I Forgot to Tattoo the Title of This Episode ("Memento")

I Forgot to Tattoo the Title of This Episode ("Memento")

Are you sure this podcast isn’t starting from the end? That it isn’t happening concurrently with the beginning? That what you’re listening to is reliable? That this isn't really about THE ODYSSEY?!?! MEMENTO often pops up in lists as a 2000 movie because that was the year of its festival release, but the movie didn’t hit movie theaters for the actual buying public until 2001 so Christopher Nolan’s first widely known flick is officially in our camp. And what a movie this is! Guy Pearce stars as Leonard, a guy who might be the most unreliable narrator to ever grace a movie screen. He’s trying to find the guy who killed his wife, but what he might find is something scarier than a murderer: the truth! Slate walks us through a brief history of major film festivals during this week’s bonus feature before we try to remember to ask, “Does this movie matter?” SHOW NOTES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RZJNteyafOyMuXRV83i5S875cDZA27gnU2SZ6YpFtDQ/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.54kz1oojh3oi [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1RZJNteyafOyMuXRV83i5S875cDZA27gnU2SZ6YpFtDQ/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.54kz1oojh3oi] NOT ANOTHER 2001 MOVIE PODCAST is a limited series exploring movies released in the first year of a chaotic century. Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NotAnother2001MoviePodcast [https://www.youtube.com/@NotAnother2001MoviePodcast] Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notanother2001moviepodcast/ [https://www.instagram.com/notanother2001moviepodcast/] Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@na2001mp [https://www.tiktok.com/@na2001mp]

Bombed Again ("Pearl Harbor" with Justin from "Unvarnished")

PEARL HARBOR is what happens if Michael Bay wants to make TITANIC and everybody around him says, ‘OK, you should definitely go for it bro!’” We kick off the back half of our year-long trek through 2001's cinema monuments with one of the most dreadful blockbusters of the 21st century. And we welcome back a special guest, Justin of “Unvarnished,” to help us parse through the history. If PEARL HARBOR’s greatest offenses were its historical inaccuracies, that’d be one thing. But the best performance in this movie comes from a character that could have easily been written out of the movie. It’s a Michael Bay masterclass, is what I’m trying to say. (This shit was nominated for FOUR Oscars and actually won one!!!) We dive into some actual history about the events of Pearl Harbor and World War II before a rather complicated discussion as we try to answer “Does this movie matter?” SHOW NOTES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QWMVsl0fYLo2ojmRp8IjDQ-jpO1eHUoYiHeA91SFM0c/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.e32fsjx5hwrr [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1QWMVsl0fYLo2ojmRp8IjDQ-jpO1eHUoYiHeA91SFM0c/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.e32fsjx5hwrr] Subscribe to Unvarnished: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/unvarnished/id1871869874 [https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/unvarnished/id1871869874] NOT ANOTHER 2001 MOVIE PODCAST is a limited series exploring movies released in the first year of a chaotic century. Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NotAnother2001MoviePodcast [https://www.youtube.com/@NotAnother2001MoviePodcast] Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notanother2001moviepodcast/ [https://www.instagram.com/notanother2001moviepodcast/] Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@na2001mp [https://www.tiktok.com/@na2001mp]

My World's On Fire, How 'Bout Yours? ("Shrek")

Somebody once told me the world is gonna roll me. And they were correct. Honestly a great call. We’re battered but not broken after 25(!!!!!) mainline episodes of this “limited series” and have finally arrived at the halfway mark, and it’s a big boy — SHREK is on deck!!!!!! Does this swampy romp even need an introduction? SHREK won the first EVER Oscar for Best Animated Feature Film and spawned a full-fledged franchise with spin-offs and everything. It’s a middle finger to Disney that somehow has as much heart as anything produced by the Mouse House (if not more). It’s probably singlehandedly responsible for keeping Smashmouth relevant forever. Does SHREK matter? Do donkeys talk? SHOW NOTES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Vzbw7i9b6tiueHh32x3sUHgjs8ViRLaKMrU21S-9l8/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.54kz1oojh3oi [https://docs.google.com/document/d/17Vzbw7i9b6tiueHh32x3sUHgjs8ViRLaKMrU21S-9l8/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.54kz1oojh3oi] NOT ANOTHER 2001 MOVIE PODCAST is a limited series exploring movies released in the first year of a chaotic century. Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NotAnother2001MoviePodcast [https://www.youtube.com/@NotAnother2001MoviePodcast] Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notanother2001moviepodcast/ [https://www.instagram.com/notanother2001moviepodcast/] Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@na2001mp [https://www.tiktok.com/@na2001mp]

It's a Grouper! (".Com for Murder" with Tojo Yamamoto's Larry Joe Treadway)

Is .COM FOR MURDER a tech-thriller? An unintentional comedy? A prophetic look at the future? Even a 2001 movie? We try to answer some of those questions this week with our special guest Larry Treadway, lead singer of Tojo Yamamoto and a renowned aficionado in cinema that’s … less loved than most. Directed by longtime D-lister Nico Mastorakis and staring Nastassja Kinski, Nicollette Sheridan, Roger Daltrey and Huey Lewis, the film follows a paralyzed woman who stumbles upon a live-stream killer on the early internet. We dive into the film’s peak-Y2K aesthetic, the hilarious logistics of its technology, and how it captured a unique moment when the World Wide Web really did feel “wide.” In our bonus feature segment, we leverage Mastorakis’s “pedigree” to dig into the history of exploitation cinema. From the grindhouse theaters of the 1970s and the direct-to-video boom of the '80s and '90s to how the genre's DNA has mutated in our modern media landscape, these movies have shaped our culture far more than they often get credit for. Let us know some of your favorites! Does .COM FOR MURDER matter in 2026? Let’s just say it took us two attempts to record this episode to completion — that’s how much we cared!!! SHOW NOTES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PP_TcMdNJMQeIAHX1nH9uTUmkEaM04m5JgGObaQNFWQ/edit?tab=t.0 [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PP_TcMdNJMQeIAHX1nH9uTUmkEaM04m5JgGObaQNFWQ/edit?tab=t.0] Buy all kinds of Tojo Yamamoto stuff: https://thetojoyamamoto.bandcamp.com/album/tojo-yamamoto [https://thetojoyamamoto.bandcamp.com/album/tojo-yamamoto] Follow Tojo Yamamoto on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/tojo.yamamoto/ [https://www.instagram.com/tojo.yamamoto/] Follow Larry on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/gotreadgo/ [https://www.instagram.com/gotreadgo/] Brains on Film - But not us: https://youtu.be/v5e2g635YdI?si=ZhndI3zlY64cjcGY [https://youtu.be/v5e2g635YdI?si=ZhndI3zlY64cjcGY] Outro song: "A Face Made For Radio (Hog Jowls)" by Tojo Yamamoto [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CaToZ57ogA] NOT ANOTHER 2001 MOVIE PODCAST is a limited series exploring movies released in the first year of a chaotic century. · Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NotAnother2001MoviePodcast [https://www.youtube.com/@NotAnother2001MoviePodcast] · Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notanother2001moviepodcast/ [https://www.instagram.com/notanother2001moviepodcast/] · Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@na2001mp [https://www.tiktok.com/@na2001mp]

Die Vergangenheit wiederholt sich ("Nowhere in Africa")

This week we’re traveling across continents and deep into our feels with NOWHERE IN AFRICA (NIRGENDWO IN AFRIKA) Caroline Link’s sweeping 2001 drama captivated global audiences and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film at the 75th Academy Awards (an important distinction particularly for our show). Based on Stefanie Zweig's autobiographical novel, the film tells the story of a Jewish family fleeing Nazi Germany to start a new life on a remote farm in Kenya. We dive into the film’s exploration of cultural displacement, the nuanced portrayal of familial relationships through the lens of a young girl approaching adolescence and discuss what it “home” really means. We use this week’s bonus feature to highlight other prominent 2001 movies directed by women before a bigger discussion about Hollywood’s general treatment of female directors, especially how things have improved and how it could be better. Finally: does NOWHERE IN AFRICA still matter? Spoiler: it may more than ever. SHOW NOTES: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dalo25upuTX8iYqReT8WDm4DPS7uF696HUl1Bggwqdo/edit?usp=sharing [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Dalo25upuTX8iYqReT8WDm4DPS7uF696HUl1Bggwqdo/edit?usp=sharing] DON'T BE A SUCKER (1943 U.S. Department of Defense propaganda film): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4 [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGAqYNFQdZ4] NOT ANOTHER 2001 MOVIE PODCAST [https://notanother2001moviepodcast.neocities.org/] is a limited series exploring movies released in the first year of a chaotic century. Watch us on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@NotAnother2001MoviePodcast [https://www.youtube.com/@NotAnother2001MoviePodcast] Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/notanother2001moviepodcast/ [https://www.instagram.com/notanother2001moviepodcast/] Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@na2001mp [https://www.tiktok.com/@na2001mp]