Filmspotting (weekly series)

Series produced by WBEZ

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"Filmspotting" is an hour-long program about film, including: movie reviews, interviews, top 5 lists, listener feedback and insightful film talk. Filmspotting is available on PRX by noon (CST) on Fridays. Promos are available on PRX earlier in the week.

"Filmspotting" is an hour-long program about film. Each week, hosts Adam Kempenaar and Josh Larsen bring you movie reviews, interviews, top 5 lists, listener feedback and insightful film talk. Michael Phillips of the Chicago Tribune joins in once a month.

Special features include "Massacre Theatre," movie marathons and "sacred cow" discussions, in which Filmspotting looks back and reexamines films considered to be among the greatest of all time.

"Filmspotting" (formerly known as "Cinecast") began in March of 2005, and has cultivated a loyal and growing audience. It can currently be heard at www.filmspotting.net and on WBEZ, and other PRX stations. We hope your station will be next. Please feel free to contact us for more details.


148 Pieces

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Caption: Marlon Brando in 'The Godfather' (1972)
As they approached their rewatch of 1972’s "The Godfather," Adam and Josh questioned whether they -- or anybody, really -- could bring anything new...

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  • Added: Feb 04, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Stephen Sondheim in 'Original Cast Album: Company' (1970)
Stephen Sondheim’s contributions to musical theater were so immense and influential that when he died last fall at 91, it was not uncommon to see h...

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  • Added: Feb 11, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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This week, Filmspotting revisits a few of their favorite conversations from the past year, including a look back at their 45th anniversary "blindsp...

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  • Added: Jan 07, 2022
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'Titane' / 'An Angel At My Table'
Director Julia Ducournau wants to shake her audience to the core. And she more or less accomplished that feat -- for Josh anyway -- with her 2016 d...

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  • Added: Oct 01, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Top 5 Films of 1971 / 'The Eyes of Tammy Faye'
The 50th anniversary of the ’71 movie year provided Adam and Josh an excuse to give Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange" the Sacred Cow treatment earlier...

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  • Added: Sep 17, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'Casino Royale' at 15 / 'Sweetie'
Ahead of Daniel Craig’s final outing as 007 in “No Time To Die,” Adam and Josh revisit Craig’s 2006 debut in the role, "Casino Royale," a film both...

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  • Added: Sep 24, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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A gambling movie that only Paul Schrader could make, "The Card Counter" has the "First Reformed" director meditating on weighty subjects like redem...

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  • Added: Sep 10, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Fall Movie Preview / 'Shang-Chi' / 'Candyman' (2021)
The coming fall movie season is less a slate of titles than it is a promise fulfilled, with loads of big films coming to the big screen, some of wh...

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  • Added: Sep 03, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Wong Kar Wai's 'In the Mood for Love' (20th Anniversary)
Wong Kar Wai’s "In the Mood for Love" had no shortage of acclaim on its 2000 release (2001 in the U.S.), but its stature has only grown in the past...

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  • Added: Aug 27, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'Annette' / Wong Kar Wai's 'Happy Together'
French director Leos Carax isn’t very well known here in the States, but his films are always something of an art-house event, coming as they do ab...

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  • Added: Aug 13, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: The Green Knight / Fallen Angels
Like many an auteur before him, David Lowery (“A Ghost Story”, “The Old Man and the Gun”) brings his obsessions to whatever material he’s working w...

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  • Added: Aug 06, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Inspired by M Night Shyamalan's "Old," Adam and Josh take a trip to the shore for their Top 5 Beach Scenes. As a place of transition – between land...

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  • Added: Jul 23, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'Pig,' Wong Kar Wai's 'Chungking Express'
Getting Nic Cage for your debut feature is a risky move. On the one hand, Cage is both a big name and a singular talent. On the other hand, Cage's ...

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: A Clockwork Orange (at 50) / As Tears Go By (Wong Kar Wai #1)
With its provocative mix of giddy, nihilistic violence, social satire, and formal audaciousness, "A Clockwork Orange" has been a cinephile rite of ...

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  • Added: Jul 16, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Rocky (7 From ’76) / Detour (’40s Noir #4)
Whatever backlash "Rocky" has received over the years for beating out the likes of "Taxi Driver," "All The President's Men" and "Network" for the ...

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  • Added: Apr 09, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: 'Fast & Furious 9' / Top 5 Fast & Furious Moments
For one of their patented “still processing” reviews, Adam and Josh go from screening to studio to discuss F9. But all Adam has is questions, namel...

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  • Added: Jun 25, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Top 5 Movie Meals
Inspired by the visually striking - and slyly funny - new documentary "The Truffle Hunters," Adam and Josh consider the greatest meals they've ever...

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  • Added: Mar 12, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: The Originals: 'Godzilla' (’54) vs. 'Kong' (’33)
With the new "Godzilla vs. Kong" bringing some much-needed spectacle to long-suffering theater chains, Adam and Josh take the opportunity to settle...

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  • Added: Apr 02, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
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Caption: Top 5 Anthony Hopkins Performances
A five-time Oscar nominee, Anthony Hopkins has played a Pope, a psychopath and the most loyal of butlers. He's also killed vampires, fought a bear ...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2021
  • Length: 54:00
  • Purchases: 6
Caption: Mahershala Ali and Alex R. Hibbert in Barry Jenkins' 'Moonlight'
With its 14 Oscar nominations, the 2017 Best Picture Oscar seems ""La La Land’s" to lose. In the role of spoiler? The critically adored "Moonlight,...

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  • Added: Jan 27, 2017
  • Length: 54:00
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