The Firemen's Ball & Like Someone In Love (with Al Warren)

This week, all the way from Los Angeles, California: Al Warren.

Al is a filmmaker, actor, and musician. We met on Instagram a few months ago and after exchanging many DMs, I asked him to come on the show. Thankfully, he agreed, choosing a pair of films for us to discuss. There were some connection issues owing to my terrible internet but Al handled the whole situation with grace. 

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Al's picks:

The Firemen's Ball (1967) Milos Forman's final film made in his native country of Czechoslovakia is a farcical send-up of Soviet culture. Set at an annual ball for a regional firemen's department, we follow a posse of drunk officials as they attempt to organise a beauty pageant for the party's climax.

Like Someone In Love (2012) Abbas Kiarostami's enigmatic penultimate work follows Akiko, a Japanese student/sex worker who is instructed by her pimp to visit the home of an elderly translator. Her boyfriend is ignorant of the details of Akiko's secret life but suspects something is being kept from him. Though the premise bears the hallmarks of genre influences, there is nothing conventional about Like Someone In Love, a hypnotic, but confounding work by the Iranian master.

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Intro music: Joel Oldham @old.joel
Artwork:  Fred Sanders @fredsanders.creative