Faffing About Film

More than just a lump with knobs, corn is the hottest new commodity. It's popping and the children love it! If you got stung by the crypto frenzy a couple of years ago, dont despair. Keep those ears open and listen to Vivian and Andy as they help you navigate the stalk market and get in on the ground floor of the next up and coming crypto, BitCorn! In Part one of our two part seminar about the children of the corn franchise. All 12 of them. Root yourself, its gonna be a long planting season. 06:01 Disciples of the Crow(1983) Dir: John Woodward 13:50 Children of the Corn(1984) Dir: Fritz Kiersch 28:17 COTC2: The Final Sacrifice(1993) Dir: David Price 46:56 COTC3: Urban Harvest (1995) Dir: James D. R. Hickox 57:02 COTC4: The Gathering(1996) Dir: Greg Spence 62:49 COTC5: Fields of Terror(1998) Dir: Ethan Wiley 70:18 Speculating Corn Futures Recorded 7-15-23

HOT ON THE HEELS OF... nevermind. Here's our chat about some Oscar-nominated movies we watched. Enjoy! 1:00 The Banshees of Inisherin 12:40 Everything Everywhere All At Once 26:20 Elvis 41:50 The Fabelmans 63:38 Tár Recorded 4/6/2023

...and Andy finally finishes the coverage of the CFF with a 20 movie speed run about their favorite films of the '22 festival in time for the '23 festival. @fafcast Facebook.com/FaffingAboutFilm 00:58 Comedy Films Intro 01:08 Make Popular Movies(2022) Dir:Bryan Connolly 03:06 Chicken House(2022) Dir: Cate Jones 04:56 Animated Films intro 05:10 Interface(2021) Dir: Justin Amit Tomchuk https://tinyurl.com/cwk4dk6f 07:40 Timekeepers of Eternity(2021) Dir:Aristotelis Maragkos 10:22 Zeria(2021) Dir: Henry Clevin 12:56 Foreign Films 12:56 Phantom Project(2022) Dir: Roberto Doveris 15:34 The Attachment Diaries(2021) Dir: Valentin Javier Diment 17:08 Thrilling Bloody Sword(1981) Dir: Hsin-Yi Chang 19:21 Snake Girl and the Silver Haired Witch(1968) Dir: Noriaki Yuasa 21:42 Dawn Breaks Behind the Eyes(2021) Dir: Kevin Kopacka 23:14 1000 Dreams(2021) Dir: Marat Sarulu 25:45 Short Films intro 26:19 Every Time We Meet for Ice Cream Your Whole F*cking Face Explodes(2021) Dir: Anthony Cousins 26:36 Cubed Row(2022) Dir: Gonzalo Nosal https://vimeo.com/588355191 27:31 Buddymovie(2022) Dir: Ryan McGlade 27:52 GUTS(2021) Dir: Chris McInroy https://youtu.be/b_Jal3A5J7I 28:14 Meat Friend(2022) Dir: Izzy Lee https://youtu.be/e-pHlgcitU4 28:48 Wild Card(2022) Dir: Tipper Newton 29:15 54 Miles to Home(2021) Dir: Claire Haughey https://vimeo.com/591288364 29:48 Break Any Spell(2021) Dir: Anton Josef 30:03 Swole Ghost(2022) Dir: Time Troemner 30:28 Broken Hearts(2022) Dir: Alessandra Lichtenfeld 31:18 Outro Recorded 5-1-23

Vivian and Andy go on high in blue tomorrows in search of identity, meaning and a way out in David Lynch's Inland Empire. 0:00 Opening and introduction. 6:50 On David Lynch, his 2000s experiments (plus David Bowie). Darkened Room and the genesis of Inland Empire. 18:40 Technical aspects of Inland Empire. 34:30 Plot and themes discussion.

Life happened in the middle of us reviewing the CFF and this episode kind of fell by the wayside even though we had it recorded already. We will be rounding up our CFF (@chattfilmfest #RespectCinema) coverage in an upcoming episode before moving on. This one is short and nasty. Enjoy! -V Movies covered: Something in the Dirt (2022) Dir: Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead The Leech (2022) Dir: Eric Pennycoff The Creeping (2022) Dir Jamie Hooper The Outwaters (2022) Dir: Robbie Banfitch Mystery Spot (2021) Dir: Mel House Recorded 7-24-22

At long last, Vivian & Andy return with an experimental film grading rubric and set to work evaluating everything they saw at the Chattanooga Film Festival! ( @chattfilmfest #RespectCinema) starting with the genre of movies everyone wants to hear about, The Documentaries! Part one of Faffing About Film's coverage of the Chattanooga Film Festival. Movies covered: One Road to Quartzsite (2022) Dir: Ryan Maxey Mike Mignola: Drawing Monsters (2022) Dir: Kevin Konrad Hanna & Jim Demonakos The History of Metal and Horror (2021) Dir: Mike Schiff Self-Portrait (2021) Dir: Joële Walinga Recorded 7-10-22

Vivian & Andy discuss genre fiction and talk about a handful of movies that are less than the sum of their parts. The 1973 adoption clown thriller The Premonition (1973), The erotic Altman comedy That Cold Day in the Park (1969), and Paul Thomas Anderson's latest grooming-of-age small business drama Licorice Pizza (2021). 06:15 The Premonition. Dir: Robert Allen Schnitzer 23:16 That Cold Day in the Park. Dir: Robert Altman 43:35 Licorice Pizza. Dir: Paul Thomas Anderson Recorded 5-14-2022

Vivian and Andy return to discuss the newest Batman movie. 00:00 The Batman (dir. Matt Reeves, 2022) Recorded 3-9-22 Find us at our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/FaffingAboutFilm or at Anchor for all our episodes https://anchor.fm/faffingaboutfilm

Happy Faffoween! a holiday in Octo-November a tradition going back weeks where one sets out to accomplish many small tasks but ends up completing one so thoroughly, and so late as to seem gauche. we're talking about 2017's woman themed anthology horror film XX Plus a bunch of other things get mentioned and discussed such as: Ultraviolet Aeon flux Coherence The invitation Midsommar Hereditary I'm thinking of ending things Wonder Woman Street of Crocodiles Faust The Girl Next Door Pontypool Junji Ito Killing of a Sacred Deer Oedipus rex AND PROBABLY MORE! Enjoy it everyone, we wish you a happy Faffoween, and hope you have time after your projects to wish us one back https://twitter.com/FAFcast https://www.facebook.com/FaffingAboutFilm

Dipping back into their pit of weird old movies you've never heard of, Vivi and Andy talk of horses and their plays with Equus (1977) and then get gritty with that stuff that gets everywhere in a film called Woman in the Dunes (1964). Pardon the coarse language. 00:00 Equus. Dir: Sidney Lumet 33:05 Woman in the Dunes. Dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara Recorded 5-30-21

Vivian and Andy discuss a couple of recent films for a change. 00:00 - The Tomorrow War (Directed by Chris McKay, 2021) 58:00 - Censor (Directed by Prano Bailey-Bond, 2021) Recorded on 7-21-21 Find us at our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/FaffingAboutFilm or at Anchor for all our episodes https://anchor.fm/faffingaboutfilm

A revolution in film discussion podcasting! Vivian and Andy talk about five, count 'em, FIVE entire films! This disjointed collection of movies was selected to make listeners go "what? why?" Edited painstakingly and lackadaisically over the course of an entire month, Faffing about Film brings you opinions and observations on Amulet (2020), Peacock (2010), No Retreat, No Surrender (1986), Godzilla Vs. Hedorah (1971), and The Face of Another (1966). 00:00 Vivian and Andy discuss games they've been playing 10:10 Amulet. Dir: Romala Garai 19:52 Peacock. Dir: Michael Lander 29:40 Spoilers for Peacock. 34:25 No Retreat, No Surrender. Dir: Corey Yuen 53:53 Godzilla Vs. Hedorah. Dir: Yoshimitsu Banno 1:15:49 The Face of Another. Dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara 1:27:35 Spoilers for The Face of Another. Recorded 3-28-2021

In this exciting episode, Vivian and Andy discuss reality, sand, computers and colonialism. Then they talk a lot about A Glitch in the Matrix(2021) and Danny Boyle's The Beach(2000) but also touch on Detective Pikachu(2019), Room 237(2012), and Trainspotting(1996) 03:51 A Glitch in the Matrix. Dir: Rodney Ascher 30:00 Spoilers for a Glitch in the Matrix 39:30 The Beach. Dir: Danny Boyle Recorded on 2-24-21 Follow us on twitter @Fafcast

Vivian and Andy finally land on a name for their podcast(now with twitter support @FAFcast ) then press play on Robert Altman's The Player(1992) which gets thoroughly discussed for the remainder of the show. 01:08 The Player. Dir: Robert Altman 19:10 Spoilers for The Player Recorded 1-6-21

Andy opens up about a recent gift and Vivian indulges his digression before talking about juvenile delinquent films Rumble Fish(1983) and Made in Britain(1982). 00:20 Host Segment 03:00 Rumble Fish Dir: Francis Ford Coppola 17:45 Made in Britain Dir: Alan Clarke Recorded: 11-28-20

Vivian and Andy try to figure out what to call the podcast, have audio issues, play around with the clicky function on a fidget cube and something else.... OH they talk about movies like professionals! Between Worlds (2018), and I'm Thinking of Ending Things (2020) 02:20 Between Worlds. Dir: Maria Pulera 09:40 I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Dir: Charlie Kaufman 20:28 Spoilers for I'm Thinking of Ending Things. Recorded 11-26-20

This week on Faff, Vivian and Andy get in-depth and involved talking about the Home Alone prequel, The Little Girl Who Lives Down The Lane (1976), and the existential buddy comedy: The Hitcher (1986) 00:35 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane. dir: Nicolas Gessner 22:45 The Hitcher. dir: Robert Harmon Recorded 10-10-20

In this short episode of Faff, Vivian and Andy struggle to talk about the Hulu adaptation of Books of Blood (2020), and touch on some other Clive Barker adaptations like Rawhead Rex (1986). 00:30 Books of Blood. dir: Brannon Braga 02:40 Rawhead Rex. dir: George Pavlou

Vivian and Andy's discussion of films couldn't be contained in a single episode, so we had to break it off and have an in depth look at The Congress (2013), and Circle (2015). 00:10 The Congress. dir: Ari Folman 29:46 Circle. dir: Aaron Hann, Mario Miscione Recorded 7-29-20

Vivian and Andy finish their books and talk some movies. The Return of Swamp Thing (1989), The Toxic Avenger (1984), The Toxic Avenger 2 (1989), Quatermass 2 (1957), Enter Nowhere (2011), Ghosts of Mars (2001), and The Fourth Kind (2009). 08:20 The Return of Swamp Thing 15:20 The Toxic Avenger 26:30 The Toxic Avenger 2 33:55 Quatermass 2 45:30 Enter Nowhere 49:45 Ghosts of Mars 56:50 The Fourth Kind Recorded 7-29-20