On this episode of What a Picture, Bryan and Hannah dodge assassination attempts while they talk about The Phoenician Scheme, the 2025 movie directed by Wes Anderson that is currently in theaters.

Our guest on today's episode is Raf Stitt, host of the Canon podcast from Screenage Wasteland.

The Canon podcast: ⁠https://screenagewasteland.com/tag/the-canon-podcast/⁠

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Music is "Phaser" by Static in Verona.

On this episode of What a Picture, Bryan and Hannah don their best Ocean View Dining garb to talk about Friendship, the 2025 movie directed by Andrew DeYoung.

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Music is "Phaser" by Static in Verona.

On this episode of What a Picture, Bryan is joined by Stephen Gillespie of the STACKS podcast to talk through the best of international films of the past year.

Timestamps:

00:00 - Where to find good international films
08:33 - Broken Rage (dir. Takeshi Kitano)
14:05 - Inside the Yellow Cocoon Shell (dir. Phạm Thiên Ân)
18:17 - The Seed of the Sacred Fig (dir. Mohammed Rasoulof)
23:55 - Cloud (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
27:37 - Daaaaaalí! (dir. Quentin Dupieux)
30:04 - All We Imagine As Light (dir. Payal Kapadia)
36:15 - Youth (Spring) (dir. Wang Bing)
43:07 - Johanne Sacreblu (dir. Camila Aurora González)
47:30 - Caught by the Tides (dir. Jia Zhangke)
52:22 - Dahomey (dir. Mati Diop)
1:01:35 - The Beast (dir. Bertrand Bonello)
1:11:35 - No Other Land (dir. Rachel Szor, Hamdan Ballal, Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra)
1:18:00 - Red Rooms (dir. Pascal Plante)
1:24:53 - About Dry Grasses (dir. Nuri Bilge Ceylan)
1:32:14 - Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat (dir. Johan Grimonprez)
1:39:20 - Universal Language (dir. Matthew Rankin)
1:49:11 - Grand Tour (dir. Miguel Gomes)
2:00:55 - Honorable Mentions
2:10:56 - What we are excited for next year

The STACKS podcast: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/0mQaf7o2bTBGthV6eur2Zt?si=15ceffe35f10488e⁠

I'm Thinking of Spoiling Things Podcast: ⁠⁠https://open.spotify.com/show/3Cy7OcwcfnZSsVCCPXcIav?si=8592987bbe4642ef⁠⁠

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Music is "Phaser" by Static in Verona.