Enter The Void

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S1E10: SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK Dec 02, 2015

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Hard to believe, but we're finally at the end of the inaugural season of Enter The Void. We close out with one of the most polarizing films of the last ten years: Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York. Simultaneously brilliant and frustrating, obvious and impenetrable, Synecdoche features Philip Seymour Hoffman as theater director Caten Cotard whose life falls apart as he tries to put it together, and as it stretches ahead of and behind him. To summarize it is impossible, and so we won't try. Enjoy the show, and we'll be back with season 2 in early 2016!

S1E10:

Film: Synecdoche, New York (2008)
Director: Charlie Kaufman
Starring: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Samantha Morton, Catherine Keener

Film links:

IMDb: Synecdoche, New York
Wikipedia: Synecdoche, New York
Review: Roger Ebert
Video: Official Trailer
Video essay: (Part 1) | (Part 2)

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S1E9: ENTER THE VOID Nov 25, 2015

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With our ninth and penultimate episode of season 1, we're finally getting to the namesake movie of this very podcast: Enter The Void, Gaspar Noé's dreamlike, drug-like meditation on sex, death, and the afterlife. Presented entirely from the perspective of Oscar, a young American living in Tokyo, it gives viewers an experience of seeing something through a character's eyes like they've never seen before.

S1E9:

Film: Enter the Void (2009)
Director: Gaspar Noé
Starring: Paz de la Huerta, Nathaniel Brown, Cyril Roy

Film links:

IMDb: Enter the Void
Wikipedia: Enter the Void
Review: Manohla Dargis
Video: Opening Titles
Video: Official Trailer

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S1E8: HAPPINESS Nov 18, 2015

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The year 1998, averred one critic at the time, would be remembered as the year of There's Something About Mary, Monica Lewinsky's dress, and Happiness. Almost 20 years later, is that quite how it worked out? When Todd Solondz's follow-up to Welcome to the Dollhouse first arrived, it drew raves from critics, controversy over its frank subject matter, and rejection by its major studio backer. The eighth episode of Enter The Void considers the story of Happiness and what we should make of it today.

S1E8:

Film: Happiness (1998)
Director: Todd Solondz
Starring: Dylan Baker, Jane Adams, Philip Seymour Hoffman

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IMDb: Happiness
Wikipedia: Happiness
Review: Roger Ebert

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S1E7: SCHIZOPOLIS Nov 11, 2015

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Six years and four films after Sex, Lies and Videotape, Steven Soderbergh was in a creative funk. History has since recorded the incredible streak of successful commercial entertainments he made beginning with Out of Sight. And just before he did so, Soderbergh made this experimental comedy, a home movie project starring himself, his ex-wife, their friends, and a complex topology that makes it as much of a mind-bender as anything else we've talked about all season.

S1E7:

Film: Schizopolis (1996)
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Starring: Steven Soderbergh, Betsy Brantley, Katharine LaNasa

Film links:

IMDb: Schizopolis
Wikipedia: Schizopolis
Criterion: Schizopolis
Book: Down and Dirty Pictures
Re-appraisal: AV Club
Review: New York Times
Eddie Jemison commercial: "Yes, I am!"

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S1E6: LOST HIGHWAY Nov 04, 2015

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When Lost Highway arrived in theaters in early 1997, Lynch's reputation was on the line, critics hated it, basically no one went to see it... and yet almost 20 years later, for as flawed and occasionally incomprehensible as it may be, it is also one of David Lynch's strongest and best-realized visions. In the seventh episode of Enter The Void, Renan and Bill consider all of this and David Foster Wallace's famous essay on Lynch making this movie.

S1E6:

Film: Lost Highway (1997)
Director: David Lynch
Starring: Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty

Film links:

IMDb: Lost Highway
Wikipedia: Lost Highway
Premiere mag: David Foster Wallace essay (abridged)
ASFTINDA book: David Foster Wallace essay (unabridged)
Review: Roger Ebert hated it
Review: David Edelstein also hated it
Review: Owen Glieberman also also hated it
Commercial: Whoa, Robert Loggia!

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S1E5: AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD Oct 28, 2015

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For the fifth episode we talk about the third feature film by the great Werner Herzog:

S1E5:

Film: Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972)
Director: Werner Herzog
Starring: Klaus Kinski, Ruy Guerra, Helena Rojo

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Podcast drama! Richard Dietsch w/ James Andrew Miller

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S1E4: HOLY MOTORS Oct 21, 2015

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The fourth installment of Enter The Void is about possibly the strangest recent Cannes hit you can find on Netflix:

S1E4:

Film: Holy Motors (2012)
Director: Leos Carax
Starring: Denis Lavant, Édith Scob, Kylie Minogue, Eva Mendes

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IMDb: Holy Motors
Wikipedia: Holy Motors
YouTube: MERDE from Tokyo!

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S1E3: MAPS TO THE STARS Oct 14, 2015

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For the third time out Enter The Void takes on a newer film, in fact, it's master of body horror David Cronenberg's latest California-by-way-of-Canada extravaganza:

S1E3:

Film: Maps to the Stars (2014)
Director: David Cronenberg
Starring: Julianne Moore, Mia Wasikowska, John Cusack, Robert Pattinson, Olivia Williams

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S1E2: PRIMER Oct 07, 2015

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In the second installment of Enter The Void, we try our best to disentangle the 2004 winner of the 2004 Sundance grand jury prize, truly an example of how movies like this can hurt your head if you try to think about them.

S1E2:

Film: Primer (2004)
Director: Shane Carruth
Starring: Shane Carruth, David Sullivan

Links:

IMDb: Primer
Wikipedia: Primer
Infographic: How time travel works in Primer
Infographic: The nine timelines of Primer

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S1E1: PHANTOM OF THE PARADISE Sep 30, 2015

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It's the debut episode of Enter The Void! We hope you're as excited to talk about crazy, mind-altering films as we are. And we'll kick things off with...

S1E1:

Film: Phantom of the Paradise (1974)
Director: Brian DePalma
Starring: William Finley, Paul Williams, Jessica Harper

Episode links:

IMDb: Phantom of the Paradise
Wikipedia: Phantom of the Paradise
Vimeo: RogerEbert.com review
New York Times: Blu-ray release review
The Dissolve: The devil's bargains and unsparing satire of Phantom of the Paradise
Rocky Music: Soundtrack lyrics

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