After a long hiatus, many behind-the-scenes discussions, and simultaneously agreeing to a looser structure on the formula, Over/Under Movies podcast is back!
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This is the point where we’d usually say, “The podcast in which we choose one overrated film and one underrated film, similar in tone, genre, style, or however we may see fit, and discuss them.” But, in these dark times – and how volatile the discourse can be and how we don’t want to seem like we’re shouting into an echo chamber – we’ve decided to shift our focus to the positives. We love recording this podcast, and specifically, we love it most when we are championing the films that we believe that our listeners should see, as opposed to tearing the other film down.
From this point on, we will be putting much more emphasis on an underrated film (or two… or in this case, three!) than an over. If there’s a pairing that is hard to resist, we’ll go for it, but for the time being, we feel the show is at its strongest when we’re gushing over films that we think are underseen or undervalued. For the fans of this show, thank you for your patience, we’re happy to be back and look to get this back to being semi-regular.
I’m joined on this episode by Oktay Ege Kozak and Erik McClanahan, and these are Oktay’s picks, which he’s been dying to do for a long time. The theme of this episode is underrated anti-war films, all of which have a common theme of young men sent out to war, and the loss of innocence that comes with it. We start with 1988’s “Grave of the Fireflies,” a film that those who have seen it adore, but is often cited as the ultimate “one-time watch” film. We then move briefly to screenwriter Dalton Trumbo‘s only directorial effort, “Johnny Got His Gun,” based on his novel. Finally, we get into what we all would view as the meat of this episode, which is our discussion on Elem Klimov‘s masterpiece, “Come and See.”
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