Izzy has selected yet another emotionally heavy movie for this week's episode with the 2022 coming-of-age drama Aftersun. Sophie (played by Frankie Corio) reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father (Paul Mescal) twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.
Director: Charlotte Wells
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Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (2005)
This week Hal has selected the BBC three-part period drama Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, a story of unrequited love set in the 1930's, against the backdrop of grimy streets and public houses.
Revolving around The Midnight Bell, a public house off the Euston Road, it follows the painful pursuit of love from three different perspectives. Barman Bob (Bryan Dick), who yearns for penniless street-walker Jenny (Zoe Tapper). Bob's colleague Ella (Sally Hawkins), who is torn between the attentions of an older, wealthier man and her secret desire for her barman workmate.
Director: Simon Curtis
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The Bridges of Madison County (1995)
Izzy has gone big on the romance scale with her selection this week and has chosen The Bridges of Madison County, a moving love story about a photographer (Clint Eastwood) on assignment to shoot the historic bridges of Madison County. He meets a housewife (Meryl Streep), whose husband and children are away on a trip, and the film traces a brief affair that is never sordid but instead one of two soul mates who have met later in life.
Director: Clint Eastwood
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Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
Hal has selected the classic legal mystery drama Witness for the Prosecution this week, directed by one of our favourites in Billy Wilder.
The plot centres around an ailing famous barrister (Charles Laughton) who agrees to defend a man (Tyrone Power) in a sensational murder trial where his self-possessed wife’s unconvincing testimony confuses him.
Director: Billy Wilder
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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)
Izzy has really stepped up her podcast selection game this week by choosing Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Indy (Harrison Ford) and his feisty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) dodge booby-traps, fight enemies and stare down snakes in their incredible worldwide quest for the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Experience one exciting cliff-hanger after another when you discover adventure with the one and only Indiana Jones.
Director: Steven Spielberg
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