This episode was originally released on August 5, 2024

We visited the 2024 Calgary Folk Music Festival and have so much to share with you! We have some interviews with artists from The Mariachi Ghost, Nicolette & The Nobodies, & Ginger Beef, plus reviews and live performances from The Roots, Cowboy Junkies, TEKE::TEKE, Fantastic Negrito, & more. Outfit reviews, dance reports, we didn’t do any food recommendations though. Maybe next year!

Calgary Folk Music Festival: calgaryfolkfest.com

The Calgary Folk Music Festival is one of Canada’s flagship, trailblazing music festivals. It's been held annually since 1980 at the beautiful Prince’s Island Park in Calgary, Alberta. Our broad, cutting-edge programming boasts 70+ artists from near and far playing on seven stages in concerts and collaborative sessions featuring everything from folk to funk to global sounds and fresh hip hop. #CFMF2024

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

We’re going to cover the 3 Meg Ryan / Tom Hanks movies, starting with Sleepless in Seattle! Romance, unaccompanied minors, stalkers, allergies, ghosts, talk radio… this movie has it all!

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

Samantha’s audiobook of the week is The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine, Indy finally saw a movie in theatres and loved the latest Ryan Coogler / Michael B Jordan movie Sinners, and we prepare to watch Sleepless in Seattle next week!

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

In our discussion of Being John Malkovich we get into 1999 being the greatest year for American cinema, the rise and fall of the DVD, and our quarantine tips. Then things get weird; the absurdity of consciousness, nihilism, fluidity of identity, the power of art as expressed through dance… We attempt to get to the bottom of it all, only to discover it’s Malkovichs all the way down. Whoa, man. This episode was originally released on Monday Apr 6, 2020

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa Being John Malkovich is a 1999 American surrealist fantasy comedy drama film directed by Spike Jonze and written by Charlie Kaufman, both making their feature film debut. The film stars John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, and Catherine Keener, with John Malkovich as a satirical version of himself. Cusack plays a puppeteer who finds a portal that leads into Malkovich's mind.

This week we’re looking at the surprisingly successful, but oft forgotten film Lost in Translation. We talk about the careers of Sofia Coppola, Bill Murray, and Scarlett Johansson, the themes of alienation and disassociation, liminal spaces, Tokyo, selling out, whiskey, and more!

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

Lost in Translation is a 2003 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Bill Murray stars as Bob Harris, a fading American movie star who is having a midlife crisis when he travels to Tokyo to promote Suntory whisky. There, he befriends another disillusioned American named Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a young woman and recent college graduate. Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, and Fumihiro Hayashi are also featured. The film explores themes of alienation and disconnection against a backdrop of cultural displacement in Japan. It defies mainstream narrative conventions and is atypical in its depiction of romance.

Indy recounts the musical madness of the perplexing Voyage of the Rock Aliens, Samantha continues reading Karin Slaughter with Pretty Girls, and we preview next week’s deep dive: Lost In Translation.

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

Lost in Translation is a 2003 romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Sofia Coppola. Bill Murray stars as Bob Harris, a fading American movie star who is having a midlife crisis when he travels to Tokyo to promote Suntory whisky. There, he befriends another disillusioned American named Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson), a young woman and recent college graduate. Giovanni Ribisi, Anna Faris, and Fumihiro Hayashi are also featured. The film explores themes of alienation and disconnection against a backdrop of cultural displacement in Japan. It defies mainstream narrative conventions and is atypical in its depiction of romance.

We’re talking all about the dance classic Center Stage, including; bad turnout, dance movie cliches, stage motorcycles, magical costume changes,& more!

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

Center Stage is a 2000 American teen drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner about a group of young ballet dancers from various backgrounds who enroll at the fictitious American Ballet Academy in New York City. The film explores the issues and difficulties in the world of professional dance, and how each individual copes with the stresses. It also served as the film debut for actresses Zoe Saldaña and Amanda Schull.

This week Samantha recommends Karin Slaughter’s novel The Good Daughter, Indy talks about Asian women in Hip-Hop like; Ruby Ibarra, XG, & Wild Wild Women, and we preview the dance classic Center Stage.

I Love This You Should Too is hosted by Samantha and Indy Randhawa

Ruby Ibarra Us video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUfNeCozJBw&ab_channel=RubyIbarra

XG Howling video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGqEuk8Om-4&ab_channel=XG

Wild Wild Women video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlqIzxi2UHQ&ab_channel=WildWildWomen

Center Stage is a 2000 American teen drama film directed by Nicholas Hytner about a group of young ballet dancers from various backgrounds who enroll at the fictitious American Ballet Academy in New York City. The film explores the issues and difficulties in the world of professional dance, and how each individual copes with the stresses. It also served as the film debut for actresses Zoe Saldaña and Amanda Schull. The film was released theatrically in the United States on May 12, 2000.