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You Ever Want To Be Someone Else? - An Academy Academy Miniseries: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Does your favorite Friends episode involve a mass grave under the bed? Has Jim Carrey experienced the most sanity-eroding conditions on set of any actor? Is Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind a Staggering Work of Heartbreaking Genius?! Tune in as Don & Pat discuss Michel Gondry's magnum opus on this week's The Academy Academy! 

 

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You Ever Want To Be Someone Else? - An Academy Academy Miniseries: Three Kings and Adaptation

Don & Pat are back and have secured their Golden Globes nominations via blu-ray bribery on this week's ep of The Academy Academy! Is Spike Jonze an avant-garde genius or a postmodern prankster? Is Three Kings the best middlebrow film? Should Brian Cox have played Napoleon in the titular Ridley Scott feature? Tune in and find out! 

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You Ever Want To Be Someone Else? - An Academy Academy Miniseries: Jackass: The Movie

How much would you pay to see Orson Welles chase Wee Man through a crowded Tokyo Subway? Do you miss Pre-Internet virality i.e. the things you would discover from your older brother or the weird neighborhood kid? What is Johnny Knoxville's true name? Is Jackass puerile mishegoss, or a joyous celebration of life and the human spirit? Should Danger Ehren be a DLC fighter in the next Mortal Kombat game? Don & Pat cover Jackass: The Movie and its origins on this week's The Academy Academy. Enjoy and pray that Chris Pontius isn't hiding in your closet with an electric razor and a toy car!

 

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You Ever Want To Be Someone Else? - An Academy Academy Miniseries: Assorted Michel Gondry Music Videos, Human Nature

What is the value of teaching a mouse table manners? At what does introspection become self-indulgence? At what age do you stop being a wunderkind? 

We're covering the beginnings of Michel Gondry on this week's episode of The Academy Academy! Relax, take a seat in a chair that looks like a paper mache bumblebee, and enjoy!

 

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You Ever Want To Be Someone Else? - A Spike Jonze Miniseries: Video Days, Assorted Music Videos, Being John Malkovich

Would you hang out in someone's mind with Gary Sinise and Charlie Sheen for an eternity? Is the best music video of all time an hommage to 70s Cop Cinema? What crucial role did Martin Scorsese play in the making of Video Days?

Don Horatio Saunderson and Patrick "The Dubious Non-Welsher" Gremillion enter the world of Spike Jonze on this week's episode of The Academy Academy. The Trickster Iconoclast, The Non-Stop Artist, The Savvy Entrepreneur... follow us on a journey into this filmmaker's mind! Just make sure to enter it before midnight.

 

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Nobody Is Having a Good Time in Anatolia: The Works of Nuri Bilge Ceylan: Distant (Uzak), Once Upon a Time in Anatolia, and Winter Sleep

It's another birthday ep, which means another deep dive into the oeuvre of another fascinating arthouse filmmaker!

Urban Isolation, Rural Malaise, and the Nature of Evil are just a few of the subjects Nuri Bilge Ceylan tackles in his works. He luxuriates in the vast snow-covered topographies of Anatolia, and in the way relics of the past pepper Ceylan's cinematic landscapes, so too are his films pockmarked with moments of shock and awe that transcend the slow cinema scenery and erudite conversation. Challenge yourself! Watch these films and grow! And remember: every culture has a Cool Horse Guy. 🐎

 

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A Dash of Dafoe #3: Shadow of the Vampire, Auto Focus, and The Florida Project

Apologies for the late release, but hooboy this is a fun ep! What's worse: a truly awful film, or a merely disappointing one? Should Tobey Maguire get the Thousand Face surgery? Is Jürgen Prochnow what you have at home when you ask mom for Udo Kier and mom says "honey, we have Udo Kier at home"?! Tune in as Don & Pat gush about all things Dafoe on this week's The Academy Academy!

 

 

 

 

A Return to Ridley: Napoleon

We recorded this podcast at 6:30 AM.

 

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You Want It Darker: A David Fincher Miniseries Finale - The Killer

Would you pay $200 to see The Killer be a contestant on Love Is Blind? Do you pray to a gas station boiled egg? Is you favorite Guy Ritchie flick Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Aliens?! It's the finale to our Fincher miniseries, folks. We talk The Killer, and rate the Fincher filmography? Will Mank take it to the bank? And just how curious did we find Benjamin Button's case? Tune in to find out!

 

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The Equalizer: The Antoine Fuqua Story Finale - The Equalizer 3

Should Unforgiven be remade starring Will Forte as MacGruber? Should the next Equalizer take place in French Canada? Is Ultimate Sicko Pervert a compliment?! Don & Pat's Fuqua miniseries comes to a close on this week's Academy Academy, as we discuss the simple pleasures of the Equalizer franchise, attempt to sum up the director's career, and provide our rankings of the films that collectively comprise the Fuqua oeuvre.

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