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
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Monday Nov 06, 2023
Two fish-out-of-water comedies that took the world by storm, both of them broke box office records, both of them expanded the cultural lexicon and both films took their TV star lead actors all the way to the oscars. Today we’re talking about Crocodile Dundee and Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
Sunday Oct 29, 2023
It's time for some maypoles and sacrifices! One film is about a very British police investigation on a small island, and the other is about American college kids visiting an overly friendly festival in Sweden. Today it’s Robin Hardy’s The Wicker Man versus Ari Aster’s Midsommar.
Monday Oct 23, 2023
Monday Oct 23, 2023
We’re heading to the old west and looking at the portrayal of two very different cowboys. One is a pretty horrible brother-in-law grappling with his sexuality, and the other is an old widow who wants to give it all away. Today we’re discussing Jane Campion's Unforgiven and Clint Eastwood's The Power Of The Dog.
Monday Oct 16, 2023
Monday Oct 16, 2023
In this episode we look at two conspiratorial masterpieces that feature reluctant heroes who discover that the world around them is manufactured to control them. One film is directed by genre master John Carpenter and the other by a rising star of America's new black vanguard. Today we’re looking at 1988’s They Live versus 2023’s They Cloned Tyrone.
Monday Oct 09, 2023
Monday Oct 09, 2023
In this episode we are going behind the scenes with two incredible making-of-stories. One film charts the tumultuous production of one of the most famous films of the 1970’s Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now, and the other charts the hopes and dreams of a filmmaker who inherited the dream created by Coppola, but not the audience, or privilege. Yes today we’re the Sundance Award winning American Movie to the well-regarded Hearts Of Darkness; A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse.
Monday Oct 02, 2023
Monday Oct 02, 2023
In this episode we’re infiltrating the third reich with two WW2 epics made 40-years apart. One is a 1960’s blockbuster, the other is a knowing homage to genres. Today we’re talking about Brian Hutton’s Where Eagles Dare versus Quentin Tarintino’s Inglourious Basterds.
We also talk about watching Goonies in Capetown.
Monday Sep 25, 2023
Monday Sep 25, 2023
A real tear-jerker, as we compare two of the most romantic films ever made! One is the story of two women who fall in love over the painting of a portrait, and the other a pair of neighboring cuckolds who refuse to commit the same act of love that has harmed them. Today we’re looking at Wong Kar Wai’s In The Mood For Love and Sceline Sciamma’s Portrait Of A Lady In Fire
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Monday Sep 18, 2023
Today we’re looking at two ground-breaking horror films from the year 1960. Both films ushered in new eras of what was acceptable in the world of cinema, from morals and censorship, to form and the representation of serial killers, to the complicity of the audience. One film destroyed the director’s career, the other cemented the director as the greatest auteur of the 20th century.
Monday Sep 11, 2023
Monday Sep 11, 2023
Today we compare what many consider to be the best time travel film of all time to the Oscar-winning story of Aliens who teach a linguist how time doesn't work.
Monday Sep 04, 2023
Monday Sep 04, 2023
We're back for S02 with multiple multi-verses! A superhero 'cartoon', versus a bizarre sci-fi comedy that won 7 Oscars! What do these two films have in common? And what does the “multiverse” actually mean in a post-truth, post-science world?