The Hundred-Foot Journey is anything but shy on the subject of flavor. The film's star, Manish Dayal, talks about his upbringing in two cultures and helps answer what makes a "food film" worth watching.
Keith Calder and Simon Barrett return for an all-spoiler discussion of The Guest, now on VOD, DVD, and Blu-ray in the U.S. None of this will make much sense unless you've seen the movie, and is full of spoilers.
Consider this "Electric Shadow episode 16B", with a continuity-free, "regular" episode to come before the week ends.
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Christopher Nolan's Interstellar: like, love, or hate it, this is one of the biggest of the big movies of 2014. Can a movie this big live up to any (not even all) of our expectations?
Keith Calder and Simon Barrett talk about their new movie The Guest, being influenced by movies they (do and do not) love, the nuance in reaching modern audiences, and when to Blu-ray versus when to VOD.
Alejandro Brugués and Nacho Vigalondo (l. to r.) are writer/directors from Cuba and Spain, respectively, but they consider Austin their birthplace as filmmakers. In a format-defying episode, we travel through time to tell their stories as artists who love making their movies as much as they do celebrating the work of others.
WARNING: Very explicit language and imagery throughout.
Enjoy.
Nacho Vigalondo is on Twitter, was nominated for an Oscar, and someone made nightmare-inducing masks of his face this year, as depicted below. His movie Open Windows, starring Elijah Wood and Sasha Grey, is out now.
Alejandro Brugués is on Twitter, and studied under Gabriel García Márquez while at film school (100% true). His next project is The Wrong Place.
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7:35 in the Morning without subtitles
7:35 in the Morning with subtitles? All dogshit quality on YouTube. It is, however, available in...
Confetti of the Mind: The Short Films of Nacho Vigalondo (Vimeo) which is $3 to rent and $5 to buy.
Timecrimes (teaser trailer/DVD/Amazon Prime Instant Video)
Juan of the Dead (teaser trailer/DVD/Blu-ray/iTunes)
Extraterrestrial (teaser trailer/DVD/iTunes)
Open Windows is coming to cinemas soon in various countries and is already on VOD services like iTunes and Amazon. Support it.
Timecrimes and Extraterrestrial have no U.S. Blu-ray. Ugh.
Screen Time 27: Cuban Ninja Stars is an interview with Alejandro from February 2013, just after he won the Goya for Juan de los Muertos/Juan of the Dead.
Screen Time 58: Batteries Charged is the isolated interview edited down slightly from Closing Night of Fantastic Fest 2014 that opens and closes this episode.
Both episodes may not appear immediately in the feed. It's been a long week.
Above: Police "crowd-controlling" over 15,000 Cubans in Havana trying to get into the Cuban premiere of Juan of the Dead.
Not-as-above: "Juan meets Shaun"
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