A FISTFUL OF POPCORN | ||
| Tape No. | Show title & films reviewed | First aired |
| 204 |
Academic Arcs--featuring "The Visitor" and "Smart People" |
05/19/08 |
| 203 |
Couples in Concert--featuring "Married Life", "Priceless" and "Shine a
Light" |
04/21/08 |
| 202 |
Forged Friendships--featuring "Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day" and "The
Counterfeiters" |
03/30/08 |
| 201 |
Foreign Entrapments--featuring "Persepolis", "4 Months, 3 Weeks, @ Days"
and "Diving Bell and the Butterfly" |
03/08/08 |
| 200 |
Striking It Rich--featuring "There Will Be Blood" and "Charlie Wilson's
War" |
02/18/08 |
| 200 |
Striking It Rich--featuring "There Will Be Blood" and "Charlie Wilson's
War" |
02/18/08 |
| 199 |
First Choices and Second Chances--reviewing the past year's films with
Bill Lockwood |
01/28/08 |
| 198 |
Family Crises--featuring "Juno", "The Savages" and "Sweeny Todd" |
01/07/08 |
| 197 |
Choice of Direction--featuring "No Country for Old Men" and "I'm Not There" |
12/17/07 |
| 196 |
Who We Are, Where We Live--featuring "Gone Baby Gone", "Before the Devil Knows You're Dead" and "Lars and the Real Girl" |
11/26/07 |
| 195 |
Journeys--featuring "Into the Wild", "Darjeeling Limited" and "Michael Clayton" |
11/05/07 |
| 194 |
Shootouts--featuring "King of Kong" and "3:10 to Yuma" |
10/01/07 |
| 193 |
Our Friends, Ourselves--featuring "Rocket Science", "My Best Friend", and "Two Days in Paris" |
9/04/07 |
| 192 |
Summertime Heroics--featuring "Ratatouille", "Harry Potter", and "Transformers" |
8/01/07 |
| 191 |
Trauma Centers--featuring "Once", "La Vie En Rose", "Knocked Up" and "Sicko" |
7/11/07 |
| 190 |
All About Relationships--featuring "Waitress", "Away From Her" and "Paris, Je T'Aime" |
6/18/07 |
| 189 |
Flights from Reality--featuring "Year of the Dog", "Hoax" and "Hot Fuzz" |
5/18/07 |
| 188 |
All in the Family--featuring "The Namesake" and "Best of Youth" |
4/11/07 |
| 187 |
I Spy, You Spy--featuring "Lives of Others" and "Breach" |
3/19/07 |
| 186 |
Transgressions of the Heart--featuring "Notes on a Scandal" and "Venus" |
2/26/07 |
| 185 |
Moral Codes in Broken Worlds--featuring "Children of Men", "Pan's Labyrinth" and "The Good Shepherd" |
2/12/07 |
| 184 |
First Choices and Second Chances--reviewing the past year's films with Bill Lockwood |
1/29/07 |
| 183 |
Nurturing the Next Generation--featuring "Volver", "Little Children" and "The History Boys" |
1/03/07 |
| 182 |
Cultural Divides--featuring "Babel", "Borat" and Robert Altman |
12/04/06 |
| 181 |
Three Queens--featuring "The Queen", "Marie Antoinette" and "Infamous" |
11/13/06 |
| 180 |
Random Takes--featuring "Science of Sleep", U.S. vs John Lennon" and "Keeping Mum" |
10/23/06 |
| 179 |
Hollywood Disintegrating--featuring "Hollywoodland" and "Black Dahlia" |
10/02/06 |
| 178 |
Collaborative Couples--featuring "Half Nelson", "Quinceanero" and "The Illusionist" |
09/11/06 |
| 177 |
Tourist Traffic--featuring "Heading South", Clerks 2" and "Little Miss Sunshine" |
08/14/06 |
| 176 |
Do-Gooders--featuring "Inconvenient Truth", "Prairie Home Companion" and "Superman Returns" |
07/10/06 |
| 175 |
Strange Customs--featuring "Art School Confidential" and "Water" |
06/12/06 |
| 174 |
Taking Charge--featuring "The Notorious Bette Page", "Friends with Money" and "United 93" |
5/22/06 |
| 173 |
Risky Business--featuring "L'Enfant", "Inside Man" and "Thank You for Smoking" |
5/1/06 |
| 172 |
Dusty Roads--featuring "Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada" and "Ask the Dust" |
4/10/06 |
| 171 |
Original Intent--featuring "Tristram Shandy", "TransAmerica" and "Why We Fight" |
3/20/06 |
| 170 |
Whose Reality Shows?--featuring "Cache", "Bubble" and "The World's Fastest Indian" |
2/27/06 |
| 169 |
Morality Tales--featuring "Match Point" and "Munich" |
2/06/06 |
| 168 |
First Choices & Second Chances--with special guest Bill Lockwood |
1/23/06 |
| 167 |
Serious, Serious, Serious--featuring "Breakfast on Pluto", "Breakback Mountain" and "Syriana" |
1/04/06 |
| 166 |
Love Stories--featuring "Walk the Line" and "Shopgirl" |
12/19/05 |
| 165 |
Illuminating Moments--featuring "Good Night, and Good Luck" and "Capote" |
11/28/05 |
| 164 |
Mothers Know Best--featuring "The Prize Winner of Defiance Ohio", "The Squid & the Whale" and "North Country" |
11/9/05 |
| 163 |
Violent Natures--featuring "Grizzly Man" and "A History of Violence" |
10/19/05 |
| 162 |
Mismatches in the Garden--featuring "Constant Gardiner", "Broken Flowers" and "Junebug" |
9/12/05 |
| 161 |
Connecting the Dots (or Not)--featuring "You and Me and Everyone Else", "The Beat My Heart Skipped", "Mad Hot Ballroom" and "March of the Penguins" |
8/18/05 |
| 160 |
Falling for Love--featuring "Apres Vous", "Saving Face" and "Summer of Love" |
7/25/05 |
| 159 |
Summer Hits and Mishits--featuring "Palindromes", "Cinderella Man" and "Batman Begins" |
7/3/05 |
| 158 |
Power Lines--featuring "Crash", "Enron" and "Brothers" |
6/13/05 |
| 157 |
Coping with Father--featuring "Look at Me" and "Winter Solstice" |
5/21/05 |
| 156 |
Parents and Children--featuring "Off the Map" and "Ballad of Jack & Rose" |
5/2/05 |
| 155 |
Close Confines--featuring "The Sea Inside" and "Nobody Knows" |
4/11/05 |
| 154 |
Irons in the Fire--featuring "Being Julia" and "Merchant of Venice" |
3/21/05 |
| 153 |
Struggling for Life or Death--featuring "Hotel Rwanda", "A Very Long Engagement" and "Million Dollar Baby" |
3/7/05 |
| 152 |
Best Pics & Second Chances--with special guest Bill Lockwood |
2/14/05 |
| 151 |
Obsessed by Life--featuring "Aquatic Life", "Aviator", "Beyond the Sea" and "Bad Education" |
1/24/05 |
| 150 |
"The Business of Film"--A Conversation with Cinema Scholar Douglas Gomery |
1/03/05 |
| 149 |
Variations of Biopics--featuring "Kinsey," "Ray", "Sideways" and "Neverland" |
12/13/04 |
| 148 |
Extreme Measures--featuring "Team America", "I Heart Huckabees" and "Vera Drake" |
11/22/04 |
| 147 |
Awakening to Leadership--featuring "Motorcycle Diaries" and "Going Upriver" |
10/25/04 |
| 146 |
Reactions to War--featuring "Vanity Fair", "Bright Young Things", "We Don't Live Here Anywore" and "Silver City" |
10/4/04 |
| 145 |
Working Things Out--featuring "Maria Full of Grace", "Garden State", and "Intimate Strangers" |
9/6/04 |
| 144 |
Summer Romances--featuring "Door in the Floor", "Before Sunset" and "Spider Man 2" |
8/9/04 |
| 143 |
Taking Sides--featuring "Fahrenheit 911", "Control Room" and "Coffee & Cigarettes" |
7/19/04 |
| 142 |
Myth and Morality--featuring "Troy", "Harry Potter" and "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter & Spring" |
6/28/04 |
| 141 |
Growing Up and Out--featuring "I'm Not Scared" and "Supersize Me" |
6/7/04 |
| 140 |
Tests of Time--featuring "My Architect" and "Bon Voyage" |
5/17/04 |
| 139 |
The Past Ever Present--featuring "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind" and "Goodbye Lenin" |
4/19/04 |
| 138 |
Reliving the Past--featuring "Fog of War" and "Barbarian Invasions" |
3/29/04 |
| 137 |
Over the Edge--featuring "Touching the Void" and "The Dreamers" |
3/15/04 |
| 136 |
Life on the Fringe--featuring "The Cooler", "Monster" and "The Company" |
2/23/04 |
| 135 |
First Picks & Second Chances--featuring our favorite films of the past year |
2/9/04 |
| 134 |
Culture Clashes--featuring "House of Sand and Fog", "21 Grams" and "Triplets of Belleville" |
1/19/04 |
| 133 |
Out of Sync--featuring "In America", "Bad Santa" and "Elf" |
12/29/03 |
| 132 |
Office Politics--featuring "Shattered Glass" and "Love Actually" |
12/15/03 |
| 131 |
Coming Together--featuring "Mystic River", "Station Agent" and "Pieces of April" |
11/24/03 |
| 130 |
Misplaced Persons--featuring "Lost in Translation" and "Casa de los Babys" |
11/03/03 |
| 129 |
"TimeOFF": Looking Back 25 Years |
10/13/03 |
| 128 |
Desperate Lives--featuring "Secret Lives of Dentists", "American Splendor" and "Magdelene Sisters" |
9/22/03 |
| 127 |
In the Home Stretch--featuring "Swimming Pool", "Seabiscuit" and "Dirty Pretty Things" |
9/01/03 |
| 126 |
A Summer Potpourri--featuring "Hollywood Homicide", "Together", "L'Aubege Espagnol", "Capturing the Friedmans" and "Whale Rider" |
8/18/03 |
| 125 |
Fathers and Families--featuring "Finding Nemo", "Respiro" and "Spellbound" |
6/30/03 |
| 124 |
Destinies--featuring "Man on the Train" and "Winged Migration" |
6/16/03 |
| 123 |
Old Selves, New Selves--featuring "A Mighty Wind", "Holes" and "Bend It Like Beckham" |
5/19/03 |
| 122 |
Finding One's Place--featuring "Laurel Canyon" and "Nowhere in Africa" |
4/21/03 |
| 121 |
Warring Views--featuring "The Quiet American" and other war films |
3/24/03 |
| 120 |
"The Hours" and The Year |
3/10/03 |
| 119 |
Mindscapes--featuring "About Schmidt", "Talk to Her" and "Adaptation" |
2/24/03 |
| 118 |
Second Chances & Best Pics--A conversation with Bill Lockwood |
2/10/03 |
| 117 |
Escape Acts--featuring "Rabbit-Proof Fence" and "The Pianist" |
1/27/03 |
| 116 |
DiCaprio Divided--featuring "Gangs of New York" and "Catch Me If You Can" |
1/13/03 |
| 115 |
Wanting Too Much--featuring "Far From Heaven" and "Real Women Have Curves" |
12/23/02 |
| 114 |
How to Listen to a Movie--A conversation with musicologist Simon Morrison |
12/9/02 |
| 113 |
Obsessions--featuring "AutoFocus", "Punch-Drunk Love" and "Frida" |
11/25/02 |
| 112 |
Spirited Provocations--featuring "Spirited Away", "The Secretary" and "Bowling with Columbine" |
11/11/02 |
| 111 |
Our Chat with Andres--Argentine filmmaker discusses documentaries |
10/28/02 |
| 110 |
Arrested Developments--featuring "The Last Kiss" and "Igby Goes Down" |
10/07/02 |
| 109 |
Losing It at the Mall--featuring "The Good Girl" and "One Hour Photo" |
09/16/02 |
| 108 |
Getting the Job Done--featuring "Road to Perdition", "Read My Lips" and "The Kid Stays in the Picture" |
08/26/02 |
| 107 |
Sins of the Fathers--featuring "Sunshine State" and "The Fast Runner" |
08/05/02 |
| 106 |
What Everyone Wants--featuring "Late Marriage", "Thirteen Conversations About One Thing" and "The Son's Room" |
07/15/02 |
| 105 |
Generation Gaps--featuring "About a Boy", "My Big Fat Greek Wedding" and "Rain" |
07/01/02 |
| 104 |
Webs of Intrigue--featuring "Star Wars", "Spider-Man" and "Nine Queens" |
06/10/02 |
| 103 |
Local Produce--the making of "Lansdown" |
05/14/02 |
| 102 |
Foreign Affairs--featuring "Italian for Beginners" and "Y Tu Mama Tambien" |
04/22/02 |
| 101 |
Rites of Passage--featuring "Last Orders", "Iris" and "Monsoon Wedding" |
04/1/02 |
| 100 |
Midlife Miseries--featuring "Monster's Ball" and "Lantana" |
03/11/02 |
| 99 |
All in the Families--featuring "Gosford Park", "In the Bedroom" and "No-Man's Land" |
02/11/02 |
| 98 |
Maddening Geniuses--featuring "A Beautiful Mind" and "The Royal Tenenbaums" |
01/14/02 |
| 97 |
Tales of Two Cities--featuring "Amelie" and "Sidewalks of New York" |
12/31/01 |
| 96 |
Children's Hour--our younger reviewers critique "Harry Potter" |
12/10/01 |
| 95 |
Invisible Men--featuring "The Man Who Wasn't There" and "Focus" |
11/26/01 |
| 94 |
Characters in Search of ...--featuring "Mulholland Drive" and "Va Savoir" |
11/12/01 |
| 93 |
All Together Now--featuring "Innocence" and "Together" |
11/5/01 |
| 92 |
"Fast-Talking Dames"--an interview with Princeton professor Maria DiBattista |
10/22/01 |
| 91 |
Remembering Jack Lemon--an interview with film historian Bruce Lawton |
10/8/01 |
| 90 |
Unthinkable--featuring "Deep End", "The Others" and recent tragedy |
9/24/01 |
| 89 |
Odd Couples--featuring "Ghost World", "Jay and Silent Bob" and "Curse of the Jade Scorpion" |
9/10/01 |
| 88 |
Summer Grab Bag--featuring "Songcatcher" and other guilty pleasures |
8/20/01 |
| 87 |
Party Lines--featuring "Divided We Fall" and "The Anniversary Party |
8/6/01 |
| 86 |
Outer Reaches--featuring "A.I.", "Sexy Beast" and "Himalaya" |
7/30/01 |
| 85 |
Round the Bend--featuring "A Friend Like Harry", "Under the Sand" and "The Circle" |
7/16/01 |
| 84 |
New Toons--featuring "Shrek", "Alantis" and "Moulin Rouge" |
7/2/01 |
| 83 |
Fresh Starts, Old Settings--featuring the new Garden Theater, "George Washington", "Luzin Defense" and "The Claim" |
6/4/01 |
| 82 |
Sweet and Light--featuring "The Dish" and "Bridget Jones' Diary" |
5/21/01 |
| 81 |
Extra Extras--Answering the Casting Call (with Gary Beck) |
5/7/01 |
| 80 |
Memory Mysteries--featuring "Memento" and other cinematic puzzles |
4/23/01 |
| 79 |
Love's Moods--featuring "In the Mood for Love" and "The Widow of Saint-Pierre" |
4/9/01 |
| 78 |
Portraits of the Artists--featur ing "Pollock" and "Before Night Falls" |
3/26/01 |
| 77 |
The Envelope Please--our Counter-Oscars |
3/12/01 |
| 76 |
Downward Spirals--featuring "House of Mirth" and "The Pledge" |
2/26/01 |
| 75 |
Undead Again--featuring "State and Main", "Shadow of the Vampire" and "Nosferatu" |
2/12/01 |
| 74 |
Second Chances--A Discussion with Bill Lockwood |
1/29/01 |
| 73 |
Lost Causes--featuring "Traffic" and "Quills" |
1/29/01 |
| 72 |
Holiday Goodies--featuring "Crouching Tiger", "You Can Count on Me" and "Oh Brother" |
1/15/01 |
| 71 |
A Taste of Pistachio--featuring the New Iranian Cinema |
12/25/00 |
| 70 |
Crash Landings--featuring "Bounce" and "Unbreakable" |
12/4/00 |
| 69 |
B Movies--featuring "Billy Elliot", "Best in Show" and "Bedazzled" |
11/20/00 |
| 68 |
Political Pics--featuring "The Contender", "Primary Colors" and other election films |
11/7/00 |
| 67 |
Hearing the Music--featuring "Almost Famous" and "Dancer in the Dark" |
10/23/00 |
| 66 |
Savory Cinema--A Food-Film Festival |
10/9/00 |
| 65 |
Unkindest Cuts--featuring "Nurse Betty", "Girl on the Bridge" and "Butterfly" |
9/18/00 |
| 64 |
From Rosie to Roosevelt--Documenting the War Years |
9/4/00 |
| 63 |
Silent Passion--A Conversation with Bruce Lawton, Film Archivist and Historian |
8/21/00 |
| 62 |
Make It New--Modernizing Shakespeare: "Hamlet 2000", "Richard III", "Romeo+Juliet", "Looking for Richard" |
8/7/00 |
| 61 |
Imperfect Summer Hits--featuring "Perfect Storm" and "The Patriot" |
7/17/00 |
| 60 |
Feats of Clay--featuring "Chicken Run" and "Croupier" |
7/3/00 |
| 59 |
Woody Allen/Dead Wood?--Retrospective with attention to "Small Time Crooks" |
6/19/00 |
| 58 |
A Hero Will Rise--featuring "Gladiator" and "East-West" |
5/22/00 |
| 57 |
In the Know--featuring"High Fidelity" and "American Psycho" |
5/8/00 |
| 56 |
Film Studies/Noir Studies--A Princeton High School Film Appreciation Class Discusses "Double Indemnity" |
4/24/00 |
| 55 |
Women's Pictures--featuring "The End of the Affair" and "Erin Brockovich" |
4/10/00 |
| 54 |
Second Acts--featuring "Wonder Boys" and "The Cider House Rules" |
3/27/00 |
| 53 |
Picking Up the Pieces--featuring "Magnolia", "Sweet and Lowdown" and "Boys Don't Cry" |
3/13/00 |
| 52 |
Our Counter-Oscars--Reactions to the Academy Award Nominations |
2/28/00 |
| 51 |
Let's Put on a Show--featuring "Topsy-Turvey", "The Cradle Will Rock" and "RKO-281" |
2/14/00 |
| 50 |
Second Chances--A Discussion with Bill Lockwood |
1/31/00 |
| 49 |
All About My Other--featuring "All About My Mother" and "The Talented Mr. Ripley" |
1/17/00 |
| 48 |
Smoke and Mirrors--featuring "The Insider" |
1/3/00 |
| 47 |
Animazing--featuring "Toy Story 2", "Princess Mononoke" and "Iron Giant" |
12/20/99 |
| 46 |
To Be or Not ... --featuring "Being John Malkovich" and "Dogma" |
12/6/99 |
| 45 |
Roads to Redemption--featuring "The Straight Storey" and "Bringing Out the Dead" |
11/22/99 |
| 44 |
Fonda, Stamp and Dylan--featuring "The Limey" and a Pennington Student Who Interned on George Romero's New Film |
11/8/99 |
| 43 |
Life Crises x 3--featuring "American Beauty", "Mumford" and "Autumn Tale" |
10/25/99 |
| 42 |
Films on Site--featuring "Sixth Sense", "Twelve Monkeys" and Internet Movie Sites |
10/11/99 |
| 41 |
Cuban Contradictions--featuring "Buena Vista Social Club", "Guantanamera", "Strawberry and Chocolate" |
9/27/99 |
| 40 |
A-Musing or A-Mending--featuring "The Muse" and "Outside Providence" |
9/13/99 |
| 39 |
Hot Summer Chills--featring "Arlington Road", "Blair Witch Project", "Run Lola Run" and Hitchcock's Centennial |
8/23/99 |
| 38 |
Eyes on Kubrick--featuring "Eyes Wide Shut" and Stanley Kubrick's career (particularly Lolita, The Killing, Killer's Kiss, 2001, Dr. Strangelove) |
8/2/99 |
| 37 |
Nothing Succeeds Like Excess--featuring "The Red Violin", "The Ideal Husband" and "Sumer of Sam" |
7/19/99 |
| 36 |
Back to ... --featiuring "Austin Powers, the Spy Who Shagged Me" and John Sayle's "Limbo" |
7/12/99 |
| 35 |
Love, Honor, Home--featuring "Besieged" and "The Windslow Boy" |
6/28/99 |
| 34 |
Dan's One Take--Independent Filmmaker Dan Wachspress |
6/7/99 |
| 33 |
Dream Girls--featuring "Dreamlife of Angels" and "Election" |
5/24/99 |
| 32 |
Moonwalking and Other Lunacies--featuring "A Walk on the Moon" and "Hideous Kinky" |
5/10/99 |
| 31 |
Almost All About Altman: "Cookie's Fortune", "Kansas City" and Robert Altman's Career |
4/26/99 |
| 30 |
It's Criminal--featuring "Analyze This", "True Crime" and "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrells" |
4/12/99 |
| 29 |
Geeks' Glory--featuring "October Sky", "Rushmore" and "Breaking Away" |
3/29/99 |
| 28 |
Oscar Outtakes--With special attention to "Life Is Beautiful" and "Central Station" |
3/22/99 |
| 27 |
Documentary Filmmaker Dick Blofson--A Lens on Life |
3/8/99 |
| 26 |
Sibling Surprises--featuring "A Simple Plan" and "Hilary and Jackie" |
2/22/99 |
| 25 |
Movies on Trial--featuring "A Civil Action", "The Verdict" and "Twelve Angry Men" |
2/8/99 |
| 24 |
Our First Anniversary--Movie-Going Reminiscences |
1/25/99 |