Episode 190: Jan Švankmajer's Everyday Nightmares

==Show Notes==
: We discuss Jan Švankmajer, the master of surrealist puppetry and stop motion, and his feature films ALICE and LITTLE OTIK.
==Films Discussed==
* Directed by Jan Švankmajer
** Alice (1988)
** Faust (1994)
** The Last Trick (1964)
** Meat Love (1988)
** Little Otik (2000)
** Insects (2018)
* The Czech Year (1947) Dir. Jiří Trnka
* Basket Case (1982) Dir. Frank Henenlotter
* Eraserhead (1977) Dir. David Lynch
== Discussion Notes ==
* Jan Švankmajer - Czech surrealist director and animator
** Movies for the dark and twisted child in your family
*** Will - "if Tim Burton had turned into Luis Buñuel"
** Loves texture and weight, pushing everyday things into the absurd and obscene
** Not loved in his home country
* The semantics of animating vs. puppeteering 
* Alice
** An unsentimental and unsettling look back on childhood and Alice in Wonderland
** Fantasia by way of Terry Gilliam
* Little Otik
** Will - It's "a visual attack on the audience"
** Švankmajer is quoted saying "It's whatever metaphor you want it to be"
* Our hosts discuss the merits of practical animation vs. CGI
** Justin - "If you can have anything, nothing has any meaning"
==Listener Letters==
* Clemence from Vienna - 
** Had a 20-episode binge on a plane - listener heaven, or ICC hell?
* Could our hosts discuss Austrian cinema?
** Ulrich Seidl - auteur director
*** Dog Days (2001)
*** The Paradise Trilogy (2012)
*** In the Basement (2014)
*** Safari (2016)
* Letterboxd - shining light on little movies
** The Nobodies (2018) Dir. Jay Burleson
** Splatter Farm (1987) Dir. Mark Polonia, John Polonia & Todd Michael Smith
* Carlos - 
* Could our hosts discuss the Scorsese vs. Marvel drama?
* What is 'cinema'?
** Our hosts - Cinema means film as an art, not as a consumer product
* Why are people so angry?
** More people are defining themselves by what they like
** Having a small field of what you like means that a dismissal of that like is a dismissal of you
* Justin - Comic book sales down, comic movie sales through the roof
* Remember superhero movies before Disney?
** Steel (1997) Dir. Kenneth Johnson
** Spawn (1997) Dir. Mark A.Z. Dippé
== Post-Outro Discussion ==
* Viy 2: Journey to China: The Mystery of the Iron Mask (2019) Dir. Oleg Stepchenko
** Starring Jackie Chan & Arnold Schwarzenegger, faded powerhouses of action films
** Sequel to Viy (2014) Oleg Stepchenko, 
*** Which was itself a remake of Viy (1967) Dir. Konstantin Yershov & Georgi Kropachyov
* Our hosts thoughts on the film
** Will - Remembers the experience like a kidnapping victim
** Justin - *snoring sounds*
* Our hosts pine for the stunts of a younger Jackie Chan
* Films discussed regarding modern Chinese film-making style
** Hero (2002) Dir. Zhang Yimou
** The Promise (2005) Dir. Chen Kaige
** The Banquet (2006) Dir. Feng Xiaogang
** Chinese Zodiac (2012) Dir. Jackie Chan
** Kung Fu Yoga (2017) Dir. Stanley Tong
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