A biweekly roundtable by the former editorial team of The Dissolve examining how classic films inspire and inform modern movies. Episodes take a deep dive into a classic film and its legacy in the first half, then compare and contrast that film with a modern successor in the second. Hosted and produced by Genevieve Koski, Keith Phipps, Tasha Robinson and Scott Tobias. Part of the Filmspotting family of podcasts.
Crime and corruption Chicago style.
65 Min
Dec 4, 2018
Crime and corruption Chicago style.
53 Min
Nov 27, 2018
A landmark first feature shot in the 90s but never seen until now.
46 Min
Nov 19, 2018
Transcendent musical performance and messy gender dynamics in Cooper's new take on the old tale.
The '54 musical spin on the old Hollywood fable starring Judy Garland and James Mason set the stage for Bradley Cooper's latest take.
Redford's farewell to acting is a perfect bookend with his iconic turn as The Sundance Kid.
With Robert Redford's latest and possibly last film currently in theaters, a look back at his classic pairing with Paul Newman from 1969.
How does the Michael Moore's approach play in 2018's heightened political climate?
When Spike Lee makes a film about the past, he's actually making a film about the present.
In part 1 of this Spike Lee pairing, a consideration of the rare cradle-to-grave biopic that gets it right.
How the shark movie has progressed - and not - from Spielberg's '75 masterpiece to this summer's The Meg.
With a new killer shark movie menacing moviegoers this summer, a consideration of the first and best of them, Spielberg's '75 masterpiece.
After two decades, the Mission Impossible franchise is still finding a way to raise the stakes.
How Brian DePalma helped shape the Mission: Impossible franchise, while exerting his own iconoclastic style.
How SORRY TO BOTHER YOU and PUTNEY SWOPE compare in their views of race and capitalism, and use of satire and surrealism.
Grief and psychic distress are the ties that bind the new Toni Collette-starring horror film and Nicholas Roeg's 1973 thriller.
Writer/director Paul Schrader's latest is about a despairing pastor (Ethan Hawke), a "God's Lonely Man" in the tradition of Taxi Driver's Travis Bickle.
The culmination of a decade of Marvel moviemaking can be traced even further back, to what was once the biggest team-up of the modern superhero era.
How does X2’s superteam dynamics look after 15 years of subsequent superhero-movie evolution?
One of the best films of 2018 shares an approach to storytelling with one of the best films of the 20th century.
Like Abbas Kiarostami's 1990 masterpiece, the acclaimed new film from Chloe Zhao is neither documentary nor fiction, but something in between.
Is there such a thing as "auteurist animation"? Also: Chicken puppets. Silicone or plasticine?
Though it goes un-referenced in the new Spielberg film, Disney's live-action "Tron" makes up a good part of "Ready Player One"'s source code.
Spielberg's immersive videogame world recalls 1982's glow-y, live action oddity from Disney.
Director Cory Finley's stylish debut shares more than just a murder plot with H.G. Clouzot's 1955 thriller.
Director Cory Finley's stylish debut gets paired with H.G. Clouzot's '55 shocker women offing a domineering man in their life.
Puzzled and delighted by Alex Garland's Tarkovsky-inspired journey into the unknown.
Having survived the trip to Annihilation's "The Shimmer," the roundtable books a trip to Andrei Tarkovsky's "The Zone."
What did Guillermo Del Toro see in Jack Arnold's horror-sci-fi classic that inspired him to make his own fish-man movie?
A discussion of how David Wain's latest works together with his cult comedy classic "Wet Hot American Summer."
Does David Wain's new biopic spoof have a chance of developing the cult following of his 2001 comedy classic?
True-life stories rarely come with the bold, satirical edge that the new Tonya Harding biopic does. Just one thing it shares with Van Sant's "To Die For."
The new Margot Robbie-starring true-crime tragi-comedy shares some DNA with Gus Van Sant's 1995 satire.
Back to sunny Italy for part two of this week's in-depth look at a pair of films about Americans abroad, in love and in over their heads.
Italian summers, sun-kissed actors and repressed desire are the themes for this week's pairing.
James Franco and Tim Burton celebrate the mad geniuses behind a pair of famously bad movies.
Small town redemption tales by playwright-turned-directors Martin McDonagh and David Mamet.
Playwrights-turned-movie-directors McDonagh and Mamet are the subjects of this week's pairing.
A deep dive into Greta Gerwig's delightful directing debut and how its nostalgic look back at the early 2000s compares with Zwigoff's '01 effort.
Greta Gerwig's delightful directing debut gets paired with Thora Birch's iconoclastic Enid from Terry Zwigoff's coming of age comedy.
Separated by five decades, two tales of neurotics gone wild featuring the great Dustin Hoffman.
The conversation continues with mixed reactions to 2049 and the many ways the new film is informed by its predecessor.
How the stunning final chapter of the new "Apes" trilogy looks ahead to the 50 year-old original installment.
An in-depth discussion on the cry of “YOU MANIACS” heard ’round the world, 1968’s PLANET OF THE APES.
Time, the afterlife and use of music in David Lowery's genre-defying new film and Herk Harvey's classic cult film.
David Lowery's horror-drama gets paired up with the creepy cult film from director Herk Harvey.
Bong Joon-ho's odd beast of a movie and what two pig-centric films say about eating meat.
Super-pigs and their loyal humans are the subject of this week's porcine pairing.
Paranoia, the apocalypse - and dogs - in part two of this isolation horror pairing.
John Carpenter's classic "The Thing" is paired up with Trey Edward Shults's new horror film.
In part two of their WWI-pairing, The Next Picture Show fixes its bayonets on Patty Jenkins's "Wonder Woman" and finds connections with the early Kubrick classic "Paths of Glory."
It's a Great War pairing on this week's Next Picture Show, with "Wonder Woman" going into the trenches with Kubrick's 1957 anti-war classic "Paths of Glory."
In part two of this week's cheesy-tv-to-film-adaptation double feature, The Next Picture Show sizes up the new "Baywatch" against the '95 cult comedy "The Brady Bunch Movie."
This week's Brady Bunch/Baywatch double feature has the NPS crew exploring the cheesy-TV-show-to-feature-film-adaptation genre.
In part two of their appreciation of the late, great Jonathan Demme, the Next Picture Show talks Demme's final film - "Justin Timberlake + The Tennessee Kids" - and how it connects with Demme's '84 collaboration with The Talking Heads.
In part one of this Demme double feature, the Next Picture Show considers the enduring legacy of the 1984 Demme-Talking Heads collaboration "Stop Making Sense."
In part two of their 'Welcome to the Jungle' double feature, Scott, Keith and Genevieve share their takes on "The Lost City of Z" before diving into the way "Z" and Les Blank's "Burden of Dreams" engage with obsession and hubris.
The new jungle adventure THE LOST CITY OF Z inspires The Next Picture Show to take another trip to the Amazon via the Les Blank documentary BURDEN OF DREAMS about the making of Werner Herzog's "Fitzcarraldo."
Hyper-stylish and cerebral, 2017's GHOST IN THE SHELL shares lots of similarities with the Wachowski's THE MATRIX. But it's their differences that are most telling.
GHOST IN THE SHELL inspires THE MATRIX which inspires GHOST IN THE SHELL. Much be a glitch in the Matrix. For this week's double bill, The Next Picture Show pairs the poorly received GHOST live action remake with the Wachowskis' landmark '99 film.
In part two of their "Alien"/"Life" double feature, The Next Picture Show focus on the new film and how Ridley Scott's classic may have influenced it.
This week's movie pairing examines the new space thriller "Life" alongside the Ridley Scott classic "Alien."
Part two of this week's double feature pairs the new "Kong: Skull Island" with 1933's medium-defining "King Kong."
This week's double feature pairs the new "Kong: Skull Island" with 1933's medium-defining "King Kong."
Part two of The Next Picture Show's race-conscious horror film pairing: Wes Craven's "People Under the Stairs" from 1991 and Jordan Peele's surprise box office hit "Get Out."
The Next Picture Show pairs hit film "Get Out" with an earlier race-conscious horror film - Wes Craven's "People Under the Stairs" from 1991.
In part two of their Dark Knight double feature, The Next Picture Show considers the character's long history in the movies and how that history contributes to the pleasures of the new "Lego Batman Movie."
In part one of a Dark Knight double feature, The Next Picture Show re-evaluates Tim Burton's 1989 "Batman" before getting to the new box office hit "The Lego Batman Movie."
In part two of their political doc double feature, The Next Picture Show dives into the topical 2016 film "Weiner."
In the wake of the 2016 election, The Next Picture Show discusses a pair of Clinton-related docs - 1993's "The War Room" and last year's "Weiner."
Recorded in November, 2016 as part of the Chicago Podcast Festival, a special live edition of The Next Picture Show.
In part two of this week's Jim Jarmusch double feature, the NPS crew discuss "Paterson," the indie godfather's latest and look for connections with his 1984 breakthrough "Stranger Than Paradise."
Inspired by the latest JIm Jarmusch join ("Paterson"), NPS devote part one of their Jarmusch double feature discussing the director's 1984 breakthrough feature "Stranger Than Paradise."
In part two of their melancholy-musical double feature, NPS leaves Cherbourg behind for a trip to Damien Chazelle's LA LA LAND.
In part two of this week's double feature, NPS goes to the South Seas for a discussion of Disney's "Moana."
This week's double feature pairs a couple of non-Western Disney heroines - the new "Moana" and 1998's "Mulan."
In part two of their 'close encounters' double feature, NPS considers the Denis Villeneuve's "Arrival" in contrast to 1997's Jodie Foster-starring "Contact."
