A disheveled boy feeds his baby sister with chopsticks in a scene from Grave of the Fireflies (1988)

Canon Fodder – Grave of the Fireflies

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Grave of the Fireflies (1988; Directed by Isao Takahata) Canon Fodder Episode 72 This week, Daniel and Corky follow the light to Isao Takahata’s devastating Grave of the Fireflies. Set in Kobe during the final days of World War II, this intensely personal tragedy from the venerable Studio […]

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Canon Fodder – Beau Travail

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Beau Travail (1999; Directed by Claire Denis) Canon Fodder Episode 71 This week, Daniel and Corky join the French Foreign Legion to review Claire Denis’ spell-binding Beau Travail. Shot on location in Djibouti, Denis’ loose adaptation of Billy Budd turns homoerotic military drills, stunning desert landscapes and unhinged […]

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Canon Fodder – Casablanca

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Casablanca (1942; Directed by Michael Curtiz) Canon Fodder Episode 70 This week on the Canon Fodder podcast, Daniel and Corky play it again with Michael Curtiz’s legendary Casablanca. A model of studio-era storytelling, Curtiz’s wartime romance packs intrigue, heartbreak, humor and some of Hollywood’s most indelible dialogue into […]

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Canon Fodder – Born in Flames

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Born in Flames (1983; Directed by Lizzie Borden) Canon Fodder Episode 69 This week, Daniel and Corky light the fuse with Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames. Told through pirate radio broadcasts, surveillance footage, fake news reports and punk performances, Borden’s debut imagines a socialist America where revolution has […]

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Two Senegalese young adults in fashionable attire in a scene from Touki Bouki (1973)

Canon Fodder – Touki Bouki

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Touki Bouki (1973; Directed by Djibril Diop Mambéty) Canon Fodder Episode 68 This week, Daniel and Corky hit the road again with Djibril Diop Mambéty’s Touki Bouki. Blending French New Wave style, African oral traditions and bursts of surrealism, Mambéty’s remarkable debut follows two young outcasts scheming to […]

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Jesus and his apostles in an image from The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964).

Canon Fodder – The Gospel According to St. Matthew

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The Gospel According to St. Matthew (1964; Directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini) Canon Fodder Episode 67 This week, Daniel and Corky spread the good word about Pier Paolo Pasolini’s The Gospel According to St. Matthew. Shot with neorealist immediacy and scored with everything from Bach to Blind Willie […]

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