Category: Canon Fodder Episodes

Two children watch a train go by in the distance in a black and white scene from Pather Panchali.

Canon Fodder – Pather Panchali

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Pather Panchali (1955; Dir.: Satyajit Ray) Canon Fodder Episode 49 Daniel and Corky follow the song of the little road to 1910’s Bengal to review Pather Panchali, the first film in Satyajit Ray’s storied Apu Trilogy. Elsewhere, Daniel discusses the big winners and awards season favorites from this year’s […]

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Andrew Garfield and Ethan Hawke as Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart in the movie Blue Moon (2025).

Daniel Reviews “Blue Moon” & “It Was Just an Accident”

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Blue Moon (2025; Dir.: Richard Linklater) GRADE: B- *Now playing at the Tower Theatre in Sacramento. IMDB Synopsis: “Tells the story of Lorenz Hart’s struggles with alcoholism and mental health as he tries to save face during the opening of Oklahoma!” It Was Just an Accident (2025; Dir.: […]

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Canon Fodder – Yi Yi (2000)

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Yi Yi (2000; Dir.: Edward Yang) Canon Fodder Episode 48 Daniel and Corky turn to turn-of-the-century Taiwan to review Edward Yang’s richly Renoir-ian tapestry of humanity. Yang offers a seemingly bottomless reservoir of empathy in Yi Yi, but did your hosts appreciate the plunge or did they sink like […]

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Klaus Kinski as the title character in Aguirre, the Wrath of God, holding a monkey.

Canon Fodder – Aguirre, the Wrath of God

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Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1972; Dir.: Werner Herzog) Canon Fodder Episode 47 Daniel and Corky descend through the clouds to review Klaus Kinski as a conquest-driven conquistador in Werner Herzog’s masterpiece. The rare absurdist-realist intimate epic, Aguirre is an impossible-to-recreate fever dream of colonial gold-lust run amok.  But will […]

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Canon Fodder – My Darling Clementine

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My Darling Clementine (1946; Dir.: John Ford) Canon Fodder Episode 46 Daniel and Corky rustle up a mess of vittles and head to the “rough-looking country” of Tombstone to review this masterful western, arguably the least factual yet most definitive take on the Wyatt Earp/OK Corral legend. But […]

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Canon Fodder – A Canterbury Tale

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A Canterbury Tale (1944; Dir.: Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger) Canon Fodder Episode 45 Podcasting pilgrims Daniel and Corky voyage to the WWII-era England of The Archers by way of the 14th-century England of Chaucer to review A Canterbury Tale. This star-studless small-town mystery has all the magic and […]

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