http://kxci.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/J-Demme_Final.mp3   Film Club Rule #705: When it’s time to start making sense, it’s time to start looking at the films of Jonathan Demme. We recently lost one of America’s great film directors Jonathan Demme. He created some of the darkest films in the last 40 years including Something Wild and Silence of the Lambs. He also directed one of the most heralded concert films Stop Making Sense. In this episode we take a look at the career of Jonathan Demme. music: bensound.com ..read more

http://kxci.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/1977_Final.mp3 Film Club Rule #777: When selecting a year to celebrate it’s best to go to a galaxy far far away. A year many consider to be a banner year for cinema, 1977 boasted some of the most talked about and influential films of the 20th century. It’s the year Star Wars became the largest grossing film ever, John Travolta strutted down the street to the disco beats of ABBA, and Burt Reynolds was as big a movie star as anyone. We look at the influential films of the year and discuss some similar films that maybe didn’t get as much attention. Join ..read more

http://kxci.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/David-Lynch-Final.mp3 Film Club Rule #202: If you’re watching a film by David Lynch at home, call a friend, leave the lights on, cause it’s gonna get weird and scary. Confounding, hilarious, terrifying, surreal, the work of David Lynch is all of this and more.  Starting with his cinematic debut Eraserhead, Lynch displayed a penchant for the confusing and offbeat wrapped in the most basic of human tropes. As we get ready to take in his newest endeavor Twin Peaks: The Return, we take a look at some of our favorite pieces of Lynchopia. Jeff takes a ..read more

http://kxci.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/SNL_Final.mp3 We discuss the career of Patrick Swayze with particular emphasis paid to Dirty Dancing, Roadhouse, and Point Break. music: bensound.com ..read more

Film Club Rule #1,010: When the temperatures rise, it’s time to cool off with a great film. This episode we offer you some films to watch as you beat the heat. David Gordon Green’s film George Washington is discussed. Jeff wants to revisit Wet Hot American Summer, and Heather reminds us that Joel Schumacher has a well made film set in the summertime in LA, Falling Down. music: bensound.com ..read more

Charlie Kaufman’s latest mindbender tells the story of a young couple on a voyage, a strange trip into the uncertainty of self and other. I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Charlie Kaufman’s fourth film as a director, is a mind-bending metaphysical puzzle focusing on the mysteries of self and other, loneliness and relationship. Jessie Buckley plays Lucy, an extremely self-conscious intellectual whose inner voice questions the meaning and value of everything in her life, including her new boyfriend Jake (played by Jesse Plemons). Lucy starts the film by saying to herself (and thereby telling us, t ..read more

An amazing simulated documentary celebrates the world of neighborhood bars: the situation is invented, but the people are real. If you’ve ever gone to a neighborhood bar frequently, for a year or more, you know that a place like that has what they call “regulars,” folks that are there day after day, for whom the bar is a kind of second home or community. And among these regulars you hear many conversations, more or less inebriated, usually more, and many jokes and stories. You may also discover some complicated relationships. The experiences you’ve had in this bar are transient and hard to pin ..read more

Chris Dashiell presents his favorite films released in 2020. Among the dreadful costs of our shared global disaster, one of the least important was the shutting down of movie theaters. Count it among the many losses of “normality” required for the public good. New films were released, and we watched them at home via streaming platforms. I believe that movies are best experienced on a big screen with an audience, but that wasn’t possible for most of last year, so my list of favorites is largely taken from films I saw on a smaller screen. And fittingly, my top pick, in contrast to my usual “hit ..read more

A delightful and humorous celebration of sexual fetishes, as practiced by solitary people trying to get beyond social repression to create pleasure; a rare live action offering from Czech animator Jan Svankmajer. The brilliant Czech animator Jan Svankmajer makes films that explore the nether reaches of our minds and behavior, with a sensibility so odd that it’s unclassifiable. His 1996 film Conspirators of Pleasure is one of his forays into live action (although animation eventually plays a part). The theme is fetishism, but the treatment is anything but salacious. We first follow the mysterio ..read more

A 1982 documentary presents the myriad ways that the U.S. government deceived and indoctrinated the public about nuclear weapons during the Cold War. Released at the beginning of the Reagan era, in a time of heightened Cold War rhetoric, the 1982 film The Atomic Café is a documentary about the way the U.S. government framed the dangers of the nuclear age to its citizens, from the late 1940s to the early 60s. The picture was put together by three intrepid independent filmmakers—Kevin & Pierce Rafferty, and Jayne Loader—from years of research combing through declassified government film coll ..read more