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“Filmically Perfect” Podcast Archive

FP032: “It’s a Good Day to Die!"

March 30, 2007

Little Big Man (1970)

A powerful film from one of the hot new directors of the late 1960’s, Arthur Penn. One of the few films that successfully manages to...

FP031: “Have You Ever Heard of—KONG?”

March 23, 2007

King Kong (1933)

What can we say? This is it—the original article. The one and only real, genuine, accept-no-substitutes KING KONG, in glorious, luminous...

FP030: “What a Super Man!"

March 16, 2007

Superman: The Movie (1978)

Richard Donner’s magnificent, half-finished epic has become the iconic embodiment of The Man of Steel, regardless of the machinations of...

FP029: “Death is Not an Adventure…"

March 9, 2007

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)

Lewis Milestone’s ground-breaking sound film epic treats WWI not as an allegory, as many of its predecessors had, but as a painfully...

FP028: “It Ain’t a Fit Night Out for Man or Beast!"

March 2, 2007

The Fatal Glass of Beer & The Dentist

It is thought that these shorts were made so that the executives at Paramount could see just how good or bad W.C. Fields was on the...

FP027: “That Shaft Is One Bad Mother—”

February 23, 2007

Shaft (1971)

Gordon Parks’ breakthrough detective film resonates with as much or more power than it did when it exploded on the scene back in 1971....

FP026: “Keep Your Eyes On The Prize, Oh Lord.”

February 16, 2007

Eyes on the Prize (1987)

Henry Hampton’s fourteen hour journey through the American Civil Rights Movement should be required viewing for all, especially those...

FP025: “What do you call that hairstyle?” “Arthur.”

February 9, 2007

A Hard Day’s Night (1964)

“Are you a mod or a rocker?” “I’m a mocker.” Ringo’s exchange sets the tone for Richard Lester’s wild, free and groundbreaking little...

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