Film Versus Film
A nerdy and fun comparison of two films by a Film Professor, Comedy Filmmaker and Cinephile who grew up together watching movies in the 90’s. Featuring Craig Anderson, Bruce Isaacs and Herschel Isaacs.
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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 May 15, 2023
Monday May 15, 2023
We take on the bastion of cinematic super-spydom, James Bond 007, as we compare the outlier 1969 film On Her Majesty’s Secret Service to Daniel Craig’s last outing with as the hero with a license to kill in 2021's No Time To Die.
Monday May 08, 2023
Monday May 08, 2023
Join us as we look at two perspectives on American capitalism. One a morality tale by a filmmaker who wears his heart on his sleeve, the other a carnival of excess. Join us as we compare the masculinity, and morality inside of Oliver Stone's Wall Street (1987) and Martin Scorsese's The Wolf Of Wall Street (2013)
Monday May 01, 2023
Monday May 01, 2023
In our Stephen King episode, we compare two very different horror movies. We look at the myths and conspiracies behind Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980) and the nostalgic digital clown fest in It: Chapter One (2017).
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Monday Apr 24, 2023
Today we look at the same hero and villain facing off in films that exist in different decades and different worlds. One version is camp and expressionistic, the other bleak and engaged with social paranoia.
Monday Apr 17, 2023
Monday Apr 17, 2023
We look at two films that deal with surveillance and society, from San Francisco in the seventies, to East Germany in the eighties. Pop on your retro headphones, it’s time for The Conversation (1974) Versus The Lives Of Others (2006)
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Monday Apr 10, 2023
Two very different POV's on being a teenager, popping pimples, heading off to college and finding your place in the world. It’s Revenge of The Nerds (1984) versus Booksmart (2019).
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Monday Apr 03, 2023
Two very different action films with two very similar attitudes towards terror and heroism. In this Episode we look at Die Hard (1988) and The Taking of Pelham 123 (1974).
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Today the big question is “who done it?” as we explore a classic celebration of Agatha Christie’s work, with 1974’s Murder on The Orient Express, as well as a contemporary throwback from 2019 with Rian Johnson’s Knives Out.
How has the mystery genre evolved, and why do audiences continue to love it?
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
Tuesday Mar 21, 2023
In this inaugural episode, we discuss two very different films. One, a ground-breaking American horror film born out of the independent film movement of the 1970’s and the other, a sophisticated black comedy from contemporary South Korea.
Both films deal with class and feature moments of shocking brutality, yet one is deliberate and designed, and the other raw and unhinged.