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Arthouse Legends Podcast

Welcome to Arthouse Legends Podcast - Where High Art and Geek Culture Collide! The goal of this podcast is to take a look at critically acclaimed and well-received films and consider if these films truly deserve their revered status in the cultural zeitguest. Using our combined film knowledge, geeky obsessions and general fart jokes, we take a bite out of much-beloved films, sometimes in love, other times in scorn, but never out-of-bounds.

Feb 24, 2016

 

In 1988, Italian Art House Filmmaker Bernardo Bertolucci proposed a film with the Chinese government to tell the story of the last proclaimed emperor of The Forbidden Kingdom who started his reign at 2 and whose last days were spent as a peasant gardener. Winner of nine Academy Awards including Best Picture, but does...


Feb 19, 2016

 

In 2001, action director Antoine Fuqua teamed up with legendary actor Denzel Washington and Ethan Hawke to tell the story of an ambitious rookie police officer who's being lead through the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles Police Department's Narcotics Division by a charasmatic and dangerous head detective. What no one...


Feb 10, 2016

 

In 2007, an indie musical came out of the film festivals to massive critical acclaim and quickly garnered a popular following that eventually elevated it's two non-actor leads into musical sensations and Academy Award winners and their story into a Tony Winning musical. Once tells the story of an Irish busker...


Feb 3, 2016

 

In 2014, media sensation Oprah Winfrey helped get a film project about Martin Luther King Jr.'s turbulent campaign in Selma, Alabama off the ground. For the director's chair, she selected young indie filmmaker Ava Duvernay. With a cast rounded with classically trained British actors and a plethora of established...