Film Versus Film
A nerdy and fun comparison of two films by a Film Professor, Comedian and Cinephile who grew up together watching movies in the 90’s. Featuring Craig Anderson, Bruce Isaacs and Herschel Isaacs. https://www.instagram.com/filmversusfilmpodcast/
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Does the Oscar winner Greenbook do a better job of dealing with race then the Richard Pryor film The Toy? What do Bong Joon Ho’s Parasite and 70’s horror classic The Texas Chainsaw Massacre tell us about family? Is there any difference between Revenge Of The Nerds and Olivia Wilde’s Booksmart?
We’ll be exploring these questions and many more. We’ll also shout out to some of the Western Sydney institutes that made us love film. The video stores, drive-ins, and our public High School in the nineties!
Join Associate Professor of Film Studies at The University of Sydney, Bruce Isaacs, his identical twin brother and cinephile Herschel Isaacs, and comical filmmaker Craig Anderson, three nerds who grew up together loving movies.
Recorded on Gadigal country by three boys who grew up on Dharug land.
Presented in association with the University Of Sydney.
Episodes
7 days ago
7 days ago
Today we are riding into the sunset on a horse… or is it a house lifted by balloons? Join us as we look at two films about a young adventurer and an elderly frustrated mentor. We’re looking at Steven Spielberg’s Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and Pete Docter/ Bob Peterson’s co-directed Up.
Sunday Jul 07, 2024
Sunday Jul 07, 2024
Two very exciting portraits of women on the edge, one is an aging film star living in a decaying mansion, the other a well-to-do woman who hates her husband. Join us at we look at the Oscar-nominated mystery films- Billy Wilder’s Sunset Boulevard and David Fincher’s Gone Girl.
Sunday Jun 30, 2024
Sunday Jun 30, 2024
Today we’re looking at two stories that discuss a horrific chapter of modern history. . One film is considered high art and the other exploitation. Today we’re looking at Liliana Cavani’s The Night Porter and Jonathan Glazer's The Zone Of Interest.
Sunday Jun 23, 2024
Sunday Jun 23, 2024
On this episode we’re looking at the myth of mobsters with two films that explore power through violence. Both films follow Italian- Americans characters, and are directed by Italian-American directors who were leaders of the American New Wave. Today we're comparing The Godfather (1972) Versus Goodfellas (1990).
Sunday Jun 16, 2024
Sunday Jun 16, 2024
Trucks with precious cargo heading across barren wastelands and doing everything they can to not explode. Today we’re looking at Clouzot’s Wages of Fear and George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road.
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
Sunday Jun 09, 2024
One film launched a lucrative franchise and the other made us scared of the sky. This episode it’s all about suspense with Alfred Hitchcock’’s The Birds and Ridley Scott’s Alien.
Sunday Jun 02, 2024
Sunday Jun 02, 2024
Today we’re going behind the scenes of movie-making, with two films that lift the veil on the Hollywood studio system. Both films have a happy ending, even if they shouldn’t have. That’s right, today we’re talking about Robert Altman’s The Player and Quentin Tarantino’s Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.
Sunday May 26, 2024
Sunday May 26, 2024
Both films are obsessed with what happened, but one drives us to a conclusion and the other frustrates us forever. Today we’re looking at Oliver Stone’s JFK and Justine Triet’s Anatomy of a Fall.
Sunday May 12, 2024
Sunday May 12, 2024
Two films with characters who inhabit uncomfortable spaces. One a serious story about a comic book super villain, the other a female Frankenstein, it's Todd Phillip’s Joker versus Yorgos Lanthimos’ Poor Things.
Sunday May 05, 2024
Sunday May 05, 2024
One film is the story of a sick kid in bed hearing a love story, and the other, a love sick kid in bed, erasing a love story. One, a comical swashbuckling romance, and the other a mystery un-love story that became the poster child for the genre known as ‘mind-benders’.