Manniac and Wisemanite Lukas Fryer returns to the pod to discuss Frederick Wiseman's 1999 documentary, Belfast, Maine.

Featured in this episode:

- Kenny Nixon on Belfast, Maine in BW/DR

- Richard Brody's tribute to Wiseman in the New Yorker

- Stephen Mamber's Wiseman Journal at UCLA

- Wiseman's interview with the Film West Irish Journal

- CBS Sunday Morning tribute to Wiseman

One half of the Bozeman Film Club brain trust Lincoln Sevier joins the pod to discuss his admiration for 2001: A Space Odyssey and how the film differs from and complements the novelization.

Featured in this episode:

- Follow the Bozeman Film Club on IG

- Bozeman Film Festival (Oct. 8-11)

- Roger Ebert's review of 2001 from 1968

- Scorsese/DiCaprio talkback for TIME

- James Lipton/Spielberg on Close Encounters

It's a Montana State beat reunion! First-time guest Victor Flores joins the pod to talk about long-time favorite, Galaxy Quest, as well as a galaxy far, far away.

Featured in this week's episode:

- David Mamet's Galaxy Quest shoutout

- Galaxy Quest Oral History (2014)

- Roger Ebert's review from 1999

- New York Times review from 1999

Born-again cinephile Antonette Gichohu brings some chaotic good energy back to the pod as we revisit one of her all-time favorites — The Sound of Music from 1965.

Featured in this episode:

- Joan Didion and Pauline Kael vs. The Sound of Music

- The New York Times' Bosley Crowther's review

- Julie Andrews winning the Oscar for Mary Poppins

- Andrews shading Jack Warner at the Golden Globes

Returning to the pod this week is Oscar Pavlove, who wanted to discuss his all-time favorite film, Mirror, directed by Russian master Andrei Tarkovsky.

Returning to the pod this week is my movie theatergoing partner-in-crime Graham Cannon, who selected Steven Spielberg's blockbuster Jaws from 1975.

Featured in this episode:

Bilge Ebiri's oral history of Spielberg

U.S.S. Indianapolis monologue

The Jaws Log

Jaws exhibit at Academy Museum

Two-time opening interviewee Marco Marquez returns to the pod to discuss the 1988 film, Coming to America.

Featured in this episode:

Will Smith Oscar speech

⁠You've Got Mail/The Godfather⁠

Siskel & Ebert on Coming to America

Jason Bailey on Coming to America in 2018

First-time guest Jillian Leiby joins the show to discuss Autumn de Wilde's debut feature, Emma., from 2020.

Featured in this episode:

LA Times feature on Autumn de Wilde

⁠Chicago International Film Festival⁠

JagWire movie reviews from 2015

Sheila O'Malley's review

Persuasion (2022) trailer