It's time again for the whimsical wanderings of a man lost in the urban sea of late 1960s Paris. Kind of a modern Odyssey if you think about it… Jacques Tati returns to the podcast, directing himself once more as Monsieur Heulot.

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Please join us next week for the 8th Annual Rando Awards!

It's a podcast double doozer! Renoir and Kurosawa both adapt the same play, over 2 decades apart. Mifune and Gabin play the same roll. One is set in the source's original Russia and the other in Edo-period Japan. Both are about hope and despair at the limit of human poverty. Is there more to this comparison than… the comparison?

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing Jacques Tati's Playtime (1967).

Hitch is back! His/England's/Europe's first commercial talkie sets the tone and themes for a lifetime of adult-themed psycho-sexual thrillers. Complicated protagonists, with questionable values, make questionable choices (all in good fun) until evil men force them to come to terms with their own sense of self-worth. Sounds like a recipe for… blackmail!

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If you'd like to watch ahead for next week's film, we will be discussing and reviewing BOTH Jean Renoir's The Lower Depths (1936) and Akira Kurosawa's The Lower Depths (1957).