
Projector Pod
Ebba Wester and Macon Holt talk about movies (new and old) in a super nerdy, fun, critical theory-inflected and engaging way. Sometimes other people talk too.
Episodes
44 episodes
CPH:DOX 2025 (possibly part 1) with Alex Elder
This time, we are joined by festival veteran and writer for the Radical Art Review, Alex Elder, to talk about some of the films on offer from CPH DOX 2025, including Flophouse America, Portrait of a Confused Father, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 36
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1:52:40

Ep. 35 "The Brutalist"
Director Brady Corbet has made an epic about architecture, artistry, money and power called The Brutalist, and we have some "thoughts" about it along with Ayn Rand, pretentiousness and the white elephant/termite theory of filmmaking.&n...
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Season 1
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Episode 35
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Ep 34. The End
10 years after changing the world of documentary cinema with "The Act of Killing" and "The Look of Silence", director Joshua Oppenheimer returns to our screens with a post-apocalyptic musical. "The End" is a film about the lies we tell ourselve...
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1:25:50

Ep. 33 "Babygirl"
So it’s time to talk about “Babygirl” from director Halina Reijn, a tale of a married tech CEO who’s never had an orgasm with her husband, engaging in an illicit sub/Dom affair with her magically empathetic intern. It’s a film that raises quest...
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Ep. 32 "Nosferatu"
He's coming! And by "he" we mean Robert Eggers' reimagining of the sublime Dracula copyright dodge, "Nosferatu". Eggers' telling centres on Ellen, the character who in previous versions has been the object of the Vampyr, Orlok's, appetite. But ...
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Season 1
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Episode 32
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Ep. 31 "Anora"
On this episode of Projector Pod, Ebba and Macon talk about Sean Baker's new film "Anora", the story of Ani, a sex worker from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, who winds up a pragmatic/maybe romantic marriage with the fail-son of a Russian oligarch. I...
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Live Ep 201 "Tangerine" (Christmas Special)
It is a Sean Baker Chrismas at Projector Pod, as we share two episodes on the filmmaker's work. The first is the mini-live podcast from our event at Kommunal Kunst og Teknik (KKT) on the Director's the queer Christmas movie the world always nee...
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Ep. 30 The Substance
It's The Substance that everyone is talking about. The miracle tonic that will make you a new you, so long as you follow the rules. Ebba and Macon chart tense territory as they discuss the future cult body horror hit from Coralie Farge...
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Season 1
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Episode 30
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1:58:15

Ep. 29 "Joker: Folie et Deux" & "La Chimera" (New films about men called Arthur)
With a slue of films about men called Arthur in the cinema right now, Ebba and Macon have decided to talk about 2 of them in this episode. Todd Phillips attempts not to leave money on the table with his depressing musical "Joker: Folie et Deux"...
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1:09:59

Ep. 28 "Megalopolis"
Legendary director, Francis Ford Coppola, has made a return to our screen with his self-financed, attempt at an audacious masterpiece "Megalopolis". Ebba and Macon dive into this confounding film and search for its redeeming features. And there...
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Season 1
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Episode 28
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1:23:25

Ep. 27 "Network" (1976)
Uninspire by the end of summer spook fests at the cinema, Ebba and Macon dived into the classics. This time they take a look back at the Academy Award-winning, insanely prescient and oddly pretentious, "Network" from 1976. It is the story of ho...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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1:12:48

Live Ep. 5 "Sexy Beast"
On the final live podcast at Husetsbiograf, Ebba and Macon sizzle in the Iberian sun in Johnathan Glazer's deconstructed London gangster black comedy, "Sexy Beast".If you think Projector Pod is the kind of thing you'd like to support, y...
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36:50

Ep 26. Kinds of Kindness
Yorgos Lanthimos is back with his thoroughly unsettling and painfully absurd triptych anthology film "Kinds of Kindness". So,Ebba and Macon get thoroughly stuck in the question of what sort of kindness he might be talking about. If ...
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Season 1
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Episode 26
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1:27:22

Live Ep. 4 "A Scanner Darkly"
This time at Husets Biograf we watched, Richard Linklater's adaptation of "A Scanner Darkly", a drug paranoia-fueled, rotoscoped exploration of how they might just be out to get you. Come join us for the last of our screening series on Mond...
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Ep. 25 "Challengers" and "Love Lies Bleeding"
Time for some sexy, summer, queer fun with Ebba and Macon on this episode of Projector Pod featuring two long discussions of Luca Guadagnino sweat soaked tennis desire drama, "Challengers" and Rose Glass' blackly comic romantic caper "Love Live...
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Season 1
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Episode 25
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1:17:52

Live Ep. 3 "Morvern Callar"
Macon and Ebba talk about Lynne Ramsay's underseen gem, "Morvern Callar", for the second time, but this time in front a freshly overwhelmed crowd. You can hear what else the Projector Pod team had to say about the film the first time around
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Ep. 24 "Civil War" (and a little bit of "Dune 2")
This time on Projector Pod Ebba and Macon dive into the libidinal economy of violence and the images that animate it while talking about Alex Garland's latest and perhaps last directorial venture "Civil War". And speaking of the aestheticisatio...
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Season 1
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Episode 24
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1:13:38

Ep. 23 CPH DOX 2024 Highlights
Ebba and Macon have been hard at work at the CPH DOX festival soaking as much of it in as they could. Here, they present their picks of the films they found the most engaging presented here in spoiler-free discussions.Including:*"Ba...
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1:40:11

Live Ep 2. "Punch-Drunk Love"
Projector pod presents at Huset Biograf returns with Paul Thomas Anderson's reinvention of the genre of the Adam Sandler romantic comedy, "Punch-Drunk Love". This film is a musical without musical numbers. Rife with the symbolism of fantasy it ...
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Ep. 22 "Dream Scenario" (and a little bit of "All of Us Strangers")
Nicholas Cage becomes Ebba and Macon's uncanny daydream as they discuss Kristoffer Borgli's break out into Hollywood in his latest film, "Dream Scenario". It tells the story of a disappointed college professor who suddenly hears he has been pop...
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Ep. 21 May December (and a little bit of Saltburn)
This time on Projector Pod, Ebba and Macon dive into a brand new, very confusing feeling with Todd Haynes' latest exploration of the monstrous feminine in "May December". A film that sees Natalie Portman and Haynes' long-time collaborator Julia...
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Ep. 20 "Poor Things" (and a little bit on "Zone of Interest")
This time on Projector Pod, Ebba and Macon follow Emma Stone on her adventure with director Yorgos Lanthimos into the steam-punk, sex and science odyssey of Bella Baxter in "Poor Things". And your host take a moment to think about Johnathan Gla...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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Live Ep. 1 "Brick"
It's Halloween in January!* The first film of Projector Pod's live series at Husets Biograf in Copenhagen was Rian Johnson's debut feature "Brick" (2005), a genre-bending hardboiled detective noir reimagined as a high school teen drama that is ...
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Ep. 19 Priscilla
In this episode of Projector Pod, Ebba and Macon navigate the glamour and the ick of Sofia Coppola's film about the icon and child bride of Elvis, "Priscilla". And don't forget, in 2024, Projector Pod goes live!Projector P...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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Coming soon, Projector Pod Presents... "Brick" Live @ Husets Biograf Januart 4th
In 2024, Projector Pod goes live!Projector Pod presents... a celebration of rough, risky and bold artistic vision with a series of hand-picked Y2K cult classics which if you don't already know and love, you should... Ebba and Macon of t...
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