The Parallax Review

One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest

We close our 1975 season by inviting Spencer Sacht Lund to join us to discuss Milos Forman's Oscar-sweeping adaptation of Ken Kesey's classic One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Nashville

To truly understand Robert Altman's multi-character masterpiece, we brought in musical maestro Neil James who produces for a menagerie of talented artists and performs music as three wildly different acts - Astrocolor, Stray Cougar and the Righteous Rainbows of Togetherness! Learn all about the Nashville method and how today's political moment moment mirrors the populist frenzy of America's bicentennial

Dog Day Afternoon

To discuss the first transgender box office smash, we brought in gay twitter legend Jamie Fricken Gib (now on Bluesky) because we aren’t the experts on this. Find out how Al Pacino’s crime comedy caper defied convention to take in over a hundred million in 1975 money and rake in award nominations.

Barry Lyndon

“To break down Stanley Kubrick’s forgotten masterpiece Barry Lyndon, Ben and Jim invited along a very special guest, magic mushrooms. That’s right, the phantom member riding along on every group shroom trip accompanied us on a journey through 17th century politics and the minutiae of camera lenses, just in time for Jim to have a minor breakdown since we recorded this the day Disney suspended Jimmy Kimmel. How did Redmond Barry acquire the name and title of Barry Lyndon? Will freedom of speech survive? Find out!”

Mirror

Steve Saunders of Skull Cultist joins us to illustrate the complex historical background of Andrei Tarkovsky's misunderstood masterpiece, MIRROR, which marked the end of the legendary Russian master making films in the USSR. Discover the profound impact this Criterion collection classic has had on generations of filmmakers despite being initially overlooked