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Fake Film Fans

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Cinema! Film! Movies! Whatever you want to call it. From pretentious, arthouse and offbeat cult gems to mainstream pop film hot takes, Fake Film Fans remains true to its name. Swade and Walter talk about films and different pop cultures weekly. twitter.com/FakeFilmFans https://letterboxd.com/FakeFilmFans/ https://linktr.ee/fakefilmfans All music created by Posture, which you can support here! https://posturestl.bandcamp.com/
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Editor's Note: I will be going to a 2 month break. There will be episodes released normally, they will just be prerecorded so if you send us any comments, we won't be able to get to them until I get back! On this episode, Fake Film Fans focuses on "Femmes Femmes (aka Women Women)", a French New Wave musical film directed by Paul Vecchiali released …
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On this episode, Fake Film Fans focuses on "The Stuff", an American film directed by Larry Cohen released in 1985. The film is a Cohen classic that depicts a white stuff but is also a satire on the way the American FDA and other similar organizations market things to society and create fads. Walter has talked about the microcinema in New York City …
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On this episode, Fake Film Fans focuses on "Death Note", the 2017 American adaption of the hit manga series directed by Adam Wingard . Famous for being a terrible adaption, this episode focuses on why its fun and also why its a bad film. This is the first time we have two guests, both Erin and Jamie are sisters who bring that sisterly bond to this …
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On this episode, Fake Film Fans focuses on "Skinamarink", an anthology horror film directed by Kyle Edward Ball. The film is about two children who wake up to a house where their parents are completely gone and is filmed in an anthology horror style in mostly darkness. (00:07:03) Swade's friend Terry the Trailer Man wants to come onto the podcast t…
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On this episode, Fake Film Fans focuses on "M3GAN", a horror film directed by Gerard Johnstone. The film is about a robot doll who starts acting as a parent to an orphan and decides to protect her by killing anything that threatens to endanger her. (00:04:11) Swade and Walter discuss what types of snacks they'd like to bring to a movie theater that…
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On this episode, Fake Film Fans focuses on Heinosuke Gosho's "An Inn at Osaka ", a Japanese post-war film about Mita, a man who loses his job and moves to an inn in Osaka. There, he meets a befriends different women who struggle through the changing society of Japan. (00:01:09) Biology talk makes Swade excited because he finally found…
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https://www.gofundme.com/f/news-about-billy-best UPDATE: Surgery was successful! Swade's incredibly thankful for everyone who has donated and helped his family through this difficult and weird period. Without his permission, Fake Film Fans wants to leave the Gofundme link for one more week because even though the medical bills have been covered, th…
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https://www.gofundme.com/f/news-about-billy-best Starting this podcast with a bit of a sad note. Swade's dad's brain cancer has unfortunately regrown and that is predictably going to become quite a large financial burden on his family. We linked the gofundme above and if you are interested in helping out anyway you can, check it out. If you can't, …
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Merry Christmas! Swade is out on medical leave so this episode is Fake Film Fans first solo episode with Walter. Not good. (00:02:30) However, Walter does his best to replicate a good Christmas episode by staying as positive as he can, which is not very positive at all. (00:14:19) Next, Walter plays a small Christmas game about movies that was mean…
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Maddie, Swade's friends who he met while she was homeless, joins us to talk about "Dancer in the Dark". "Dancer in the Dark" is a musical drama directed by Lars Von Trier and released in 2000. Selma, played by Bjork, is a woman suffering from a degenerative eye condition and wants to prevent her son from going through the same disease but she lives…
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#water This episode focuses on the film "Whale Rider" directed by Niki Caro and released in 2002. "Whale Rider" is a New Zealand film about a Māori girl who wants to become the chief of the tribe. (00:06:52) Walter prepares a multiple choice game for Swade to play related to the dinner interruptions in Luis Buñuel's " The Discreet Charm of the Bour…
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This episode focuses on the Hydrozagadka (aka Hydro-Riddle); a polish film directed by Andrzej Kondratiuk and released in 1971 . (00:03:17) First, Walter talks about The Guns, the 1964 Brazilian film directed by Ruy Guerra. Since the film uses pseudo documentary techniques, Fake Film Fans shares how they usually take pictures of strangers and wheth…
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This episode focuses on the new Hellraiser remaster and franchise. (00:07:08) Walter has always known Swade is one of the biggest Hellraiser fans but he doesn't actually know the history of how it came to be. (00:29:10) While Swade loved the remaster, he struggled with the film because it was a Hellraiser movie. Swade and Walter discuss the benefit…
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We've been passing out bookmarks! Let us know if you listened to the podcast because of them because we want to know if the bookmarks are a successful promotion tool. This episode focuses on Ken Russell's "The Devils" released in 1971 . On this episode, we are joined by Celine. (00:02:36) Continuing this new introduction, Walter talks a little bit …
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We've been passing out bookmarks! Let us know if you listened to the podcast because of them because we want to know if the bookmarks are a successful promotion tool. This episode focuses on Jacques Becker's "Le Trou (The Hole)". (00:01:01) We try a new segment where Walter shares the most pretentious film he watched since the last episode. In this…
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We've been passing out bookmarks! Let us know if you listened to the podcast because of them because we want to know if the bookmarks are a successful promotion tool. A different opening to remember Jean-Luc Godard and how he influences so many people who love film. (00:17:18) Traveling has worn Walter down and he refuses to start the podcast norma…
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We've been passing out bookmarks! Let us know if you listened to the podcast because of them because we want to know if the bookmarks are a successful promotion tool. Week late episode due to traveling hardships which stop Walter from being a human being. This episode focuses on CW's "Supergirl" but also discusses Hisayasu Satō's "Muscle". This epi…
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Walter is on a USA trip but that doesn't stop the podcast! This episode discusses George McCowan's eco-horror film "Frogs" released in 1972. Before we start, Walter wants to clarify why talking about sex is very different then talking about muscles but Swade continues to fight back and disagree. (00:05:27) Walter tries to talk about the films he wa…
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This episode discusses Derek Jarman’s "Blue". Swade wants to sexualize armpits and talk about pink washing. (00:07:30) Walter wants the podcast to be more focused on films so he talks a little bit about some of the movies he watched this week. The films are “The Third Man” directed by Carol Reed and “Demons” by Toshio Matsumoto. Swade doesn’t choos…
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