Shot/Reverse Shot: Episode 76 - The Alternate 100 Part 10!

Yes, that's right, 2014 is nearly done, and so is the Alternate 100. After six months and ten episode, Shot/Reverse Shot's attempt to create a canon of the under-appreciated, under-discussed and just plain under-rated goes out with a bang, as we discuss time travel, space hippies and French animation.

This episode is especially good if you want to hear me completely fail to keep it together while talking about Black Dynamite.

Shot/Reverse Shot: Episode 75 - The Alternate 100 Part 9

2014 is drawing to a close and so is the Shot/Reverse Shot Alternate 100. For the penultimate installment, we talk about a couple of classic horror movies, films that triumphed over incredibly low budgets, and the angriest footsteps in cinema history. I also make a comparison between the 1962 film Carnival of Souls and the music of Daniel Johnston, which is great if you fall in the centre of a very specific Venn diagram.

Note: On several occasions in this episode I mix up The Sweet Smell of Success and The Secret of My Success. I blame this on being tired and the fact that those two titles are sort of similar.

Shot/Reverse Shot: Episode 72 - The Alternate 100 Part 8

After a brief break, Joe and I return to the Alternate 100 with part 8. In this one, we try to make "fetch" happen, talk about Vietnam a surprisingly large amount, and discuss how a 35-minute horror film that barely got made fits into the Independent Film Boom of the 1990s.

Shot/Reverse Shot: Episode 67 - The Alternate 100 Part 7

Part 7 of the Alternate 100 is here and after a few weeks in which Joe and I discussed some pretty dark, bleak films, things remain pretty bleak, if I'm honest. But there's also discussion about Steve Martin, the absurdist tendencies of the Coen Brothers, and the criteria by which Michael Caine chooses his projects.

We're taking a break from the Alternate 100 for a few weeks in order to discuss some other subjects, and also to give us time to revisit some of the films that will be discussed in the last three installments. In the meantime, feel free to revisit the episodes we've recorded so far, or check out what we're done on Letterboxd.

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Shot/Reverse Shot: Episode 66 - The Alternate 100 Part 6

With 50 films catalogued and discussed, it's now time for Joe and I to talk about another 50, because that's how this ridiculous project works. We start with an episode that is surprisingly horror-heavy, as the ten films discussed cover J-horror, body horror, Cold War paranoia, the implacable brutality of nature, and the implacable brutality of Anton Newcombe.

This episode also includes the phrase, "You can imagine Frank Miller masturbating", for which I cannot apologise enough.

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Shot/Reverse Shot: Episode 65 - The Alternate 100 Part 5

Boom! We've reached the halfway point of the Alternate 100, and we celebrate by talking about ten more films that we feel don't get enough respect from the sort of people who compile more prestigious and/or popular lists. This is an especially good selection, particularly if you're a fan of film noir, '70s horror or Viggo Mortensen killing motherfuckers. Also, we talk about a film about a robot that will make your eyes piss tears. No, not that one.

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Shot/Reverse Shot: Episode 64 - The Alternate 100 Part 4

Right, we're done fucking around. After months of indecision over what films to include, then even more months of waiting between installations, Joe and I are committing ourselves to completing out Alternate 100 project before the year is out. In this episode, we discuss a selection of surprisingly bleak films with utterly hopeless endings, then turn out of the emotional tailspin by discussing one of the funniest comedies ever made.

Note: The first 20 minutes are a little fuzzy due to an issue I had with my microphone while recording, but it gets sorted after a while. My sincerest apologies to the audiophiles out there.

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Shot/Reverse Shot: Episode 58 - The Alternate 100 Part 3

We're really cooking with gas now. As we speed through the Shot/Reverse Shot Alternate 100, we talk about Hollywood's historical and contemporary squeamishness when it comes to depicting inter-racial relationships, the ephemeral and symbiotic relationship between a director and a composer, and take time to share our weird, disparate memories of the year 1997, and how they may or may not relate to visions of past dystopias.

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Shot/Reverse Shot: Episode 57 - The Alternate 100 Part 2

Continuing our quest to celebrate films that don't get enough attention from the likes of IMDb and the BFI, the latest installment of the Shot/Reverse Shot: Alternate 100 finds us talking about lesser known works by directors like John Huston and Robert Wise, while also discussing the rules of how to make a monster movie, and pitching possibly the most depressing film-to-videogame adaptations ever.

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