDB pages, and the fascinating career of actor Richard Farnsworth. Dude was in Gone With the Wind! Read Dana’s writing at Slate Listen to the Slate Culture Gabfest Go back and listen Flashback The Box Office Game is Sponsored by Regal Cinemas: Sign up for Regal Unlimited today and get 10% off your 3 month subscription when using code BLANKCHECK Sign up for Check Book , the Blank Check newsletter featuring even more “real nerdy shit” to feed your pop culture obsession. Dossier excerpts, film biz AND burger reports, and even more exclusive content you won’t want to miss out on. Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes. Follow us @blankcheckpod on Twitter , Instagram , Threads and Facebook ! Buy some real nerdy merch Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Great Stone Face…The Little Boy Who Couldn’t Be Damaged…whatever you call him, Buster Keaton is one of the most important figures in film history, and we couldn’t be happier to be spotlight him in our latest series PODCAST JR. Our beloved Dana Stevens - writer of the fantastic Keaton tome “Camera Man” - joins us to set the table as we dive into the filmography of one of Griffin’s favorite artists. We’re going into Buster’s start as a vaudeville child star (sometimes in “Irish face”), the qualities of his work that distinguish him from peers Charlie Chaplin and Harold Lloyd, and we’re dissecting the gags and stunts featured in his first two feature films. Plus - Griffin gives one of his worst Box Office Game performances, and we all learn a bit about early child labor laws. Guest Links: Get Dana’s book "Camera Man" now in paperback Read Dana’s film criticism Listen to Dana on Slate Culture Gabfest Join our Patreon for franchise commentaries and bonus episodes . Follow us @blankcheckpod on Instagram , Threads , Facebook and X ! Buy some real nerdy merch . Connect with other Blankies on our Reddit or Discord For anything else, check out BlankCheckPod.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When Cristian Mungiu’s “4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days” won the Palme d’Or at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival — the first Romanian film to ever win the festival’s top prize — it was, among other things, a frightening look back to the 1980s, when abortion under the Ceausescu dictatorship was severely criminalized and women were forced into a predatory black market of back-alley abortionists. In 2023, of course, the film looks like nothing so much as the day after tomorrow in nearly half the states in our own country . So, yes, “4 Months” should be seen by every young woman (and man) (and politician) as a cautionary tale hovering ever closer to home, but as Dana Stevens and I discuss in this podcast, it’s also one of the great movies about friendship — about how far a woman might go to help a girlfriend in trouble, even if that girlfriend might be an unreliable pill — and about when simple human kindness starts to acquire a nobility all the more moving for going unrecognized. In the role of that friend, Otilia, the unforgettable Anamaria Marinca has the face of a shopworn Modigliani, and if you’ve seen the film, it’s likely the dinner party scene that sticks in your mind, Otilia surrounded by banal chatter as she gazes into the void where a society’s decency should be. If you haven’t seen the film, it’s a $4 rental on AppleTV and Amazon and streaming at AMC+ and Kanopy . You may want to give it a watch before listening to this discussion between me and Dana Stevens, who has been a witty and erudite film critic for Slate since 2006 and who last year published the acclaimed biography/cultural history “ Camera Man: Buster Keaton, the Dawn of Cinema, and the Invention of the Twentieth Century .” Asked to pick her favorite film from the new century, Dana chose “4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days,” and she brings a sharp and empathetic eye to a movie that, sadly, is never not relevant . Our conversation is available on YouTube as well with the addition of a few short clips. Note: The Watch List will take a brief hiatus while I recover from a medical procedure. Nothing too serious, thanks, but I’ll be out of commission for a week or so. Thanks for listening! Have any thoughts? Want to suggest a movie for this series? Don’t hesitate to weigh in. If you enjoyed this edition of Ty Burr’s Watchcast, please feel free to pass it along to friends. If you’re not a paying subscriber and would like to sign up for additional postings and to join the discussions, here’s how. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit tyburrswatchlist.substack.com

This week, Jason and Mike welcome Dana Stevens – Slate film critic, “Slate Culture Gabfest” co-host, and author of “Camera Man,” one of our favorite books of the year – to talk about one of the most important years in cinema history. 1927 was, famously, the year that saw the release of both the first “talkie” and the first Oscar winner for Best Picture, but Dana’s top five is focused on some of the most innovative and inspiring movies of the silent era. Plus: as you’d expect from the author of “Camera Man,” not one but TWO Buster Keaton movies! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.