The Sleepless Cinematic Podcast
Emilio, Madeline, and Julian love music, and spend their afternoons and evenings working for and teaching at a music school in midtown Manhattan. But they also really love movies. A lot. So when they're done teaching, they stay up late and discuss a movie, sometimes a few, that they've all agreed to see recently. Opinions, musings, personal stories, and sincere film enthusiasm ensue.
The Sleepless Cinematic Podcast
Movies That Scarred Us
If you're a lover of movies, there is, without a doubt, a disturbing movie (or several) that you saw when you were too young to process it. With imagery and scenes that have lodged themselves in your brain. And since the memory of the discomfort that movie brought you is still there somewhere, it changed us in a small but meaningful way.
For this bonus episode, Julian, Madeline and Emilio decide to spend some time digging into those movies, and what kind of relationship we have with them now. What movie, ostensibly OK for kids, did not sit well with Madeline? What dark and depraved movie did Emilio mistakenly believe was going to be an action movie? And to end the episode, Julian delves deep into the moment he was subjected to a horror movie he was way too young to see, and unpacks the ripple effects of this premature screening that are still with him today.
The cohosts asked several of their recent guests to chime in too:
- Mariquita Reese @keeta_babe - fellow Criterion Kid and cohost of Post Film Clarity @postfilmclaritypod
- Michael Cramer, Film History professor at Sarah Lawrence College
- Lily Desmond @lilygoddamndesmond - mutli-talented musician known for her work with the band Sloppy Jane and as a solo artist.
- Idris Goodwin @idrisgoodwin - whose new book "King of the Neuro Verse" is available wherever they sell books NOW!
- Shaun Seneviratne @thebrownshaun - musician, film teacher, and filmmaker, with his first feature film "Ben and Suzanne: A Reunion in 4 Parts" available on demand later this month!
- Emily Kay Shrader, cohost of the go-to podcast about all things Oz, Down The Yellow Brick Pod @downtheyellowbrickpod
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