57 - Times Square (1980) / The Apple (1998)This week, mom and dad are out of town and we’re throwing a house party with Allan Moyle's punk anthems, Samira Makhmalbaf's stolen ice cream, and a six-pack of self-discovery.

57 - Times Square (1980) / The Apple (1998) This week, mom and dad are out of town and we’re throwing a house party with Allan Moyle's punk anthems, Samira Makhmalbaf's stolen ice cream, and a six-pack of self-discovery.

#57 - No Parents, No Rules

56 - Come Back, Africa (1959) / Ici et Ailleurs (1974)This week we explore hybrid documentaries, as Lionel Rogosin secretly captures South Africa under apartheid and Anne-Marie Miéville helps Jean-Luc Godard confront ghosts of past and present.

56 - Come Back, Africa (1959) / Ici et Ailleurs (1974) This week we explore hybrid documentaries, as Lionel Rogosin secretly captures South Africa under apartheid and Anne-Marie Miéville helps Jean-Luc Godard confront ghosts of past and present.

#56 - Stranger Than Non-Fiction

Thunder Birds (1942) / Night Witches in the Sky (1981)This week we soar through the clouds alongside two real life aviators, as Wild Bill Wellman helps us get our wings while Yevgeniya Zhigulenko leads us on night bombing raids

Thunder Birds (1942) / Night Witches in the Sky (1981) This week we soar through the clouds alongside two real life aviators, as Wild Bill Wellman helps us get our wings while Yevgeniya Zhigulenko leads us on night bombing raids

#55 - Top Guns

Simone Barbes or Virtue (1980) / The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991)This week we're pulling an all-nighter as we take tickets in a porno theater with Marie-Claude Treilhou and stage an explosive coup in Beverly Hills with Sidney J. Furie

Simone Barbes or Virtue (1980) / The Taking of Beverly Hills (1991) This week we're pulling an all-nighter as we take tickets in a porno theater with Marie-Claude Treilhou and stage an explosive coup in Beverly Hills with Sidney J. Furie

#54 - Up All Night

Lancelot du Lac (1974) / The 13th Warrior (1999)This week we explore Medieval tomes of spiritual agony, listening carefully to Robert Bresson’s clanking armor and filling in the gaps of John McTiernan’s massacred Viking epic

Lancelot du Lac (1974) / The 13th Warrior (1999) This week we explore Medieval tomes of spiritual agony, listening carefully to Robert Bresson’s clanking armor and filling in the gaps of John McTiernan’s massacred Viking epic

#53 - Medieval Times

Lookin’ to Get Out (1982) / Fat Choi Spirit (2002)This week we’re testing our luck, risking it all in blackjack and mahjongg as we hit the tables with Hal Ashby and Johnnie To

Lookin’ to Get Out (1982) / Fat Choi Spirit (2002) This week we’re testing our luck, risking it all in blackjack and mahjongg as we hit the tables with Hal Ashby and Johnnie To

#52 - 52 Pickup

The Hidden (1987) / Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs (2005)This week we’re putting on our tinfoil hats as we try to track down materialistic and murderous aliens with Jack Sholder while a sweaty Dan Aykroyd tells us the damage is already done

The Hidden (1987) / Dan Aykroyd Unplugged on UFOs (2005) This week we’re putting on our tinfoil hats as we try to track down materialistic and murderous aliens with Jack Sholder while a sweaty Dan Aykroyd tells us the damage is already done

#51 - The Truth is Out There

The Five Heartbeats (1991) / Platform (2000)This week we’re getting sentimental as we hit the road with Robert Townsend and The Five Heartbeats and tour the countryside with Jia Zhangke and the Fenyang Peasant Cultural Group

The Five Heartbeats (1991) / Platform (2000) This week we’re getting sentimental as we hit the road with Robert Townsend and The Five Heartbeats and tour the countryside with Jia Zhangke and the Fenyang Peasant Cultural Group

#50 - Nostalgia

Entranced Earth (1967) / Escape from L.A. (1996)This week we’re raging against the machine as we hit the campaign trail with Glauber Rocha and try to escape from John Carpenter’s theocratic nightmare

Entranced Earth (1967) / Escape from L.A. (1996) This week we’re raging against the machine as we hit the campaign trail with Glauber Rocha and try to escape from John Carpenter’s theocratic nightmare

#49 - Misrepresentation

Stage Door (1937) / Hell in the Pacific (1968)This week we’re moving in together, shacking up with the aspiring actresses of Gregory La Cava’s Footlights club and staking out a claim on John Boorman’s contested island beach

Stage Door (1937) / Hell in the Pacific (1968) This week we’re moving in together, shacking up with the aspiring actresses of Gregory La Cava’s Footlights club and staking out a claim on John Boorman’s contested island beach

#48 - Roommates

THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME ONEA SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET From Chicago Guys to Take Me Out to the BallgameMusic and Sounds from Episodes 1-10Stormy Weather (1943) – Black Book aka Reign of Terror (1949) – Caught (1949) – Calamity Jane (1953) – The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961) – Martha (1974) – 92 in the Shade (1975) – Orca (1977) – Maa Bhoomi (1979) – The Hunter (1980) – A Question of Silence (1982) – The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) – Haunted Honeymoon (1986) – Eight Men Out (1988) – Above the Law (1988) – Rhapsody in August (1991) – Independence Day (1996) – Honeymoon (1998) – Finding Buck McHenry (2000) – Land of the Dead (2005)

THE GAUNTLET MOVIE MIXTAPE – VOLUME ONE A SONIC JOURNEY through THE GAUNTLET From Chicago Guys to Take Me Out to the Ballgame Music and Sounds from Episodes 1-10 Stormy Weather (1943) – Black Book aka Reign of Terror (1949) – Caught (1949) – Calamity Jane (1953) – The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961) – Martha (1974) – 92 in the Shade (1975) – Orca (1977) – Maa Bhoomi (1979) – The Hunter (1980) – A Question of Silence (1982) – The Slumber Party Massacre (1982) – Haunted Honeymoon (1986) – Eight Men Out (1988) – Above the Law (1988) – Rhapsody in August (1991) – Independence Day (1996) – Honeymoon (1998) – Finding Buck McHenry (2000) – Land of the Dead (2005)

The Gauntlet Movie Mixtape Volume #1

News From Home (1977) / Serial Mom (1994)This week we’re giving our moms a ring after we bear witness to motherly love through Chantal Akerman’s foreign correspondence and John Waters’ display of murderous affection

News From Home (1977) / Serial Mom (1994) This week we’re giving our moms a ring after we bear witness to motherly love through Chantal Akerman’s foreign correspondence and John Waters’ display of murderous affection

#47 - Call Your Mom

The Penalty (1920) / Miami Blues (1990)This week we’re wreaking havoc with charismatic villains as Lon Chaney unleashes a blizzard of crimes on San Francisco and George Armitage shows us how to embrace the criminal-entrepreneurial spirit in Miami

The Penalty (1920) / Miami Blues (1990) This week we’re wreaking havoc with charismatic villains as Lon Chaney unleashes a blizzard of crimes on San Francisco and George Armitage shows us how to embrace the criminal-entrepreneurial spirit in Miami

#46 - It's Good to be Bad

The Family Jewels (1965) / Men &amp; Chicken (2015)This week we’re sanctioning buffoonery and focusing on fools as we discuss the many jewels of Jerry Lewis and ponder our animal nature with Anders Thomas Jensen

The Family Jewels (1965) / Men &amp; Chicken (2015) This week we’re sanctioning buffoonery and focusing on fools as we discuss the many jewels of Jerry Lewis and ponder our animal nature with Anders Thomas Jensen

#45 - April Fools

The Pit and the Pendulum (1991) / Death and the Compass (1996)This week we annotate a pair of short story adaptations and get lost in a Borgesian labyrinth with Alex Cox and try to survive Stuart Gordon’s inquisition

The Pit and the Pendulum (1991) / Death and the Compass (1996) This week we annotate a pair of short story adaptations and get lost in a Borgesian labyrinth with Alex Cox and try to survive Stuart Gordon’s inquisition

#44 - Short Cuts

Blood Money (1974) / Take a Hard Ride (1975)This week we’re wasting away in Margheriti-ville, gorging on spaghetti with a global twist as we search for butts &amp; treasure with Lee Van Cleef &amp; Lo Lieh and take a hard ride with Jim Brown &amp; Fred Williamson

Blood Money (1974) / Take a Hard Ride (1975) This week we’re wasting away in Margheriti-ville, gorging on spaghetti with a global twist as we search for butts &amp; treasure with Lee Van Cleef &amp; Lo Lieh and take a hard ride with Jim Brown &amp; Fred Williamson

#43 - Margheritiville

The Mattei Affair (1972) / Gas Pump Girls (1979)This week we get a crash course on oil from Francesco Rosi, who teaches us how to erect out of Italy’s postwar rubble, while Joel Bender’s Gas Pump Girls show us how to squeeze it for all it’s worth

The Mattei Affair (1972) / Gas Pump Girls (1979) This week we get a crash course on oil from Francesco Rosi, who teaches us how to erect out of Italy’s postwar rubble, while Joel Bender’s Gas Pump Girls show us how to squeeze it for all it’s worth

#42 - Oil!

The Gravy Train (1974) / A Perfect Couple (1979)This week we’re doubling down on Dooley in roles big and small as we search for the perfect couple with Robert Altman and romp and stomp through D.C. with Jack Starrett and the Dion Brothers

The Gravy Train (1974) / A Perfect Couple (1979) This week we’re doubling down on Dooley in roles big and small as we search for the perfect couple with Robert Altman and romp and stomp through D.C. with Jack Starrett and the Dion Brothers

#41 - Double Dooley

Breaking Away (1979) / Good Burger (1997)This week we’re taking a sick day and prescribing some cinematic medicine: burger flipping and strawberry jacuzzis with Kenan &amp; Kel and a long bike ride through Indiana with Peter Yates

Breaking Away (1979) / Good Burger (1997) This week we’re taking a sick day and prescribing some cinematic medicine: burger flipping and strawberry jacuzzis with Kenan &amp; Kel and a long bike ride through Indiana with Peter Yates

#40 - Sick Day Movies

Archipiélago (1992) / The House that Jack Built (2018)This week we’re taking a seat at the drafting table as we construct a house of corpses with Lars von Trier and try to restore a church – and Chile’s collective memory – with Pablo PerelmanWatch Archipiélago for FREE via Cineteca Nacional de Chile: https://www.cclm.cl/cineteca-online/archipielago/

Archipiélago (1992) / The House that Jack Built (2018) This week we’re taking a seat at the drafting table as we construct a house of corpses with Lars von Trier and try to restore a church – and Chile’s collective memory – with Pablo Perelman Watch Archipiélago for FREE via Cineteca Nacional de Chile: <a href="https://www.cclm.cl/cineteca-online/archipielago/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.cclm.cl/cineteca-online/archipielago/</a>

#39 - Best Laid Plans

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