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0:00:00 - 0:19:15 - RIP Jonathan Demme.
0:19:16 - 0:53:16 - Personal Shopper (2017), directed by Olivier Assayas, starring Kristen Stewart, Lars Eidinger, Nora Von Waldstaten, Anders Danielsen, and Sigrid Bouaziz.
0:53:17 - 1:15:37 - 2046 (2004), directed by Wong Kar Wai, starring Tony Leung, Gong Li, Zang Ziyi, Maggie Cheung, Faye Wong, and Carina Lau.
1:15:38 - 1:32:41 - Alien: Covenant preview material
Next Week: Bad Boys 4 Lyfe
Our outro music this week: is "Goodbye Horses" by Q Lazzarus. And our intro, as always, is from Escape From New York.
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This is a tremendous episode, guys. The headline for Vishnevetsky's (less effusive) review of Personal Shopper is "Kristen Stewart browses for ghosts..." And whatever else, the headline kind of demonstrates how close to the mark Assayas and Stewart get in understanding how a specific story can have specific intentions without ever seeming on-the-nose. The act of sorting through clothes can make clothing-shopping a stand-in for browser-tab-switching. That's there so obviously that it's part of the headline on a not-so-nice review, but it's also the kind of thing that forces even a criticism of it to accept the basic point. Pretty good sign. Everything else you point to reinforces that. This is one of those films that's going to stand up easily to future scrutiny.
Morgan briefly mentions that it's off-brand to claim Mark Wahlberg is our greatest actor, and he's right, but Sean's (not serious) point has some truth. Sometimes being dead-on is a great accomplishment in its own right.
Posted by: Eric | 2017.05.12 at 02:58