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Film critic Daniel Barnes and comedian Corky McDonnell do your dirty work by reviewing the worst movies you can imagine. Send Daniel and Corky your most sadistic movie dares at daredaniel.com, and look for a new episode every other Tuesday.
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https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/CANON-FODDER_S01_E10.mp3Ordet (1955; Dir.: Carl Theodor Dreyer) Canon Fodder Episode 10
We’ve got Danes on our brains this week on the Canon Fodder podcast! Daniel and Corky review Danish master Carl Dreyer’s acclaimed Ordet, a story of spiritual schisms both internal and external. But can anyone repair the schism between Daniel and Corky after this episode?
ORDET FACTS & FIGURES
Sight & Sound 2022 Critics List Ranking: #48 (tied)
Danish theatrical debut: Jan. 10, 1955
IMDB synopsis: “Follows the lives of the Borgen fami ..read more
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A Man Escaped (1956; Dir.: Robert Bresson) Canon Fodder Episode 8
Daniel and Corky continue their world tour through the masterpieces of cinema by reviewing French auteur Robert Bresson’s gripping prison drama. Will your hosts man up and Canon-ize the film, or will its appeal escape them?
A MAN ESCAPED FACTS & FIGURES
Sight & Sound 2022 Critics List Ranking: #95 (tied)
Theatrical debut: Nov. 11, 1956
IMDB synopsis: “A captured French Resistance fighter during WWII engineers a daunting escape fro ..read more
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https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/CANON-FODDER_S01_E07.mp3 Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 7 Ali: Fear Eats the Soul (1974; Dir.: Rainer Werner Fassbinder)
Mismatched duo Daniel and Corky buck all society’s rules by putting schnitzel on their strudel to review German wunderkind Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s Ali: Fear Eats the Soul. But will your hosts Canon-ize this 1974 classic, or will they throw sauerkraut in its bauernbrot?
ALI: FEAR EATS THE SOUL FACTS & FIGURES
Sight & Sound 2022 Critics List Ranking: #52 (tied)
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https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CANON-FODDER_S01_E06.mp3 Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 6 By the Bluest of Seas (1936; Dir.: Boris Barnet)
Shipwrecked cinephiles Daniel and Corky are whisked away to a collectivist paradise by Boris Barnet’s ebullient musical comedy. But will your hosts deem this enchantingly effervescent slice of vile Communist propaganda Canon-worthy, or will they blast it out of the water?
BY THE BLUEST OF SEAS FACTS & FIGURES
Sight & Sound 2022 Critics List Ranking: #211 (tied)
IMDB synopsis: “Two best friends shipwreck on ..read more
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https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/CANON-FODDER_S01_E05.mp3 Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 5 Battleship Potemkin (1925; Dir.: Sergei Eisenstein)
Daniel and Corky talk montages, meat, maggots, mutinies and more in their review of the iconic Soviet silent masterpiece Battleship Potemkin.
BATTLESHIP POTEMKIN FACTS & FIGURES
Theatrical debut: Dec. 21, 1925
Sight & Sound 2022 Critics List Ranking: #54 (tied)
IMDB synopsis: “In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime ..read more
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https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CANON-FODDER_S01_E04.mp3 Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 4 Bicycle Thieves (1948; Dir.: Vittorio De Sica)
Daniel and Corky walk the streets of Sacramento in a futile search for a film more achingly beautiful than the Italian Neo-Realist masterpiece Bicycle Thieves.
BICYCLE THIEVES FACTS & FIGURES
Theatrical debut: Nov. 24, 1948
Sight & Sound 2022 Critics List Ranking: #41 (tied)
IMDB synopsis: “In post-war Italy, a working-class man’s bicycle is stolen, endangering his efforts to find work. He and his son s ..read more
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https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/CANON-FODDER_S01_E03.mp3 Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 3 The Exterminating Angel (1962; Dir.: Luis Buñuel)
Daniel and Corky enjoy their descent into madness and despair courtesy of Luis Buñuel’s surrealist satire The Exterminating Angel.
THE EXTERMINATING ANGEL (1962) FACTS & FIGURES
Cannes Film Festival debut: May 16, 1962
Sight & Sound 2022 Critics List Ranking: #169 [tied]
IMDB synopsis: “The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave.”
CLIPS AND CLIPPINGS
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https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/CANON-FODDER_S01_E02.mp3 Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 2 Limite (1931; Dir.: Mário Peixoto)
Daniel and Corky sail out to the edges of cinema history to review the legendary and influential Brazilian silent film Limite. This eerie and experimental movie was long thought lost, but a relatively recent restoration has exposed it to a new generation of cinephiles. But is this challenging story of castaways something to cast away, or will it get canon-ized by Daniel and Corky?
LIMITE (1931) FACTS & FIGURES
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https://daredaniel.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/CANON-FODDER_S01_E01.mp3 Dare Daniel Presents: Canon Fodder – Episode 1 Rashomon (1950; Dir.: Akira Kurosawa)
From the heroes who brought you Dare Daniel…welcome to Canon Fodder!
In the coming months, years, decades and lifetimes, friends and fellow cinephiles Daniel Barnes and Corky McDonnell will be randomly working their way through the cinematic canon. For their pilot episode, Daniel and Corky review Akira Kurosawa’s highly influential 1950 masterpiece Rashomon. Or do they? There are a few different takes floating around out there.
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Dare Daniel Season 2/Episode 8 – Dare Daniel: Cage Match wrap-up
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