EX3 - an existential trilogy

the levels of programming

robert e g black — Tue, 04 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0800

an overview of three levels of programming in film as well as connecting this podcast to two others, with passing reference to the allegory of the cave.

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a conversation with screenwriter danny rubin

robert e g black — Wed, 05 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0800

from concept to screenplay to film to musical, i talk to danny rubin about his career, time loops, and life.

time loop of the week: palm springs.

#groundhogday

what everybody wants

robert e g black — Thu, 06 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0800

joel wakes up, his blue pajamas link back to an old groundhog day project blog entry, and the first week of this existential trilogy of podcasts comes to an end.

to reach a certain level of logic

robert e g black — Tue, 11 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0800

oscar isaac's looks, office divisions, bad coding, and supply runs, among other things, as caleb gets an important email.

guests: dave pallas (five minutes of mystery) & sean german (next scene podcast)

#exmachina

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people are not here for the weather

robert e g black — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0800

what ifs, talking about groundhog day over and over again, working the bluescreen, lying about the weather, stephen tobolowsky, and classifying time loops.

time loops of the week: palm springs, dark, star trek the next generation - "cause and effect", what if... doctor strange lost his heart instead of his hands, 12:01pm, and timecrimes.

guests: dave pallas and sean german (groundhog minute)

#groundhogday

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if you're not familiar with long island, it's a very long island

robert e g black — Thu, 13 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0800

making connections, getting out of a sofa bed, predestination, train schedules, annoying extras, the origins of valentine's day, and manic pixie dream girls.

guests: dave pallas (5 minutes of mystery) & sean german (next scene podcast)

#eternalsunhine

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the amount of secrecy and restrictions

robert e g black — Tue, 18 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0800

helicopter travel, large estates, on-set accidents, alex garland's directing tics, the lack of characters named nathan, and caleb as a.i.

guest: bubbawheat (it's time to rewind)

#exmachina

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he's not even worth a joke

robert e g black — Wed, 19 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0800

the science behind groundhog day, combativeness at work, and the late willie garson.

time loops of the week: premature, primer, infinity man

guest: bubbawheat (it's time to rewind)

#groundhogday

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it's death week, here

robert e g black — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0800

train commutes, the beach in winter, michel gondry's music videos, charlie kaufman, and the #groundhogday effect.

guest: bubbawheat (it's time to rewind)

#eternalsunshine

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the whole process is fascinating to me

robert e g black — Tue, 25 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0800

societal programming, religion, the film's reputation, Species, nudity and the male gaze, and film age ratings.

guest: luke allen (the love, rosie podcast)

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as good as the last time i saw it

robert e g black — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0800

groundhog day jokes, bill murray becoming a better person, jarring cuts, rita as rookie vs the original script, pg rating guidelines, tim vine, peter kay, deadpool, and the gypsy curse scene.

#timeloops of the week: 12 dates of christmas, about time, a christmas carol.

guest: luke allen (rocking horse media)

#groundhogday

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the idea of finding flaws in one another

robert e g black — Thu, 27 Jan 2022 06:00:00 -0800

repetition, dressing up for the beach, manic pixie dream girls, age ratings, and differentiating character through dialogue.

guest: luke allen (rocking horse media)

#eternalsunshine

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am i gonna get locked in by androids?

robert e g black — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0800

android neck noises, doomsday tiny homes, the jurassic park theme and schubert's sonata 21, men and women playing each other, and the male gaze.

guest: podcast socialite alice lauren

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movies are always wrong about that

robert e g black — Wed, 02 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0800

driving to punxsutawney, imdb goofs being wrong, and how casting bill murray changed the story setup.

time loop of the week: twilight zone - "shadow play"

guest: podcast socialite alice lauren

#groundhogday

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okay, traffic cone, tone it down

robert e g black — Thu, 03 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0800

joel being creepy, art by paul proch, and the definition of insanity.

guest: podcast socialite alice lauren

#eternalsunshine

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just as the film wants

robert e g black — Tue, 08 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0800

i am alone this week, discussing my old after the film youtube reviews, my recent one dollar review of tick, tick... boom!, and nathan's manipulative introduction to caleb and to the audience.

#exmachina

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the tick, tick... boom! review: https://www.patreon.com/posts/one-dollar-tick-59733156

the ex machina scene breakdown video: https://youtu.be/ugiuxvntrce

support my shows on patreon at https://www.patreon.com/lemmingdrops

you are new, aren't you?

robert e g black — Wed, 09 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0800

it's just me, delving into the history of my groundhog day project blog, twin peaks radio episode 18, blood sausage, and stephanie decastro cursing phil connors.

time loop(s) of the week: christmas... again?! & time freak

#groundhogday

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a victim of movies

robert e g black — Thu, 10 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0800

alone again, finishing out this crazy, interconnected week of podcasts. discussing home alone 2, the original eternal sunshine opening with clem as an old woman, talking over one another, favorite films, and what i want out of podcasting.

#eternalsunshine

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support my shows on patreon at https://www.patreon.com/lemmingdrops

because he watched too many 80s films

robert e g black — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0800

caleb's expectations, orchestrating the first meeting, sexual objectification, programming of gender, and packaged individualism.

guest: sarah black, my cohost on pump up the minute and five minute arrival, host of life as a playlist, and my wife.

#exmachina

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every time that i saw it, i forgot that i saw it

robert e g black — Wed, 16 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0800

bob dylan, hallmark movies and the romanticization of the rural, toxic masculinity and rugged individualism.

time loop of the week: the twilight zone - "try, try"

guest: sarah black (commlion on tiktok)

#groundhogday

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yay! we broke everything

robert e g black — Thu, 17 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0800

using tropes to destroy those same tropes, ruby sparks, manic girl, sheepish guy, expectations that come from movies, stereotypes, cliques, neurotypicals, neurodivergents, men, women, and critiquing the movies-by-minutes approach.

guest: professor sarah black

#eternalsunshine

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an onslaught of prickishness

robert e g black — Tue, 22 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0800

mentalism, american psycho, 28 days later, doublethink, a rat in a maze, silicon valley, ian malcolm, the born sexy yesterday trope, caleb's fate, and ex machina the musical.

guest: austin prior (malkovich malkovich minute minute)

#exmachina

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establishing that phil hates repetition

robert e g black — Wed, 23 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0800

pelvic tilt, blood sausage, female agency, romantic comedies, manipulative directors, youtube, digital clocks, i got you babe, richard henzel, and time loops.

time loops of the week: twilight zone - 'replay', the obituary of tunde johnson, groundhog day for a black man, two distant strangers

guest: austin prior (malkovich malkovich minute minute)

#groundhogday

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a minute is not a minute long anymore

robert e g black — Thu, 24 Feb 2022 06:00:00 -0800

obsession, cinema, missing pieces, prometheus, memories, memento, heaven, and much more.

guest: austion prior (malkovich malkovich minute minute)

#eternalsunshine

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as if humans aren't just really advanced computers

robert e g black — Tue, 01 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0800

the actors, oscar isaac, nathan, charisma, manipulation, programming, and belu water.

guest: james anderson (she's all that minute)

#exmachina

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that is way too buddhist, mr. ramis

robert e g black — Wed, 02 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0800

the morning dj bit, zuzu's petals, bed & breakfasts, sooey, ken hudson campbell, and a pretty good set.

time loops of the week: the time traveler's pig, 11/22/63, looper

guest: james anderson (timeline scavengers)

#groundhogday

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it's like a random number generator for your emotions

robert e g black — Thu, 03 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0800

shyamalan, ephemerality, romcoms as sadie hawkins dance, manic siren nightmare girls, and the red right hand.

guest: james anderson (unabashedjames)

#eternalsunshine

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it's a little too simple for what it's supposed to be

robert e g black — Tue, 08 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0800

watching mature content on flights, too many light sources, brutalist design, contracts and consent, sunlight in the arctic circle, how convoluted or not nathan's plan is, and removing choice.

guest: david forsythe (edge of tomorrow minute)

#exmachina

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it's harmless but still hurtful

robert e g black — Wed, 09 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0800

insulting people without them noticing, romanian orphans, angela patton, tracking time loops by reading, or a good memory. plus, we invent a very dark smurfs #timeloop game.

time loops of the week: in the mouth of madness, edge of tomorrow

guest: david forsythe (edge of tomorrow minute)

#groundhogday

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i'm not a scottish serial killer

robert e g black — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0800

social media accounts, LIRR cars, shooting with two cameras at once (even inside a car), having a type, the cheshire cat, wanting to be a stalker, and the reality of erasing your memories.

guest: david forsythe (edge of tomorrow minute)

the american cinemtographer article referenced: https://ascmag.com/articles/forget-me-not-eternal-sunshine-of-the-spotless-mind

#eternalsunshine

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it's such a thick onion

robert e g black — Tue, 15 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0700

what if caleb didn't sign, alan turing, nathan's sexuality, oscar isaac's head, nathan's self-imposed torture, how little time caleb spends with ava, and what tv ava would watch.

guest: niall mcgowan (bat-minute)

#exmachina

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the time loop of the week is essentially horror films

robert e g black — Wed, 16 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0700

the old man, meet the applegates, stephen tobolowsky, talking heads, and ned the head.

time loop of the week: a nightmare on elm street 4: the dream master, exit strategy

guest: niall mcgowan (bat-minute)

#groundhogday

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quirky, fantastical stuff, but it's also really grounded in depressing reality

robert e g black — Thu, 17 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0700

lost podcast recordings, jim carrey, kidding, the cable guy, super bowl commercials, scott pilgrim, rafi, ghost world, tom waits, brian eno, charlie kaufman, alan moore, made for love, potato people, the lacuna business model and how to exploit it, horribly.

guest: niall mcgowan (bat-minute)

#eternalsunshine

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it's deliberately cringeworthy

robert e g black — Tue, 22 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0700

caleb's nationality, organic patterns, post-it notes, minimalism as a sign of wealth, surveillance, titian's 'allegory of prudence', nathan as the devil, joe rogan, and the cracked glass.

guest: chris frain (open the podcast doors, hal)

#exmachina

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it's so silly it doesn't feel like something that an adult would say, but a kid wouldn't be clever enough to say it

robert e g black — Wed, 23 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0700

bumping into people from your past, continuity, remembering ned ryerson, stork day, and easing anxiety through repetition.

time loops of the week: cibo matto - "sugar water", monty python - "it's the mind", everything's gonna be okay - "discoid cockroaches"

guest: chris frain (this means something)

#groundhogday

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stream-of-consciousness dot-connecting

robert e g black — Thu, 24 Mar 2022 06:00:00 -0700

adult theaters, robert frost, manic pixie girl privilege, effects of the pandemic, blue ruin, choppy editing, to erase or not to erase.

guest: chris frain (this means something)

#eternalsunshine

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my dinner with android

robert e g black — Tue, 03 May 2022 06:00:00 -0700

star wars actors, pornography, the physical design of ava, slavery and the purpose of androids

guest: curtis bloes (time bandits minute)

#exmachina

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i don't have a lot of tolerance for people

robert e g black — Wed, 04 May 2022 06:00:00 -0700

star wars, hanging out with losers, woodstock, betacam, extras, angry bill murray, severance.

time loops of the week: we'll always have paris, happy death day, fifty percent grey

guest: curtis bloes (time bandits minute)

fifty percent grey: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9-MoYrXP0o

kiwi!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdUUx5FdySs

#groundhogday

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one of the most perfect movies ever made

robert e g black — Thu, 05 May 2022 06:00:00 -0700

hating a movie the first time, editing, tone, memory, the problems with romcoms, and problematic moments in 80s films

guest: curtis bloes (time bandits minute)

#eternalsunshine

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you don't get the snacks for free

robert e g black — Tue, 10 May 2022 06:00:00 -0700

programming, caprica, what ava knows about what's going on, and transparency in ava's design

guest: molly bailen (escape from new york minute)

#exmachina

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he's one of those credit card tools that you keep in your wallet

robert e g black — Wed, 11 May 2022 06:00:00 -0700

stephen tobolowsky, phil's hair, little miss and mister groundhog, the inner circle, woodstock willie's beef with the mayor, and punxsutawney phil's spiritual trajectory

time loops of the week: rattlestar ricklactica, the dark tower

guest: molly bailen (escape from new york minute)

#groundhogday

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they turn into other people, except those other people are themselves

robert e g black — Thu, 12 May 2022 06:00:00 -0700

voiceover, the ordering of events, dream logic, david lynch, the cast, and the cuteness

guest: molly bailen (escape from new york minute)

#eternalsunshine

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who's the testor and who's the testee?

robert e g black — Tue, 17 May 2022 06:00:00 -0700

is caleb an earlier model, was caleb picked to be gullible, will true AI ever exist, are we born with language, and what is nathan's purpose?

guest: sean german (next scene podcast)

#exmachina

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they're not actually talking to a groundhog, sean

robert e g black — Wed, 18 May 2022 06:00:00 -0700

woodstock willie's war with the woodstock mayor, rich guys telling the crowd how reality will be, extras, and the groundhog's abilities.

time loops of the week: blood punch, 'twas the night before myxymas, the c-word

guest: sean german (groundhog minute)

#groundhogday

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he knows how to be a person. he's got that latent ability. he just needs to not be so self-conscious and not think about it as much

robert e g black — Thu, 19 May 2022 06:00:00 -0700

cracked ice as metaphor, visiting the charles river, and playing crossover matchmaker to fictional characters.

guest: sean german (spinal tap minute)

#eternalsunshine

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that phrasing sounds like they had sex

robert e g black — Tue, 24 May 2022 06:00:00 -0700

citing me; disappearing into a role; nudity and the male gaze; AI, the soul, and the meaning of life; and auteurship.

guest: luke allen (two minutes about time)

#exmachina

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at one point, the baby is see through

robert e g black — Wed, 25 May 2022 06:00:00 -0700

snow added in post, a chicago location, and memorable scenes.

time loops of the week: worst year of my life again, tango

guest: luke allen (christmas actually)

worst year of my life again, episode 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74pmP-2oV1Q&list=WL&index=47

tango: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lo8O8lYDzIU

#groundhogday

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clementine and the pomegranates

robert e g black — Thu, 26 May 2022 06:00:00 -0700

hair color continuity, manic pixie dream girls, osidius the emphatic, fever pitch, about time, and joel giving clem what she wants.

guest: luke allen (two minutes about time)

#eternalsunshine

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what is the meaning of a word?

robert e g black — Tue, 31 May 2022 06:00:00 -0700

wittgenstein, caliban, searle, turing, the chinese room, philosophy and the meaning of character names.

#exmachina

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what is the meaning of a rule?

robert e g black — Wed, 01 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0700

film structure and the inciting incident, phil showing off to the locals, and choosing to go back to punxsutawney.

time loops of the week: imagine, life is strange

imagine: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tnXoJ3suYNU&t=5s

#groundhogday

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what is the meaning of a memory?

robert e g black — Thu, 02 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0700

recontextualizing memory, the ship of theseus, budding relationships, and the reshaping of self.

#eternalsunshine

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nothing analytical - just, how do you feel?

robert e g black — Tue, 07 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0700

book spine database, giorgio morandi, enola gay, bhagavad gita, lucifer, and symmetrical scars.

guest: brian boucher (top gun minute)

#exmachina

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he doesn't think through what he's gonna do

robert e g black — Wed, 08 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0700

cut scenes, knowing bartenders, cold showers, and plot holes.

time loops of the week: replay; back to the future; i'm you, dickhead; life is strange

guest: brian boucher (top gun minute)

#groundhogday

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what the hell is going on here?

robert e g black — Thu, 09 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0700

elijah wood, jim carrey, kate winslet, pulp fiction, flaws in lacuna's erasure, and late opening titles.

guest: brian boucher (top gun minute)

#eternalsunshine

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at the start of this awakening

robert e g black — Tue, 14 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0700

transformation; sleep, light, and noise; angel number 226; caleb's shirt, panopticon and privacy; and access to natural spaces.

guest: sarah black (life as a playlist)

#exmachina

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this aries baby baptism thing

robert e g black — Wed, 15 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0700

astrology, angel number 600, rebirth, eternal recurrence, i got you babe, not looking in the mirror, and what we want from film.

time loop of the week: after yang

guest: sarah black (life as a playlist)

#groundhogday

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it coulda been, like, a fallout boy song

robert e g black — Thu, 16 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0700

emo titles, erasure, cause & effect, angel number 652, twin flame, the news, and the present.

guest: sarah black (life as a playlist)

#eternalsunshine

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he knows his time is up

robert e g black — Tue, 21 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0700

rewatchability, fragmentary story structure, voyeurism, 2001, nathan's decor, ava's room, and who is the real nathan?

guest: parker johnston (dick tracy minute)

#exmachina

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have you andie macdowelled me?

robert e g black — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0700

annual viewing, how long is phil's loop, phil's shadow, time loop markers.

time loops of the week: groundhog daying, infinity chamber, mine games, game over, beyond the infinite two minutes, a day, high spirits, and then came lola, life after life

guest: parker johnston (dick tracy minute)

groundhog daying: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5y3P5F_B5A

#groundhogday

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if harambe had lived...

robert e g black — Thu, 23 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0700

depicting dreams, ambiguity, inception, mr.nobody, the crossover universe, and i'm thinking of ending things.

guest: parker johnston (dick tracy minute)

#eternalsunshine

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do you think he's going to give birth to himself at the end of the film?

robert e g black — Tue, 28 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0700

choosing sides--caleb or ava; garland cuts; about time, annihilation, men, last night in soho, tusk, antichrist, born on the fourth of july, xtro; masks and masking.

guests: luke allen & chloe griffiths (please be seated)

#exmachina

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that's why he's played by bill murray; he's a dick

robert e g black — Wed, 29 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0700

my documentary idea, chevy chase, caddyshack, obsessive continuity

time loops of the week: sure thing, men, eve of the daleks

guests: chloe griffiths & luke allen (please be seated)

sure thing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXBHzckDXlY

#groundhogday

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he's experiencing something beyond the reality of the film

robert e g black — Thu, 30 Jun 2022 06:00:00 -0700

late opening titles, joel taking a pill, and the end of men.

guests: chloe griffiths & luke allen (please be seated)

#eternalsunshine

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not a lot of sensible female shoes in nathan's closet

robert e g black — Tue, 05 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0700

biblical names, anti-eden themes, nathan's sense of history, his art installations, his conscience, pollock's no. 5 1948, and what it is to be human.

guest: father david mowry

#exmachina

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this event is so significant, we can't contain it to one 24-hour period

robert e g black — Wed, 06 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0700

movies with messages, the will behind the time loop, multi-day celebrations, catholic octaves, cars dating the film, pretending not to have cash, ned and phil in high school, and candlemas.

time loops of the week: orpheus, the adventure zone: the eleventh hour, life is strange

guest: father david mowry

#groundhogday

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oh my god - the postage that business needs...

robert e g black — Thu, 07 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0700

banality of setting, memento mori, showtime at the apollo, forgiveness and reconciliation.

guest: father david mowry

#eternalsunshine

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this massive, full-body eye roll

robert e g black — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0700

how many levels deep is nathan's manipulation, blade runner and why it matters that caleb is human, ghostbusters and holding your reference over someone's head, star trek's bynars and motivation.

guest: austin prior (malkovich malkovich minute minute)

#exmachina

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main character energy

robert e g black — Wed, 13 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0700

worldbuilding, writing a time loop story, testing your future self, ned's ecstatic recognition, and yesterday's enterprise.

time loops of the week: 12:01pm, one minute time machine

guest: austin prior (malkovich malkovich minute minute)

#groundhogday

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everything that's wrong with it is right with it

robert e g black — Thu, 14 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0700

in-camera trickery, white stripes' 'hardest button to button', the audience appeal of gondry and kaufman, trailers, spoilers, memory erasure, and then we get sidetracked in a deep dive into the star wars expanded universe because head canon is everything.

guest: austin prior (malkovich malkovich minute minute)

hardest button to button: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4dx42YzQCE

rita’s groundhog day: https://vimeo.com/82162912

#eternalsunshine

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this fits right up nathan's thought process

robert e g black — Tue, 19 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0700

trying not to upset the boss, focus pulling on a silhouette, and introducing sonoya mizuno as kyoko.

guest: eric deutsch (flash gordon minute)

#exmachina

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he has a face that constantly looks a little haggard and upset

robert e g black — Wed, 20 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0700

telegraphed slaps, downplayed freakouts, obvious beginnings, and unnecessary voiceovers.

time loops of the week: agents of s.h.i.e.l.d - "as i have always been", supernatural - "mystery spot"

guest: eric deutsch (escape from new york minute)

#groundhogday

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why would you call someone clem-ato?

robert e g black — Thu, 21 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0700

patrick sucks, clem is oblivious, joel is sad, carrie and rob know something, and the dog just wants out.

guest: eric deutsch (flash gordon minute)

#eternalsunshine

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there is no traditional turing test

robert e g black — Tue, 26 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0700

caleb is unsettled, kyoko is precise, nathan is pretending, philosophy is problematic, and it's all political.

guest: evan (left of the projector)

#exmachina

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we don't need reality to be weird

robert e g black — Wed, 27 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0700

phil is confused, the handler has things handled, water is still cold, and time is having a 404 error.

time loops of the week: cloak & dagger - "lotus eaters", la jetee, 12 monkeys - "lullaby", twelve monkeys

guest: evan (left of the projector)

#groundhogday

#moviesbyminutes

a temperature check to put clem and joel's relationship into perspective

robert e g black — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 06:00:00 -0700

joel moans, carrie throws laundry, rob spills the beans, and we get lost in how fundamentally this might change joel.

guest: evan (left of the projector)

#eternalsunshine

#moviesbyminutes

we have decided that all men are not created equal

robert e g black — Tue, 06 Sep 2022 06:00:00 -0700

how do you test a chess computer, and how do we define human, normal?

#exmachina

#moviesbyminutes

drawn together in common cause to achieve the universal aspirations of mankind

robert e g black — Wed, 07 Sep 2022 06:00:00 -0700

day 3, i got you babe, phil's lifestyle, pencil breaking, and a deleted scene

time loop of the week: the fare

#groundhogday

#moviesbyminutes

if it weren't for all the other people

robert e g black — Thu, 08 Sep 2022 06:00:00 -0700

deleted scenes with joel's ex, the lives of extras in the park, and arriving at lacuna.

#eternalsunshine

#moviesbyminutes

this film was distributed in the US by A24 and it shows

robert e g black — Tue, 13 Sep 2022 06:00:00 -0700

ava's drawing, confronted tropes, levels of programming, defining genre and expectations... and some beef over #bladerunner

guest: austin prior (malkovich malkovich minute minute)

#exmachina

#moviesbyminutes

i would hate this movie to get bogged down in the technicalities

robert e g black — Wed, 14 Sep 2022 06:00:00 -0700

ned's timing, twelve monkeys, furbies, the iron giant... oh, and phil arrives at and leaves gobbler's knob... again

time loop of the week: westworld - 'the riddle of the sphinx'

guest: austin prior (malkovich malkovich minute minute)

#groundhogday

#moviesbyminutes

come along with us, audience

robert e g black — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 06:00:00 -0700

finding lacuna in your bank statement, phone technology, mary lingering, and different cuts of blade runner.

guest: austin prior (malkovich malkovich minute minute)

#eternalsunshine

#moviesbyminutes

he is the chess computer that's only playing chess

robert e g black — Tue, 27 Sep 2022 06:00:00 -0700

benjamin franklin effect, different camera angles for caleb and ava, and caleb's inability to converse.

guest: tyler boudreau (amateur nerds)

#exmachina

#moviesbyminutes

it's so sticky, in that way, much like the buns

robert e g black — Wed, 28 Sep 2022 06:00:00 -0700

conversation cuts, rita's anger, doris' crush, time loop markers, groundhog day the musical.

time loops of the week: hadestown, repeaters

guest: tyler boudreau (amateur nerds)

#groundhogday

#moviesbyminutes

i thought this movie was supposed to be weirder than it was

robert e g black — Thu, 29 Sep 2022 06:00:00 -0700

memento, crimes of the future, nice guy syndrome, scott pilgrim, character backstory, licorice pizza, rushmore, and manic pixie dream girls.

guest: tyler boudreau (amateur nerds)

#eternalsunshine

#moviesbyminutes

she's performing for him, but performing for him for nathan, who's watching them both

robert e g black — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 06:00:00 -0700

alex garland as director vs writer; nice guy vs manic pixie dream girl; blue book's internet bros; tropes as programming.

guest: derick mcduff (underrated)

#exmachina

#moviesbyminutes

medical professionals, let us know

robert e g black — Wed, 05 Oct 2022 06:00:00 -0700

bill murray's dry wit, holiday movie rewatchability, location manager bob hudgins, harold ramis' cameo

#timeloops of the week: oculus, majora's mask, blair/gina

guest: derick mcduff (underrated)

#groundhogday

#moviesbyminutes

you don't get to be special just because you barge in

robert e g black — Thu, 06 Oct 2022 06:00:00 -0700

getting into indie films; kaufman as writer vs director; synecdoche, new york; joel's meaningful objects; the naomi problem; severance.

guest: derick mcduff (underrated)

#eternalsunshine

#moviesbyminutes

update - it just didn't feel the same

robert e g black — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 06:00:00 -0700

autistic shutdown, creative block, covid-19, and thoughts about what won't be talked about.

#exmachina

update - and that was a lot

robert e g black — Wed, 07 Jun 2023 06:00:00 -0700

editing, pump up the minute, scheduling guests, adhd, annihilation minute, master's thesis, my groundhog day project blog, and the movies by minutes format.

#groundhogday

update - and i have to stop doing that

robert e g black — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 06:00:00 -0700

leftover episodes, my previous incompete podcasts, my future show 50v20 (reddie, destiel, queliot and more)

#eternalsunshine

update - i don't even remember now

robert e g black — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 06:00:00 -0700

unfinished episodes, under the snow, song of fellfaraway, future plans, cock & bull movie talk, and the groundhog day project: minute by minute.