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Welcome to America's least necessary film criticism podcast. Each week, a guest will join hosts Noah Frank and Will Vitka to discuss a film that is at least 10 years old, that at least one of us hasn't seen in that period of time, and that, hopefully, at least one of us hasn't seen at all. No classics, no bombs. This is about revisiting regular movies that we think we liked when we first saw them, to see how both we and the culture around the film have changed in the intervening years. In contrast to the constant, life-or-death anxiety of the last few years, to the unyielding firehose of news, this podcast aims only to answer a single question with the lowest stakes imaginable: Do you still like this movie?
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Friday May 28, 2021
Friday May 28, 2021
Guest and fellow Baseball Prospectus contributor Mike Gianella classes up the joint with this five-time Oscar-nominated entry, a somber, minimalist affair featuring Tom Wilkinson, Sissy Spacek and Marisa Tomei.
There’s an unintentional amount of baseball chat, including about these two Red Sox games, the radio calls of which both are featured in the film:
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS200007080.shtml
https://www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/BOS/BOS200007090.shtml
This manages to be one of the few fairly timeless films in the ITILTM catalogue to date, as well as one of the few that wasn’t particularly painful to watch. That’s a hint, albeit not a particularly subtle one, for potential future guests.
Bonus points if you got the David Foster Wallace reference.
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