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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.

Sep 30, 2015

In 1975, the newly minted international comedy troupe Monty Python had made their first film lampooning the Authurian legend through various sketches that bounced from high-brow political commentary to toilet humor. But does this film deserve the classic status it has now garnered or should it be sent to the bottom...


Sep 23, 2015

After the massive success of Fargo, Ethan and Joel Coen quickly came out with a film that was initially considered by all to be a minor film in their repertoire. What no one expected was that this film about a slacker stoner being drawn into a kidnapping caper would be their most widely beloved film. But does it roll...


Sep 18, 2015

 

In 1965, Indonesia was the stage for a violent coup that would give power to gangsters and paramilitary groups with the goal to find and slaughter communists and their sympathizers. In 2003, director Joshua Oppenheimer found several of these individuals and offered them a chance to reinact their brutality on film in...


Sep 10, 2015

 

Football season is here and Arthouse Legends is as much a fan of the pigskin as any other show. In celebration of the return to the gridiron, MovieDude Eric, Kent & Lobster head to South Bend, Indiana with a young man looking to play football with the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame in 1993's Rudy. But does this film...


Sep 4, 2015

In 1915, film director D.W. Griffith made a 3 hour epic tale of the Civil War and it's aftermath that would become the first massive blockbuster in US History. It would also become the most controversial film ever made not only because of its depictions of African Americans but also from its idolization of the Ku...