Showing posts with label cinema du meep. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cinema du meep. Show all posts

Monday, June 26, 2023

nicole holofcener movies!


Meep & I casually discuss the films of one of our favorite filmmakers, Nicole Holofcener on the Retro Movie Love Podcast. 

Not a writer / director's whose work is subject to hyperbole, but one whose churned out a lovely & amazing group of films so far!







Tuesday, May 9, 2023

disaster movies podcast


Meep & I united to discuss disaster movies of the 1970s (plus one from 1980) on the Retro Movie Love Podcast. I also got a chance to show off some of my disaster movie physical media swag.






Friday, January 6, 2023

my top 10 films of 1992 (as of now)


After going through all (most of) the films released throughout 1992 with Meep on the Retro Movie Love Podcast, I pulled together a Top 10 list! 





10.


THE BEST INTENTIONS








9.


LONG DAY CLOSES







8.


THE CRYING GAME







7.


JUICE






6.


MALCOLM X






5.


HUSBANDS AND WIVES






4.


HOWARDS END








3.


RAISE THE RED LANTERN








2.


AMERICAN DREAM







1.


THE PLAYER









Other faves (in rough order of preference):


Singles, Toto Les Heroes, Basic Instinct, Deep Cover, Mississippi Masala, Delicatessen, This is My Life, The Hand That Rocks the Cradle, Where Angels Fear to Tread, Candyman, One False Move, The Public Eye, A League of Their Own, A River Runs Through It, Sneakers, Wayne's World, The Living End, My Cousin Vinny, Boomerang, Glengarry Glen Ross, Reservoir Dogs, The Mambo Kings, Under Suspicion, A Woman's Tale, White Men Can't Jump, Paper Mask, Final Analysis, Roadside Prophets, Sister Act, Last of the Mohicans, Unforgiven, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Raising Cain, American Me, Thunderheart, Night on Earth, South Central, Of Mice and Men, Straight Talk, Kuffs, Housesitter


-Jeffery Berg



Retro Movie Love Podcast 1992 Episode links:


January, February 1992

March, April 1992

May, June 1992

July, August, September 1992

October, November, December 1992


Wednesday, May 4, 2022

retro movie love podcast: the films of march & april 1992



My dive into 1992 films continued with Meep (Michael Ferrari) on his Retro Movie Love Podcast!




It's sometimes a challenge to remember everything when discussing so many movies! Especially some pretty, detailed, complex ones (like the amazing films Deep Cover, The Player, Howards End and Raise the Red Lantern).




Different trends emerged... Indie desert movies! Road movies! And a mishmash of sports movies (Gladiator, The Cutting Edge, Ladybugs (!), The Babe,  and White Men Can't Jump).




Many of these films faltered, an inconsistent time for box office in Spring of '92, but some soared (like the still iconic Basic Instinct). But nonetheless all--hit or miss--high or low, in the words of a hit 1991 song, gave us something to talk about.












Monday, December 13, 2021

retro movie love podcast: the final 1991 podcast!


Meep (Michael Ferrari of Retro Movie Love Podcast) and I discussed the films released between November and December of 1991). 

Certainly it was an embarrassment of riches from those two months (Cape Fear, Hook, Beauty & the Beast, Bugsy, The Prince of Tides, The Double Life of Véronique, The People Under the Stairs, The Addams Family, and underrated gems like Billy Bathgate, December and Strictly Business... just to name a few!). 

The whole year was such a journey cinematically and fun to be had across a broad array of genres.


After watching for the first time and also revisiting the majority titles from 1991. Below is my current Top 10 list of the year!


My Top 10 of 1991 (films released in US / NY in '91):


1. The Silence of Lambs (Jonathan Demme)

2. An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion)

3. Strangers in Good Company (Cynthia Scott)

4. Dogfight (Nancy Savoca)

5. Paris is Burning (Jennie Livingston)

6. My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant)

7. Boyz in the Hood (John Singleton)

8. Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh)

9. Bugsy (Barry Levinson)

10. Jungle Fever (Spike Lee)





Tuesday, November 9, 2021

retro movie love podcast: sept + oct films of '91


I joined Meep's (Michael Ferrari's) podcast, Retro Movie Love, again to talk about 1991 films! We are now on September and October movies. It's crazy that we are already almost done with the year. It's been fun to revisit and see many gems from '91!




Tuesday, July 13, 2021

retro movie love podcast: may and june 1991!


It's always an honor and a joy to join Meep (Michael Ferrari) on a wide-ranging discussion of films on his Retro Movie Love Podcast.



We continued our journey of 1991 films with movies released between May and June.

I re-watched and watched for the first time many.



And a treasure trove it was--personal highlights including Madonna Truth or Dare, Henry Jaglom's Eating, Thelma & Louise, Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead, Soapdish, Spike Lee's Jungle Fever, The Reflecting Skin, and two pleasant horror surprises: Stuart Gordon's version of The Pit and the Pendulum and the admittedly fun The Omen IV: The Awakening! Also one of my favorite movies of the year and of the decade was released here too, Cynthia Scott's Strangers in Good Company.

Listen here on 

Spotify

Apple




Tuesday, May 4, 2021

retro movie love podcast! march & april 1991


It was a joy to continue through the year discussing the films released thirty years ago in 1991, this time in the months of March and April with Michael (Meep of Cinema Du Meep) on the Retro Movie Love Podcast!



Podcast links:

Retro Movie Love Podcast 

Apple

Spotify

YouTube


Wednesday, February 24, 2021

retro movie love podcast: jan + feb films of '91




I had so much fun recording this podcast with Meep (Michael Ferrari of the Retro Movie Love Podcast) of films released between January and February 1991, 30 years ago. Stalwarts like The Silence of the Lambs and Sleeping with the Enemy figure but also some hidden gems like Queens Logic and Men of Respect. Loved hearing Meep's recollections of seeing many of these films for the first time in the theater!

Links below!









Monday, December 2, 2019

Retro Movie Love Podcast: 1999 Films!




My guest spot on the Retro Movie Love Podcast with Meep (Michael Ferrari of Cinema Du Meep) is now live on all platforms.




We discussed our favorite movies of 1999, which is still heralded as one of the greatest in film history. There was a lot of variety to the pictures that year--across all spectrum of genre--with enduring iconic films, bold directorial debuts and many underrated gems.  It was fun to return to these movies and watch some for the first time!

Tuesday, October 22, 2019

ghost movies!


Meep's Retro Movie Love Podcast on Ghost Movies is now available to listen to here! It was so fun to watch and re-watch these films. I especially love listening to Meep and Ben's commentary. Ben's thoughts on The Entity are particularly well-articulated and insightful.

Audio YouTube below!


Thursday, May 23, 2019

meep revisits the indies of the '80s



For my generation, it seems that we remember the 90s as the ultimate decade for indie films, but there were so many in the 80s, some like Dirty Dancing and Heathers, that became pop hits and VHS staple that we forget that they were actually indies to begin with! Meep revisits this decade alongside Daniel Archer on the Retro Movie Love Podcast!


Saturday, November 24, 2018